Clüb De Combat (@clubdecombat) launch their new FIGHTCLÜB imprint with Jack The House, a collaboration with Rudy With A Hoodie that has already spent close to a year circulating through their sets before release. The track reflects the direction the duo have been steadily building toward: darker club pressure, acid influence, hypnotic percussion, and a sound shaped around late-night rooms rather than short-term trend cycles. More importantly, the label gives them direct control over how and when that vision develops.
That independent mindset carries directly into this conversation around music discovery and listening habits. Clüb De Combat speak openly about avoiding algorithm-driven taste, staying connected to physical dancefloor experiences, and continuing to search through smaller labels, underground DJs, and personal recommendations rather than relying entirely on streaming platforms.
Their answers consistently return to one core idea: discovery has to stay emotional and experiential, otherwise music starts flattening into pure functionality.
The interview also captures something increasingly relevant in club culture right now. Algorithms can organize taste efficiently, but they rarely recreate the feeling of hearing something unexpected at the exact right moment in a room full of people. For Clüb De Combat, that tension between convenience and discovery sits at the center of how they continue shaping their sound and the future of FIGHTCLÜB.
Interview With Clüb De Combat
When using personalized platforms, how do you stay intentional about your musical diet?
Actually, it happens pretty naturally for us. As we keep digging deeper into music, our taste evolves and we often find things we weren’t even looking for. For us, discovery still comes from digging. Going through small labels, listening to DJs around the world, and getting sent music from friends. We also draw inspiration from different genres and from music that isn’t necessarily new, which helps us stay grounded and avoid just following trends.
We try not to let algorithms decide our taste, since they tend to push you toward what’s already working or buzzing. They’re useful, but they can blur the line between what you genuinely love and what just feels relevant. It takes some awareness to separate the two, but once you know where to draw the line, that’s where the fun begins.
Has an algorithm ever expanded your ear or taste as a DJ?
Sometimes, yes. You can definitely fall into interesting rabbit holes while diving through SoundCloud or Spotify. But usually, algorithms refine your taste more than expand it. They show you variations of what you already like.
The real question is about the things you didn’t know you liked. For us, hearing something that makes us feel a certain way at 3AM in a room full of people tends to shape us more than any playlist. Those moments open new directions and lead us to new sources, helping us discover more music and even sub-genres we might not have found otherwise.
How do you periodically refresh your listening habits?
Ever since we were young, we’ve listened to all kinds of music beyond house. Whether it’s dubstep, deep house, hip hop, rock, Middle Eastern music, or anything else, we’ve always kept our ears open, so we rarely feel stuck in one box.
We can be on a flight and Amit is listening to Black Sabbath while Aviv is listening to Sade. We’ve always seen ourselves as flexible in our taste, and that’s just our nature. Sometimes the best refresh is simply listening to whatever comes to mind.
Has your taste evolved alongside the tools you use?
Like everyone else, our taste evolves naturally, but the core stays the same. We’ve always been drawn to music that makes you move your shoulders and feels powerful in the sense that it makes you feel something. That hasn’t really changed.
The tools make discovery faster, but the feeling we look for stays consistent. In the end, we’re still chasing the same thing. That moment where the whole room moves together as one, through the highs and the lows. Creating a unique experience for the people, and maybe even helping them discover sounds they didn’t know they’d like.
What does intentional discovery look like today?
Today, intentional discovery often starts when we hear a track that sparks something and makes us want more of that feeling. From there, we’ll dig deeper into the artist’s catalogue, sometimes even reach out directly, and that can open an entirely new pocket inspired by one specific track that lit a bulb for us.
There’s more music than ever today, but we don’t think the goal is to hear everything. For us, it’s about finding the tracks that will serve the right moment, even if we know it might take a year before we actually play them. There’s nothing like finding a track and already knowing the exact set and setting you’re saving it for, and then finally playing it in that moment.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
