Hitting Refresh

DJ Dexterity (that's me) on Hit Refresh, 5 August 2010.

Includes tracks from Soul Clap, Spoek Mathambo, Solomun, Afefe Iku, Trickski, Benoit & Sergio and more...

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C.9ine - Wonder

See this now - See U Later...

8-Hour House Party Mix (via my year of mixtapes)

Kate's New Cut

Kate Bush releases are increasingly rare, so news of a new one is always welcome - especially after I bought Under The Ivy: The Story of Kate Bush last night and even if Director's Cut is a collection of reworked catalogue songs.

The first song to surface is a reworking of "Deeper Understanding", and whilst it's awash in Autotune, unsurprisingly she uses it rather cleverly to scramble lyrics about finding intimacy with her "friendly computer".

Stream it at Disco Naivete.

Dexterity Hits Refresh

Check out my hour-and-a-half set for Friday (18 Feb) night's edition of the Hit Refresh TV show (on the Vuzu channel, DStv 123).

From future Afro-funk through to deeper (and deadlier) floor fare, the tracklist features C.9ine, Soul Clap, Hercules & Love Affair, Maya Jane Coles, Black Coffee, Jumping Back Slash, T. Williams, Jimpster and many more...

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Top 50 Tracks of 2010

You've gotta love the end-of-year list - or in this case, a "beginning-of-year" list of last year's most significant singles.

Here are the fifty "songs" (even the "tracks" here are more than just "funk-tional") that lit up my life and sparked my senses in 2010 (my Top 50 albums will be up soon).

1.   Jamie Woon - Night Air

2.   Balam Acab - See Birds (Moon)

3.   Ramadanman - Tempest

4.   The Roots - Radio Daze (ft. Blu, PORN, Dice Raw)

5.   James Blake - CMYK

6.   Tensnake - Coma Cat

7.   Drake - Fireworks (Deadboy Re-Edit)

8.   Nicolas Jaar - A Time For Us

9.   Hackman - More Than Ever

10. Moody - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me

11.  Four Tet - Sing

12.  Erdbeerschnitzel - To An End

13.  Toro Y Moi - Missya

14.  LCD Soundsystem - Get Yrself Clean

15.  Axel Boman - Purple Drank

16.  Joy Orbison - BRKLN CLLN (Michna's Brooklyn Bridge Remix)

17.  FaltyDL - All In The Place

18.  C.9ine - Wonder (See U Later)

19.  Floating Points - People's Potential

20.  Sinden & SBTRKT - Kind of Familiar

21.  Hype Williams - The Throning

22.  OoOOo - Burnout Eyess

23.  Pantha Du Prince - Stick To My Side

24.  Birds & Souls - Birds & Souls

25.  Jam City - Arpjam

26.  Findling & Lihab - Stay Down

27.  Gonjasufi - Ancestors

28.  Kingdom - Seven Chirp

29.  The Groovers - Chicken Noodle (Sad Ghost Remix)

30.  Andre Lodemann - The Light

31.  Mark E - Nobody Else

32.  Jamie xx - Far Nearer

33.  Caribou - Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)

34.  Altered Natives - The Bitch

35.  Pursuit Grooves - Pressure

36.  Gonzales - I Am Europe (Claude VonStroke Take A Trip Mix)

37.  Hot Chip ft. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Feel Bonnie (Club Version)

38.  Egyptrixx - Drive U Crazy

39.  T.Williams - Anthem

40.  Teengirl Fantasy - Cheaters

41.  TOKiMONSTA - Gamble

42.  Becoming Real - Fast Motion

43.  Pearson Sound - Blanked

44.  Actress - Purrple Splazsh

45.  Jimmy Edgar - Hot Raw Sex (Instra:Mental Mix)

46.  Girl Unit - Wut

47.  Spoek Mathambo - Mshini Wam (Canblaster Remix)

48.  Jumping Back Slash - Kwaai Sneakers

49.  DJ Roc - I Can't Let Go

50.  Harvey presents Locussolus - Gunship


And to borrow a disclaimer from the radical Sonic Router: "This list is not definitive. Tomorrow it would most likely be different..."