Dimensia in Excelsis is an album by the British industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 group Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...

. The music was recorded live at the Veterans Auditorium in Los Angeles on May 22, 1981, but the album was released in November 1998 under the German label Tesco Organisation

Tesco Organisation

Tesco Organisation is a German record label, mail order company and distributor, specialising in industrial, noise, neofolk and ambient music. Tesco has also organised music festivals in the past such as “Heavy Electronics”, “Tesco Disco” and “Festival Karlsruhe” -Formation:Tesco Organisation...

 in LP record

LP record

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 and compact disc

Compact Disc

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 format. The album is actually considered to be a bootleg recording

Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging...

; see Throbbing Gristle discography#Bootlegs.

Dimensia is likely to be an intended misspelling of the word dementia

Dementia

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, but it is also the name of a high-end television system produced by RCA

RCA

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 in the 80s; see RCA Dimensia

RCA Dimensia

Dimensia was RCA's brand name for their high-end models of television systems and their produced from 1984 to 1989, with variations continuing into the early 1990s, superseded by the ProScan model line. After RCA was acquired by General Electric in 1986, GE sold the RCA consumer electronics line...

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Side one

1. "Dimensia" 4:51
2. "Scorched Earth" 6:39
3. "Tangible" 1:04
4. "Carnality" 5:43
5. "Marriage Carriage" 6:06

Side two

1. "Still Walking" 5:51
2. "Slam" 8:54
3. "Principia Disciplina" 6:19
4. "Forbidden" 3:23