Oráculo Records has opened preorders for a limited vinyl edition of Frontmaschine’s “Rühren”, pressed with Bordello A Parigi in an edition of 300 copies on 180 gram solid white vinyl. Shipping is expected between 25 September and 5 October 2026.

Frontmaschine is the French father-and-son EBM duo of Hervé and Louis. “Rühren” first appeared digitally on 29 May 2025 as a 13-track album through the duo’s own Bandcamp page, and the new 12″ brings the material to vinyl for the first time. Oráculo Records describes the record as built around “cold, almost chilling polyphonic synthesizer melodies” intertwined with drum programming the label places “somewhere between the militant precision of DAF and the mechanical drive of the ‘Commando days’ of Front 242.”

All tracks for the vinyl pressing have been remastered by Daniel Hallhuber at Young and Cold Studios in Germany, the same mastering engineer and studio credited on the duo’s earlier “Wrong Fate” EP.

Frontmaschine’s ‘Rühren’ pressed as a one-off white vinyl edition

The 12″ is described by the label as a one-off, truly limited pressing rather than an open or repeatable edition. No exact tracklist for the vinyl cut has been published alongside the preorder announcement, and Side-Line could not independently confirm whether it carries the full digital tracklist or a selection of it. The preorder is one of four Oráculo Records vinyl releases opened this week, alongside Estado De Bienestar’s “Capítulo IV”, IP307’s “IP307.1” and Post Analog Disorder’s “Burning The Edges.”

About Frontmaschine

Frontmaschine is a French project formed by Hervé and Louis, a father-and-son duo who build tracks around synthesizer sequences, programmed drums and samples in the tradition of early body music. Full surnames and an exact founding date could not be independently verified. The duo’s first release, the digital EP “Los geht’s”, came out on 6 October 2020 through their own Bandcamp page. Later that year, the 12″ EP “Wrong Fate” followed as a limited edition of 200 copies on 180 gram solid red vinyl, issued jointly by Oráculo Records and Bordello A Parigi and mastered by Daniel Hallhuber at Young and Cold Studios in Germany.

Frontmaschine’s next full body of work, “Rühren”, was released digitally as a 13-track album on 29 May 2025 through the band’s own Bandcamp page. The new Oráculo Records and Bordello A Parigi 12″ edition brings that album to vinyl for the first time, marking the duo’s second physical release on the label after “Wrong Fate”.

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