iPhone apps give rise to iPhone-based cover bands
by Mike Butcher
on March 2, 2009

There are plenty of people trying to make the musical instruments applications on the iPhone sound like real music, but one of the more credible is that by unsigned all-female band called The Mentalists here in London.

They’ve done an unusual cover of MGMT’s “Kids” entirely using their iPhones and iPod Touches, using apps from the application store. The result is actually quite impressive.

The apps used were Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth and DigiDrummer Lite (yes, not event the paid-for version). However, as usual, drummers who can keep time remain in short supply. The same was true of The Beatles, and still is today…

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  • http://www.chickerino.com Marcus

    Bravo! Easy on them about the drums – have you ever tried keeping time with your pinkies on digidrummer lite – it ain’t easy!

    iPhone bands FTW!!!

  • http://andrew.chalkley.org Andrew Chalkley

    My favourite iPhone/iPod band so far.

  • Tdburn

    Why did they go through all that effort to ruin a good song?!

  • http://www.speedbreaks.co.uk Simon Prockter

    you really like this Mike? What’s in your music collection?

  • http://wibwobble.com/ Michael Boyd

    From about 2:20 I thought it was pretty good. Still, the song itself is amazing and this kind of ruined it.

  • http://www.passivepipeline.com Justyn

    Impressive, but not entertaining. Had they picked a song I didn’t love, might have been more so. I’m sure it will result in tons of app downloads, but I’m scared of the resulting media.

  • http://twitter.com/mikebutcher Mike Butcher

    Simon – I guess I quite like the White Stripes – another band with a terrible drummer.

  • http://p0ps.tumblr.com p0ps

    totally cute! brave effort. pretty rough but, for what it is, very cool.

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  • http://gigulate.com Ben

    I think this is a bit wrong.

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