TAME IMPALA
By levins | June 4, 2008
Tame Impala are three young psychedelic dudes from Perth. My new friend Ryan, who plays in another sweet Perth band who just moved to Sydney called Canyons, gave me this track the other day.
It’s a cover of a trip hop song that was huge in Australia and Europe in the late 90’s, Blue Boy’s Remember Me. The song sampled Marlena Shaw’s Woman of the Ghetto and is now only heard in lame uninspired mash ups, often featuring ODB acapellas and titled something like “Remember Shimmy” or whatever.
Anyway Tame Impala covered it and shouldn’t be this goddam good. I don’t know who records their shit but it sounds perfect.
The fairly new and completely awesome label A Hole in the Sky are gonna put out Tame Impala’s first release mad soon. If you haven’t heard anything from the label yet I highly recommend the Fred Cherry/The Templates split 10″ and The Canyons 12″, both available over at Turntable Lab.
Oh and here’s something big and exclusive. You know, for the fans…
Tame Impala – Skeleton Tiger (Re-tamed by Canyons)
PS. I was pretty close to naming this post “Perth-ection”.
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5:01 am on June 4th, 2008
That cover is some serious shit, thanks!
2:34 pm on June 4th, 2008
Not yet warmed up to that Remember Me cover, probably because I love the original, but I’m sure it’ll be a grower
4:38 pm on June 4th, 2008
The canyons remix of skeleton tiger is insane! thank you.
5:07 pm on June 4th, 2008
Its not loading for me…
5:16 pm on June 4th, 2008
PERTHQUAKE
5:40 pm on June 4th, 2008
yup….not loading for moi either
8:15 pm on June 4th, 2008
love that cover. these guys have an awesome sound.
9:47 pm on June 4th, 2008
ok – checked Tame’s myspace and me likey the nu cover – very nice production – like tha rest of thier choons too
nice one….Go Perth!
11:37 pm on June 4th, 2008
Good God! – What an awesome band, what an awesome label! love – thanks for the insight.
6:22 am on June 5th, 2008
These guys are the shit . Nice to see they got a shout out.
4:30 pm on June 6th, 2008
Perth Crisis
8:52 pm on June 8th, 2008
if you like it, you should send them money, because they’re really poor, and one of them hasn’t had anything to eat for two days….
11:13 pm on June 10th, 2008
i like them alot- thanks!
7:35 pm on June 11th, 2008
I’m playing the vice party with them in melbs.
shame yr not gonna be there lev-ins
9:01 am on June 26th, 2008
dope! that cover is really tight. can’t wait for their album.
1:00 am on April 30th, 2009
ahhh thank you!!
now uber obsessed.
love tame impala.