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Kirikoo Des and Walter Mecca have been collaborating since high school. Walter used to produce tracks for Kirikoo's Contemporary dance acts and since those early days the pair have been working together, while also continuing their own paths. Kirikoo Des is what you might call a hybrid artist, working on dance, music and digital art. Walter Mecca, juggles many different hats, as a rapper, producer, and video director. He's part of founding crew of online platform Weirdata and has been using different names for each of his many faces… from Cut Basic (Feb. 2008), his Rap alter-ego Dal Gren (Apr. 2010) and Breaking Point (May 2012).Back in 2005 whilst both working on an art exhibition, the guys created NSDOS. An act that is set to play its part in many projects across the music, dance, video and art spectrums. Driven by a musically orientated hacking and "DIY" spirit, NSDOS are developing their live form where improvisation in sound is at the forefront, using a savant mixture of analog and traditional instruments. Their debut three track 'Lazer Connect' ep will be an introduction for many to the exciting talents of this new duo. We've already seen the floor reaction to these tracks and we're certain that you'll be hearing a lot more from NSDOS.
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Prodigal son French Fries returns to the CCB stable with some insidiously fierce, soft and precise rhythmic weapons ready to enlighten your Saturday night. The evening start with "Working on a Dream" filled with some surreal machine malfunctions type of sounds layered with beautiful pads full of eerie feelings and appeasement while the martial rhythm keep things in order. It's a passionate mix of steadiness structure and a total loss of the senses thanks to those organic and ethereal synths floating all along the track. The voodoo session continues on the flip with the second number, "Shades of Light". Here, some dissonant keyboards melodies intermingles with a more subtle drum programming, full of hi-hats and more latin flavored percussions, this track is more like a mantra to access some mysterious superior soul level, the craftsmanship of the whole allow the track to be used as a clever tool in any modern and demanding deejay set. Early or late this two fragile but yet powerful cuts will fit nicely to set the mood of the room right.
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It's that time again at CCB headquarter for reaping the harvest of another good year for the label. The "Paris Club Music, Volume 3" is here and the journey is better than ever. Once again the full crew worked hard to deliver this time a more contemplative yet still percussive set of tracks exploring the dance music of tomorrow. First in the field Bambounou and French fries teams up for "Mizu Ni Idou Suru" an intimate slow mo thing playing with intricate rhythm textures and dusty key stabs fading away in the back. Aleqs Notal use some lush pads in "Ceos Vision" melted with delicate tribal percussions who would perfectly fit in a 8 A.M. set. Next in line is the digital voodoo vibes from "Ceremony", in this mental track Coni uses a more dubby approach to the sound, mixed with and industrial feel to it. Jean Nipon continues the party with a houser number, "Onibaba" focusing on soft elusive strings going through melancholy and a slightly more club oriented euphoria. Then there's the beautiful sonic schizophrenia of NSDOS in "Créteil Soleil" an hymn to the body and mind, full of modern bleeps, vapors and factory noises. In "Vertigo" the boys from Aethority invite us into a druggy haze where psychedelic drums and chords invade your brain slowly but surely. Closing the compilation, "Inorganic", is a playful jam where Manaré toy with effective repetitions and short accidents while sporadically cut by a sharp and filtered bass line. Mostly made of introspective cuts, "Paris Club Music, Volume 3" take the label aesthetic further than ever to a more mature and advanced way of thinking about dance music.
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NSDOS is back with some new toys from outer space, just in time for capturing live six figments of his twisted imagination. On this very dense and captivating EP, Kirikoo Des goes back to the 90's with some cut up electronica flair ("Christine +2", "Dona J Haraway") reminiscing Oval's work or some experimental Shake Shakir tunes. The longest tracks though feels closer to a club from the future with some eerie pads ("Fa") and liquid rhythms patterns typical of the NSDOS touch we love ("Yuko"). Overall this EP is a much cerebral effort and yet still keeps a vibrant and gorgeous organic side to it. Demanding the full attention of the listener, the reward in the end is a total bliss taking us in a deep dimension. "Space is the place" as the master Sun Ra once said!
