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Dntel
Bedrock LA
1623 Allesandro St
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Sep 21, 2019
3:00 PM PDT
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Non-profit radio station dublab and music mecca Bedrock.LA join forces to celebrate their respective 20th and 10th anniversaries. We invite the community to this fundraiser event to benefit dublab’s mission and programming. The event takes over the Bedrock LA building with 10 areas featuring live performances, DJ sets, sound installations, activations, food trucks, drinks and more. $10 suggested donation / 21+ 10 AREAS OF MUSIC AND MORE! PARKING LOT: MAIN STAGE Hosted by Carlos Niño Live music by: Shlohmo Los Retros The Pan Afrikan Peoples Orchestra The Jack Moves Low Leaf DJ sets by: Hoseh Shepard Fairey GeraH (dublab Brazil) D'addy Video art and lighting by: Alex Pelly Stranger Liquids ====================== BEDROCK ROOM: JAZZ ADVANCE STUDIO Hosted by Jeffery Plansker Nine hours that explore and record a variety of jazz groupings. Past to future. Live music by: George Fludas Quintet w Jeff Parker Mike Andrews (Grey Boy All Stars) Robert Walter Lenard Simpson (Herbie Hancock Institute) Dr. Patrick Gleeson (Bennie Maupin, Herbie Hancock) Laramie Kaveh Rastegar Gabe Noel Jesse Justice Cary Berger Ken Ramm + MORE DJ sets by: Mark Maxwell Ajay Ravi ====================== ROOM F: FESTIVAL 99 Hosted by Danny Holloway Photo tribute to LA records stores that were around during the past 20 years: Aron’s, Record Jungle, Poobah, Rhino, Records LA, Amoeba, etc. DJ sets by: Peanut Butter Wolf Aaron Paar Lady C Al Jackson Koreatown Oddity Monalisa House of Pris Seano ====================== ROOM G Hosted by Rene Contreras & Jay Are Live music by: Pacoima Techno Belii Mijo Mija (Calexico, CA - Mexicali, Mexico) Parque de Cometas (Tijuana, Mexico) SOLTERA Dymph DJs: DJ chillón ====================== ROOM E Hosted by Minty Boi & Luke Kim Live music by: Adam O copys DJ sets by: Rusty Santos DJ Koala (Ko) Mesmé ====================== ROOM B: Indo Life Hosted by Daddy Differently & Dirty Dave ====================== ROOM 5 Hosted C: Jenny NONO Live music by: Moment trigger Celeste xxx Xostume William strangeland DJ sets by: Amanda Siegel Grave Realm pogo Pope ====================== ROOM 6: Dance Floor Miniature Hosted by: Daedelus and Jimmy Tamborello Music by: Leech Baseck Baths Jake Jenkins Juke Bounce Werk Wylie Cable Carl Stone ====================== ROOM I Hosted by: Leaving Records Live music by: Matthewdavid Sam Wilkes Yialmelic Frequencies Zeroh Mystery Cave K'in Sventa Dntel + very special guests ====================== PINS & NEEDLES DJ sets by: Jimi Hey Benny Shambles Josh da Costa Frosty Melissa Dueñas Suneye Radio Xandão Foerio ====================== FEATURES/ACTIVATIONS/INSTALLATIONS: MR. GOOD BOY RECORD CART: Created by co-founders Carson Lere and Ryan Wilson, the Record Cart is a hand-crafted product of Los Angeles creative marketing house, American Dekotora, Inc. With its onboard turntable and four individual headphone listening stations, it serves as a real-world music discovery hub and allows people to browse its four onboard vinyl bins for fresh finds to purchase or audition on site. The Record Cart was recently featured as the centerpiece of a three-month Pop-Up at Ace Hotel Palm Springs in collaboration with Light in the Attic, Rare Groove Osaka, Numero Group, Leaving Records, and more! HIT+RUN Live screening of dubalb t-shirt designs from past years ASCII BOOTH ASCII Booth is the lo-fi selfie station of your dreams. Our state-of-the-art dot matrix technology prints your ASCII selfie on the fly. Zeke Wattles designed it for dublab with help from Ali Torbati QUAD ACTIVATION An immersive sound + vision installation presented by CyKiK and dublab LUCKY PAUL Lucky Paul is setting up an interactive sampling space for musicians and non musicians. Come in, make sounds into a mic with percussion or your voice, play keyboards where no key will sound out of scale, and be sampled in realtime to an ongoing spontaneously created composition, or just jam over top of it and enjoy FOOD TRUCKS: Plant Food For People Poutine Brothers Vivace Pizza ====================== THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!!! Radio Lovers: Red Bull Stones Throw Mexican Summer Ace Hotel Ableton Headroom For Days Barefoot Sound Mercado Sagrado Year-Round Supporters: Guitar Center ArtCenter College of Design Cargo Collective Discogs Dome of Doom Focusrite/Novation NuTropic Point Blank Music School Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture Laurence W Levine Foundation Art Laboe Foundation In-Kind Donations by: El Condor MAST Lagunitas Beer Health-Ade Kombucha Madre Mezcal Sticky Ricks Delicious Pizza Tito’s Vodka Yeah! Rentals Discovino Pioneer DJ Topo Chico Community Partners: Restless Nites Fusicology LA Record Love Injection DoLA Resident Advisor Goldenvoice SASSAS Mixcloud KCET Razorcake Las Fotos Project Materials & Applications
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Dntel Biography
Jimmy Tamborello has been making and releasing electronic music for over 20 years. He has been working under the Dntel moniker since 1994, releasing records on Sub Pop, Plug Research, Pampa, and Leaving, among others. Through his work with Dntel he met up with Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie in 2001 and they formed The Postal Service, whose 2003 Sub Pop release "Give Up" went on to sell over a million copies. He has done remixes for a wide variety of artists, from the Flaming Lips to Nina Simone. He is also one third of the techno-pop group Figurine and one half of experimental synth outfit Sana Shenai, and hosts a weekly internet radio show on dublab.com called Dying Songs. It focuses primarily on the world of new underground electronic music.
