this is the press release info and even the NME have a Dntel profile this week.
DNTEL - Life Is Full Of Possibilities
Label - Plug Research Released on 19/11/01
From (almost) nowhere, and with the help of SLINT/THE FOR CARNATION's BRIAN McMAHAN , DNTEL have come up with ONE OF THE LEFTFIELD ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, a STUNNING album of electronica and post rock...... A blissed out album with lush female vocals, minimal techno, haunting melodies buried in static, cut up acoustic guitars, sampled symphonies, found sounds and drones. The album also features vocal contributions from Chris Gunst (Beachwood Sparks) and Rachel Haden (That Dog). FILE NEXT TO: FOUR TET/MINOTAUR SHOCK/SIGUR ROS/LOW/BASIC CHANNEL/4AD
― DJ Martian, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― charlie va, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tom, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― todd burns, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― keith, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Used to be madly in love with the sort of sounds cointaned in this album.
Listening to this today again after almost 6 years of not touching it and it's flooring me how good some of it still sounds. Sure, 'Evan and Chan' is the definite highlight and it's one of the most perfect pop songs of the past decade but 'last songs' and the joints with Mia Doi Todd and Rachel Haden are really good as well... don't know for how long they will hold my interest this time around.
― Moka, Saturday, 17 April 2010 21:42 (sixteen years ago)
hahahaha, oh old-ILM paws...
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 17 April 2010 22:12 (sixteen years ago)
Is there some new Dntel?
― djh, Saturday, 28 July 2012 20:14 (thirteen years ago)
FILE NEXT TO: LOW/SIGUR ROS
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Saturday, 28 July 2012 20:47 (thirteen years ago)
https://dyingsongs.bandcamp.com/
― djh, Saturday, 30 July 2016 16:13 (nine years ago)
Surprised there's not more love for his radio show ...
http://dublab.com/jimmy-tamborello-dying-songs-07-28-16/
This has a Silent Servant & Regis track?? I heard it + loved it before I knew who they were. Just would have expected Silent Servant's degree of separation from Death Cab For Cutie to be a little higher.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:17 (six years ago)
If by 'this' you mean the bonus disc that came with the 2011 re-release and by 'track' a remix of a track on the original. Unlikely they ever went for sushi with Ben Gibbard.
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:42 (six years ago)
Pretty sure the SS&R rmx was done for the 10 year reissue.
I think the OG record only had remixes by Superpitcher, Barbara Morgenstern, Nobody, Lali Puna & that one guy who used to post on ILM, what was his name again...?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:55 (six years ago)
xpost, sorry was taking a call.
Yes, I think those were around in 2001 (the Superpitcher one definitely), although they're not on the actual record (unless they're hidden tracks I never discovered in 18 years time).
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 21:16 (six years ago)
(It's a v.good remix btw)
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 21:18 (six years ago)
poorly phrased on my part, they were available on this:
https://www.discogs.com/Dntel-This-Is-The-Dream-Of-Evan-And-Chan/release/85966
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 22:31 (six years ago)
...and the Nobody mix was on this:
https://www.discogs.com/Dntel-Anywhere-Anyone/release/122080
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 22:32 (six years ago)
a re- ... re-mix? what's that?
oh came out in 2011 that makes more sense.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 23:49 (six years ago)
This has been sounding great today.
― djh, Sunday, 14 June 2020 18:09 (five years ago)
this record is so strange to me. technically it should be the most boring record ever, but i've never gotten bored of it. for an hour of songs that neither start nor stop, dreary dynamics, fridge buzz and static, it always hits me in the right places. i think part of the appeal for me is how macroscopic it is - tiny sounds becoming comforting dense beds. it feels liminal and it wanders from one environment to the next. something like an empty lobby at late hours under broken flourescent lights. i just wish it didn't end with 'last songs'.
