Cocktail Party Effect

Charlie Baldwin, the Berlin-based South Londoner known as Cocktail Party Effect, produces an unruly hybrid of techno, garage, grime, and IDM. Debuting the alias in 2016, he released several EPs and singles before issuing his unhinged self-titled full-length in 2020. The son of British guitar legend Ray Russell, Baldwin and his older brother began playing music at an early age. He started experimenting with a sequencer when he was 16, and began making music influenced by the flourishing U.K. garage and dubstep scenes, under the name Kasket. By 2012, his music was beyond catego...