Sunday, August 5, 2007

DIMTHINGS-IN SPITE OF WHAT THEY SAY, 12" EP, 1984, USA





Back in the day, this cat issued a flood of vinyl and used to give his records away for pennies (I recall $3-$4 a pop being the norm). This, when combined with their shabby looking glued-on xerox covers gave the impression of something un-serious and largely caused his work and catalog to fade into utter obscurity. A pity, as the Dimthings aesthetic was seriously fucked-in-the-head and something worth retroactively marvelling about. Extended freeform D.I.Y. basement mutant jazz fusion crashing headlong into the post-Beefheart/post-Residents axis? Well....something like that. More of this freak's doings will follow soon...

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9 comments:

  1. FM SHADESAugust 5, 2007 at 9:54 PM

    Wow, nice... I've been meaning to digitize the 3 Lp's I have from this era of the Dimthings... I found them in Hamburg for dirt cheap... amazing florida underground music from the 80s.

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  2. ommythAugust 6, 2007 at 1:09 PM

    Dimthings and our Rat Bastard were in the group Scraping Teeth in the late 1980s. They won Spin Magazine's "Worst Band in America" award in 1990! Rat and I met a year later and formed To Live and Shave in L.A....

    FM Shades, the 80s Miami freak scene is very poorly documented, but serious synaptic damage (albeit of a less intellectually rigorous sort) was the order of the day.

    Thanks for keeping Dimthings' very fucked material alive, VDO.

    Best,

    Tom

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  3. vdoandsoundAugust 6, 2007 at 6:38 PM

    Hi Tom...

    Very interesting to know about the Dimthings/ TLASILA link! Were there any other Florida experimental units of the period that released something notable? It's a scene I know basically zilch about...

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  4. TomAugust 8, 2007 at 1:57 PM

    I'll give Rat a ring for the complete list - there were several ur-muck outfits that would easily reside within Mutant Sounds' taxonomic brief.

    Happiness Boys update: their Edward Bobb is doing time in a Federal pen for downloading child pornography! Yipes! The sordid details may be found here:

    http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/070629-07.html

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2007 at 5:04 AM

    I always enjoyed the Dimthings, which I recently found is actually 1 guy named James Garcia. He changed the name from Dimthings to Dimthingshine now. I found a couple of Web Sites since he recently joined myspace.com/dimthingshine and appears to be starting to re-release his music on CD. Check it out.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 13, 2007 at 9:52 PM

    Okay,
    Dimthingshine (formerly Dimthings) is living in New York now and is working on new avant-garde/prog music. He also goes by the name "Dimthingshineon" for more rock oriented music and goes by the name "Mejdaji" for his world music. He has a few web sites out there for all this stuff on geocities.com and myspace.com .. search them out.

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  7. AnonymousOctober 13, 2007 at 9:53 PM

    Okay,
    Dimthingshine (formerly Dimthings) is living in New York now and is working on new avant-garde/prog music. He also goes by the name "Dimthingshineon" for more rock oriented music and goes by the name "Mejdaji" for his world music. He has a few web sites out there for all this stuff on geocities.com and myspace.com .. search them out.

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  8. fuzztunnelOctober 4, 2008 at 9:33 AM

    Fabulous stuff... those synth-noise solos really nail me to the wall!

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  9. art attackJune 7, 2009 at 12:36 AM

    Actually, Tom, Ed is doing time for using images that he had downloaded from an FBI website, in an anti-incest work that he was making. The 'child porn' was just a portion of it- the Feds used that to make the conviction harder to fight. After all, we all know that anyone who downloads 'child porn' is evil, right? Sheeple.

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