Dim Records

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Dim Records
Active years 1991
founder Ulrich Großmann ("Uhl")
Seat Ebersdorf near Coburg
Website www.dimrecords.de
Genre (s) Punk , oi! , Right skirt , viking skirt

Dim Records is a German right-wing extremist independent label from Ebersdorf near Coburg , which was founded by Ulrich Großmann , known in the scene as "Uhl". The label has various bands from the right-wing extremist environment under contract, but also sells non-political bands. Due to its ambivalent attitude (slogan: "neither red nor racist", in German: "neither red nor racist ") it is assigned to the so-called "gray area". The most famous bands include the Swedish Viking rockers Ultima Thule along with various side projects and the right-wing rock band Kampfzone .

history

Before founding the label, Ulrich Großmann was primarily active in the fanzine scene and published the well-known fanzine Clockwork Orange . From 1986 to 1989 he was involved with the Young National Democrats (JN). He was also one of the founding members of the follow-up zine Moloko Plus , which is still popular today .

In 1991 he began to establish a mail order company under the name Dim Records. He had the name protected in 1992. From the beginning, Großmann relied on the connection between primarily patriotic groups and exotic bands from the Oi! -Environment. The first publication was the anniversary CD 10 Years of Satanic Tacts by SpringtOifel in Mainz in 1991 . In the same year the mini-LP of the Chilean Oi! - / punk band Ocho Bolas followed. According to Großmann, the musicians' Latino origins were “almost a minor scandal in the skinhead mainstream scene at the time [...] at least in the Corner where they would like to write us in ”. Samplers from Italy followed ( Oi! Siamo ancora Qui ! , later pressed by Marco from the left-wing band Klasse Kriminale ) and the USA. American Headaches was a 7 '' compilation of the label Headache Records from New Jersey, which was difficult or impossible to buy in Europe. Allegations of having “relied primarily on right-wing extremist groups and politically unsuspicious bands from the Oi! Environment” from the start, replied Großmann by referring to the aforementioned recordings. The left band The Stab from Italy was "the first band we had to do with that had something like a political claim". There were first accusations from the start, because SpringtOifel "was 'the bald men from Mainz' who previously appeared with a power amplifier ".

In the mid-1990s, various license pressings from Ultima Thule followed, also for Midgårds Söner and Hel . In addition to clear right-wing extremist releases such as Kampfzone , Steelcapped Strength or Nordwind , Dim Records has a wide range of apolitical Oi! , Punk and psychobilly in the program.

In 2000, Ulrich Großmann, with the help of the scene lawyer Klaus Kunze, tried to stop the delivery of the book White Noise: Right-Rock, Skinhead-Music, Blood & Honor - Insights into the international neo-Nazi music scene from Unrast Verlag by means of an injunction . The background was that Dim Records was assumed to be close to the Blood and Honor network in the book . The judges of the Münster Regional Court rejected the order, however, because Großmann was selling posters of Blood and Honor founder Ian Stuart Donaldson ( Skrewdriver ) at the time.

In a letter dated November 27, 2007, the Federal Criminal Police Office in Meckenheim suggested indexing the 1998 CD Chartbuster by the Swedish punk band The Jinx , as "foreigners and people who think differently are insulted or made contemptible", among other things . In the course of the hearing, however, it turned out that entire texts had been incorrectly translated and interpreted by the investigator at the Federal Criminal Police Office. The Federal Inspectorate was able to follow the arguments and the timely texts of the label and at the end of May 2011 passed the judgment that “the sound carrier was not at risk for young people” and “the sound carrier should therefore not be included in the list of media harmful to minors”. An indexing request from 2012 against the first Kampfzone album Short Hair, Heavy Boots was also rejected.

In addition to his own records, Ulrich Großmann offers various merchandising articles from various bands as well as fanzines and magazines in his webshop , including for a while the monthly magazine Nation und Europa , for which he also wrote several articles. For some time he had a business relationship with Willi Wucher ( Pöbel & Gesocks , Scumfuck Tradition ), which, however, in the dispute over the gray area in punk rock and Oi! broke. However, Großmann denies a friendship with usury claimed by Ingo Taler. The contacts were "purely of a business nature", the "so-called. 'Amicable connection' ”was limited to visits in order to“ who never had a personal background outside of the business relationship ”. Wucher distanced himself from Großmann in an article on Indymedia 2003 and broke off all business connections.

Bands (selection)

For a list of releases see Dim Records / Discography .

Current bands

Former bands

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation of the Bavarian Constitutional Protection Report 2018. Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, accessed on November 7, 2019 (announcement of the report with a link to download). Direct download of the report: Verfassungsschutz Report 2018. Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, May 2019, p. 136 , accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Dim Records . In: Lexicon of right-wing extremism from the network against Nazis ; Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Christian Menhorn: Skinheads - portrait of a subculture . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7563-9 , p. 246 f .
  4. ↑ Christian Menhorn: Skinheads - portrait of a subculture . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7563-9 , p. 215 .
  5. ↑ DimRecords.de: New productions ( Memento from May 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ White Noise - Insight into the international neo-Nazi music scene . In: The goods . S. 26–27 ( archive.org [PDF]).
  7. ↑ Suggestion for including a sound carrier in the list of media harmful to minors ( memento from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 2.9 MB) DimRecords.de
  8. ^ Message from the date for the oral hearing ( memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 5.1 MB) DimRecords.de
  9. ↑ a b Ingo Taler: The other side of punk . In: Lotta . No. 04/2001 ( infopartisan.net ).
  10. ^ Willi Wucher: The right edge of punk (T. 2). Indymedia , April 22, 2003, accessed April 1, 2014 .