Review
Genre and Mood
Tinush opens his first album with Je Veux, French for “I want”. No review describes the track itself, so the genre comes from the producer: EARMILK, writing about him in June 2019, said he had defined his own sound by drawing on accessible club music, and his earlier Sandburg is reviewed on this site as melodic deep house. The title gives the mood its direction, a longing, and club music of this kind tends toward the hypnotic; how the two meet is for the listener to hear.
Song Summary
Je Veux runs four minutes and thirty-three seconds and is the first of eight tracks on a self-released collection that came out on 3 June 2019. The credits are short: Tinush Salehi is named as composer, lyricist and songwriter, so the track carries words as well as music, and the rights belong to Tinush himself, distributed through TuneCore. The title, in French from a Berlin producer, is the detail that stands out before the first note.
Musical Breakdown
The Release
MusicBrainz lists the collection as the Tinnitush EP, with Je Veux first, followed by tracks such as I Want Some Ice Cream, La Niña and the title track Tinnitush. On streaming services and YouTube the same release is now called Collection 01, a name that fits the Collection 02 Tinush released three months later.
The Track
As the opening track, Je Veux sets the tone for the collection. Its length, a little over four and a half minutes, sits between a pop song and a club track.
Concepts in Focus
Tinush comes out of club culture: the world of nightclubs, DJs and dancers in which house and techno were made and are judged. Discogs describes him as a producer, composer and DJ, and EARMILK says his sound draws on accessible club music. A producer who also DJs writes with a dance floor in mind, even on an album meant for listening at home. The same article adds that a brief early interest in jazz and orchestral music underpins most of his productions, a reminder that club music often carries other traditions inside it. Compare Je Veux with his earlier Tinush – Sandburg, released on a label, to hear how his music sounds once he releases it himself.
Artistic Context
Tinush is the artist name of Tinush Salehi, born in Dortmund in 1990 and based in Berlin. EARMILK notes that he played his first keyboard at the age of four. His releases from 2012 onward came on labels such as Ton Liebt Klang, Ostfunk Records and Crosswalk, which released Sandburg, and in 2018 Struggle appeared on Astrx with a remix by Franky Rizardo. In 2019 he turned to releasing his own music: EARMILK called Collection 01 his debut album.
Impact and Reception
Je Veux has no press of its own; it reached listeners through streaming and the producer’s own release, and it earned its place here through repeated listening. Play it, and then go back to Sandburg.
