Description
Hand Stamped, Hand numbered, Limited press, with insert.
An oddly familiar/familiarly odd entity floating about the relatively cohesive surface of contemporary electronic music, Belgium-via-Italy based duo Front De Cadeau has been knocking genres askew and blowing overused terminologies out of the water with unrelenting panache over the past decade. Championing a sound unmoored by vanishing trends and cross-pollinating approaches, F2C punch back in on Antinote with their anticipated debut album, ?We Slowly Riot?, an 8-track mishmash of tunes previously released and not.
Bastardizing tried-and-tested rave tropes by slowing the tempo down to barely recognizable shapes and contours, Hugo Sanchez and Maurizio Ferrara dish out a new high in their ever expanding discography. Free-falling down the K-hole with no parachute on, ?La Ketamine? burns slow but steady. A practically immersive dub filled with processed minutiae and vibrational drums out a mystic forest, it?s a helluva trippy post-industrial joint that unfolds, heady and empyreumatic to the bone. ?We Slowly Rot? puts on offer a buggy script-like swing, adorned with F2C?s trademark blend of spoken word and jacuzzi-warm vibes, whereas ?There is Something Wrong? steers us into further sizzling, syncopated groove territories through a fevered meshwork of sliced-and-diced vox samples, overheated machine talk and primitive percussions on a African Headcharge tip.
Draped in eerie, 8-bit-infused layers and Arabian Nights ambiences, ?Slam is Slam? treats us to a spookily fun Oriental mix of hot-tempered darbukkahs and FX-soaked riffs. The outrageously sensual ?Ouvre Ta Bouche? is a tactile invitation to get down in some dark alcove of sorts and more if you hit it off. A steely dub primed for post-party divagations, ?Climate Change? slowly veers off into verbed-out industrial jazz as bars run by, while ?Legal Illegal? cuts a path of acid-dipped dancehall from outer-space across the club. Last but not least, Jewish clarinets quietly move along waves of sedated bass on ?Casa Gaza?, rounding it all off on a dreamy, cinematic note that serenely phases into a liquid-like roller over one solidly deeper-than-deep home stretch.
TRACKLIST:
La Ketamine
We Slowly Riot (Alternative Version)
There Is Something Wrong
Slam Is Slam (Bass Version)
Ouvre Ta Bouche (Fm Dub)
Climate Change
Legal Illegal
Casa Gaza
