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Dimmer was name the under which New Zealand musician Shayne Carter (formerly of Straitjacket Fits, The DoubleHappys, and Bored Games) recorded and played music from 1995-2012. Beginning as an umbrella name for jam sessions and home recording sessions, various band members and guests appeared on Dimmer's albums and in its live line-ups. From 2007-2009 Dimmer was settled four-piece band. Over the full 17-year span, Carter was the only permanent member.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/5057/Shayne-Carter-Announces-Final-Dimmer-Shows.utr )〕 Dimmer's music was admired by critics and all four albums earned multiple New Zealand Music Award nominations. The first Dimmer single was released in 1995, with debut album ''I Believe You Are A Star'' following in 2001. In 2004 ''You've Got To Hear The Music'' was named New Zealand's Best Rock Album for the year, and Dimmer named Best Group. ''There My Dear'' saw Carter return to playing and recording with a live rock band in 2006. Final album ''Degrees of Existence'' (2009) was recorded by the longest-lasting version of the band. Dimmer's final shows were played in 2012. ==Dimmer's beginnings== Straitjacket Fits split in 1994, "brought low by the vagaries of the international music industry". Interviewed in 2012, Carter said that "I was completely over rock. The Dimmer thing was totally anti-rock and I became interested in not only the groove thing but doing quiet music as well."〔 Carter moved back to Dunedin, later saying that he "dropped out, I suppose" and "wanted to get grounded after all my running around". While there, he began using the name Dimmer as "an umbrella thing...with me as the common denominator". The first Dimmer music came from jam sessions in Dunedin.〔 Carter explained in 2012 that "I used the name Dimmer because I thought using your own name was really uncool."〔 Dimmer's first recording was a 7" single, "Crystalator", in 1995. It was released by Flying Nun in New Zealand, and by Sub Pop in the USA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/Dimmer-Crystalator/release/263901 )〕 It also appeared on the Flying Nun compilation ''Pop Eyed'' in 1996. A second non-album single ("Don't Make Me Buy Out Your Silence") followed in 1996. Through the second half of the 1990s "(was ) the odd Dunedin solo gig but, for the most part, Shayne Carter disappeared from the public eye." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dimmer (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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