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This one is a taste of things to come from the ClekClekBoom camp, a ready to use 'Various Cuts' EP made by deejays for deejays. A solid wax with different weapons including already known CCB producers and extended family. For this first volume, French Fries teams up with NSDOS on a hypnotic jam, bringing Chicago's percussive legacy in a 90's NYC ballroom. Then we got Aleqs Notal going deep with a new batch of his lunar material where tripping synths meet spaced out hi-hats. On the flip Jean Nipon provides his drummer background to display some infectious rhythms colliding with a shuffling syncopated bass, while Barbara Ford takes us through a heavy mesmerizing acid jam tunnel… Overall a deep and yet club-material experience representing perfectly what ClekClekBoom has to offer today.
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While the 'Kepler' planter is still investigated it's time to get some reports from the ongoing interplanetary mission. Remixing tracks is not an easy task and only solid cosmic craftsmanship would do the job. The ClekClekBoom orbital station has luckily found two special extra crew members for this tricky and delicate operation. Planet A sector is covered by an already legend among electronic music producers, the man Fred P from NYC. His reshape of 'Change the Past' takes us to a nebulous journey filled with a multitude of sonic details and surrounded by some dreamy astral pads. Less dark than the original version, this slow jam keep an infectious rhythm steady all along and would be perfect for a rooftop session when the sun hit the sky. The Planet B sector is occupied by an italian prodigy, the not-so new comer Chevel. Playing with the cryptic 'Change the Past' vocals, his mix turn the track into a minimal boogie affair toned down by subtle key chords and interstellar bleeps pulsating around heavy toms drums. The next exoplanet being at billions light years away, enjoy these two supernovas while waiting during the trip…
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DJ, producer, all-round music connoisseur and entertainer Jean Nipon has a new EP coming out on ClekClekBoom after his first effort for the label released in late 2012. This is a brand new sound for him and quite a big move from the functional future bass aesthetics he then designed. The "Nice Seeing You" EP is all about unfossilized beats, shady, reminiscent vibrations from an entirely fictional past and a taste for used-ness and aging when it comes to textures. Shaky drums and hi hats sound as if they'd been cured in ancient jars and keyboards work like lo-fi, mystical instruments from electronic primitive tribes. These are four house grooves that you can dance to, but not just only in a club – as well as in a inner space of yours, in some place dedicated to uplifting melancholy and ecstatic introspection. This moves in a different way that most of the dance music you hear these days, since it's both oblique and not focussed on the effect it's supposed to generate. Four touching tracks from someone who likes his house deep, remote and brittle.
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Paris Club Music... it's not about a specific genre, or a musical niche but a fresh take on the eternal question: ‘What is dance music?’ - Tom Moulton once said "I never made a dance record, I made records you can dance to."... This is the spirit of ClekClekBoom.
ClekClekBoom deal in physical, lean, naked grooves. Timeless tracks that echo with nuances of dub just as much as they do Detroit. Honest grooves, boiled down to their most efficient and visceral expressions.
Featuring familiar faces (French Fries, Coni, Bambounou and Manare), and new signees (Aleqs Notal, NSDOS, Jean Nipon, Aethority) alike, the whole set runs with slick, rhythmic conspiracy ready to burn your ears. The guys tell us this particular set was inspired by cyborgs, lo-fi and Chicago’s ghetto grooves. Most of all, though, it was inspired by Paris: the city that’s dancing to their very own 808 drum.
So sit back, press play and experience the new city sound directly. No snappy, slick one sentence descriptions will do any of these 8 cuts justice: sometimes you ears imbibe a spirit much more than any formal, stuffy words possibly could.
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Just after a few months after his last effort, Coni is back with a vengeance on the ClekClekBoom imprint with the wild "Comfort Zone" EP. This time he tried to do some happy raw tracks to dance to, but not only.
The show begins with "The Opposite" where an ever growing synth pad pattern keep going while some dusty toms make things tribal and warm. Playing with the lo and the high pass to create pressure points, it make the tension floating all along this confident and sunny opener. The next one "Napalm" is a direct homage to the Dance Mania legacy, the Chicago flavor is all over this straight banger, in the purest form possible. Using some jacking 606 and a 909 mixed with some old organ is enough to build this obsessive tool, ready for any floor. On the flip, "Bunker's Groove" dives into a more darker territory, aimed for the late hours of a warehouse party, it's filled with muffled percussions and decay getting lost in anagogic reverbs. distilled in the track, some rare stabs loosely looking like some sounds used in the ballroom scene are here to remind us that we're still in the club, but deep, deep below the surface. Maintaining the same mood, "Exit To Comfort Zone" ends the EP in a more introspective fashion. Beatless and full of sci-fi noises, the human presence is just allowed via some long distance voices recorded from an unknown past, then quietly fades into some electronic mist. All in all this record shows how versatile Coni can be, and we can't wait to see what he'll be cooking for the next chapter...
