As Funkstorung, Chris de Luca and partner Michael Fakesch released an uncountable amount of records on !K7, Compost Records, Acid Planet, Musik aus Strom and many more. Especially their remixes for Bjork, Wu-Tang Clan, Speedy J and Plaid attracted worldwide attention. Their unique mix of old school hip hop and cut-up beats can confidently be called groundbreaking for the genre. Right on time for Funkstorung’s 10th anniversary in 2005 the album “Return To The Acid Planet” was released. It shall be their last. In 2005, de Luca moved to Berlin and in the spring of 2006, Funkstorung split up.
At the end of the last millennium, East German buddies Carsten and Sascha went out into the big wide world – to Berlin. Sascha became Apparat, Carsten turned into Phon.o. Since then, Phon.o released a number of 12 inches, EPs and two albums on labels such as Cytrax, Detroit Underground, Normoton, Tigerbeat6 and T.Raumschmiere’s Shitkatapult. His last album “Burn Down The Town”, released in 2005 on Shitkatapult, is a firework of techno, booty hip hop and eurocrunk. It made vocalists such as Kevin Blechdom, Gold Chains and Detroit MC Stadik fight over the mic.
Chris de Luca and Carsten met in 2004, when Phon.o was support act for Funkstorung’s “Disconnected”-Tour. They liked each other so much that without further ado Phon.o was let loose on the masses again at Funkstorung’s “Isolated Triple Media” release party. Craziness galore on the dancefloor! For the release of his last album, Phon.o then invited de Luca to fool around with his single “Trick Or Treat” and strike back with a remix. De Luca was bubbling over with ideas and it was only a matter of time before the two would team up.
De Luca and Phon.o officially joined forces in the spring of 2006. Since then, they’ve been rocking clubs and festivals all over Europe with their ass-kicking sets as “Chris de Luca vs. Phon.o,” recently dropping some letters to call themselves CLP from now on. This unconventional combination of intergalactic hip hop, ghetto beats, sexy booty IDM and dirty techno goes beyond typical contemporary genre boundaries. Berlin, there is new shit in town and it doesn’t stink!
In the last year CLP worked like crazy apes, releasing a full album on Shitkatapult and letting club sound magician Boys Noize hire them for a 12” guest performance on Boysnoize Records. They followed these efforts with a new EP for Shitkatapult featuring Kovas, with remixes from Housemeister, Bugati Force, Litwinenko, and Unsportsmanlike. It’s time to CLaP!
