eightball.ie proudly presents Dexter

Thursday, October 24
Soul Clinic @ Dolan’s Warehouse

For the past seven years four-time DMC Australian champion Dexter has wowed audiences the world over with finger blistering sets. Stacking dazzling displays of technical proficiency on top of damn fine music, Dexter eschews genre ghettoism for a real love of good sounds, wherever they come from. Hip Hop, r’n'b, urban, pop and straight-up-dance are just some of the many styles he touches on. The way he melds these together, however, is a completely different story.

Take Dexter’s work on The Avalanches single Frontier Psychiatrist: his psyched-out soundscape of birdcalls, landslides, gunfights and south sea island adventure gives oft-heard claims of “turntable as instrument” some real credence. In a dizzying myriad of scratching and splicing Dexter takes 40 totally unrelated slabs of vinyl - from sources as unlikely as golf-instruction and meditation records - and creates an entirely new song out of it.

As well as working on The Avalanches critically lauded debut long player ‘Since I Left You’, Dexter toured extensively with the band in 2001, playing to sell-out crowds in the UK, Europe, United States and Japan; and international club and key radio shows.

In 2002, as part of The Avalanche DJ Show, he completed a sell-out Australian tour, Moby’s Area:2 Festival across the US, (including a Madison Square Gardens Show), Summer Sonic Festival in Japan and his own sell-out homecoming show at The Prince Of Wales, Melbourne.

In the past he has supported luminaries like Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, Snoop, Beck, Basement Jaxx and DJ Cash Money. Dexter completed his own club tour of the UK and Europe late 2002, with 29 show stopping performances in 40 days.

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