101-522: Tame Impala is the psychedelic music project of Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker . In the recording studio, Parker writes, records, performs, and produces all of the project's music. As a touring act, Tame Impala consists of Parker (vocals, guitar, synthesiser), Dominic Simper (guitar, synthesiser), Jay Watson (synthesiser, vocals, guitar), Cam Avery (bass guitar, vocals, synthesiser), and Julien Barbagallo (drums, vocals). The group has
202-584: A Fleetwood Mac song. He said that the pureness and cleanness of Fleetwood Mac's song prompted him to attempt to create a more streamlined musical style within Currents . On 6 January 2015, Spinning Top Music announced that a new Tame Impala album will be released in 2015. During the same month, it was announced that the band would perform at the Boston Calling Music Festival in May 2015. On 11 March 2015,
303-672: A " kingmaker ", who had the power to make a musician's career, and artists ignored by him resented this. Eltham commented that this type of power has now passed to platforms such as Spotify and TikTok rather than individuals, playlists are determined by AI , and major labels dominate the industry. The longevity and present format of the TV program Rage was inspired by Kingsmill's radio show in which he hosted artists who would talk about music that they liked. An ABC staff member took this idea to management in 1998, after Rage had been running without any presenter for three years. Kingsmill appeared in
404-423: A bit more. Then I’ll know what to do next. In May 2014, Parker spoke of his growing inclination toward the recording of another album in a triple J radio interview, explaining: "I'm getting more and more sucked into the world of making an album. It's weird how it happens naturally, it's almost feels like a seasonal thing. I've started to think about tracklistings and all the things that come with an album." Describing
505-562: A close affiliation with fellow Australian psychedelic rock band Pond , sharing members and collaborators, including Nick Allbrook , formerly a live member of Tame Impala. Originally signed to Modular Recordings , Tame Impala is now signed to Interscope Records in the United States and Fiction Records in the United Kingdom. Parker originally conceived the project in Perth in 2007. After
606-644: A crowd of thousands and a chill night alone with a vibe-heavy playlist" and that "his music embodies the technology-driven sense of loneliness of this decade better than any of his peers". " The Less I Know the Better " was voted number one in Triple J's Hottest 100 of the Decade on 14 March 2020. This was the highest ranking for Tame Impala in a Hottest 100 Countdown and the first time the project had attained number one in any Hottest 100. (The same song had previously placed fourth in
707-571: A curated music playlist can be part of a favourable setting. Richard Kingsmill Richard Kingsmill is an Australian radio announcer and music journalist . He worked for ABC radio station triple j from 1988 until his redundancy in December 2023, and was the station's longest-serving presenter. From 2017 he was group music director of triple j, triple j Unearthed , Double J , ABC Country , and ABC Local Radio . Richard Kingsmill studied mass communications at Macquarie University in
808-587: A darker and more political edge than much psychedelic rock. Psychedelic soul was pioneered by Sly and the Family Stone with songs like "" I Want to Take You Higher " (1969), and The Temptations with "Cloud Nine", " Runaway Child, Running Wild " (1969) and " Psychedelic Shack " (1969). Psychedelic rap is a microgenre which fuses hip hop music with psychedelia. Pioneers included New York's Native Tongues collective, headlined by De La Soul , Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest , and Shock G . Though
909-475: A distinctive brand of electronic rock , known as kosmische musik , or in the British press as "Krautrock". Their adoption of electronic synthesisers, along with the musical styles explored by Brian Eno in his keyboard playing with Roxy Music , had a major influence on subsequent development of electronic rock . The incorporation of jazz styles into the music of bands like Soft Machine and Can, also contributed to
1010-531: A new album. "Jay and I have been recording pretty compulsively and album number two is nearing potential completion already and I'm so excited about it that I'm having trouble keeping myself from telling you all about it". This came only months after Innerspeaker was released. The group toured in mid-2010, commencing the Innerspeaker album tour on 13 May 2010 as the opening act for MGMT 's 2010 American tour. The band returned to Australia to play at Splendour in
1111-413: A new song titled " Let It Happen " was released as a free download. On 5 April 2015, Tame Impala announced and released the album cover for Currents in a Facebook post. A few hours later, the band released the first official single from the upcoming album on Facebook called " 'Cause I'm a Man ". Later that month, on 22 April 2015, Tame Impala officially released "Let it Happen" as the second single from
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#17331058149081212-447: A rock duo that consisted of Parker (guitar) and Luke Epstein (drums). Tame Impala emerged in 2007 as a home-recording project created by Parker, who posted a number of tracks on Myspace . This generated interest from a number of labels, and eventually he signed a worldwide deal with the independent Modular Recordings in July 2008. To transfer these recordings to a live setting, Parker enlisted
1313-515: A scene with a similar visual aesthetic to earlier rave music, emphasizing visual effects: glowsticks , neon and other lights were common, and followers of the scene often dressed in extremely bright and fluorescent coloured clothing. Synthedelia is the fusion of psychedelia , electronic music , and avant-garde music , originating in the 1960s. Set and setting are critical in the design of psychiatric facilities and modalities of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies . Research has shown that
