MySpace Trawl – Dextro
Another week, another trawl – or something like that, as we delve once again into the often confusing world of MySpace music.
Not a week goes by when someone doesn't try to whore themselves out to us by saying they're the best thing since spreadable butter, or something equally as fascinating. Though we do manage to sieve out the good from the bad, awful and the downright delusional artists to bring you songs that don’t sing about umbrellas or other useful household objects. Sadly, Lee Ryan will not be featured this week as we don’t recommend former manufactured bell-end boy band members who send packs of 11-year-old girls after us. Instead, we bestow the honour to Dextro. Someone who doesn’t need to be paraded around every shite gossip magazine to make a name for himself. His music does the talking.
As per usual, hecklerspray likes to randomly go off on one and attempt to educate everyone on various types of weird/bizarre/interesting/experimental/exciting and generally decent music. Seriously, if we were your music teacher at school you wouldn’t spend six months learning to play Chopsticks on a knackered keyboard bought for a fiver down the local car boot sale. Instead, we’d attempt to make lessons more interesting. Lessons in making music out of Gameboys, polystyrene cups and the history of Aphex Twin would be the order of the day. Well that’s if we actually turned up.
Come to think about it, we’d be crap music teachers as we’d probably lie in and miss the first and second lesson, be pissed, hungover or just not turn up at all. Lee Ryan would probably have to do our job as a teacher instead when his bargain basement albums and singles fail to sell in branches of Nettos across the land. Unfortunately, this would result in mass numbers of children self-harming due to his constant stories of once being in a dodgy boyband full of overweight geezers. It was called Green or something.
Because summer is apparently on its way, we thought it would be fitting to today recommend some blissed-out grooves for everyone to listen to when they're either chilling out at night while eating raw/burnt BBQ food or, for 3am in the morning when they realise that all the cavity wall insulation they have installed to keep them warm in winter actually works and keeps the blistering summer heat in, resulting in a sweat fest that makes for unpleasant sleeping conditions.
The general genre of chill-out music is often ignored and only really visited when various mega clubs like Cream or Ministry of Sound decide to cash in by chucking a few songs together for a ropey compilation. Dextro's music is oozing with a certain something that we can’t quite put our finger on. The gentle progression of the sounds come together to perfectly create a tasty musical genre of noise. Destroy The Future is the perfect example of this. Starting off so quietly that we had to crank the speakers up to full, it seems that the song is stuck on repeat and going nowhere at all. But as time passes, the music slowly starts to evolve as more layers are added. Instead of imploding on itself, everything slots together like a jigsaw to bring us some well worked and produced musical talent. Despite the lack of words, it’s almost like an empty karaoke track which invites the listener to sing along.
Thankfully, Dextro is signed to a label. Whilst it’s not the sort that can afford to slap his face on every billboard across the country, it’s always a relief to know that someone out there appreciates music that truly has a heart and soul, which isn’t seemingly plucked off a musical conveyor belt which spews out total muck. Just like an ex boy band member who was in a singalong act named after a colour in the rainbow. Because we’re sure, they had to fight in record company meetings to keep that name.
Just like last week’s featured band Diamarek, we basically know fuck all about Dextro. But we think it is the work of just one man. Who knows? However, we aren’t fussed about knowing the name of their first pet, what cheese they like and aren’t waiting for the NME to print glossy photos of them so we can pin them up all over our wall. Image is nothing to us; it’s all about the music. Ay, Lee Ryan?
A short but extensive discography is listed on the MySpace page for Dextro giving us incite in to the wonderful sounds he has created in his short musical career. An added bonus of a couple of musical videos are also there should you wish to see some video accompaniment.
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