OLD ADDS BELOW:
Wayside Music (Wheaton, MD, USA) Lots of hard to find records at very reasonable prices. Stuff like Universe Zero, Fred Frith, Gong, Dimthings, Philip Perkins, David Borden, Ra Can Row, Orthotonics, Shockabilly, much more.
ZNR - Progressive Music
A real hard-to-figure-out character this "Dimthings". The music ranges from rock to jazz to fusion to electronic to world music to funk to free-improvs to progressive rock (sometimes all in the same tune!!) but it is always interesting & frequently very new & fresh! The recordings are strictly home-made 4-track type stuff but the music is so good it doesn't really matter! Adventurous stuff! Start with "Dis-Ci-Plined..." or "Going Back..." and go from there!!
Reading back the several interviews that follow.. the reoccurring theme is recording my music, releasing material on records, tapes. The distribution problems, etc... It started to get painfully redundant, typing this stuff out. Let me just say that I am a drummer at heart. The music I compose is another aspect of my creative output. I suck on any other instrument, but have the uncanny ability to execute certain compositions with other instruments by means of overdubbing to tape. I also rely on midi/sequencing at times. I am an accomplished improviser from many years of playing forms of jazz. I also enjoy sampling, experimenting with sounds. I love creating dark, eerie music that I envision would make for great horror flick sound tracks. I have not been recording in several years. I have been composing songs on the guitar, writing lyrics and attempting to sing 'em. I plan on getting back to the drumming and getting a band going. I spend some of my free time smoking premium cigars, drinking premium beers and attempting to raise a family. I always feel the world is more struggle than enjoyment. But I do look forward to the fun times. I don't think the way I did in the 80's/early 90's, nor do I compose like I did back then. I enjoy playing my some what strange rock and roll with overtones of despair, anger, joy and spiritual enlightenment these days. Dimthingshine 01/97.
The last update above was over 8 years ago and lots have happened since. One thing that remains consistent in this world of manifest is change. Yet how can change remain consistent? If we cross paths I am sure I could discuss with you if you like.
I have not been doing the guitar rock oriented song thing for years now.. I have been hand drumming, working on vocal techniques and been active under the artist name Mejdaji. I am slowly archiving the Dimthings/Dimthingshine documented audio material. I do plan to record more audio as Dimthingshine again in the spirit of that type expression as well.
Best
Until Next, DTS
STRANGE NOISE, issue #6 1990
The Dimthings...They've been around quite awhile ....their many albums on a lark from.......from an old RRR Catalog......Psychedelic garage improv salad noise blips bleeps percussion funk jazz...... ........The Dimthings are basically one person......Dimthingshine, or D.T.S. for short.....he sent me a bunch o' stuff for a Dimthings Spotlight.....He just got back from Switzerland with his ULTERIOR LUX Band ......Lately he's been performing in Miami with his SCRAPING TEETH Band....There may be a Live CD in the future.
Chart from 1984
See DTS interviews starting with:
Chemical Imbalance (c/o Mike McGonical, Miami, Florida, USA; bi-monthly, $1.50) New fanzine with a great cross section of interests. Premiere issue shares words with and about Dimthings, Don Cherry, Meat Puppets, Love Tractor, Broken Talent, Yard Trauma, The Outnumbered, more. Great beginning.
Above paragraph taken from ad in SOUND CHOICE #4 1986