― maelin, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:41 (five years ago)
"Last Songs" is a great closer, and I love that he was self-aware enough to recognize it was more impactful in its instrumental version. Here's the vocal one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFSFItaLD84
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 13:45 (five years ago)
'fear of corners' still gets me every single time.
just looked him on discogs and was surprised to find that he's released like eight full lengths and a scattering of eps. i've never heard any of it, besides this album and his stuff with the postal service, obviously. is any of it worthwhile?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:52 (five years ago)
This was his first electronic project when we DJ'd together in college (almost *gulp* 30 years ago) which is... pretty obscure, I doubt it's been mentioned before on ILM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfmquXFwEx8
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 21:19 (five years ago)
why is this album perfect
― maelin, Saturday, 27 February 2021 02:30 (five years ago)
New advance single sounds really good to my ears! Am finding the vocal processing genuinely creepy/slightly confounding/mysterious in a soothing way, which is nice:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4n2Az6uHS0
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Saturday, 27 February 2021 04:24 (five years ago)
Dntel and Postal Service are lightning in a bottle for me. “Dream of Evan and Chan” & “The district sleeps alone tonight” are two of the most affective songs I’ve heard, but nothing else in their discography reaches such great heights. Not even Death Cab tbh. Well, maybe “photobooth”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 February 2021 07:00 (five years ago)
No interest in the album?
― djh, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:29 (five years ago)
Quite enjoyed this:
https://lastdonutofthenight.substack.com/p/dntels-jimmy-tamborello-on-breakdancing
― djh, Friday, 23 April 2021 21:49 (five years ago)
Just read that before seeing you post it here--a small handful on tracks on the new album really stand out to me, and the rest I still find good but would prob need to spend more time with; thought the advance single "Fall In Love" was/is awesome.
Also found it heartening via this interview, as well as through his picks/commentary on his recent Amoeba YouTube video, that he's been following the recent abstract ambient Kansas City-via-Berlin microscene surrounding West Mineral Ltd/Motion Ward/Experiences Ltd (as well as that he dug the newest Charli XCX album and has been listening to lots of Cluster/Roedelius).
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Friday, 23 April 2021 22:16 (five years ago)
I'm still at that point - definite stand out points, which might change over time. At the moment, I love the "reveal" of Kate Wolf's voice on "The Lilac & The Apple Tree" and "Fall in Love" is gorgeous.
"West Mineral Ltd/Motion Ward/Experiences Ltd" didn't mean much to me. What should I explore?
― djh, Friday, 23 April 2021 22:22 (five years ago)
Ulla, Perila, Exael, Uon, Pontiac Streator, Ben Bondy, Huerco S/Pendant, etc (plus Russian affiliates like OL and ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ)
Here are some albums/tracks by those artists that I've bought on BC:
https://westmineral.bandcamp.com/album/make-me-know-you-sweet-ouest099https://silencebox.bandcamp.com/album/29720https://benbondy.bandcamp.com/track/writhe-in-solitude-w-pontiac-streatorhttps://benbondy.bandcamp.com/track/gilded-furnaces-w-ullahttps://benbondy.bandcamp.com/track/plunhttps://benbondy.bandcamp.com/track/wourldhttps://pontiacstreator.bandcamp.com/track/eye-to-youhttps://pontiacstreator.bandcamp.com/track/july-2https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/track/des-vieux-templeshttps://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/180s-choicehttps://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/high-school-blueshttps://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/uon-zlo-2
The general sensibility/network of artists is also well-captured by this label/mix series from Kansas City, c minus: https://soundcloud.com/cminuss
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Friday, 23 April 2021 22:34 (five years ago)
Oh, wow - thanks.
― djh, Friday, 23 April 2021 22:42 (five years ago)
That is extremely my kind of shit, awesome
― brimstead, Friday, 23 April 2021 23:32 (five years ago)
Some new Dntel:
https://visibledinner.bandcamp.com/album/until
... admittedly, not anything I particularly need to hear again.
I *do* need to go back to Craig D's list though!
― djh, Friday, 21 May 2021 19:18 (five years ago)
the new LP is neat, and i can't believe i glazed over 'dumb luck' for so long... 'to a fault' goes so hard. it's all making me want to ditch my acoustic guitar and get deeper into ableton.
― maelin, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:10 (four years ago)
D.'s also on here (just this one track, but whole alb is v. groovy, even tho not my usual cup of green tea):https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/nightswimming-with-dntel-jamael-dean-and-jira
― dow, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 23:30 (four years ago)