1414-545: A series of singles and EPs, Tame Impala's debut studio album, Innerspeaker , was released in 2010; it was certified gold in Australia and well received by critics. Parker's 2012 follow-up, Lonerism , was also acclaimed, reaching platinum status in Australia and receiving a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative Music Album . Tame Impala's third album, Currents , was released in July 2015, and like its predecessor, it won ARIA Awards for Best Rock Album and Album of
1515-445: A stage at Glastonbury Festival in 2019. He also stated that he would be "very disappointed" if the new record by Tame Impala wasn't released by summer 2019. On 1 July 2018, Tame Impala teamed up with electronic artist ZHU to create the single "My Life". In October 2018, Parker played bass for rapper Travis Scott for a performance of "Skeletons/Astrothunder" on Saturday Night Live , with singer-songwriter John Mayer also part of
1616-456: A variety of music styles from the 2000s characterized by mellow beats , vintage synthesizers , and lo-fi melodies, including chillwave , glo-fi , and hypnagogic pop . These three terms were described as interchangeable by the Quietus , along with other terms "dream-beat" and "hipster-gogic pop." Altogether, they may be viewed as a type of synth-based psychedelic music. The term "chillwave"
1717-577: Is a photo taken by Parker of the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, France, with additional editing by Leif Podhajsky , a graphic designer who created the album art for Innerspeaker . The image ties into the themes of isolation of Lonerism , with a metal gate separating the viewer from the people in the Gardens. The band released the song "Apocalypse Dreams" as a free download on 7 July 2012. The first single, " Elephant ",
1818-539: Is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia , a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT , LSD , mescaline , and psilocybin mushrooms , to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness . Psychedelic music may also aim to enhance the experience of using these drugs and has been found to have a significant influence on psychedelic therapy . Psychedelia embraces visual art, movies, and literature, as well as music. Psychedelic music emerged during
1919-649: Is believed that Parker started recording the follow-up album to Lonerism at the beginning of 2014, due to various Instagram posts that showed recording taking place at the Wave House in Western Australia , where Innerspeaker was recorded. Prior to this, Parker had been touring with Tame Impala and working on other musical projects, including his disco-funk band, AAA Aardvark Getdown Services. Parker said in May 2013: Right now, doing another album doesn't excite me. There's something narrow-minded about thinking an album
2020-584: Is derived from its internet origins and ethereal style. The rave scene emphasized house , acid house and techno . The rave genre "hardcore" first appeared amongst the UK acid movement during the late 1980s at warehouse parties and other underground venues, as well as on UK pirate radio stations . The genre would develop into oldschool hardcore , which led to newer forms of rave music such as drum and bass and 2-step , as well as other hardcore techno genres, such as gabber , hardstyle and happy hardcore . In
2121-409: Is often misused, with many acts playing in a variety of styles. Acknowledging this, author Michael Hicks explains: To understand what makes music stylistically "psychedelic," one should consider three fundamental effects of LSD: dechronicization, depersonalization , and dynamization. Dechronicization permits the drug user to move outside of conventional perceptions of time. Depersonalization allows
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#17331058149082222-418: Is often used interchangeably with the term "stoner rock" to describe this genre; however, not all stoner rock bands would fall under the descriptor of "desert rock". Stoner rock is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features a heavily distorted , groove -laden bass -heavy sound, melodic vocals, and "retro" production. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Monster Magnet and
2323-400: Is one of the station's most loved programs. Over the years, he hosted hundreds of interviews with well-known musicians, including David Bowie , Radiohead , Björk , Nick Cave , Daft Punk , Flume , Gotye , Lana Del Rey , and Kendrick Lamar . In 1998, a remarkable interview with Tori Amos went to air live on the J Files. In 2017, Kingsmill became group music director, coordinating
2424-583: Is perhaps best described as a mixture of 70s disco and 60s psychedelia". Derived from acid house and techno music, it developed in Germany and the Netherlands with singles including "Energy Flash" by Joey Beltram and "The Ravesignal" by CJ Bolland . This was followed by releases by Robert Leiner, Sun Electric , Aphex Twin and most influentially the techno-trance released by the Harthouse label, including
2525-410: Is the only way you can put out music, especially in the world we’re in at the moment. Anything is possible. There's so many people doing interesting things with the internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it. It's 2013 and you can make music anywhere... There are so many possibilities, my brain is overloading on them all. I just need to wait, think about things
2626-407: Is the third studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream released in 1991. The album marked a significant departure from the band's early indie rock sound, drawing inspiration from the blossoming house music scene and associated drugs such as LSD and MDMA . It won the first Mercury Music Prize in 1992, and has sold over three million copies worldwide. AllMusic states: "Aside from
