This is a guest article by Flynn Hendry, an Australian producer, musician, and Tame Impala tone enthusiast. He has covered several Tame Impala songs, and also created “If Tame Impala Composed Stranger Things“, which has over 1 million views on Youtube. In this article, he talks through his Kevin Parker style production process.

In just under a decade, Kevin Parker, the mastermind behind Tame Impala’s music, has formed a distinct sound that has captured the ears of music lovers all around the world. I, being one of them, found a keen interest in trying to figure out how Parker makes everything sound the way it does. After doing some research, I realised that trying to achieve this sound would be impossible without draining my wallet, until I noticed that many of the techniques used in Tame Impala’s songs can be done by simply manipulating effects in music software programs such as Ableton Live. Using these techniques, I managed to pull off some covers that could be associated with Parker himself. In this article, I will be using an original piece I made in Ableton to showcase the sounds of Tame Impala.