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The journey is the destination - this is what you feel when listening to French Fries debut album, "Kepler".
Since his debuts back in 2010, Valentino Cazani managed to quickly switch from basic club music to a more complex form of expression. While still deeply immersed in the coldness of Detroit techno and the warmth of Chicago house, French Fries found new inspiration in science fiction. The LP, loosely based on his own story of the planet Kepler 62e - a fictional zone where humans find out they’ve descended from mankind and have found a program to reconstruct Earth’s evolution - is not a collection of club smashers, but rather a whole concept.
On "Kepler", each track corresponds to an event in this futuristic scenario. From the "Bug" in the program, to “Explore”-ing the planet, or "Change The Past" of their history. French Fries balances moments of meditations with bombastic dynamism in "Kepler", using ethereal synths with rare bass drops and inventive percussions, not too distant from early Brian Eno's works, on songs like "Machine", "Bug Noticed" or his trippy techno joint "K62" made with his long time friend Bambounou.
At only 22, French Fries delivered a solid first album which put him on the map of an unknown universe.
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This is the first ep of Aleqs Notal, a boy who spent his early years in the heat and sand of Saudi Arabia, but then decided to take some dust with him and throw it in our ears. In love with the soulfulness of Detroit's style and the roughness of Chicago suburbs, he comes solid with this four tracks release full of shadows and tricky rhythmic patterns.
Notal starts the show with a deviant electro funk burner," Ancient Theory" a piece rolling with some 909 hats saturating the bass drum and an hypnotic arpeggiator bringing a rigid edge to the track, well balanced by a grainy Pad theme in the middle, smoky as the motor city can be
the second one, "Informal Utility", invite us into a more narrative situation, with its dusty and deep synth mixed with some perfects 909 claps, it's like a Chicago track high on codeine, sipping the beat until the party end.
Talking about liquid, the flip side ouverture, "Side Huit", got a slight diffuse Drexcyian vibe, an aquatic resonance bouncing onto the frenetic drums sounds of the 606. this is a weird and efficient tool for special people/
the ending title "Clear Mind" is a more geometric dub affair, the basseline going back and forth with/against the drums. while it sounds calm on the surface, there's a lot of restrain angst hiding behind, convulsing all along this mental tune.
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French Fries comes back strong on his own label with the single from his debut lp soon to be released, and it's a huge tool gift for dj's. The 16th release of ClekClekBoom is about shorts and straight to the point club tracks. The A side, "Machine" condenses all the craftsmanship secrets the parisian producer is known for; mixing industrial techno flavor, old school sounds, sci-fi weirdness, computer screams through and a debonnaire Chicago style, it blending future ideas with sounds of the past, in the end it's a perfect tool monster ready to take over any club. On the flip side, "bug noticed" show French fries love affair with a more four to the floor burner. Entirely made with a Waldorf Q and a compressor, this smasher take French Fries production to a new techno territory, working around the notion of a bug corrupting the programm, the track, while keeping a raw touch, brings an hypnotic dark and scary vibe along with a ballroom feel.
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Ministre X is back again on his own label, ClekClekBoom, to supply Paris’ house & bass haven’s with its 14th official release. After his lush, club friendly debut ‘Calling Me’ Ministre has teamed up with long-time affiliate, the Parisian pianist and self-proclaimed dandy, Mattias Mimoun under the moniker ‘Aethority’. Put together over late-night sessions in the ClekClekBoom studio, the Aethority EP draws from wide variety of influences, both in and outside of dance music, for a weighty and unique double track release. A-side ‘Niceness’ uses a percussive blend of tricked out field recordings and samples to create a shuffling, dub-techno vibe before the drums drain away to make way for a lush, rippling synth which excitedly builds once again before the drums drop back in. B-side ‘Get Busy’, the first track the pair produced together, combines a classic UK garage style vocal, scuttling hats and an ominous, analog textured synth line before a beefy acid-dripping bassline drops in, enhancing the groove. The pair is already back in the studio readying new material for release so be ready for more original, bustling dancefloor grooves. To be released on both vinyl & digital.
