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
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.
His band "Scraping Teeth" won
the Worst Band in
For More information on Scraping Teeth go to:
Worst Band In America or
Laundry Room Squelchers
Latest Recording Project News Flash:
DIMTHINGSHINE - TALES FROM LIMBOLAND
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.
**************************************************************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.
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
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 heywardbatson@yahoo.com 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.
The three double LPs under DIMTHINGS are now available See CD Releases for Sale, , & a few other things will eventually follow .
************************************************Dimthingshine also goes under artist
name "Mejdaji" and had performed, recorded World Music with a spiritual leaning.
More emphasis on vocal and hand drum techniques. You can sample his other
venture as Mejdaji at web site: www.geocities.com/mejdaji
Or
www.myspace.com/mejdaji
Latest musical happenings under yet another morphed or extension to “Dimthingshineon”. A CD + EP was completed July 2007. It is called “Diary of a Dying Man” and all original music but in the alternative rock type vein. Dimthingshineon performs everything himself. The CD's are made available through Thingsflux Music.
You can sample his other
venture as Dimthingshineon at web site: www.geocities.com/dimthingshineon
Or
www.myspace.com/dimthingshineon
Below is a drawing of DTS done by a homeless artist during a performance with Scraping Teeth at Churchills Hideaway in Little Haiti, Miami 1990.
