The New York Times
The Pop Life section: 7/4/00
A Singing Dog

For an even stranger forged musical identity, try "Ananas," the third album by Dim-Dim, a Belgian cartoon dog. Created by Peter Pluut (who adapted the pseudonym Jerry Dimmer after fans showed up at his doorstep for autographs at 9 one morning), the album merges a homemade take on electronic dance music with a litany of sampled and sped-up voices, belonging, in Mr. Pluut's imaginary world, to singing vegetables, chickens, pineapples and frisky, spotted Dim-Dim himself."I see the music somehow as little singles, like I had to compose my favorite hit parade," Mr. Pluut said in an interview.
Once Mr. Pluut was a comic-book artist. But two years ago he stopped drawing, discovering that he could convey the same emotions and stories acoustically instead of visually. "I wrote a lot of comics before, and I'm a big cartoon fan, so that turns out in the music," he said.
"Ananas" (new on the Portland, Ore., record label Audio Dregs) comes off as warped dance music for children who find theTeletubbies slow-moving. (Or think of it as an even more surreal version of the soundtrack to the Sony Playstation game Parappa the Rapper.) "When I listen to a lot of electronic and computer music, most of it is so serious," Mr. Pluut said. "Mine is not serious."
[Neil Strauss]