Dinky: Time To Lose It - Visionquest

Dinky
Time To Lose It
Visionquest

Dinky. Yep it sounds like a kid’s toy or something you could lift up with your little finger and propel a great distance with a minimum of effort, Kylie Minogue for example. Please note I am not advocating the propelling of everyone’s favourite antipodean pop-princes (I do prefer Dannii in all honesty) but rather making the point that little women are capable of making a big noise, as is the case with Chilean native, Berlin and Panorama Bar resident and part-time-ginger, Dinky.

Teka is her latest release on Visionquest, and on the first couple of listens I thought this was in all honesty, a bit pony. For those not familiar with the intricacies of cockney rhyming slang pony is not a replacement for Baloney (though that could I guess apply too). I was wrong by the way as to use the age-old cliché, ‘this is a bit of grower’.

The title track is exactly the sort of stripped down house that Dinky permeates her sets with in Panorama Bar. Whilst there’s also a hint of that filtered house sound so favoured by our garlic loving neighbors in the early nineties it somewhat paradoxically also manages to be more tribal than the ‘I like to move it, move it’ scene from Madagascar. In short it’s filtered, stripped down tribal house, perfect for playing on a Sunday afternoon (the best time to go to Panorama Bar, seriously) in Berlin. Yep I love it. Pony it, most definitely, is not.

This Is your Heart continues in a similar hue but gets a bit slower, a bit more screwed and sleazy and has a vocal that refrain that sounds like it says ‘Fish and Chips’. It also gets a bit ,what men with beards call, cosmic in places. Time To Lose It goes even slower into spoken word, breathy faux-Balearica. It’s a bit trippy but for the most part just sort of minces along. It’s descent but not a patch on the other two tracks. [Dinky describes Time To Lose It as "the track is originally 125 Bpm although some of the elements are placed at half tempo , it can be played as an accapella or Tool on a DJ set"

Visionquest then prove that with release number six that they can count past the fingers on one hand and also that in Dinky they are supporting a talent that has grown to prominence the hard way, doing the solid graft and now reaping the rewards. Time To Loose’ aside this is definitely worth your coin. Dinky it may be but dinky it aint.

Tracklist: Dinky - Time To Lose It
1. Teka
2. This Is Your Heart
3. Time To Lose It