Mix of the Week: Le Dom B2B De Grandi
Up-and-coming producers Le Dom and De Grandi turn in an epic b2b set providing a snapshot of the Parisian underground, where classic French sounds are being warped in exciting new directions.
When people think of the experimental club music sound currently dominating clubs all over the world they usually think of labels like Night Slugs and Fade To Mind and the hubs of London, New York and Berlin. However, a number of regional scenes are now rising in prominence – NAAFI from Mexico City, Staycore from Stockholm and Decisions in Australia.
Paradoxe Club, the record label that has released records by De Grandi and Le Dom fits firmly within this scene. The particular sound of Paradoxe Club and its associated acts has been dubbed bérite club music. This particular style fuses experimental club music tropes such as syncopated, heavily percussive tracks with classic localised styles such as the French touch house sound, afro-house and coupé-décalé. Whether it is its own genre or not is up for debate but there is no doubt a new generation of Parisian producers are making something exhilarating.
A number of tracks from De Grandi and Le Dom’s recent EP’s are featured in this pulsating b2b. As the mix progresses we hear unreleased Paradoxe Club tunes, fantastic edits of Tessela’s “Hackney Parrot” and Eric Prydz’s “Call On Me” as well as modern French hip hop such as Bosh’s baile funk/afro trap banger “C’est Pour Nous” and S.Pri Noir’s “Middle Finger.” The track selection demonstrates exactly what bérite club music is all about.
With mixes like this, Le Dom and De Grandi firmly put Paradoxe Club and bérite on the global club music map.
