Tame Impala cover's OutKast's 'Prototype.'
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If you had to guess one of Tame Impala 's "favorite songs ever" what would it be? I bet you wouldn't have guessed that it's Outkast 's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below cut "Prototype." Visiting Triple J studios, the Australian outfit chose to cover that song for the radio station's ongoing "Like A Version" segment. The band turns the mellow funk-laden jam into a reverbed psychedelic number, and it's actually really good. Check it out below.
Seriously: Tame Impala took to Australia's triple j radio this morning to cover that touching tale of alien love from OutKast's Speakerboxxx / The Love Below , "Prototype." According to Kevin Parker , it's one of the band's mutual favorite songs, and it's receptive to their psychedelic touches - they basically succeed in making it sound like a Tame Impala song, with distorted guitars, funky backbeats, and competing vocals from Parker and Nick Allbrook . Check it out. The original: [...]
Tame Impala se sumó al catálogo de Like A Version , propiedad de la estación de radio australiana Triple J , con un cover a "Prototype" original de OutKast . Los también australianos liderados por Kevin Parker aprovecharon divertidamente su última visita a este estudio radiofónico y arriba pueden ver cómo derrochan su lado romántico en esta psicodélica interpretación, con la cual todos exploran su André 3000 interno.
Triple J vuelve a ser noticia gracias a su gustada serie de covers de nombre Like A Version, en donde el día de ayer los chicos de Tame Impala estuvieron en esta estación de radio australiana para hacer de las suyas con este cover de "Prototype" de Outkast. Si alguno de ustedes es fan de hueso colorado de Outkast , de seguro ya está de más mencionar que este corte forma parte de su "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below", y si son fans de Tame Impala ... Pues, creo que solo hace falta decir que le piquen play [...]

Here Australian psych champions Tame Impala return to their homeland's biggest radio station to do Triple J's consistently successful Like A Version series. In an impressive display of lateral thinking, the band chose a song that suits their strengths while also feeling a bit unexpected: André 30002s The Love Below paean to perfection "Prototype." It's clear Tame aren't messing about their deep love for the song (despite not recognizing the spoken-word intro to its official video ), faithfully recreating most every distinctive aspect of its squishy sighing love-funk, from the future-forward splat-bass and its trebly guitar counterpart [...]
Have you ever wondered what Outkast would sound like if it was transplanted to 40 or 50 years ago? Right, neither have I, but apparently Tame Impala figured it was worth a shot. The group stopped by an Australian radio station to dish of this live cover of Andre 3000 's slow burning "Prototype" from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. So the question is, was it a successful cover or should Tame Impala stick to their guns? Let us know what you think below.

Tame Impala covering OutKast? OK. The band stopped by Australia's triple j radio station for the "Like A Version" segment that has an act cover a song they love. Tame Impala picked "Prototype" by OutKast, one of their all-time favorites, and it is pretty faithful to the original. It's always a little surprising when a [...]

I've been on a bit of an Outkast binge of late, mainly revisiting their earlier albums and then not listening to much else at all. I go through phases like that and whenever I'm done, I come out of it like an invigorated funky gangsta pimp. That's not to say that their more recent albums aren't worth noting, though, especially when it comes to tracks like "Prototype" , from 20032s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below . So it pleases me greatly that our favourite Australian psych-r ock [...]
Watch 'Prototype' below. Tame Impala recently dropped by KCRW. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Tame Impala - Elephant (Canyons Mix)
Normally I'd consider Andre 3000 untouchable as far as covers like this go, but I'm posting this for a couple of reasons: first, Tame Impala kind of holds their own with their spacey, straightforward/reverential take on the song, and also I'd forgotten that there was a video for the original, it's amazing, and it somehow has less than 2000 views despite being on the official Outkast channel:

Two years after the release of their self-titled debut album, which included the amazing single "Synchronize" (feat. Jarvis Cocker), French electro duo Discodeine , Pilooski and Pentile, have returned to our speakers once more with their brand new jam "Aydin". This time round, the duo have worked with Tame Impala's Kevin Parker on vocals to deliver a track full of infectiously dance grooves, violins and dirty-minded beats. "Aydin", the first taste of Discodeine's upcoming second album, comes hand-in-hand with its own video, which you can watch below. The EP is out now [...]
El dúo francés de Discodeine (Pilooski & Pentile) llevaban un tiempo en silencio, sin noticias de ellos, y ahora el sello francés de Pschent Music recientemente publicaba su nuevo tema, excelente composición que ha contado con la colaboración de Kevin Parker ( Tame Impala ) en las voces, un adictivo tema y un maravilloso vídeo dirigido por Pleix, excelentes noticias el regreso de este gran dúo, siempre con una muy alta calidad en sus producciones, una música hermosa y genial, y para acompañar este lanzamiento, [...]

Que Discodeine hace cosas que nos gustan, ya lo sabíamos de otras ocasiones. Pero más nos gustan a la hora de saber rodearse de otros artistas , como es el caso de este Aydin que cuenta con la inconfundible voz de Kevin Parker ( Tame Impala ). El lanzamiento vendrá acompañado de tres remixes ( Para One , Jeremy Greenspan y Timothy J. Fairplay, este último sin post en el blog) que sinceramente no me han dicho absolutamente nada, así que si te pica la curiosidad será cosa tuya buscarlos porque aquí solo [...]

Que Discodeine hace cosas que nos gustan, ya lo sabíamos de otras ocasiones. Pero más nos gustan a la hora de saber rodearse de otros artistas , como es el caso de este Aydin que cuenta con la inconfundible voz de Kevin Parker ( Tame Impala ). El lanzamiento vendrá acompañado de tres remixes ( Para One , Jeremy Greenspan y Timothy J. Fairplay, este último sin post en el blog) que sinceramente no me han dicho absolutamente nada, así que si te pica la curiosidad será cosa tuya buscarlos porque aquí solo [...]

Huge huuuuge tune from Discodeine! The clip of the song, which features vocals from Tame Impala's Kevin Parket, was directed by Pleix. "This video tells the story of a girl coming out of a lush forest and arrives in the garden of a house. A macabre and multicolored scene appears to us in the villa. The intruder then plunges into the facts. Hallucinatory reality or real hallucinations? Two worlds merge in this strange clip... The entire film is made of synthetic images, chrome materials with contrasting colored 2D solids cause a total graphic lag." Discodeine's new [...]

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Watch 'Elephant' below. Catch Tame Impala on their North American tour. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Tame Impala - Elephant (Canyons Mix)
Everything about this cover is amazing. The harmonies, guitar work, dynamics... god they have hit the mark alright. Hats off, Hungry Kids, great stuff.