Dip Shim - Mind Over Mayhem

For his debut album Dip Shim digs deep into his past for his most personal release yet, drawing on his childhood in Spain for a genre-bending album of electronics, combining influences from house, techno, electro, downtempo, and ambient to create one of the year’s most essential releases.

Dip Shim, who also runs the Bolero record store in Malmo, Sweden, pushes and tweaks those silver boxes to create music with one foot in the past but looking to the future, from the fluid acid house of Dalaplan Jam and Bubble Gate, uptempo electro jams like BDP Fast Life and Tusso Arcade Force, to meditative joints such as One For Regen and Impossible Connection.

But although the album is eclectic, these 12 tracks are underpinned by Dip Shim’s unique hardware-led sound, proving he’s an artist with depth and longevity.

C2 Impossible Connection (Clip)

A2 Dalaplan Jam (Clip)

Taken from Dip Shim's Enter the Maragrillo album on Gated Recordings, out December 16.

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Premiere: Dip Shim - One For Regen

First release of Scandinavian label Populus, Limited edition 12” vinyl full of mystic sounds, rhytmical downtempo beats, ambient and trance elements made by Malmö based producer and Medieval chant music fiend Digge Shim.

B2. Ordo Missae (Snippet)

Earworm curator @whambolam returns to the series bringing a special 2 hour mix to the platform which is a love-letter to a certain sound-signature that always perks his ears - haze.

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What’s your ideal breakfast?
Fried Egg, Avocado, Red Onion, Tomato and Cream Cheese with some Sriracha squished into a Bagel.

What was the first record (or CD) you ever bought?
The first record was ‘A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology’ from 1995, such an amazing dreamy jungle album with a sick alternate version of Voodoo Ray on it. First CD was either the first Gorillaz album or Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, can’t remember which.

What’s your musical ‘guilty pleasure’?
Yodelling. 

Does your alias have a backstory?
When I first moved to Edinburgh for music studies I lived in student accomodation on the college campus. One day I was staring out of my dorm window trying to think of a new alias and my eyes were locked with the name of the building written on the side with big letters and then it just clicked. The building was called “Bolam House”. I really liked the sound of the word so rolled with it.

What’s the best thing you’ve ever got for free?
I found a couple hundred dollar bills on the ground once. I’ve also been given a fair few cool hats over the years.

Do you have a party trick?
I can make far too many stupid pointless noises with different parts of my face and hands. Also accents, I’m pretty good at those. 

What’s your current rotation of non-dance music?
I’m really into psychedelic surf rock and stoner metal at the moment. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is a regular rotation. Also very much into an old Celtic Fusion / Folktronica band from Shetland called Bongshang.

Where's your current favourite place(s) in the world (and why)?
Scotland will always have a place in my heart because it’s my home, its beautiful, my family live there and it’s good craic. Malmö is also great, it offers so much for small city and your friends are never too far away.

Any other passions besides music?
Film and Animation. I used to make short movies when I was younger with a budget video camera before I even touched music production and have always had a real appreciation and interest for the craft behind it all.

What’s something you’re proud of about yourself?
I’ve built the Earworm brand from the ground up using my own vision for it all, have put in a lot of hard work and time getting it to where it is now. That includes this website, the social media, the ‘Malmö Multum’ Bolero Fundraiser VA and collecting all the amazing mixes I’ve recieved. I’m very proud of what its become and I’m glad people seem to like it as well.

Describe your Earworm mix
I’ve wanted to explore this side of my taste in mix-form for a while now. The entire thing has a focus on tracks that all have an element of “haziness” within them. Often psychedelic, misty and melty, enabling the listener to zone out into the sonic fog. I’ve listened to and loved music like this all my life and have always been attracted to it in some form, so it feels liberating to show you this part of me. I really hope you like it.

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George Clanton - I Been Young
One Dove - Fallen
Sonhos Tomam Conta - Wild Strawberrys
Massive Attack - What Your Soul Sings
Eyeliner - Pictionary
テレヴァペ - スペクトラル流体 
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bout Des Doigts
Sibille Attar - Paloma
Bongshang - Tackhead
Bowery Electric - Freedom Fighter (Remix)
Avalon Emerson - Sandrail Silhouette
Bodywash - Massif Central
Slowdive - Slowdive
Lone - Inlove2
Maara - The Ancient Truth
Afro Celt Soundsystem - Eireann
Software - Island Sunrise
Haircuts For Men - 決して見ません
Darling - Kiss The Glass
Timo Torben – our concrete castles
Aphex Twin - We Are The Music Makers
Oso Leone - Virtual U
Little Dragon - Feather
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas

earworm029 ~ Bolam - 'Cascade Of Haze'

https://soundcloud.com/dipshim aka Digge Shim

https://www.retreatradio.net/ordo-missae

Ordo Missae #6 w/ Digge Shim (14/11/23)

https://soundcloud.com/kklofinkk

https://www.retreatradio.net/we-lie-low

We Lie Low #16 w/ Klofink (02/12/23)

Recorded live at the release party of Klofinks- Vakant (Fasaan 020)
Malmö, Sweden.

Klofink & Digge Shim –– Live Set @ Retreat Radio [15/12/23]

Ordo Missae #7 w/ Digge Shim (24/02/24)

https://soundcloud.com/timotorbenn for https://soundcloud.com/kklofinkk

https://www.retreatradio.net/we-lie-low

B2. Ordo Missae (Snippet)

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