Artist Profile

Dimlite

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Agent: Sinan Ors

Ask Gaslamp Killer, Deadelus, Flying Lotus or Hudson Mo, and they’ll tell you the same thing: Dimlite’s production was astounding from the start. His EPs of 2003 and debut album Runbox Weathers 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’.

A second album, singles, remixes and side-projects followed (such as The Slapped Eyeballers, a pop-rock-ish duo w/ Balt Mirczok) or Misel Quitno (a more tripped out lo-fi moniker, dedicated to a cheap tape machine and an imaginary 60’s-sound) taking Dimlite’s sound further left, a place where soul music, electronics and psychedelic borrowings are reconstituted into a singular world of its own. 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.

And while copycat producers abound, Dimlite’s uniqueness is only thrown into sharper relief. It’s clear the moment he sings, such as on EP highlight Elbow Flood, vocoded again on Sun-sized Twinkles, or the astonishing sub-one-minute 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. Now-Again Records is proud to present this, the latest in a line of remarkable releases from a quiet pioneer.