2014-01-01
11 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
The Postal Service was formed by Jimmy Tamburello and Ben Gibbard in 2002.
They lived in different cities and would mail recordings back and forth between Seattle and Los Angeles.
They only made one record, Give Up, but it sold over a million copies.
It's considered a landmark album for the way it combined indie rock and electronic elements.
In this episode, Jimmy Tamburello breaks down the Postal Service song,
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.
Hi, my name is Jimmy Tamburello from the Postal Service.
Postal Service was a project that I did back in 2002, 2003.
a friend, Ben Gibbard, who was also the singer for Death Cab for Cutie.
And this was kind of like an electronic side project we did together.
All the music that I was making back then in the early 2000s,
I was using mostly one sampler slash synthesizer called the K2000 from Kurzweil.
Almost everything on the Postal Service album came out of that.
that machine.
It comes with a lot of preset bass and pad and bell sounds and all sorts of synthesizer sounds that you can edit.
Any sound I used I would try to change it from the preset just so it would be more original.
So this is most of the synthesizer sounds that I used on District Sleep Sloan tonight.