Embodying the mutant nature of club music in the modern age, Cocktail Party Effect comes bowling into Sneaker Social Club with a taut, wiry sound which joins dots and melts barriers at will. 

The brainchild of Charlie Baldwin, who previously recorded as Kasket, Cocktail Party Effect has been forged over the past six years through heavy bursts of sound design anchored by soundsystem dynamics veering between 140 and 160 tempo zones. From 2020’s self-titled LP on Tectonic to drops on Osiris, Cold, Transfigured Time and more, Baldwin’s deftly avoided allegiance to any specific scene and instead deployed shock-inducing gear for DJs with fortitude to test on their crowds. 

On SNKRX010 the commitment to physicality is prevalent across all four tracks, veering from the deadly broken beat barbs and artful fills of ‘Racka’ to the splintered breakbeat rushes and stop-start aggravation of ‘C.A.T.C.R’. ‘Grims8’ is perhaps the purest manifestation of the Cocktail Party sound though, all monochrome rigour with the contrast turned way up, powered by steely, gleaming rhythmic impulses and writhing with dense layers of sonic matter. Watch out for the glutinous bass snarl of ‘58bethe7’ though, which slams in sideways with an unabashed rave instinct crushed through a post-modern production lens. 

Baldwin may be operating on his own terms, but on this 12” he demonstrates versatility to match his originality, resulting in four inventive dance destroyers tooled to bridge between styles, sets and scenes.

Cocktail Party Effect - C_A_T_C_R

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..........Italian Olympics 2.......... 

Seven tracks of ritualistic and post industrial sex-punk. Tara In Tibet follows up his two previous releases on Clan Destine Records and the Italian's own Last Europa Kiss label with Motor Dementia. 

With Motor Dementia, Tara In Tibet is as raw and magnetic as ever whilst simultaneously offering us a more solid, focused album than ever before. 

FOR FANS OF... occult sex parties, Italian police movies and cherry-flavoured bubblegum. 

A1. Chic Anti-Chic
A2. Sin And Devine 
A3. Eclectic Nest 
A4. The Woman Behind The Mirror Glass 
B1. Collapse 
B2. Doom Dementia 
B3. Temples of Desponia 

No digital-only sales, digital files provided upon request after purchase. 

Released 9th November 2018. 

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Motor Dementia

Italian Olympics 2: Tara In Tibet - Motor Dementia (CS)

Demdike Stare return to the lab with two extended new productions, inaugurating a series of untamed releases brought together under the Testpressing banner. 'Collision' was recorded in late 2012 and is pretty much unlike anything you'll have heard from Demdike before, an intense high-frequency re-arrangement of Jungle and Noise, like a more brutal variant of the Demdike-affiliated HATE project, fed through a bank of analogue boxes and pedals, left to spin uncontrollably for 10 minutes before fading to black. 'Misappropriation' on the flip feeds off a different noise altogether, perched precariously between the mangled percussion you'd most commonly associate with Muslimgauze and the metallic clank of industry, a proper sunstroke riddim: angry and unforgiving.

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