New EP from Swiss producer Dimitri Grimm, aka Dimlite. Now-Again Records will be releasing Dimlite`s EP Prismic Tops this Spring.
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Dimlite’s production was astounding from the start. His EPs of 2003 and debut album Runbox Weathers on the great Sonar Kollektiv Label two years later revealed a Swiss producer beholden to no one, possessing a style as nuanced as his friend Prefuse 73 and yet enriched by a careworn romanticism and quirkiness that rewarded repeat listens and has, over time, made him something of a ‘producer’s producer’.
Dimlite / Diana Won’t LIVE / March 27 @ Satta, Vilnius / Mondayjazz
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Another album, singles, remixes and side-projects followed, taking Dimlite’s sound further left, further into a singular world where soul music, latin rhythms, hiphop and more are reconstituted into dreamy, lovelorn beat constructions. And so he takes his place on Now-Again, home to a cadre of similarly singular spirits such as The Heliocentrics and The Whitefield Brothers, each bent on refracting music history through their own unique lenses.
Dimlite LIVE in Paris / 04.04.2010 / Photo by Mr. Mass
And while copycat producers abound, Dimlite’s uniqueness is only throw into sharper relief. It’s clear the moment he sings, such as on EP highlight Elbow Flood or the astonishing (and miniature) closer, Can’t Get Used To Those. It’s apparent in every one of his strangely abrupt changes. It’s even in his song titles. Perhaps Prismic Tops will be the record that sparks a critical reappraisal of this gifted producer’s work. And if not, Now-Again Records is still proud to present this, the latest in a line of remarkable releases from a quiet pioneer.
http://www.nowagainrecords.com | http://www.myspace.com/dimlite | www.mondayjazz.com
