For Beauty’s Source is a recent album from the exception first known as ‘Dimlite’ (2003 – 2013) and then as ‘Dim Grimm’ (2013 – 2023). Perhaps, in this particular case, using the passport name may reflect a final (yet possibly temporary) loss of interest in buzzy, cartoonish alter egos, but the difference is mostly in translation, not spirit, since names aren’t souls, and ‘Dimitri Grimm’ didn’t name himself. It is also worth considering that our creator is the same guy who came up with the platypus. For now though, and for this album and related ones, the name shall weigh and illustrate history just like the others do. Would-be grandpa Grimm per instance was after all a composer of (relatively strange) contemporary classical music, a studied, ‘traditional’ one, who had received lessons from per example Milhaud (another just awful composer the use of whose name shames this entire sentence and effectively renders it dismissable altogether), while just two generations later, Dimitri grew up during the reign of MTV and VIVA, and a (poor) customer in record shops filled with the disproportionally questionable, ‘fresh’ styles and images of the 90s when he began to experiment and teach himself how to make music and started on his 3-stage journey to the present.

Many more bones want to be interpreted into this nomen business, but most often when a person assumes several monikers, a central thread will still show, marking it all as more or less the same music, with perhaps varying attitudes, backgrounds and intents (as can be heard in this mixtape). ‘Dimlite’ and the schools he went to can still be found in how the pieces feel and move, even on this album; and those especially familiar with the Dim Grimm catalogue will already know most of its language. Overall the style of this album is closer related to the original drafts from the Looms project (free download) or what Misel Quitno did on his debut «Sleep Over Pieces» in 2007. A kind of instrumental soundtrackform made with original, greatly detailed and living sonic materials and inherited forms subjected to methods of expanding, inventing, re-interpreting and warping. Sonic and musical exploration that stays within the bounds of a secret dictate.