Kinky Malinki - Compilation

Release date: Out now

Format: Compilation
Genre: House
Our Rating: 3/5

It’s all about the glowstick and the bikini tops once this baybee is inserted into the player. Track after track will have you pining for the sun, sand  and beach, or inavertedly you will be throwing ‘shapes’ as if you were rocking that podium in Ibiza.

If you want a CD to plonk on before you rev up that Saturday engine, this is a match made in heaven. Damian Strong’s Love Shop will have arms flung sky high, and The Absolute, There Will Come a Day is Housetastic. Actually this compilation is a mood lifter, from frown to clown – you’ll love it!

Priya, MyVillage

Press release
There’s a buzzing hive of activity building at the Kinky Malinki headquarters as news is released that Kinky Malinki is being released this summer with the sexy new-look imagery.
With the 9th birthday looming on the horizon at Turnmills in October, their Dubai residency continuing to rock in the Middle East and a spate of thriving parties the length and breadth of the UK and beyond, 2007 has already been a meteoric year for the KM crew and it just keeps getting better and better!

And rather than letting the grass grow under their beat-tapping feet, the guys have decided to release a double whammy CD package and unleash Kinky Malinki in the summer, mixed by Grant Richards and Mark Robinson, which will encapsulate the hottest sounds of 2007.
 “It’s something we’ve been working towards and are now really excited about,” Paul Crane, Kinky Malinki’s director explains. “We feel we have got something special to offer and with our new recruit Mark Robinson from Peppermint Jam also involved, there’s a whole new angle to the project.”

Kinky Malinki is a sublime double CD featuring some corking classics and future floor fillers. CD One by Grant Richards starts off quite tribally and builds up track by tracks, turning pretty deep towards the end with some nice vocal leads in there too. There are some big breakdowns in a really mixed bag of deep house condensed into one great mix, with standout tracks including Soul Central’s Time After Time and Timmy Vegas’ Girl From Brazil. Grant’s mix will surprise people overall being much more than just kinky, encapsulating a whole host of deep house gems that exhibits a fresh and adventurous vibe with much thought having gone into the programming and representing the Room Two vibe at Turnmills.
 
Mark Robinson’s CD 2 is pure Kinky Malinki dance floor action, and shows why Mark has been made a new recruit with the team, showcasing his immense musical knowledge. Elmo and Richard’s stonker Kinky Way of Life is thrown in along with Tom Novy’s mix of I Wish You Would by Martijn Ten Velden and both feature in a superlative house mix that will have everyone dancing from the moment the first beat kicks in.

Teaming up with Seamless Recordings is an important step and shows how KM continues to evolve, working with industry leaders and delivering a new and exciting double CD package as part of the extensive KM re-branding programme.

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MyVillage, 13th July