'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!' by Burnkit2600

Burnkit2600 pay homage to one of their most influential bands with a psychedigital cover of The Beatles' song, 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!' - one of John Lennon's most playfully visual songs, and one of the group's (and of course George Martin's) most experimental productions.
This song was created expressly for the 8-BIT OPERATORS 2009 tribute compilation 'Wanna Hld Yr Handheld'. (8bitoperators.com/beatles/)
The video was made with archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive in association with Prelinger Archives. (www.archive.org)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The Beatles
• Burnkit2600
• Mr. Kite
• 8-BIT OPERATORS
• Wanna Hld Yr Handheld

[Mikesafilmer]

Amazing cover of the song, care to mention any of the instruments/toys/computers used to create these beats and melodies? Keep on digitizing!

[burnkit2600]

Hmm, lets see... how to answer without breaking any trade secrets :)

There's modified children's toys: including keyboards, drums, learning devices and megaphones.

Some video game hardware: a gameboy (through a Paia vocoder), C64 &/or Nintendo.

Some older 'pro' type gear: MPC2000, Novation Supernova vocoder, Moog Rogue & a Hammond.

and some 'found sounds' including bits of past shows of ours, a Galaga arcade game, and my cat.

Man. What a session we had.

[burnkit2600]

Happy Birthday John!

May your songs live on and continue to influence positivity in the world forever.

[TheAuralab]

amazing.. great great!!!!!

[TheDSofTime]

Lolwtfuuu

[1980KIRAXANADU]

aa los changitos a q bonitos

buen video....Amazing and cover too

[KpBoss]

I bought the album. GREAT SHIT MAN !

[gpud101]

my parents played the sergeant peppers album a lot when i was small. This really justifies my feeling of dread whenever this song used to come on at the end of the side. creepy.

[tmrsn]

Was this all done live or is it a multitrack recording? either way it is super awesome...

[OfficialGetGln]

Wow. Disturbing. But very artistic. Well done.

[zurtur]

Great Cover,

Very Fun and Well done video !!!

Excelsior !!!

[directrix1]

This is amazing.  Discovered this music on my birthday. Great stuff.

[rocksinger45]

I hope I don't have bad dreams tonight. (:-{())-