Production
Dracula
Tame Impala
Song : Dracula
Duration:38 min Subtitles: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese
Description
Join Kevin Parker of Tame Impala as he revisits the Ableton session for ‘Dracula’. Explore how he stitched together various demos to create one of his biggest hit songs to date, with a sharp focus on songwriting, synthesis, and analog saturation.
Kevin explores the recent evolutions in his workflow while sharing unreleased demos from his sessions with co-writer Sarah Aarons. He explores early lyrical and musical themes before diving into the analog heartbeat of the record: a synchronized system of drum machines and synths inspired by Nigerian boogie, Turkish disco, and Jamaican dub sound systems.
Learn more about his experiments with germanium circuits, his refusal to reach for a compressor, and his experiences blending software and analog tools to sculpt the sound of his album ‘Deadbeat’.
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09 minSong origins, songwriting, co-writing, demos
Ableton Live -
09 minDrums, drum machines, recording, signal processing
Roland TR-808, Vermona DRM1, Sequential Prophet-5 -
05 minDistortion, EQ, saturation, drum bus
Telefunken Echomixer, Chandler Limited Germanium Preamp
FabFilter Pro-Q 3, Soundtoys Decapitator, Standard Clip, Ableton Multiband Dynamics -
05 minVocals, choir stacks, pitch shifting, backing vocals
Shure SM7B, Fender Princeton,
Soundtoys Little AlterBoy, Soundtoys Decapitator -
07 minSynthesizers, bass, arrangement, mix bus
Sequential Prophet-5, Roland D-50
Ableton Glue Compressor, SIR Audio Tools Standard Clip, Ableton Multiband Dynamics -
02 min
About Kevin Parker
Kevin Parker (alias Tame Impala) has emerged as one of the most influential voices of the last decade. A singular artist renowned for carving out a distinct sound all his own, Parker crafts transcendent genre-bending sonic landscapes playing every instrument and acting as writer, producer, mixer & engineer on his projects. He has been nominated for four GRAMMY awards with one win for his collaboration with Justice on 2024's "Neverender." In his home country of Australia, he's racked up an impressive...
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09 min
Song origins, songwriting, co-writing, demos
Ableton Live -
09 min
Drums, drum machines, recording, signal processing
Roland TR-808, Vermona DRM1, Sequential Prophet-5 -
05 min
Distortion, EQ, saturation, drum bus
Telefunken Echomixer, Chandler Limited Germanium Preamp
FabFilter Pro-Q 3, Soundtoys Decapitator, Standard Clip, Ableton Multiband Dynamics -
05 min
Vocals, choir stacks, pitch shifting, backing vocals
Shure SM7B, Fender Princeton,
Soundtoys Little AlterBoy, Soundtoys Decapitator -
07 min
Synthesizers, bass, arrangement, mix bus
Sequential Prophet-5, Roland D-50
Ableton Glue Compressor, SIR Audio Tools Standard Clip, Ableton Multiband Dynamics -
02 min