Dinka (band)

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Dinka is a Swiss Progressive House project by musician and DJ Tamara Maria Kler. Dinka was a member of the Swiss house music community Helvetic Nerds until 2013 .

Band history

Helvetic Nerds founded the Dinka project in 2007. In 2010, Tamara Maria Kler (bourgeois Tamara Hunkeler) joined as a front woman. The first release , an EP called The Sin , came off the Unreleased Digital digital record label , which is run by Chris Reece . The mix of modern trance and house elements has been Dinka's typical trademark ever since. The influence of bands like Enigma (music project) or Deep Forest can also be clearly heard on many of the songs. The first studio album called Temptation was released in spring 2008 on the record label S2 Records .

The singles Temptation , Chemistry and Asylum all became international club hits and were regularly played by DJ greats such as Paul van Dyk (who later re-released Temptation on his own label Vandit Records ), Pete Tong , Above & Beyond , Armin van Buuren and others .

The second studio album Hotel Summerville was released in June 2010 on the record label Unreleased Digital. The album contained eleven singles already released between 2008 and 2010 and three previously unreleased songs, including the theme song Hotel Summerville in a lounge version.

In June 2011 her third studio album Tales Of The Sun was released . For the first time the album was released commercially on CD. The two single releases On The Beach and Reach For Me could not reach any noteworthy chart positions.

Once a year Dinka releases a single on the British record label Above & Beyond by Anjunadeep . These songs are not on the studio albums.

In 2011 Dinka was voted 300th in the DJ-Mag voting. This made her the ninth-placed female DJ in the world. In the previous year it was placed in 226th place.

After several collaborations with singers like Angelika Vee or Julie Thompson in 2012, Dinka toured India, Indonesia and other Asian countries.

After the release of Polarity , Dinka started a “Remix Contest” in collaboration with the Unreleased Digital label . The package was launched in late 2012. The focus was on young, hopeful music producers from all over the world.

At the beginning of 2013, she released a remake of her single Elements , released in 2009, in collaboration with the duo Leventina . The production is a mix of her own spherical-melodic style and a more commercial touch on the part of Leventina.

In March 2013 the annual compilation Croatia - The Opening 2013 was released on the label Unreleased Digital , in which Tamara Maria Kler participated as A&R . This year's compilation included not only Chill Out , but also pieces from the deep house sector. The basic concept remained summery.

In 2013 Tamara Maria Kler decided to leave the house music community Helvetic Nerds.

Radio shows and podcasts

Once a month (on the first Friday evening) Dinka broadcasts an hour-long, moderated radio show called The Helvetic Nerds Radio Show . The first show was in September 2008 on the online radio station pure.fm broadcast. Since August 2010, the radio show has also been broadcast on Proton Radio every second Thursday of the month. In the programs, Dinka usually plays her own and other songs that are not yet published at the time of broadcast.

Discography

Official studio albums

  • 2008 Temptation
  • 2010 Hotel Summerville
  • 2011 Tales Of The Sun

Singles / EPs

  • 2007 The Sin
  • 2007 The Temptation
  • 2008 Chemistry
  • 2008 wildfire
  • 2008 native
  • 2008 Autumn Leaves (with Chris Reece )
  • 2008 Asylum
  • 2009 Temptation (republished on Vandit Records )
  • 2009 Canon Ball
  • 2009 Green Leaf ( feat.Lizzie Curious )
  • 2009 Civilization / Zero Altitute
  • 2009 eyelash
  • 2009 Elements
  • 2009 Scarlet
  • 2010 Elements - Remixes (including EDX Remix)
  • 2010 Soma Is Language (with. George F. Zimmer )
  • 2010 Some People Will Never Learn
  • 2010 Aircraft
  • 2010 camouflage
  • 2010 Hive
  • 2010 Hive - The Remixes (including Stan Kolev Remix)
  • 2010 Violet
  • 2011 Luminal (with Stan Kolev )
  • 2011 Violet (The Remixes)
  • 2011 On The Beach
  • 2011 The Sleeping Beauty
  • 2011 Reach For Me (feat. Hadley & Danny Inzerillo )
  • 2011 SkyScraper
  • 2011 White Christmas (Released as a free download on Dinka's Soundcloud page.)
  • 2012 Purple EP
  • 2012 Chariots (with Leventina)
  • 2012 Innocence EP
  • 2012 Lotus
  • 2012 Radiate feat. Julie Thompson
  • 2012 Polarity EP
  • 2012 Inseparable feat. Angelika Vee
  • 2013 Elements (Reload 2013) with Leventina
  • 2013 Closer
  • 2013 Waterproof

Remixes

  • 2008 Claes Rosen - Mystify (Dinka Remix)
  • 2009 DJ Tatana ft. Dorian - Soulmate (Dinka Remix)
  • 2009 Jaytech - Pyramid (Dinka Remix)
  • 2009 Daniel Portman - Open Your Mind (Dinka DEEP Remix)
  • 2009 Schodt - Tokyo Dawn (Dinka Remix)
  • 2009 Leventina & Byron Stingily - Here Workin '(Dinka Remix)
  • 2009 George F. Zimmer - Soma (Dinka Remix)
  • 2009 Passenger 10 - Avantgarde (Dinka DEEP Remix)
  • 2009 Stew Ewans & Louk - Bad Habit (Dinka Remix)
  • 2010 Arthur Deep - Remember The Summer (Dinka Remix)
  • 2010 George F. Zimmer - Bilbao (Dinka Remix)
  • 2011 Sezer Uysal ft. CHINAR - Baku (Dinka Remix)
  • 2011 Ben Coda & Ad Brown - Timeless (Dinka Mystic Piano Remix)
  • 2012 Stan Kolev & Matan Caspi feat Troy Denari - Day after Day (Dinka Remix)
  • 2012 Nora En Pure - Make Me Float (Dinka Remix)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ helveticnerds.com
  2. ↑ beatport.com
  3. ↑ beatport.com
  4. ↑ beatport.com
  5. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: djmag.com )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.djmag.com
  6. ↑ pure.fm ( memento of the original dated November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pure.fm
  7. ↑ soundcloud.com
  8. ↑ beatport.com

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