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: Dublab.com is an internet radio station based in Los Angeles that’s been broadcasting for more than 10 years. I don’t even remember how you went about trying to stream audio off your computer back then. Now you can download the Dublab app onto your phone and listen anywhere as if we’re in a sci-fi movie. I’ve been doing radio shows there since near the beginning and am currently doing a weekly live broadcast called Dying Songs, every Thursday 12-2pm pst.
Dublab has been a major source of inspiration for me and home to a lot of great L.A. musicians, producers and artists. When you tune in, you never know who’s going to be DJing or playing live, or what kind of music you’re going to get turned onto. They’re also constantly putting on events around L.A. and the rest of the world, one of my favorite recurring ones being Tonalism, an all-night ambient event that’s been staged everywhere from a carousel in Santa Monica to a church in Toronto. You should tune in now to the livestream, or if you’re not that spontaneous there’s tons of downloadable archived DJ sets and performances.
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