Dynoro – Monsters (feat. 24kGoldn)

83%%Overall Score

• Darker lyricism, though ungenial and short
• Nifty details that add-up
• An example to all copycats out there

Blasting badly made Slap House has become the new normality, sure. It’s fun analyzing people who have run out of creativity, even if we become somewhat… sadistic while at it, let’s say. Please note that we don’t loathe particularly on one genre. Like it happened with Big Room, Future Bass, Psy-Trance.. any genre which was at its peak one time, these trends are composed by the uncreative mass, and by a small segment of producers who are the trend-setters. A famous instance is Vini Vici with Psy, or the protagonist of today with Slap House.

Dynoro (with a few other names) brought Slap House to the main-stage with a bootleg of “L’Amour Toujours” (with “In My Mind” vocals) in 2018. After that, the Lithuanian hit producer has kept a quality flow of release, leaning towards pop influences, and today we are here discussing his latest creation.

“Monsters”, featuring hotshot 24kGoldn, a young San Francisco based rapper who’s seizing the charts lately, immediately impressed me with his first chorus. It’s a delectable element and keeps bouncing in-and-out of the instrumental, catching by surprise. An elegant construction clashes with the darker lyrics, and then an exotic drop extends the rhythm even more.

Here we can observe why Dynoro is a leading alias in this otherwise saturated realm: his signature isn’t mundane, but finds a constant change to the point that the “familiar” bassline isn’t the only one dancing the tango. We have trap switches when the featured rapper makes his (short) appearance, a violin-type lead, a complex set of percussion and other nifty details that lend a satisfying sensation.

“Monster” is what many might find as a decent collaboration: surely 24kGoldn didn’t put most efforts, as his style clashes with the base and the lyricism ungenial (I didn’t hold much expectations in the first place). Pity, as I find his flair catchy, and a lot more potential could have been harvested. Au contraire, Dynoro ruled here, with a magisterial demonstration of how an artist can behave in their own kingdom. One can feel the quality difference from the low quality copycats of his style. Now that’s impressive!

Combination of chorus, violin and drums: the recipe strikes efficiently here. A slap to all the “devotees” of Dynoro, who have meandered to uncreative endeavours for cash-grab and exposure.