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MORR 179LP
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LP version. Includes download code. Jimmy Tamborello returns with a collection of ten pop-infused vocal hymns -- simultaneously perfect dancefloor fillers and lullabies. Away is the second of two Dntel albums to be released in 2021 by Morr Music in collaboration with Les Albums Claus. While The Seas Trees See (MORR 178CD/LP) showcased Tamborello's more intricate and quiet side, Away embraces his love for pop music. A genre which like no other has been resonating the advancements of technology from the very beginning. Songwriting was sequenced and computerized on such a large scale that it would change the sonic aesthetics of the charts forever. Dntel is a musician who changed pop music forever -- and still works in this never-ending labor of love, both effortless and highly focused, constantly tweaking the universe of our musical perception. Whether beatless or uncompromisingly embracing the limelight of collective ecstasy with one of his most remembered tunes "(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan", his almost forgotten anthem "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" or his work as James Figurine. Away features ten of these extravaganzas -- uniting his audience once more in hope and future-bound optimism. "I grew up with '80s techno-pop -- these influences always come through in my music," Jimmy writes from Los Angeles. For this album, though, "I was thinking more of '80s indie pop or labels like 4AD. It is a mix of those influences along with trying to figure out what elements of my own discography I still connect with. I wanted it to reflect old Dntel records as well as the techno-pop band Figurine I used to be in. I have always considered my music basically being techno-pop, but not referring to pop as popular music -- I just like pretty melodies. But with the Dntel moniker, I never had the ambition to produce music for a really big audience." It is exactly that looseness in approaching music which makes Tamborello's style of composing so unique. On Away he combines a healthy dose of distortion with the most-sticking melodies, vocals and bitter-sweet lyrics he ever came up with --performing all vocals himself, with the help of technology. On Away, Jimmy Tamborello finds the perfect way of marrying his unique musical personality with both the demands and possibilities of pop music.
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MORR 179CD
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Jimmy Tamborello returns with a collection of ten pop-infused vocal hymns -- simultaneously perfect dancefloor fillers and lullabies. Away is the second of two Dntel albums to be released in 2021 by Morr Music in collaboration with Les Albums Claus. While The Seas Trees See (MORR 178CD/LP) showcased Tamborello's more intricate and quiet side, Away embraces his love for pop music. A genre which like no other has been resonating the advancements of technology from the very beginning. Songwriting was sequenced and computerized on such a large scale that it would change the sonic aesthetics of the charts forever. Dntel is a musician who changed pop music forever -- and still works in this never-ending labor of love, both effortless and highly focused, constantly tweaking the universe of our musical perception. Whether beatless or uncompromisingly embracing the limelight of collective ecstasy with one of his most remembered tunes "(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan", his almost forgotten anthem "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" or his work as James Figurine. Away features ten of these extravaganzas -- uniting his audience once more in hope and future-bound optimism. "I grew up with '80s techno-pop -- these influences always come through in my music," Jimmy writes from Los Angeles. For this album, though, "I was thinking more of '80s indie pop or labels like 4AD. It is a mix of those influences along with trying to figure out what elements of my own discography I still connect with. I wanted it to reflect old Dntel records as well as the techno-pop band Figurine I used to be in. I have always considered my music basically being techno-pop, but not referring to pop as popular music -- I just like pretty melodies. But with the Dntel moniker, I never had the ambition to produce music for a really big audience." It is exactly that looseness in approaching music which makes Tamborello's style of composing so unique. On Away he combines a healthy dose of distortion with the most-sticking melodies, vocals and bitter-sweet lyrics he ever came up with --performing all vocals himself, with the help of technology. On Away, Jimmy Tamborello finds the perfect way of marrying his unique musical personality with both the demands and possibilities of pop music. Includes download code.
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MORR 178CD
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New album by Jimmy Tamborello aka Dntel aka James Figurine aka one half of The Postal Service. Hailing from Los Angeles, Jimmy Tamborello has been a key figure in refining what today is considered electronica for over 20 years. The Seas Trees See is the first of two Dntel albums to be released in 2021 by Morr Music in collaboration with Les Albums Claus: a free-floating and rather loose stroke of musical genius, giving ambience a whole new meaningful context. It combines crackles and hiss with deep, yet modest, synths and poignant, yet elegant, vocals and lyrics. Away, its counterpart album, will follow later in 2021. It will showcase Dntel's unapologetic love for pop music from a long-gone era, presenting yet another aspect of his multi-faceted personality. Dntel has always covered many musical grounds -- from the pop-infused hits on Life Is Full Of Possibilities (2001) to his much more abstract works on Aimlessness (2012), Human Voice (2014), and his electronics for The Postal Service. Whatever his style -- Tamborello has retained his very own musical voice. When it comes to producing music, it can be a good idea to get away from the studio and find a more relaxed environment. Inspiration does not necessarily require huge bass bins. Fewer pieces of gear make it easier to really focus on ideas first and let them be. After recording Hate In My Heart (LAC 013LP) -- his most recent album, released in 2018 -- this way, Tamborello continued working in that fashion, mainly jamming and getting ideas together for upcoming live shows. One of the first results of this creative process was the opening track of The Seas Trees See -- a cover version of "The Lilac and the Apple", originally recorded by Californian folk singer Kate Wolf in 1977. Tamborello turns the acapella song into a vocoder-like extravaganza. Working with the original recording, the track perfectly sets the tone for what The Seas Trees See turns out to be a quiet yet mesmerizing journey through sound and emotion, bringing together his very own sound design, disguised samples and an incredible feel for moods and atmospheres. Despite its perfect and gentle flow, it is worth digging deeper, to surrender oneself to all the painstakingly placed details. Whether the beautiful and haunting piano work on "Movie Tears" or the almost sidechained-sounding "Yoga App" --every aspect of this album has been beautifully crafted. Small things add up to something great, diverse and riveting. The subtlety of his latest endeavor is fascinating. It opens up a new world, in which small musical sketches mean at least as much as perfectly produced pop anthems.
