Prodigal son French Fries returns to the CCB stable with some insidiously fierce, soft and precise rhythmic weapons ready to enlighten your Saturday night! More

French Fries delivers two originals on the cutting edge of modern bass. "Space Alarm" is right up in your face but artfully holds back right when you think it will go over the top. The inside "Smoke Wine" is more in the vein of last years smash "Yo Vogue," yet more understated and deep which is rare for the genre. When I play these at the right time they always solicit an audible "ooooh" from the crowd at thedrops. Remix #1 is by Justin Martin who really blows it up dirtybird style with almost a breakbeat old school electro beat. Remix #2 is by dirtybird newcomers GoldFFinch via Belgium who also deliver a really funk laden club version. Both remixes are ace and the full release brings a very fresh sound to the label. More

I was finishing up a long extended set in Paris when the CleckCleckBoom crew practically ran into the club to get on the decks. I had hung out with them before but tonight they had all new tracks and an incredible energy. So I stayed past the last ravers just to hear what they would play and that was when i heard "Hugz" by French Fries and Bamabounou. This was a new sound, some nasty nasty shit sitting somewhere between juke and bass music and and i knew we had to get this sound on dirtybird no matter what. Needles to say "Yo Vogue" is hot property and i'm really excited to release it on dirtybird. The half time drop, the chopped and screwed vocal, the stuttering bass kicks, the creepy moog on top - it's simple and complex at the same time and it wrecks shop whenever it gets played. I did a remix on the B side giving it some db flavor and dirtybird newcomer Leroy Peppers lays out his own bay area skeeze with hot sauce on top. Watch yer bass bins! best, VonStroke. More

Prodigal son French Fries returns to the CCB stable with some insidiously fierce, soft and precise rhythmic weapons ready to enlighten your Saturday night! More

NSDOS is back with some new toys from outer space - on this EP we hear six figments of his twisted imagination, caught live ....
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! More

Something's happening in the eastern part of France, some analog boogie vibes were sent to the CCB camp and we felt obliged to release them on our next white label 12" in the series. The troublemaker going by the name of Caslau is a new comer who delivers two fresh cuts designed to please your ears and stomp your feet. The A side, "Error 1", is a muddy swim into the Detroit pool, some distant sonic layers cleverly assembled upon nasty rhythmic synth stabs and a warm serpentine bass-line. The cold reverb of the production produce a real balanced effect with the soulful elements contained in the whole structure. On the B side, "Error 4" continue down the same path, but this time focusing more toward the drums section, where the famous quote "more cowbell please" could be use for this infectious tool who bring analog sexiness ready for hard to please deejays. A straight to the point record and very efficient, no "error" here! More

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. More

DJ, producer, all-round music connoisseur and entertainer, Jean Nipon, drops a dope new EP 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. More

Bendy Acidic Winners from this clued Parisian crew.... a flighty white that might no be around for so long. The label say: 'Chaos in CBD are like water, they can take any shape they want! From a subtle and silky house vibe to more thuggish techno, the boys love to challenge themselves. It's with this latest flavor that the New Zealanders are back in ClekClekBoom territory. The first track, "Trial Rider", hits like a sleepy snake, with its crying bassline and a hypnotic rhythm pattern taking over the track, while a vocal shouts "Spin it backwards" all along this contagious jam. On the B side, "Trial Rider (Ayo Bitch)", injects more mesmerizing liquid synths to the original version for a solid dub. We can imagine how effective these two DJ tools can be on a floor around 6 AM... Like a slippery U.F.O. between House and Techno, we can't be sure what these young ones just did to our ears - but hey, how can water be labeled?' More

This primo Parisian club crew drop another sweeeeet set of dancefloor ammo! BIG TIP! More

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. More