2727-532: The California bands Fu Manchu , Kyuss and Sleep . Neo-psychedelia (or "acid punk") is a diverse style of music that originated in the 1970s as an outgrowth of the British post-punk scene. Its practitioners drew from the unusual sounds of 1960s psychedelic music, either updating or copying the approaches from that era. Neo-psychedelia may include forays into psychedelic pop, jangly guitar rock, heavily distorted free-form jams, or recording experiments. Some of
2828-677: The Grateful Dead (financed by Stanley), then known as the Warlocks, known as the psychedelic symphony . The Pranksters helped popularise LSD use, through their road trips across America in a psychedelically decorated converted school bus, which involved distributing the drug and meeting with major figures of the beat movement, and through publications about their activities such as Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968. San Francisco had an emerging music scene of folk clubs, coffee houses and independent radio stations that catered to
2929-625: The Manson Family to The Beatles songs such as " Helter Skelter " contributed to an anti-hippie backlash. The Altamont Free Concert in California, headlined by the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane on December 6, 1969, did not turn out to be a positive milestone in the psychedelic music scene, as was anticipated; instead, it became notorious for the fatal stabbing of a black teenager Meredith Hunter by Hells Angels security guards. By
3030-543: The Mellotron , an early tape-driven 'sampler' keyboard. Elaborate studio effects are often used, such as backwards tapes , panning the music from one side to another of the stereo track, using the "swooshing" sound of electronic phasing , long delay loops and extreme reverb . In the 1960s there was a use of electronic instruments such as early synthesizers and the theremin . Later forms of electronic psychedelia also employed repetitive computer-generated beats. From
3131-600: The Triple J radio station. Tame Impala's tours in 2008 included supports for You Am I , The Black Keys , Yeasayer and MGMT , as well as performances at Southbound Festival , Meredith Music Festival and Falls Festival , and national headline tours in support of their EP. Tours in 2009 included a sold-out six-date "Skeleton Tiger" national headline tour and a five-date UK tour (including Nevereverland UK), as well as performances at V Festival . Tame Impala appeared on Triple J's Hottest 100 list in 2008—their first appearance on
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3232-451: The sitar and tabla , is common. Songs often have more disjunctive song structures, key and time signature changes, modal melodies, and drones than contemporary pop music. Surreal , whimsical, esoterically or literary-inspired lyrics are often used. There is often a strong emphasis on extended instrumental segments or jams . There is a strong keyboard presence, in the 1960s especially, using electronic organs, harpsichords , or
3333-504: The "post-psychedelic hard rock/ heavy metal styles" that emerged had "a weaker connection to the hippie ethos" and "strongly emphasized the blues progression ". Psychedelic rock, with its distorted guitar sound, extended solos, and adventurous compositions, had been an important bridge between blues-oriented rock and the later emergence of metal. Two former guitarists with the Yardbirds , Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page , moved on to form key acts in
3434-602: The "squelchy" sounds and deep basslines produced by the Roland TB-303 synthesizer. As singles began to reach the UK the sound was re-created, beginning in small warehouse parties held in London in 1986–87. During 1988 in the Second Summer of Love it hit the mainstream as thousands of clubgoers travelled to mass raves. The genre then began to penetrate the British pop charts with hits for M/A/R/R/S , S'Express , and Technotronic by
3535-409: The "trip" in trip hop was more linked to dub music than psychedelia, the genre combined psychedelic rock with hip hop. Cloud rap is a subgenre of rap that has several sonic characteristics of trap music and is known for its hazy, dreamlike and relaxed production style. Rapper Lil B and producer Clams Casino have been identified as the early pioneers of the style. The term "cloud rap"
3636-579: The 1960s among folk and rock bands in the United States and the United Kingdom, creating the subgenres of psychedelic folk , psychedelic rock , acid rock , and psychedelic pop before declining in the early 1970s. Numerous spiritual successors followed in the ensuing decades, including progressive rock , krautrock , and heavy metal . Since the 1970s, revivals have included psychedelic funk , neo-psychedelia , and stoner rock as well as psychedelic electronic music genres such as acid house , trance music , and new rave . "Psychedelic" as an adjective
3737-425: The 1969 Woodstock Festival , which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, including Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , Jefferson Airplane and Santana . By the end of the 1960s, the trend of exploring psychedelia in music was largely in retreat. LSD was declared illegal in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1966. The linking of the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by
3838-682: The 1970s. King Crimson 's album In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), has been seen as an important link between psychedelia and progressive rock. While some bands such as Hawkwind maintained an explicitly psychedelic course into the 1970s, most bands dropped the psychedelic elements in favour of embarking on wider experimentation. As German bands from the psychedelic movement moved away from their psychedelic roots and placed increasing emphasis on electronic instrumentation, these groups, including Kraftwerk , Tangerine Dream , Can and Faust , developed