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MORR 178LP
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LP version. Includes download code. New album by Jimmy Tamborello aka Dntel aka James Figurine aka one half of The Postal Service. Hailing from Los Angeles, Jimmy Tamborello has been a key figure in refining what today is considered electronica for over 20 years. The Seas Trees See is the first of two Dntel albums to be released in 2021 by Morr Music in collaboration with Les Albums Claus: a free-floating and rather loose stroke of musical genius, giving ambience a whole new meaningful context. It combines crackles and hiss with deep, yet modest, synths and poignant, yet elegant, vocals and lyrics. Away, its counterpart album, will follow later in 2021. It will showcase Dntel's unapologetic love for pop music from a long-gone era, presenting yet another aspect of his multi-faceted personality. Dntel has always covered many musical grounds -- from the pop-infused hits on Life Is Full Of Possibilities (2001) to his much more abstract works on Aimlessness (2012), Human Voice (2014), and his electronics for The Postal Service. Whatever his style -- Tamborello has retained his very own musical voice. When it comes to producing music, it can be a good idea to get away from the studio and find a more relaxed environment. Inspiration does not necessarily require huge bass bins. Fewer pieces of gear make it easier to really focus on ideas first and let them be. After recording Hate In My Heart (LAC 013LP) -- his most recent album, released in 2018 -- this way, Tamborello continued working in that fashion, mainly jamming and getting ideas together for upcoming live shows. One of the first results of this creative process was the opening track of The Seas Trees See -- a cover version of "The Lilac and the Apple", originally recorded by Californian folk singer Kate Wolf in 1977. Tamborello turns the acapella song into a vocoder-like extravaganza. Working with the original recording, the track perfectly sets the tone for what The Seas Trees See turns out to be a quiet yet mesmerizing journey through sound and emotion, bringing together his very own sound design, disguised samples and an incredible feel for moods and atmospheres. Despite its perfect and gentle flow, it is worth digging deeper, to surrender oneself to all the painstakingly placed details. Whether the beautiful and haunting piano work on "Movie Tears" or the almost sidechained-sounding "Yoga App" --every aspect of this album has been beautifully crafted. Small things add up to something great, diverse and riveting. The subtlety of his latest endeavor is fascinating. It opens up a new world, in which small musical sketches mean at least as much as perfectly produced pop anthems.
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LAC 013LP
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Presenting ten experimental/ambient compositions performed live in a living room in 2017 with a Buchla Music Easel, and some pedals, then edited. "I've felt more and more anger and frustration over the last few years. I set up a little mini-studio in my living room where i could make drones and noodle around while looking out the window. I thought of it as a way to meditate and to create something in a time when it felt kind of pointless to create anything. This tape is a collection of moments from those hours of recordings, edited down and adorned a little..." --Jimmy Tamborello
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PAMPA 010EP
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Robag Wruhme steps in and recontextualizes two cuts off of Dntel's Aimlessness (PAMPA 006CD/LP) for a remix EP. First up is Robag's "Kloff Mottüré" mix of "Bright Night," a starry-eyed transformation of Dntel's work that twinkles like fireflies in the clear midnight sky. With symphonic splashes, playful pitter-patters and a tranquil breakdown, it sounds a bit like teenage toads skinny-dipping amongst the lilypads. Finally, Robag finds inspiration in Dntel's "Jitters," not once but twice.