Hailing from Los Angeles, Jimmy Tamborello has been a key figure in refining what today is considered electronica. The Seas Trees See is the first of two Dntel albums to be released in 2021 by Morr Music in collaboration with Les Albums Claus: a free-floating and rather loose stroke of musical genius, giving ambience a whole new meaningful context. It combines crackles and hiss with deep, yet modest, synths and poignant, yet elegant, vocals and lyrics. Away, its counterpart album, will follow later in 2021. It will showcase Dntel’s unapologetic love for pop music from a long-gone era, presenting yet another aspect of his multi-faceted personality. Dntel has always covered many musical grounds – from the pop-infused hits on Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Plug Research, 2001) to his much more abstract works on Aimlessness (Pampa Records, 2012), Human Voice (Leaving Records, 2014), and his electronics for The Postal Service (Sub Pop). Whatever his style – Tamborello has retained his very own musical voice.
When it comes to producing music, it can be a good idea to get away from the studio and find a more relaxed environment. Inspiration does not necessarily require huge bass bins. Fewer pieces of gear make it easier to really focus on ideas first and let them be. After recording Hate In My Heart – his most recent album, released in 2018 – this way, Tamborello continued working in that fashion, mainly jamming and getting ideas together for upcoming live shows. One of the first results of this creative process was the opening track of The Seas Trees See – a cover version of "The Lilac and the Apple", originally recorded by Californian folk singer Kate Wolf in 1977. Tamborello turns the acapella song into a vocoder-like extravaganza. Working with the original recording, the track perfectly sets the tone for what The Seas Trees See turns out to be – a quiet yet mesmerizing journey through sound and emotion, bringing together his very own sound design, disguised samples and an incredible feel for moods and atmospheres.
"I thought a lot about making an album that you would find in a thrift store", Tamborello remembers. Something "like a mysterious collection of sketches that leaves a lot unanswered. It doesn’t beg for attention or have any big moments." Despite its perfect and gentle flow, it is worth digging deeper, to surrender oneself to all the painstakingly placed details. Whether the beautiful and haunting piano work on "Movie Tears" or the almost sidechained-sounding "Yoga App" – every aspect of this album has been beautifully crafted, often bringing one of life’s biggest questions to the table: What if? What would have happened if Tamborello would have done this on that track or that on this track? It is good that he did not. Small things add up to something great, diverse and riveting.
The subtlety of his latest endeavor is fascinating. It opens up a new world, in which small musical sketches mean at least as much as perfectly produced pop anthems – if not more.
Read MoreHailing from Los Angeles, Jimmy Tamborello has been a key figure in refining what today is considered electronica. The Seas Trees See is the first of two Dntel albums to be released in 2021 by Morr Music in collaboration with Les Albums Claus: a free-floating and rather loose stroke of musical genius, giving ambience a whole new meaningful context. It combines crackles and hiss with deep, yet modest, synths and poignant, yet elegant, vocals and lyrics. Away, its counterpart album, will follow later in 2021. It will showcase Dntel’s unapologetic love for pop music from a long-gone era, presenting yet another aspect of his multi-faceted personality. Dntel has always covered many musical grounds – from the pop-infused hits on Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Plug Research, 2001) to his much more abstract works on Aimlessness (Pampa Records, 2012), Human Voice (Leaving Records, 2014), and his electronics for The Postal Service (Sub Pop). Whatever his style – Tamborello has retained his very own musical voice.
When it comes to producing music, it can be a good idea to get away from the studio and find a more relaxed environment. Inspiration does not necessarily require huge bass bins. Fewer pieces of gear make it easier to really focus on ideas first and let them be. After recording Hate In My Heart – his most recent album, released in 2018 – this way, Tamborello continued working in that fashion, mainly jamming and getting ideas together for upcoming live shows. One of the first results of this creative process was the opening track of The Seas Trees See – a cover version of "The Lilac and the Apple", originally recorded by Californian folk singer Kate Wolf in 1977. Tamborello turns the acapella song into a vocoder-like extravaganza. Working with the original recording, the track perfectly sets the tone for what The Seas Trees See turns out to be – a quiet yet mesmerizing journey through sound and emotion, bringing together his very own sound design, disguised samples and an incredible feel for moods and atmospheres.
"I thought a lot about making an album that you would find in a thrift store", Tamborello remembers. Something "like a mysterious collection of sketches that leaves a lot unanswered. It doesn’t beg for attention or have any big moments." Despite its perfect and gentle flow, it is worth digging deeper, to surrender oneself to all the painstakingly placed details. Whether the beautiful and haunting piano work on "Movie Tears" or the almost sidechained-sounding "Yoga App" – every aspect of this album has been beautifully crafted, often bringing one of life’s biggest questions to the table: What if? What would have happened if Tamborello would have done this on that track or that on this track? It is good that he did not. Small things add up to something great, diverse and riveting.
The subtlety of his latest endeavor is fascinating. It opens up a new world, in which small musical sketches mean at least as much as perfectly produced pop anthems – if not more.
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