Cocktail Party Effect - Fixing the Roof EP
Release Date: February 10th
Cat: NHD007

Tracklist: 
1. Fixing the Roof
2. Safety Button
3. 767
4. Gecko Slide
5. The Police Took My Garden Away

https://cocktailpartyeffectmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fixing-the-roof-ep

Cocktail Party Effect starts 2023 with his debut release on Nervous Horizon: ‘Fixing The Roof EP’.

The South London via Berlin artist known for his jaw dropping releases on Tectonic Recordings delivers 5 solid cuts all with their unique style. Made with a bunch of battered vintage hardware: in particular 90s samplers, synths, filters and distortion units paired with the latest computer software, this project really pushes the sound palette beyond conventional club music. 

The opening track Fixing The Roof feels like a classic Nervous Horizon track from the time the label first started gaining traction. Safety Button is the bass heavy - dance floor pounder of the lot, a must in every set! 767 enters the “jungle experimentation” realm reminiscent of early Paradox (DnB producer Dev Pandya). Gecko Slide & The Police Took My Garden Away present copious amounts of analog distortion and explosive drum patterns that are really at the heart of the Cocktail Party Effect modus operandi.

Cocktail Party Effect - Fixing The Roof

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Mix from Wake and Bake 08/25/24
Retiring some of my favorite tracks w this one 🫡

INVT - ACID GUARACHA
Regal86 - A OK
L-Vis 1990 - Workout
Kingdom - Stalker Ha
TLIM SHUG - nasty work
Jam City - The Courts (12" Mix)
bastiengoat - work that
Helix - Drum Track
INVT - POLVO
Madben & Kosme - We Hit Drums
Jam City - Her (Extended Dub)
Webmistress - Automatic
FAKEGUCCI666 - Silk Road
Locked Club - Memphis Mumbai Tool
Oak City Slums - JACK ME
Six Foe - Seasons
TWR72 - Movement
Webmistress - Unreleased
West Code - 11 O'Clock
Chlar - Synaptic Discussion
DJ SAKEE - jemini
1morning - Tool A.1 (Movements)

Wake and Bake Mix

Plasma Sources marks its 5th release with Cortical’s debut EP, Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes. Pulling from both the extreme fringes of experimental music and the minimalistic tendencies of the UK bass continuum, the duo’s much-awaited first release acts as the locus point between dance floor sensibility and sonic exploration in its most immersive, visceral sense. 

Cortical are world builders first and foremost. With backgrounds rooted as much in the visual arts as audio, the duo’s live AV show has already garnered critical acclaim after standout performances at Sonár and Lunchmeat. Coupling this with their list of past collaborators - which includes the likes of Holly Herndon, Arca and Skrillex - and it becomes easy to see why there’s so much hype around Cortical right now. Indeed, this EP is the culmination of months of building excitement amongst those in the know, as fragments of raw footage captured from Cortical’s shows begin to amass on social media. 

Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes itself feels like the auditory equivalent of a fragmentary existence forming, fragmenting and reforming again. Noise and distortion act as integral threads throughout the EP, but on Telúrica, they takes centre stage. Brittle percussive calls give way to a thick wall of bass-laden, cinematic viscerality which hits the listener almost as hard as the ensuing rhythmic carnage which erupts halfway through. 
Mortar, immediately fires away into more rhythmic madness, as elements of dubstep, metal and grime coalesce into blasted kick patterns which sound like the contractions of an eldritch machine’s digestive tract. Noise-tainted bass tones take over, tearing in and out of reality as Mortar progresses into deeper territory.

Up next, Shiny Surgery provides a respite, with electro-tinged drippings of lasers and wet gloops lifting the listener into a more sanitised and lighter space than its predecessors. Cortical’s extreme musical influences are still at play here with their signature eroded bass weight and splintered percussion on display, but in a more restrained sense. As the halfway point comes in, so too does the most introspective section of Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes, as cinematic floating pads de-sterilise the space. 

Finishing things up is the namesake of the EP and arguably the most anthemetic listen of the release. Demented vocal chants call out across a disintegrating claustrophobic space, before grime kicks and fragmented breakbeat loops explode into existence, demanding full dance floor attention.

Cortical - Mortar

Mun Sing - Frolic EP
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https://munsing.bandcamp.com/album/frolic-ep

Mun Sing’s forthcoming ‘Frolic’ EP adopts the drama and intricacy of his productions to create a surreal, demented fairytale. In this world, fun and indulgence come at a price; a shadow of consequence is embodied in the form of a sinister blue faced scarecrow. He is a boogeyman of sorts, akin to the beasts scaring children into good-behaviour in bed time stories, but now finding his form in adulthood. The Scarecrow reminds us that everything comes at a price, and punishes those that have too much fun. He is the embodied voice of guilt after you choose one more drink, one more episode. He lays dormant, silently watching until it’s time to strike. Can we ever really escape this lurking figure? In the times we have succeeded, how long does it last?



‘Frolic’ follows a narrative that begins with indulgence and moves through to consequence; starting with euphoric melodies and big room drops ('Frolic', 'Didn’t Need U Anyway') and ending in moments of unravelling reflection ('Scrolling', 'The Hypocrite'). The Scarecrow reveals himself for the first time during the breakdown of the EP’s centrepiece ‘Somersault’; a theatrical club epic in which the scarecrow cackles the lines “You plead a pregnant passage yet frolic and frot without consequence!?” summarising the spirit of the EP succinctly. 



The concept of indulgence has fuelled the composition of ‘Frolic’ as a whole, where Mun Sing would lean into singalong melodies and satisfying drops using a more inclusive musical language in favour of the grief-inspired awkwardness of last years debut album ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ (Planet Mu). ‘Frolic’ is inspired by big stadium pop concerts for its large-scale storytelling and pantomime-esque audience participation. After years of navigating loss and spirituality, Mun Sing found the natural next step to be writing music which explores the dialogue of joy and escapism.

Mun Sing - Frolic

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Tracklist:

i.

paris - euphoria 3am edit (chlo333e version)
eev frances - You're Doing It. Right Now.
Cute Door - Turbulence (intro)
bambinodj - Solastalgia
Birkham - Flight from the City
Torus - Lose Control
station44 - pale
6astard - stereo eva
oklou - nightime (chlo333e edit)


ii.

Hilyard - Repose II
Isla Den - One Life
arsine - i could be da one (chlo333e edit)
TDJ, Quit Life, SPR INFINI - Falling Forever (mixed)
r-tem - voiceless (yerbby x ambient remix)
DJ Erased - Hear Me Now (DJ Erased remix)
Jotis - Paresthesia (No Mercy)*


iii.

Real Tears - Smokescreen (chlo333e edit)
Himera - One More Time
[cross] - sphere
DJ Semitone - open heart*


* additional vocal samples from Alex Somers & Hayden Dunham - 7 by 7 mix

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