Artist: Dinka
Release Name: Hotel Summerville
Label: Unreleased Digital
Release Date: 5 May 2010
Cat. Nr.: UDR1085
Links: www.myspace.com/dinkamusic; helveticnerds.blogspot.com
Review:
I know this album has been released months ago, but it took me a while to buy all the tracks of it. It now seems like that I have them all and I played most of them in my radio show.
Maybe this review is not going to be written in e neutral perspective since I have been a big Dinka fan from the very beginning.
Which track do I like the most? I think it’s “Ghosts in a Suit”, but it might also be “Elements”. Hard to say. But these two are definitely the two harder ones, which one would play in a part of a DJ set, which should rock the crowd. But they still got the Dinka flair.
More chillier are the tracks “Hotel Summerville” and “Smile When You’re Hurt the Most”, the second being a vocal track. These two I could not instantly allocate to Dinka if heard in an unknown context, but the Dinka sound are present of course, just the Dinka groove isn’t.
Green Leaf… I’ve heard this tracks before without a vocal and I have to say I liked it better without. It’s really got that Dinka bass which makes one want to party but with the vocal, which is actually beautiful, this feeling gets lost. It’s a completely different track that way, of which i might still get used to when you give some time.
The fourth piece on the album is a masterpiece called “Some Poeple Will Never Learn”. This is the Dinka stuff we are used to. Bassy, groovy, melodic, beautiful.
I will stop here talking about the tracks. The album is all in all very Dinkaish, which I guess can get boring to some poeple, but definitely not to me. Every track has it’s own specialty. This album is a very solid and artistic achievement by our Swiss artist, and it can be recommended for any situation, party, chill out, work,…