James Scott "Jimmy" Tamborello, also known by his stage name Dntel /ˈdɪntɛl/, is an American electronic music artist and DJ.
Aside from his main solo project, Tamborello is also known as a member of the groups The Postal Service, Headset, and Figurine, where he is sometimes cited as James Figurine.
Personal life
Tamborello's father was a jazz saxophone player, flautist, and a song-writer for many Santa Barbara, California-based bands. His mother, Joyce Menges was an actress who starred in the sitcom To Rome with Love starring John Forsythe, Kay Medford, and Melanie Fullerton, in 1969, and later in the Walt Disney Productions film Now You See Him Now You Don't, starring Kurt Russell, in 1972.
Musical career and Dntel
Tamborello first began creating music in 1989, when he was in junior high school in Santa Barbara. His father bought him a drum machine, a sequencer, a keyboard and an eight track recorder, primarily for the possibility to create music on his own. Tamborello recorded an album under the name Antihouse in 1993, which was released the following year, then beginning work on the first Dntel EP. During these years, Tamborello was a DJ and music director at KXLU, and engineered on several albums recorded at the station including "KXLU LIVE: Volume 1," for which he also designed the album artwork. Tamborello was also the bass player for a band known as Strictly Ballroom. The band was often described as "Enocore," as Brian Eno soundscapes were an important influence in their music. Strictly Ballroom recorded one album, Hide Here Forever, which was released in 1997 on the Waxploitation Records label. They released a single in 1995 titled "Dear XXX" on the Chou Chou records label.
Podcasts:
Dntel
ALBUMS
- FACT Mix 463: Dntel released: 2014
- Human Voice released: 2014
- Aimlessness released: 2012
- Clelia II released: 2011
- Enya Mixes released: 2011
- After Parties 1 and 2 released: 2010
- Early Works for Me If It Works for You II released: 2009
- Dumb Luck released: 2007
- Something Always Goes Wrong released: 2001
- Life Is Full of Possibilities released: 2001
- Early Works for Me If It Works for You released: 1998
Early Works for Me If It Works for You II
Released 2009- In Which Our Hero Begins His Long and Arduous Quest
- In Which Our Hero Finds a Faithful Sidekick
- In Which Our Hero Is Put Under a Spell
- In Which Our Hero Dodges Bullets and Swords
- In Which Our Hero Frees the Damsel in Distress
- In Which Our Hero Is Decapitated by the Evil King
- In Which Our Hero Begins His Long and Arduous Quest (Seq remix)
- In Which Our Hero Was Taken by Surprise (Languis remix)
- The S.O.S.
- A Machine and a Memory Keep You Alive
Something Always Goes Wrong
Released 2001- In Which Our Hero Begins His Long and Arduous Quest
- In Which Our Hero Finds a Faithful Sidekick
- In Which Our Hero Is Put Under a Spell
- In Which Our Hero Dodges Bullets and Swords
- In Which Our Hero Frees the Damsel in Distress
- In Which Our Hero Is Decapitated by the Evil King
- In Which Our Hero Begins His Long and Arduous Quest (Seq remix)
- In Which Our Hero Was Taken by Surprise (Languis remix)
- The S.O.S.
- A Machine and a Memory Keep You Alive
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The Hills Of Kerry
by: Danny DoyleOh the palm trees wave on high all along that fertile shore
Adieu, you Hills of Kerry, I never will see you more
Oh, why did I leave my home, And why did I cross the sea?
And leave the small birds singing around you sweet Tralee
The noble and the brave have departed from your shore
They´ve gone, they've gone to fight the war's, where the mighty cannons roar
Will they ever again return To see old Ireland free
And hear the small birds singing, around you sweet Tralee
Will I ever see the shamrock, that sprig so fine and grand
Or hear the curlew flying high O'er lowly Banna Strand
As I stand on this foreign shore And think on what might be
Will I ever more return again, to see you sweet Tralee
No more I'll see the sunbeams on that precious harvest morn
Or hear our reaper singing in a field of golden corn
There´s an end to every woe and a cure for every pain
But the laughing eye's of my darling girl, I never will see again
Oh the palm trees wave on high all along that fertile shore
Adieu, you Hills of Kerry, I never will see you more
Oh, why did I leave my home, And why did I cross the sea?
And leave the small birds singing, around you sweet Tralee