Jimmy Tamborello, known as Dntel to most, has been making music for more than a decade. In 2001, he had the indie world buzzing when he released Life Is Full Of Possibilities, making him one of the most notable figures in the turn-of-the-century glitch scene. Commercial success hit Tamborello as one half of the Postal Service, the other half being Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie. The sole Postal Service album, Give Up, is Sub Pop’s second best-selling record to date, and the “Such Great Heights” single was used on TV shows and covered by Iron & Wine, whose version in turn made it onto the Garden State soundtrack. Tamborello has worked with artists from Conor Oberst to Grizzly Bear, and he still engineers electronic music and hosts an internet radio show. On Dntel’s latest album, Aimlessness (Pampa), he dialed back the guest vocals, focused on instrumentals and made an ethereal, spaced-out electro album. Tamborello will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Tamborello: Wombleton Records is a record store here in Los Angeles (Highland Park to be exact) that I frequent. It’s all vinyl (except for maybe a few cassettes and CDs at the counter) and mostly used and hard-to-find stuff. The décor is thoughtful and old-timey, and the people working there are always really nice. I think the owners are always going on international record-buying trips, so they’re constantly rotating in fresh finds. It’s fun seeing physical copies of records you’ve only known as blog posts, but it’s also an exercise in self-control. I usually leave in a little bit of pain, half from the money I spent and half from the records I left behind. Maybe it’s a little bit cheating having a store do all the exploratory and curatorial work for your record collection, but I’ve never considered myself a real digger anyways.
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