Voodoo by Dina Summer

Voodoo is the latest offering from Dina Summer, the project uniting Local Suicide and Kalipo. Arriving from the shadows of Berlin’s underground, the project continues to refine their seductive collision of darkwave, EBM and club-focused electronics into something atmospheric and menacing.

Built on sinister arpeggios and a relentless pulse, Voodoo unfolds almost in slow motion. The track’s opening moments feel quite ceremonial before collapsing into a cavernous bassline that drives the sounds forward with instinctive intensity. Vocal fragments flicker through the mix, sharpening the sense of unease as the production tightens its grip.

Drawing heavily from nineties electro and techno without slipping uncontrollably into nostalgia, Voodoo feels cold and physical, with every synth line and vocal texture deployed with purpose, allowing pressure to build relentlessly across the track’s runtime.

The single centres around a figure who doesn’t merely survive chaos but transforms into it, a presence of magnetic danger and power. The theme becomes a part of every second of the production, as Voodoo sees Dina Summer continuing to create out their own space between darkwave melancholy and peak-time techno pressure.

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Dina Summer