3939-462: The 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy . In 2019, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia published excerpts of Kingsmill's 2SER radio series, Money, Not Harmony . Archivist Liz Guiffre wrote: "Kingsmill would go on to become an extremely important part of the industry he so carefully documented here". Kingsmill's older brother, Mark Kingsmill , was the drummer in
4040-445: The 2010s, artists such as Bassnectar , Tipper and Pretty Lights dominated the more mainstream psychedelic cultures. "Raves" became much larger and grew to mainstream appeal. In Britain in the 2000s (decade), the combination of indie rock with dance-punk was dubbed "new rave" in publicity for Klaxons , and the term was picked up and applied by the NME to a number of bands. It formed
4141-446: The 2012 J Award for Australian Album of the Year. It was the second time Tame Impala had won the award, after also winning it for their debut album, Innerspeaker , in 2010. They are the first band to win the J Award more than once. In January 2013, Lonerism was selected by Rolling Stone for the 2012 Album of the Year award after the band also won the award in 2011 for Innerspeaker . It
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4242-528: The 2015 Hottest 100.) On 20 March 2020, Parker appeared on the Weeknd 's album After Hours , producing and providing background vocals on the track " Repeat After Me (Interlude) ". At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards in November, Tame Impala won a further five trophies: "Album of the Year", "Best Rock Album", Engineer of the Year" and "Producer of the Year" for The Slow Rush , as well as "Best Group". In October 2021,
4343-490: The 2018 Mad Cool Festival in Spain, the first live music show the band agreed to play in 2018. Tame Impala also played a headline set at London's Citadel Festival in July 2018. In July 2018, during an interview with Beats 1 anchor host Matt Wilkinson, Parker confirmed for the first time that he had begun working on a new Tame Impala album, adding that he was "ready to play some other songs live" and expressing an interest to headline
4444-602: The ABC started in 1988 as a producer for triple j. He presented on-air for the first time in 1990. He introduced and hosted the shows The J-Files (8 years ) and the Australian Music Show (10 years ), and was co-founder of triple j Unearthed in 1995, a fact of which he is very proud, in particular "being able to uncover the likes of Missy Higgins , Grinspoon , G Flip , and Genesis Owusu ". Kingsmill began hosting triple j's new releases show on Sunday evenings, named for
4545-478: The Beatles' 1968 album (unofficially known as The White Album ), and Led Zeppelin's 1971 album , for which "there is up to this day no consensus about the title". According to him, post-psychedelic musicians like Brian Eno and Robert Fripp "explicitly advocated" this disconnection between the artist and their work or stardom. "In so doing", he adds, "they laid the foundations for a central tendency of post-punk " in
4646-587: The Gamblers ' 1960 surf instrumental "LSD 25". The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators , released in October 1966, was one of the first rock albums to include the word "psychedelic" in its title. Two other bands also used the word in titles of LPs released in November 1966: The Blues Magoos ' Psychedelic Lollipop , and the Deep 's Psychedelic Moods . At the same time, a more avant-garde development came with
4747-520: The Grass festival, which was followed by a European Tour in July (including an appearance at the Reading Festival ) and a national Australian tour in October. In November they returned to the UK and Europe for a fifteen date tour, including their largest London headline show to date which was attended by Noel Gallagher , Tom Meighan , Sergio Pizzorno , Noel Fielding , Alexa Chung and Alison Mosshart ,
4848-415: The J Award for Album of the Year. Tame Impala's second album, Lonerism , was released in 2012 and was mixed by Dave Fridmann . Parker said that Lonerism "represents a departure from his previous work by incorporating an expanded sonic palette, more emotional song writing, and a more pronounced narrative perspective". It was created in a similar set up as Innerspeaker , whereby Parker wrote and recorded
4949-555: The Stone Roses , Happy Mondays , Inspiral Carpets , the Charlatans and 808 State . The rave -influenced scene is widely seen as heavily influenced by drugs, especially ecstasy ( MDMA ). At that time, the Haçienda nightclub, co-owned by members of New Order , was a major catalyst for the distinctive musical ethos in the city that was called the Second Summer of Love . Screamadelica
5050-562: The Year . Parker won the APRA Award for Song of the Year 2016 for Currents ' first track, " Let It Happen ". The fourth studio album, The Slow Rush , was released on 14 February 2020. At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards , Tame Impala won five awards. The origins of Tame Impala can be found in the Perth music scene. Musician Kevin Parker played in a number of bands, one being the Dee Dee Dums,
5151-488: The album. One week later, on 29 April 2015, Kevin Parker held an AMA on Reddit , where he provoked fans to ask him to release a new song, then responding with "Disciples", which became the first promotional single for Currents . On 7 May 2015, the band announced that the album would be released on 17 July 2015 and released the third official single, " Eventually ". The record ended up being the best selling one in their discography, with 1.3 million copies sold worldwide. During
