FRONT DE CADEAUX
Rome & Bruxelles | DJ Set
Duo de DJ et producteurs, Front De Cadeaux a commencé son histoire singulière sur un site de rencontre bear (la famille des gros ours de la communauté gay).
Outre leur goût commun pour les hommes bien portant et poilus, le Bruxellois Maurizio et le Romain Ugo sont aussi DJ et collectionneurs de musiques électroniques et décident de lancer un projet commun en 2013 : Front De Cadeaux, un nom aussi ironique que référencé 80’s et un clin d’oeil à Front 242.
Leur nostalgie se porte aussi sur ces bacs de disques débordant de vieux EP Rave, Transe ou Tribal House, et dans l’ambiance enfumée de leur studio, ils ont l’idée de jouer ces maxis en 33 plutôt qu’en 45 tours. Ils baptisent le procédé “supreme rallentato”, que les journalistes nomment aussi 33+8. Le résultat est étonnant, puissant, psychédélique. Leur Rave au ralenti a conquis le Berghain, les Nuits Sonores ou les Siestes Electroniques. Après de nombreux edits et EP, ils s’apprêtent à dévoiler enfin leur 1er album sur Antinote à la rentrée !
> “It sounds better in slow motion” – RedBull Elektropedia
> “Quand les pédés ralentissent le beat” – Vice
English below
“Our sound is the sound of destruction”
The origins of Front de Cadeaux can be traced back to a dating site for bears, some ten years ago. After Maurizio had spotted a Felix Kubin poster on one of Ugo’s pictures, the two started chatting. Very much intrigued, Ugo invited Maurizio, who lives in Brussels, to play at a festival he organised in Rome. Shortly thereafter Maurizio became a resident of Ugo’s Subwoofer night, one of the first bear parties in Europa that existed outside of the mainstream bear realm.
The two bonded over food of course, over their belief that dance culture is rotting from the inside, and even more over slow, heavy electronic music. You have to picture it: a flat in Brussels, a table with empty bowls and bottles, thick smoke and these two daddy DJ’s listening to stacks and stacks of UK rave and breakbeat records on 33 instead of 45 rpm. Testing how deep and sexy these garbage records sound at a pace the bears can actually follow without dropping dead – Ugo & Maurizio.
Around 2013 they officially started collaborating as Front de Cadeaux, referring to the French way of pronouncing Front 242, the Belgian EBM legends. Naturally, their decade long DJ and production experience merged into one, just like their vision that dance culture urgently needs a revolution. That means they play 90 bpm in a club at 3am whilst the promoters are shitting themselves, showing everyone that the body follows the groove, and not the bpm, a capitalist and macho construct that’s making crowds go numb instead of making them dance.
> “It sounds better in slow motion” – RedBull Elektropedia
> “Quand les pédés ralentissent le beat” – Vice
