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Dinky 'Slowly' (Crosstown Rebels)
This is the second single from Dinky’s most recent album ‘Valor’ and makes good use of the singer’s stunning vocals, while the fragile, icy piano rubs against the bass synths in a dancefloor-friendly way. Add some muted oboe and swirling string pads, and this is one classy affair. Matthew Styles, who was the first label manager at Crosstown Rebels and has since gone onto run the Running Back label with Gerd Janson, then loops extracts of the whispy vocal to give us an enchanting remix. Radio Slave, aka Matt Edwards, provides a futher two mixes, too – one an exercise in pulsing, glacial tech house, the other more ethereal and broken.
7/10