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For the 13th release from Paris’ ghetto club label, ClekClekBoom turn to Coni, the man who released their sophomore effort in December 2011. The EP also marks the start of a new artwork series featuring futurist portraits of the artists.
Coni’s ‘My Secret Diving’ shows a distinct progression in the young Parisian’s sound since 2011’s highly popular “Luz in the Pool / Suma / Crush”. Whereas the former was aimed at peak-hour clubbing with upbeat house rhythms, 808s and big bass lines, ‘My Secret Diving’ takes a more relaxed and confident approach.
On A-side, ‘My Secret Diving’, Coni goes subterranean with velvety analog synths, atmospheric crackles and muffled 4x4 kicks whilst a seductively calm voice repeats something just incomprehensible to create a space that is at once both hypnotic and personal. B1, ‘Flip’ steps into harder hitting territory with high-passed, distorted claps, skippy rides and squelchy, percussive synths for a grooving Chicago House Tool. The final track, ‘Feels Like Home’, uses pitched toms, distant rides, serene, floating chords and a retro-sounding mix to construct a euphoric piece of dance floor nostalgia.
This second outing from Coni demonstrates a sonic maturity, evidenced in the patience and confidence of all 3 tunes that will surely make it a go-to record for any DJ seeking to construct blissful tranquility in the early hours.
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Paris is back and it’s no longer pumping to the filtered sound of disco house. Instead, a ‘90s generation have come of age born into the shadow of Mathieu Kassovitz’s classic film, La Haine. A world of internal tensions cracking the ground for new shoots to appear from a vibrant street culture that’s en Seine in the membrane, raised as much on global bass and hiphop’s freakiest mutations as the distant orbit of Chicago and Detroit. You can hear it in the music of ClekClekBoom, the Paris-based label which began in 2007 as a website releasing baile funk from Rio’s favelas but now serves up its own home-grown ghetto grooves.
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French Fries is back for a third outing on his own label with a new 3-track EP demonstrating a more experimental side to Paris’ ghetto mastermind producer. A-side "Everything" features flanged percussion, vast, atmospheric strings and a stumbling, Detroit acid bass used as a Pulse. The first B-side, "White Screen", is a Chicago style 909 jam complete with rapid-fire hats and techno stabs driven along by piercing claps laden with old-school, 80s-era, reverb. The final tune, "D’Angelo", sees French Fries slow the tempo and bring together rippling atmospherics, a "Yo Vogue" style bassline and washed-out synths for this Detroit-inspired, double B-side homage to The Wire’s D’Angelo Barksdale... Let the boy be. Through a shrewd combination of experimentalism, uncompromising bass-weight and French Fries’ now renowned clarity of sound, this is EP is sure to be found in a wide-range of record bags.
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To bring you the 8th release, CLEKCLEKBOOM searched far and wide for the elusive Jean Nipon. Their journey took them to the shadowy depths of mystic swamps from where this modern-day druid had to be carefully coaxed into the studio. But trust-us, it was well worth the effort!On his first release for CLEKCLEKBOOM, the Institubes original showcases 3 tracks of hard-hitting, deftly-produced, dance-floor menace. “Put It In The Trunk” combines cascading percussion, disturbingly nonchalant vocal snippets and deep, propulsive, subs. With “Black Things On Desk” Jean Nipon employs unnervingly detuned vocal samples woven into irresistibly pulsating, punchy percussion. The final tune, “35 Thieves” sees our enigmatic wizzard drop subtle snatches of melody in amongst a grooving beat which, as ever, strikes the perfect balance between toughness and delicacy.CCB008 is certain to tear apart dance-floors everywhere with its heavy-hitting, baleful beats. But like any unknown quantity, handle with caution.
