This page is auto-generated.
We use AI to collate this information; we don't use it to create this
information. Every fact here is drawn from public sources — press releases,
interviews, chart data — and the sources are listed below so you can check
them yourself. Collating this way helps us reduce our AI token usage, and
thus the impact that Less Than Zero has on the planet. AI can still get
things wrong: if you're an artist and something here is wrong, we
want to fix it —
message
us on Discord and we'll correct it. See our
AI policy.
DNTEL
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
DNTEL
Plays on LTZ: (historical total not available beyond this vault's episode folders)
Tracks played
(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan — played 2026-06-25
Jimmy Tamborello's 2001 track (from Life Is Full of Possibilities; this is the 2011 deluxe remaster), featuring Ben Gibbard on vocals. Its reception led the pair to keep collaborating — the result was Give Up (2003), released as The Postal Service. The title refers to a dream Gibbard had about Evan Dando (The Lemonheads) and Chan Marshall (Cat Power). The seed of an entire band, opening the wind-down.
TikTok angle: In 2001, producer Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) asked Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard to sing on one track. They got on so well they made a whole album together, later released as The Postal Service (which went platinum). This song — named after a dream Gibbard had about Evan Dando and Chan Marshall — is where it all started.
Dntel
Origin: Los Angeles, California, US · active since the mid-1990s
Members: Solo artist (James "Jimmy" Tamborello)
Genre: IDM, electronic, glitch, indietronica
Discography:
Life Is Full of Possibilities (2001) — Plug Research — breakthrough LP; features Ben Gibbard on "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan"
Dumb Luck (2007) — Sub Pop — features Ben Gibbard, Jenny Lewis, Conor Oberst, and others
Facts:
The Gibbard collaboration on this track went so well the pair kept working together, forming The Postal Service — their 2003 album Give Up eventually went platinum.
Tamborello has released Dntel material on Sub Pop, Plug Research, Pampa, and Leaving Records, and has worked under the moniker since the 1990s.