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#17331058149085252-519: The amount of airtime given to Australian artists, from 30 percent to 60 percent. The station's audience increased from 980,000 in 2006 to 3 million in 2022. Kingsmill was triple j's longest-serving presenter. Ben Eltham wrote in a 2015 article in Meanjin that Kingsmill's musical preferences (mainly in hip hop , indie rock , and pop music ) influenced what was played on triple j, and that he has shaped its identity. Eltham later (2023) wrote of him as
5353-456: The backing band. On 10 October, the band was scheduled to headline the first night of the annual Desert Daze festival in its new location in Moreno Beach, but had to cut their set short after three songs due to inclement weather. On 31 October, rapper Theophilus London released a new single in collaboration with Tame Impala under the moniker of "Theo Impala". On 2 January 2019, Tame Impala
5454-565: The band announced that a deluxe box set edition of The Slow Rush would be released in February 2022. In March 2021, the band's 2012 song "Elephant", from the album Lonerism , was covered by the Australian children's music group The Wiggles for triple j 's Like a Version segment. The Wiggles' cover version went on to place at number one in 2021's Hottest 100. In February 2022, the band released The Slow Rush B-Sides and Remixes . In May 2022,
5555-554: The band at in 2008. As a farewell gesture, the band played a cover of Outkast 's " Prototype ". Lonerism received a 2014 Grammy Award nomination in December 2013 in the Best Alternative Music Album category. "Be Above It", the first track on the album, is featured in the 2019 movie Waves . This includes the studio version, the live version from the Live Versions album and the "Erol Alkan Rework" version. It
5656-538: The band released the single " Turn Up the Sunshine ", a collaboration with Diana Ross . The track is the lead single from the Jack Antonoff -produced original soundtrack album for the film Minions: The Rise of Gru . With the exception of this track, the album primarily features new spins on classic '70s hits by artists such as Brittany Howard , St. Vincent , H.E.R. and many others. In August 2022, Gorillaz released
5757-508: The band then went on to the United States and Canada for twenty headline dates including sold-out shows in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. They also received four 2010 ARIA Music Awards nominations which include, "Album of the Year" and "Best Rock Album" for Innerspeaker , "Best Group" and also "Breakthrough Artist". On 29 November 2010, Innerspeaker won Australian youth-oriented radio network Triple J's highest honour, winning
5858-464: The concept albums of Pink Floyd and the virtuosic instrumentation of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes . "Early-1970s post-psychedelic rock was hatched in small or medium-sized structures", he adds, naming record labels such as Virgin Records , Island Records , and Obscure Records . Many of the British musicians and bands that had embraced psychedelia moved into creating the progressive rock genre in
5959-563: The contingent of artists associated with Frank Zappa , including The Mothers of Invention , Captain Beefheart , Wild Man Fischer , The GTOs , and Alice Cooper . According to musicologist Frank Hoffman, post-psychedelic hard rock emerged from the varied rock scene, distinguished by more "cinematic guitar stylings and evocative lyric imagery", as in the music of Led Zeppelin , Black Sabbath , and Robin Trower . Music scholar Edward Macan notes that
6060-419: The cover of the publication The FADER , in its 82nd issue. On 18 May 2013, it was announced via Facebook that Allbrook would leave the band to focus on other musical endeavours, and that Cam Avery of Pond and The Growl would take his place. Allbrook played his final gig with the band on their last Australian tour date of 2013 at Perth's Belvoir Amphitheatre, the same venue that Allbrook played his first gig with
6161-416: The current year, in 1996. This show continues as of 2023 as one of the highest-rating shows. In 1998, Kingsmill hosted an Australian music-themed program on Rage , for Australian Music Week. In 2009, he presented the triple j Hottest 100 of All Time on Rage with Zan Rowe . In 2003, Kingsmill was promoted to the position of music director after the retirement of Arnold Frolows , who had been in
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#17331058149086262-449: The development of the emerging jazz rock sound of bands such as Colosseum . Another development of the post-psychedelic era was more freedom with marketing of the artist and their records, such as with album artwork. Tandt identifies a recording artist's preference for anonymity in the economic market through the design of record sleeves having limited information about the musician or the record; he cites Pink Floyd's early 1970s albums,
6363-579: The early 1960s experimented with unusual recording techniques, including backwards tapes, and novel instrumental accompaniment including flute and sitar. His nineteen-minute "The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party" "anticipated elements of psychedelia with its nervy improvisations and odd guitar tunings". Similarly, folk guitarist Sandy Bull 's early work "incorporated elements of folk, jazz, and Indian and Arabic -influenced dronish modes". His 1963 album Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo explores various styles and "could also be accurately described as one of
6464-586: The early 1980s. After working at community radio stations in Lismore , Kingsmill moved to Sydney to find a job, and did some training at educational radio station 2SER while studying at university. 2SER was run jointly by Macquarie University and the University of Technology Sydney . While at 2SER in 1988, Kingsmill made a four-part series on the Australian music industry called Money, Not Harmony . His career at
