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TEC 024LP
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Having made initial waves on Cold Recordings and Osiris, Eric Baldwin returns now to Tectonic to release his eponymous album Cocktail Party Effect, bringing his South London roots to Berlin for an all-weekender, under strobe lights. Drawn by his appetite for powerful rhythmical forms and inspired by the likes of Daphne Oram, The Residents, and Captain Beefheart -- Eric takes uses background in sound design, knowledge of hacking VST software and adapted spring reverbs and other hardware, to create a truly unique vision of contemporary electronic music. It sits somewhere between Jeff Mills, Aphex Twin, and Squarepusher -- held together by a connective UK bass music spinal cord. A weird but intriguing beast. The album opens with a track of Japanese cocktail recipes, before moving into the only vocal track of the album, "Talking To Bricks" featuring Bristol vocalist Redders on fine form -- charged with disjointed energy and run ragged across a technologically charged dancehall style beat. The album progresses through the rolling breaks and bleeps of "For The Memory Exchange", into an IDM side-step in the shape of "Brutalism", moving into the gentle, beautiful flickering glitches of "PDA", before the hyperactive twitching alien charge of "War On Codex". Taking a leap in another direction, you reach "Cause For Bad Shelving", which sounds a bit like Squarepusher when he was on late '90s, immaculate form -- taking the tempo up a few notches, while building melancholy. "Lack Of Wrong Format" then gives you a moment to breathe, before diving into "Deerhorn" which brings us right back to the dancefloor. Things are then turned inside out with the jittery wonder of "I Get It (Lost Banknote)", redirected via the industrial clangs of "Low_Rise", before rounding off our sonic adventure with the ponderous tones of "Loner" -- which leave you glowing and drifting off into space. A bold album that's just brim with a strong sense of originality, direction, and grand narrative. From international dancefloors to post-clubbing ear-worms, Cocktail Party Effect is just getting started and you'll be hearing his name more and more now.
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TEC 107EP
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Having released two killer and totally unique EPs on Cold Recordings, the British-born, Berlin-based Eric Baldwin, aka Cocktail Party Effect, lines up his first for Tectonic. Across these four dynamic 130bpm cuts, CPE demonstrates his sharp ear for creating tracks full of energizing percussive twists, melding hard-charging, dynamic techno textures and while running wild with a UK sense of bass-heavy and percussive maneuvers.
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TT 006EP
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After a long break, Tbilisi-based label Transfigured Time is back with their sixth release. This time with Berlin-based producer and DJ Cocktail Party Effect, who previously had releases on Pinch's Cold Recordings and Headcount Records. With Death Of An Algorithm, Eric Baldwin brings experimental and rhythmical tracks with dance floor character. Six tracks are a perfect mix of IDM, dubstep, techno, experimental and ambient music. Andro Eradze on the sleeve and mastering by Gigi Jikia.
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COLDR 012EP
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Cocktail Party Effect makes a return to Cold Recordings with four new genre-melting rhythmical workouts. "Lemons" kicks things off, opening with dubbed-out chords and a fidgety, rattling percussive loop. Following straight on is "Bangers" which almost sounds like an imagined collaboration between JA rhythms stars of the moment, Equiknoxx and Walton or Batu. "Quite" brings things back into slightly more familiar territories, utilizing a swooping bassline as pitched, deranged vocal stabs swirl about and tight drum programming keeps the pace moving. "Flat Football" which returns to a similar form as the title track, "Lemons", with manic drum programming.
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COLDR 010EP
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Eric Baldwin (Cocktail Party Effect) shows off his colors with four diverse, rhythmic, and experimental cuts. "Battered" kicks things off with a glitching set of electronics before dropping into a fidgety rhythmical explosion. "OOYFM" takes things into slightly more typical UK bass music territory, rolling out techno ingredients, a grime-y UK bassline with broken-beat rhythmical dynamics. "Intens" takes a stance that sits somewhere between dancehall and techno, while descending electronic motifs cascade in sympathy. "I Kno3" pulls back on the instant gratification factors but hits out instead with a moody, bass-driven and percussively expressive exit track.
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