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"New Zealand's 2 headed monster Chaos In The CBD blesses the dancefloor with this 3 track number, working like the heavy House music soundtrack to a clubbing journey... picture yourself, puffin on a zip with the Dark Knight, cruising down the streets of Detroit, pumping the Batmobile’s sound system on the way to a secret location... you're on "Rolling 84's". That secret spot is the filthy atmosphere of a strip club's parking lot. All cars are wide open, dropping that "Slab" beat. Trippin' on purple drank, you're surrounded by all types of freaks poppin silly moves... then robocops suddenly bust out from every corner. You steal the batmobile to escape (who never dreamed about that one!), knowing that you carry all kinds of grime in the back... that so called "Trunk Music"! Nah, you better not get caught, the adrenaline gets you raring, driving you safe through the alleys of Bass Music city till the break of dawn. Damn, Chaos should be in Hollywood!"
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"Manaré treats his productions as any other stuff he's involved in, like the "Fresh Prince of Paris" that he is. Just one hearing of this new EP and you'll understand what Manaré has to say: a lot! "Quartz" is a deep technoid House groove full of rooted vibes, what some call organic sound, which will takes you on a journey to a future motherland. The filpside "Down To Dis" is a heavy bouncing 808 beat, lifted by colorful chords and that fat loaded bass so cherished by the ClekClekBoom fam. This 2 tracks number combines an impressive wide spectrum of club music... a head nod guaranty, any time any place, whatever mood you're in."
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Bambounou's mind is an enigma to mankind, the only matter is that everything that comes out of it is banging! This 2 tracks number doesn't break the rule... "Night" is a Garage flavored bass monster tune with hypnotic rave strings reaching out to your nervous system to push you deep into that one-of-a-kind sharpen beat... while "Brawl" drops a Grime/House percussive rhythm mayhem on our head, carried away by what they call a sub-bass, sub indeed, not for the laptop heads. Bambounou pushed once again the boundaries a step further on this one, cuts so fresh you'll need a blanket!
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As the fourth release from ClekClekBoom Recordings, The Town? (Karve & Kazey) brings us a brilliant 3 track EP with the freshest funky vibe! For their first release together, the mighty Parisian duo who are into House & Bass, B-More Club and Hip-Hop sounds brought an energetic and heater EP that would make your body move instantly. With the track ?Pulse? they take us to a place full of twisted rhythm, bongo funky and bouncy vibes with wicked club beats.
While ?The Movement? is bringing us deadly swings with a fresh funky tribal riddim, groovesome flavour, tasty violons and heavy jamaican vocals, plus they gave us a wicked bonus beat.
Theses two smashers are exploring the Funky / House & Bass vibe this time, but they have more tricks up their sleeve so stay tuned for some more heaviness?
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Once again, another heavy release from the french upcoming label ClekClekBoom Recordings. This one is a pop/club influenced 2 tracks produced by Ministre X, the franco-brazilian deejay and co-founder of the label. A very sensual femalish EP with two lovely guest singers: Sana and Romy. The first track "Calling Me" featuring the fresh and charming Sana is full of delicate and suave soul vibes mixed up with sophisticated club beat. The second track "Just To Please Ya" featuring Mademoiselle Romy., takes us to a darker side of emotions, with subtle vocals and down tempo instrumental full of slow and heavy sub-bass. This 2 track EP will take you to the sensitive side of this eclectic label.
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Landing as the second release from ClekClekBoom Recordings, young newroller Coni drops a sensitively deep, but yet powerful 3 tracks number with sensual r'n'b reworks that would make any female moan. Combining groovy sophisticated house beat and warm soulful bass on "Luz in Pool", Coni takes us to a delightful journey where you'll lose yourself. "Suma" is blending uplfiting 90's r'n'b vocals with sharp UK Funky drum-line. And the laidback G-Swagger "Crush" favouring a modern half-tempo 808 rhythm with mesmerizing voices added to a haunting purple synth coloration. Impressive first EP from Coni, don't sleep on this!
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Tell me, have you got money for this champagne, b*tch...?! That's it, the first release of the prodigal son French Fries on his own imprint, ClekClekBoom Recordings. A massive turn in his young but already serious career. This number sees him going deep and dark on "Champagne", twisting the vibe with mystic flute, nasty strings and cold screwd up grime lyrics... while "Hugz" in collab with partner in crime Bambounou, drops a minimalistic yet sharp and agressive house beat, with old school pulse bass synth flavor and a naughty female vocal touch. Beware, heavy loaded subs right here, not for the laptop heads...
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