6565-450: The early 1990s, before giving way to the popularity of trance music. Trance music originated in the German techno and hardcore scenes of the early 1990s. It emphasized brief and repeated synthesizer lines with minimal rhythmic changes and occasional synthesizer atmospherics, with the aim of putting listeners into a trance-like state. A writer for Billboard magazine writes, "Trance music
6666-858: The early-'80s Paisley Underground movement and the Elephant 6 collective of the late 1990s, most subsequent neo-psychedelia came from isolated eccentrics and revivalists, not cohesive scenes." They go on to cite what they consider some of the more prominent artists: the Church , Nick Saloman 's Bevis Frond , Spacemen 3 , Robyn Hitchcock , Mercury Rev , the Flaming Lips , and Super Furry Animals . According to Treblezine ' s Jeff Telrich: " Primal Scream made [neo-psychedelia] dancefloor ready. The Flaming Lips and Spiritualized took it to orchestral realms. And Animal Collective —well, they kinda did their own thing." The Atlantic writer Llewellyn Hinkes Jones identified
6767-401: The end of the 1960s, many rock musicians had returned to the rootsy sources of rock and roll's origins, leading to what Barney Hoskyns called a "retrogressive, post-psychedelic music" development; he cited the country rock and blues/soul-inspired rock of the Rolling Stones , The Band , Delaney & Bonnie , Van Morrison , and Leon Russell . The first mention of LSD on a rock record was
6868-572: The evolving sound of such artists, a number of which had songs of considerable success within independent music circles. Originally, it was common for the three terms to be used interchangeably, but chillwave later distinguished itself as a combination of dream pop , new age , muzak , and synth-pop . A 2009 review by Pitchfork ' s Marc Hogan for Neon Indian 's album Psychic Chasms referenced "dream-beat", "chillwave", "glo-fi", "hypnagogic pop", and "hipster-gogic pop" as interchangeable terms for "psychedelic music that's generally one or all of
6969-589: The following years, groups such as Parliament-Funkadelic continued this sensibility, employing synthesizers and rock-oriented guitar work into open-ended funk jams. Producer Norman Whitfield would draw on this sound on popular Motown recordings such as the Temptations ' " Cloud Nine " (1968) and Marvin Gaye 's " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " (1969). Influenced by the civil rights movement , psychedelic soul had
7070-530: The following: synth-based, homemade-sounding, 80s-referencing, cassette-oriented, sun-baked, laid-back, warped, hazy, emotionally distant, slightly out of focus." Following the late 1960s work of Jimi Hendrix , psychedelia began to have a widespread impact on African American musicians. Black funk artists such as Sly and the Family Stone borrowed techniques from psychedelic rock music, including wah pedals , fuzz boxes , echo chambers , and vocal distorters, as well as elements of blues rock and jazz . In
7171-576: The genre emerged as a mainstream and commercial force. Psychedelic rock reached its peak in the last years of the decade. From 1967 to 1968, it was the prevailing sound of rock music, either in the whimsical British variant, or the harder American West Coast acid rock . In America, the 1967 Summer of Love was prefaced by the Human Be-In event and reached its peak at the Monterey International Pop Festival . These trends climaxed in
7272-677: The help of Dominic Simper (bass) and Jay Watson (drums), and they began playing at local gigs. The signing to Modular was soon followed by the release of Tame Impala's self-titled EP in September 2008. It reached the number 1 position on the Australian Independent Record Labels (AIR) Chart and number 10 on the ARIA Physical Singles Chart , with three songs—"Desire Be, Desire Go", " Half Full Glass of Wine ", and "Skeleton Tiger"—receiving national radio airplay on
7373-512: The late 1970s, as evinced by the first four albums by The Cure (featuring blurry photographs of the band members) and Factory Records ' dark-colored covers with serial numbers. By the mid-1970s, post-psychedelic music's emphasis on musicianship had "laid itself bare to an iconoclastic rebellion", as Tandt described: "Mid-1970s punk rock, with its genuine or feigned ethos of musical crudeness, reinscribed rock's autonomy through cultural means opposite to those developed 10 years earlier." Along with
7474-494: The late 1980s, rave culture began to filter through from English expatriates and disc jockeys who would visit Continental Europe . American raves began in the 1990s in New York City . Acid house originated in the mid-1980s in the house music style of Chicago DJs like DJ Pierre , Adonis , Farley Jackmaster Funk and Phuture , the last of which coined the term on his " Acid Tracks " (1987). It mixed elements of house with
7575-510: The list—with "Half Full Glass of Wine" at number 75. The song also appeared on the Hottest 100 compilation album. Tame Impala's debut single, " Sundown Syndrome ", was recorded at Toerag Studios in London, UK, with recording engineer Liam Watson, while the band was in the UK in March 2009. "Sundown Syndrome" was premiered by Richard Kingsmill on his "2009" show on Triple J on Sunday 10 May 2009. The song
7676-507: The majority of the album by himself at his home in Perth, Western Australia. Parts of the recording also occurred in Parker's home studio in France. While in France, Parker produced and played on the self-titled dream pop album by Melody's Echo Chamber , the project of French singer Melody Prochet . As a result, one of the tracks on Lonerism is titled "Endors Toi", which roughly translates from French to English as "fall asleep". The album cover
7777-490: The much emulated "Acperience 1" (1992) by duo Hardfloor . Having gained some popularity in the UK in the early 1990s it was eclipsed by the appearance of new genres of electronic music such as trip hop and jungle , before taking off again towards the end of the decade and beginning to dominate the clubs. It soon began to fragment into a number of subgenres, including progressive trance , acid trance , goa trance , psychedelic trance , hard trance and uplifting trance . In
