Albums
Grimm Reality
2011
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2011
By Nick Neyland
Reviewed January 3, 2012
Moving from Krautrock to funk to candy-coated pop tones and new age, the Swiss producer Dimitri Grimm's third album features an ADD-infused freshness.
Swiss producer Dimlite and his Now-Again label boss Eothen Alapatt, better known as Egon, clearly function with the same voracious appetite for crate digging. Egon's label has released everything from library music to Brazilian psychedelia, as well as their staple funk and soul-oriented work. Dimlite's prior album, the 2010 release , worked off the hip-hop template he generally beds his sound in, then guzzled a rich bounty of conflicting styles, all cut together without too many joints showing. behaves in much the same way, except fuller, faster, brighter, and with even more colors ladled into the mix. It's the best kind of grab-bag pop, where each idea is never labored over long enough for it to get old, retaining the same kind of ADD-infused freshness riddled through the Avalanches' or Beastie Boys' .