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…
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!!!
My favourite iPhone/iPod band so far.
Why did they go through all that effort to ruin a good song?!
you really like this Mike? What’s in your music collection?
From about 2:20 I thought it was pretty good. Still, the song itself is amazing and this kind of ruined it.
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.
Simon – I guess I quite like the White Stripes – another band with a terrible drummer.
totally cute! brave effort. pretty rough but, for what it is, very cool.
I think this is a bit wrong.