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Pond was born under a mulberry tree in Daglish, Western Australia, by Joseph Ryan, Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson.

In the next few years Pond recorded three albums and played a bunch of shows in around Australia and Japan, supporting MGMT and playing at the St. Jerome's Laneway Festival.

Their latest album, Beard Wives Denim was recorded in 2010, at a friend's farmhouse in Eagle Bay, Western Australia, and mixed by Kevin Parker and Rob Grant. Beard Wives Denim is an audio diary of ten friends' strange, terrible and blissful time in the country trying in vain to be a wholesome family band.

Beard Wives Denim will be released through Modular Recordings in early 2012, in the meantime, here's a taste of what's to come with this free download of 'Fantastic Explosion of Time'. Pre-order now, Mod Shop, JB Hi Fi.

Tame Impala had their live television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. Here's the clip in case you missed it.

To mark this occasion and US release of the deluxe edition of Innerspeaker, over here we're giving away a special Time and Space Machine remix of 'Solitude is Bliss'.

Set your DVRs: Tame Impala make their live television debut Friday August 12th, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. They'll be playing album cut 'Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind', which you can get a primer on by watching the band perform it in 3D for Pitchfork here.

Following releases in Australia and Europe, the deluxe version of Innerspeaker, with a bonus disc made up of tracks from the 2008 self-titled EP, the 'Sundown Syndrome' single and remixes, will be in US stores next Tuesday.

To mark their live television debut and release of the deluxe edition, we're giving away a special Time and Space Machine remix of 'Solitude is Bliss'.

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Tame Impala are continuing their path across Europe, winning more hearts, minds and ears across the continent. Check the dates to catch them playing near you.

A special heads up if you're going to Roskilde on Thursday - do make sure you see them. The glowing reports still filing in from their two massive shows at Glastonbury suggest you're in for a treat. And after the jump, watch their pitch-perfect cover of Massive Attack's Angel (performed above at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Live 2011).

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Since the release of Tame Impala's debut album 'Innerspeaker' in mid-2010 the record has been met with a very warm welcome/ bienvenido/ bievenue/ willkommen/ youkoso the world over and led the band on several sold out trans-global jaunts.

A couple of months back, 'Innerspeaker' clocked into the 'gold' status. We think the bling really suits the boys. They wear it well.

In celebration of this masterful achievement, 'Innerspeaker' has now been given the expanded deluxe treatment, a 2 disc set with expanded packaging and a bonus disc of remixes and gems from the back catalogue.

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It's time we took a minute to reflect on the gigantuan times Tame Impala are having. Not content to score a gold record in Australia, reconfigur3d Daft Punk and have Erol Alkan rework them, (ps this is also available on 12" over here) they've been criss-crossing the U.S of A for the last few weeks with a string of sell-out dates and rave reviews.

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Following on from their successful 2010 return with the Tron:Legacy soundtrack, Daft Punk have now commissioned their favourite earth friends to recreate and remix the original compositions for the appropriately titled Reconfigured version.

Here we have Modular's own Tame Impala replacing the head-numbing bass of End Of Line with an infectiously haunting chorus of synthetic organs and their signature whirlwinds of psychedelic bliss, dragging the original version out of the neon straight edges of the cyberworld and into a joyfully unpredictable space.

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The don of the modern discotheque, the man who practically invented the years 1999 - 2003 as London night TRASH (R.I.P.) set the standard for global indie dance hedonistic good times, Erol Alkan has given Innerspeaker album cut "Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?" his golden touch.

Tame Impala - Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind (Erol Alkan Rework) Radio Edit by Erol Alkan

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Tame Impala capped off an exceptional year of international acclaim by taking out the 2010 J Award for album of the year for their debut album, InnerSpeaker. The award acts as a signpost for a destination the quartet has been headed towards since the release of their debut EP in 2008, and no doubt a brief rest stop before the band continues onwards and upwards, to infinity and beyond.

Conceived mostly inside the head of principal songwriter and bedroom boffin Kevin Parker, InnerSpeaker was recorded when the band decamped to a house overlooking the Indian Ocean in Injidup. Since it's inception in this isolated outpost in Western Australia the record has found it's way onto the stereos and into the hearts of fans, critics and their musician peers all over the world, with the universal reception overwhelmingly warm.

Although released in May, InnerSpeaker is continuing to connect with fans across Australia and otherwise, and will see the band on the road until mid-2011, by which time, if the talk is to be believed, album 2 will already be well underway.

Tame Impala and Modular would like to thank the triple j staff and their listeners for their ongoing support of fresh Australian talent.