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, pensive mood that dissolves into the 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 LA. It turns out, 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.

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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, pensive mood that dissolves into the 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 LA. It turns out, 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.

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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. “Early Works, Later Versions,” a limited 12” record and digital download EP of new, updated remixes and variations on last year’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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