7878-439: The musical guest for Saturday Night Live on 30 March, with host Sandra Oh . On the show, the band performed "Patience" and a new song, " Borderline ", which was released 12 April. On 25 October, Tame Impala revealed the title of their fourth studio album, The Slow Rush . Three days later on 28 October, they released the song " It Might Be Time ", and on 3 December, they released the single " Posthumous Forgiveness ". The album
7979-445: The new blues rock-heavy metal genre, The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin, respectively. Other major pioneers of the heavy metal genre had begun as blues-based psychedelic bands, including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple , Judas Priest and UFO . According to American academic Christophe Den Tandt, many musicians during the post-psychedelic era adopted a stricter sense of professionalism and elements of classical music , as evinced by
8080-638: The population of students at nearby Berkeley and the free thinkers that had gravitated to the city. There was already a culture of drug use among jazz and blues musicians, and in the early 1960s use of drugs including cannabis, peyote , mescaline and LSD began to grow among folk and rock musicians. One of the first musical uses of the term "psychedelic" in the folk scene was by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly 's " Hesitation Blues " in 1964. Folk/avant-garde guitarist John Fahey recorded several songs in
8181-560: The position since the inception of Double Jay (as triple j was then known) in 1975. From 2004 until 2019, he curated the annual " One Night Stand " live concerts in remote or regional towns. In 2009, Kingsmill was the initiator and curator of Before Too Long: Triple J's Tribute to Paul Kelly . The show ran over two nights at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne in November, with various artists performing tracks by Paul Kelly . The concert
8282-441: The psychedelic, folk rock, and British rhythm and blues styles that preceded it, the music of the post-psychedelic era later became associated with the classic rock category. Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of heavy metal and/or doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock . The name references cannabis consumption. The term desert rock
8383-451: The same 30 April 2015 Reddit AMA, Parker said: "Up until recently, from all of Tame Impala's record sales outside of Australia I had received.... zero dollars. Someone high up spent the money before it got to me. I may never get that money." In October 2017, a collector's edition of Currents was announced. Released on 17 November, it included three B-sides and two remixes. By the end of 2017, Tame Impala announced that they agreed to play
8484-631: The scene's bands, including the Soft Boys , the Teardrop Explodes , and Echo & the Bunnymen , became major figures of neo-psychedelia. The early 1980s Paisley Underground movement followed neo-psychedelia. Originating in Los Angeles, the movement saw a number of young bands who were influenced by the psychedelia of the late 1960s and all took different elements of it. The term "Paisley Underground"
8585-504: The second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs , Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine , raising awareness and helping to popularise their use. In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other psychedelics was advocated by new proponents of consciousness expansion such as Timothy Leary , Alan Watts , Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler , and, according to Laurence Veysey , they profoundly influenced
8686-446: The song " New Gold ", on which Tame Impala is featured. In March 2023, Tame Impala released "Wings of Time" for the movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves In April 2023, Tame Impala collaborated with Thundercat and released "No More Lies". He assisted in songwriting, and provided guitar, vocals, drums, and keyboards. Psychedelic music Psychedelic film Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia )
8787-424: The sound of the new album, Parker said, "I'm gonna try to make it a bit more minimal this time; only use what's needed ... instead of a supreme pizza, where you just throw everything on". Watson added, "[It’s] probably gonna be less rock again and more electronic again, even more than the last one". Parker later stated that the inspiration behind the new polished sound of Tame Impala's third album came from listening to
8888-445: The team of music directors for four stations on the ABC national network: triple j, triple j Unearthed, Double J and ABC Local Radio. He also oversaw music content at ABC Country, and in 2023 another station, triple j's Hottest, was added. In December 2023, he announced his departure from the ABC, having been made redundant as part of a restructuring of the triple j network. During his time at triple j, Kingsmill managed to double
8989-675: The thinking of the new generation of youth. The psychedelic lifestyle had already developed in California, particularly in San Francisco, by the mid-1960s, with the first major underground LSD factory established by Owsley Stanley . From 1964, the Merry Pranksters , a loose group that developed around novelist Ken Kesey , sponsored the Acid Tests , a series of events involving the taking of LSD (supplied by Stanley), accompanied by light shows, film projection and discordant, improvised music by
9090-418: The user to lose the self and gain an "awareness of undifferentiated unity." Dynamization , as [Timothy] Leary wrote, makes everything from floors to lamps seem to bend, as "familiar forms dissolve into moving, dancing structures"... Music that is truly "psychedelic" mimics these three effects. A number of features are quintessential to psychedelic music. Eastern instrumentation, with a particular fondness for