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PAMPA 006CD
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Dntel releases his long-awaited new album on DJ Koze's legendary Pampa Records label. Dntel aka Jimmy Tamborello is also a member of The Postal Service. Pop and electronica eye each with mutual curiosity: the latter longs to get stuck in a listener's head like a pop song, the former longs to incorporate the exuberant sonic richness of electronic sounds. From his home-base in Los Angeles, Jimmy Tamborello aka Dntel has transformed this mutual desire into an inexhaustible love affair. The magical, unforgettable melodies and strange, outlandish sounds of his music generate an intimate, unique universe. As part of the band Figurine, Jimmy developed a charmingly bewitching, at times absurdly silly electro-pop sound. Together with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie, he started The Postal Service, whose song "Such Great Heights" was featured on Rolling Stone's "100 Best Songs Of The Past Decade." Aimlessness transports the listener to the middle of the Dntel universe. Inexorable electronic sounds breathe life into a body, an emotional world. The album explores the way childish naivety can evolve into presumption, how helplessness and implacability work together. Meditative dub groove, Steve-Reich-like chords, Nite Jewel's voice, Wolfgang Voigt's Love Inc. productions evocation and a pensive mood that dissolves into an optimistic, light-flooded house beat, the album fades away with graceful, sublime fanfare sounds sampled from Krautrock heroes Popol Vuh. One wonders how this so very otherworldly music fits into one's idea of L.A. As it turns out, it is not just about endless freeways, perpetually good weather and, lately, mainstream dubstep. From Van Dyke Parks to Pavement, from the Dead Kennedys to Dr. Dre, California pop music has long fascinated listeners with its emotional depth. In much the same way, Dntel pulls us into an improbable maelstrom of beautiful, iridescent melodies and never-before-heard electronic sounds. CD housed in a digipak.
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PHTH 056EP
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"In the spirit of exploring the influence of this material over the past decade of electronic and indie music production, Phthalo has asked several artists who've said they were inspired by Dntel's Early Works for Me... record to re-approach those songs with their own modern and varied takes on the source material. The result is Early Works, Later Versions, a limited 12" record of new, updated remixes and variations on 2009's Early Works for Me... album by several of Jimmy's current peers and modern contemporaries. Running through some of the artists on hand for this task, To Rococo Rot's Robert Lippok (Mute Records, Monika, Raster-Noton) has clearly done this sort of thing before, and starts off by updating 'Serious' into a twinkling and blippy rendering of the original, in many ways reminiscent of his 'Falling Into Komeit' remix album several years ago. A new version by Chessie (Plug Research, Drop Beat) drops in indie guitar progressions to recall a lightweight take on electro, and Somatic Responses (Leaf Label, Hymen Records) drenches 'Tybalt 60' with gritty and thunderous stabs of broken percussion. Finally, newcomer Thaddeus Valk uses an arpeggiated synth intro to rework 'Casuals' into some other kind of tune from the 1990s -- almost an IDM-meets-rave-meets-jungle hybrid. (In other words, it gets pretty Metalheadz-by-way-of-Oakenfold-y.)"
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PLG 053CD
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" In 1994, I compiled my first tracks as Dntel onto a cassette called Something Always Goes Wrong and sent it to some labels. It came pretty close to getting a real release but things ended up falling through with the label and I had to resort to making tape copies and giving them to friends. I kept making songs and eventually put together another cassette for friends. My friend Hoseh gave it to this guy Dean who liked it and made CD copies, one of which ended up in the hands of Dimitri Fergadis, who asked if he could officially release it on his label, Phthalo Records. I said yes and this collection of songs became the first official Dntel release, Early Works For Me If It Works For You, released in 1998. A year or so later he released Something Always Goes Wrong as well. These early tracks, inspired by Aphex Twin, μ-Ziq, Warp Records and anything else I'd been listening to, were all instrumental (save a few vocal samples) and created using one sampler/synthesizer (a Kurzweil K2000s) and some basic midi sequencing software. I was always really interested in adding vocals to weird electronic music, and by the time EWFMIIWFY and SAGW were released, I finally had a computer with the capability to record full vocal tracks more easily. This led to the next Dntel full-length, Life Is Full Of Possibilities, which was released in 2001 on Plug Research. I haven't really done much instrumental work since. A couple years ago I decided to listen to a bunch of old DATs of stuff I had worked on in the process of making LIFOP. Although a lot of it was rough or unfinished, it got me thinking of the old days and I decided to collect my favorites. That got me listening to the old Phthalo releases as well and somehow it all evolved slowly into this 3-CD set. It includes Early Works For Me If It Works For You and Something Always Goes Wrong, both re-mastered, as well as the new collection of DAT discoveries, Early Works For Me If It Works For You II." -- Jimmy Tamborello
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DEAL 001EP
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Deal, the Dial sub-label for special interests presents two unreleased remixes by Lawrence for Dntel's "Dreams." Strictly limited.
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PLG 036CD
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"This is the second single from Dntel's critically acclaimed album Life Is Full Of Possibilities with vocals by Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie). Up-tempo fractured beats make this the closest thing to a pop song you'll find on the album. The original version appears here for the first time on vinyl and is joined by four remixes. Safety Scissors, enlists the help of Erlend Øye from Norway (Kings Of Convenience) to rewrite and re-sing the entire song, Barbara Morgenstern turns it into a duet, Kompakt recording artist Superpitcher makes this into a an anthem for this summers outdoor festivities, and Lali Puna (members of The Notwist) take the vocals out altogether and add their own melancholy melodies."
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