Dimthingshine formerly Dimthings

Dimthingshine - 1989

DIMTHINGS played drums in prog art and alt rock, free-form jazz, etc.. Did solo exhibitions compared to "animal of the Muppets". He experimented in electronic and avant-garde sound forms Ala. musique concrete at a youthful age from the 1970’s through the next couple of decades. He released his own albums and tapes (Do-It-Yourself or DIY), performing and producing most of the compositions, improvisations, songs. He released 3 Double LPs (last of which never actually got released), and 4 garage recording LPs between 1982-1986, as well as some side projects. Music was an outlet to express his youthful rebellious energy.
Instigated by the prophetic "Bill the Poet", the addition of the "hine" extended his artist name from "Dimthings" to “Dimthingshine” as a symbolic revelation after feeling alienated in his local music scene. The name Dimthingshine signified more balance… “from subtle darkness there is light”
DIMTHINGSHINE released various low fi recordings on cassette and became active in the independent home taping underground network during the Mid – Later 1980's. He also contributed articles, interviews, reviews for small independent underground magazines.
Towards the end of the 1980’s into the 1990’s Dimthingshine began to break away from creative ventures & playing to explore life outside the umbrella of music.
All the many DTS sound documented releases have since been out of print. Fortunately they are slowing being re-mastered and made available on CD through Thingsflux Music label.
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His band "Scraping Teeth" won the Worst Band in America award for Spin Magazine in the start of the 1990's. Some of these live performances were documented and made available on 2 separate CD’s from Thingsflux Music label.
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They're No Good. Miami band Scraping Teeth receives Spin magazine's "Broken Record Award" after being named Worst Band in America by the magazine. (1993) The presentation took place after the band's showcase at New York's CBGB, which featured such tunes as "Torture And Stuff" and "Death By Refrigerator." Shown, from left, are band member Isaac "Fishfungus" Ersoff; Spin senior editor Mark Blackwell; band member James "Dimthingshine"; Spin editor/publisher Bob Guccione Jr.; and band member Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra. (Photo: Carla Gahr)

Latest Recording Project News Flash:

DIMTHINGSHINE - TALES FROM LIMBOLAND

Will make an audio sample available on myspace soon.

The first official Dimthingshine recording (in 16 years) just completed early January 2008. It includes collaborations with Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding), Astro (Hiroshi Hasegawa) with his power electronics, Brian Bridges with his microtone wav form experiments.

"I consider this the follow up to my last release in 1992. It has the same aggressive energy and sonic emotional timbres. Dark horror show mixed with humor, rebellion, and revolution."

The music combines surreal interludes, musique-concrete, industrial avant-garde/rock/beat, Zappaesque sweeps, Bali/Tibetan themes, odd free form improvisations, referential associations, and shear madness.

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His last solo effort in the early 1990's was more industrial – experimental – avant-garde prog was recorded between 1989-1991 and finally made available on CD through Thingsflux Music. See CD Releases for Sale. It is called Alive In The Crypt, the unreleased 1992 solo project under DIMTHINGSHINE.
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Dimthingshine played on three tracks of the new ”To Live and Shave in L.A” CD/LP (forthcoming) recorded at Sonic Youth studio in Hoboken, NJ in August 2007.
Dimthingshine played percussion on the 2005 CD release of Robert Horton called Future Ears - Free Jazz Copy? Noise.
He did a project / collaboration recording with SMERSH. They released a cassette under band titled “The Nitro-Snappers” in 1991. It is industrial beat and experimental audio music. It has since been out-of-print, but plans to re-release it on CD are forth coming.
He was on a Double LP (Import) with Ulterior Lux Trio recorded live in Europe and released 1991. (now available on CD from Fazzul Music label in Switzerland ).
He is on Jean Chaines' solo 1995 CD release "Sunk In The Sun" on the Atonal label in Germany.
He was on Bad Boy Butch Batson CD called "Spare Parts" released in 1998. Send an email to [email protected] if you are interested in purchasing a copy.
Some of the bands Dimthingshine has performed with in South Florida:
Charlie Picket and the eggs, Roll 'N' Pinz, Hazard Profile, Not Human, Ulterior Lux, & Scraping Teeth.
Other projects:
Dimthingshine also goes under artist name Mejdaji and had performed, recorded World Music with a spiritual leaning. More emphasis on vocal, hand drum techniques, and also experiments in sound for meditation.
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Latest musical happenings under yet another morphed or extension to “Dimthingshineon”. A CD was completed in 2007. It is called “Diary of a Dying Man” and all original music but in the alternative rock type vein. Dimthingshineon performs everything himself.
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