9191-445: The very first psychedelic records". Soon musicians began to refer (at first indirectly, and later explicitly) to the drug and attempted to recreate or reflect the experience of taking LSD in their music, just as it was reflected in psychedelic art , literature and film . This trend ran in parallel in both America and Britain and as part of the interconnected folk and rock scenes. As pop music began incorporating psychedelic sounds,
9292-902: Was also announced as album of the year by UK magazine NME . Additionally, Lonerism was voted number one overall by Rolling Stone , Triple J, NME , Filter , Urban Outfitters , FasterLouder and Obscure Sound's 2012 Album of the Year polls. Lonerism became the first Australian album to win NME's album of the year. "Elephant" and "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" appeared at numbers 7 and 9, respectively, in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2012 . The band began an international tour in 2012 through 2013, supported by The Growl . During this tour, they played major festivals such as Coachella and Sasquatch Festival , and appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon . For this tour, Watson switched from drums to keyboards, and Parker recruited Julien Barbagallo on drums. In September 2012, Tame Impala's first U.S. feature appeared on
9393-430: Was announced as a headliner for the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival . They also headlined the 2020 Primavera Sound festival, making them only the second Australian act to do so. Around the same time, Parker announced that he expected to release a new album during that summer. On 21 March 2019, Tame Impala released the single " Patience " and teased new music on Instagram for the forthcoming album. They were
9494-806: Was coined in July 2009 on the Hipster Runoff blog by Carles (the pseudonym used by the blog's author) on his accompanying "blog radio" show of the same name. Carles invented the genre name for a host of similarly sounding up-and-coming bands. In August 2009, "hypnagogic pop" was coined by journalist David Keenan to refer to a developing trend of 2000s lo-fi and post- noise music in which artists from varied backgrounds began to engage with elements of cultural nostalgia , childhood memory, and outdated recording technology. By 2010, albums by Ariel Pink and Neon Indian were regularly hailed by publications like Pitchfork and The Wire . The terms "hypnagogic pop", "chillwave", and "glo-fi" were soon adopted to describe
9595-614: Was included on the soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated film The Kids Are All Right . "Half Full Glass of Wine" was used in HBO 's popular television series Entourage as the closing song for an episode. Tame Impala appeared at the Australian/New Zealand Big Day Out festival in early 2010, performing alongside bands such as Muse , The Mars Volta , Kasabian and Rise Against . Tame Impala's debut album Innerspeaker
9696-502: Was later expanded to include others from outside the city. Madchester was a music and cultural scene that developed in the Manchester area of North West England in the late 1980s, in which artists merged alternative rock with acid house and dance culture as well as other sources, including psychedelic music and 1960s pop. The label was popularised by the British music press in the early 1990s, and its most famous groups include
9797-546: Was recorded for a 3× CD and a 2x DVD of the same name released in February 2010. In 2011, Kingsmill created Straight To You: triple j’s Tribute To Nick Cave . In January 2012, he took a break for six months to travel overseas, with Nick Findlay stepping in as acting music director. In 2015, Kingsmill selected the artists for the live concert "Beat The Drum: Celebrating 40 Years of triple j" The soundtrack once again took out an ARIA. In 2016, he started The Funhouse on Double J, which in 2023 celebrated its 350th show and
9898-530: Was released in July 2009 on vinyl, and digitally with a cover of " Remember Me " by DJ Blue Boy . The band then headlined the inaugural "Rottofest" in August 2009, an annual comedy, film and music festival held on Rottnest Island off the coast of Western Australia. Following Rottofest, they embarked on a national tour through September and October 2009 in support of the single. "Remember Me" appeared at number 78 on Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2009 . "Sundown Syndrome"
9999-445: Was released on 14 February 2020 and features 12 tracks that were recorded in Los Angeles and in Parker's hometown of Fremantle, Australia. Josh Terry of Vice named Tame Impala his "Artist of the Decade" for the 2010s, writing, "No artist captured how genres cross-pollinated throughout the 2010s better than Tame Impala". He added, "In the age of streaming and the big-box festival bubble, Parker's discography seems factory-made for both
10100-411: Was released on 21 May 2010. In the UK the official release date was 28 June, but iTunes accidentally made it available for purchase on 12 May. The album was released in the United States on 8 June to general and critical acclaim. Pitchfork named it Best New Music. In an interview with Triple J talking about the album's nomination for the J Award , Parker stated that they had secretly been recording
10201-446: Was released on 26 July 2012. The album was released on 5 October in Australia, 8 October in the United Kingdom and 9 October in the United States. StillinRock described it as the best album of the year. The album features the songs "Apocalypse Dreams" and "Elephant", which are some of the first songs that Parker has co-written with Watson. "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" was released as the second single. In November 2012, Lonerism won
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