Big news – well, it is if you’re able to make it out to any of the European dates listed below: our man Dimlite is hitting the road ahead of the release of his forthcoming Now-Again album The Grimm Reality (more information on that one coming soon)… He’s touring with his drumming pal Julian Sartorius, who he describes as “the incredible drummer I had never dared to ask for collaboration, who grew up near to where I did, and who has been recording and uploading one rhythm every single day for half a year now.”

He sounds like our kind of guy.

Saturday, 03 September 2011 @ Bimhuis, Amsterdam (NL)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums
Friday, 09 September 2011 @ New Morning, Paris (FR)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums
Friday, 16 September 2011 @ Vingis Park, Vilnius (LT)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums.
Friday, 23 September 2011 @ A38, Budapest (HU)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums
Saturday, 01 October 2011 @ Avant Art Festival, Wroclaw (PL)
Collaborative show w/ Richard Eigner

Our favorite Swiss producer-vocalist-visionary Dimlite has an album coming out soon. Yes, you heard that right – he’s finished an album. It’s called The Grimm Reality and we’ll be releasing it this fall – well, if you know our history with Dimlite by now, you’ll know that we’ll almost certainly leak a song or two and offer an exclusive pre-sale earlier than that.

At any rate, here’s a little teaser – a video Dimlite calls “humorous + minimalistic” – for a bonus track called “Orchard-wards” from his forthcoming opus.

We’re pleased to announce that the latest from Swiss-producer-vocalist-visionary Dimlite – a four track EP entitled My Human Wears Acedia Shreds. This release is available in digital and 10″ vinyl formats and is scheduled for worldwide release on February 1st.

Buy: Dimlite My Human Wears Acedia Shreds.
Link:

Dimlite – My Human Wears Acedia Shreds from Ehstrawlogy Produkte on Vimeo.

Late last year, we announced that Dimlite would release a new EP entitled My Human Wears Acedia Shreds. We now have a bit more information – courtesy of our friend Alex Robinson over at One-Handed Music. Yet, somehow, we still don’t know what the hell an “acedia shred” is…. Read on:

If Dimlite’s recent Prismic Tops EP served as a stunning reintroduction to one of electronic music’s most underrated talents, then My Human Wears Acedia Shreds is a warning to listeners and peers alike: keep up or be left behind. This quartet of songs finds the Swiss producer creating wide-eyed and progressive music that synthesises free jazz, prog- and kraut-rock, and much more. There is no one else quite on his level, no one who inhabits a world so complete and unique.

While he built his reputation with a string of pioneering releases on Germany’s Sonar Kollectiv label that took hip-hop as their starting point, these days Dimlite is more Soft Machine than drum machine, a kindred spirit of current purveyors of avant-pop and the playful prog giants of the past. This quartet of songs contains a richness that makes these his most satisfying compositions yet. Just check Metal Snake Rider, an expansive opus packed into just over three minutes of non-stop invention.

At times it’s even pretty, though Dimlite seems uneasy about the beauty he creates, never allowing anything too perfect to take shape before clipping its wings or trampling it back into the dirt. It’s this tension in his music that makes it so captivating: a constant tussle of wills between the dreamer and the cynic, the traveller and the trapped. Just check Loins, in which long-time collaborator Misel Quitno’s drums thump out a brutish ode to Can while Dimlite’s celebratory harmonies are taunted by the anxious squall that lurks beneath. Though ask its creator and he’ll tell you simply, “it’s about loins and using them properly”.

By the time you have adjusted to the dream-world of My Human Wears Acedia Shreds Dimlite will pull the plug, dropping you back into your monochromatic doldrums. It’s OK though. As you unravel the secret code in EP closer Gone-O-Tron, you’ll know it’s not forever.

For those of you who’ve just found out about our favorite Swiss producer Dimlte (maybe through his Now-Again-released Prismic Tops EP or his Stones Throw podcast), you’re probably waiting for his soon-to-be-released My Human Wears Acedia Shreds 10″ EP – which we announced a couple months ago.

In the meantime, Dimlite has plans to keep you happy. Over at Ehstrawlogy.com, he’s giving away songs he recorded with Prismic Tops vocalist Elan Tamara…. and here, in a Now-Again exclusive, you can download a Dimlite Christmas Carol (actually, a cover of the Prefuse 73 song “Cloud Mireya.”). Maybe it’s just that he’s over in the snowy Alps, and we’re here in rainy Calfornia – but this sounds damn Christmas-y to us!

Download: Dimlite’s “Vacant.”