The iPhone Marimba ringtone is iconic. It’s just a few notes played on an African xylophone, but somehow, it captures everything that is light and breezy about Apple’s platform.
The problem is, everyone uses it as a ringtone. Like Nokia’s overexposed ringtone before it, Marimba’s musical resonance has been oversaturated for most of us.
That’s why I really like the Marimba Take Two mix by Will Neaverson, embedded above. It takes the original Marimba and builds layers upon it, until it almost sounds like a Coldplay track.
As one of Reddit’s commenters note, it sounds so good, you can imagine Apple even using it in a commercial. That’s an ad I’d like to see. (Update: One of our readers made one!)
Source: Soundcloud
Via: Reddit
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
14 responses to “Sick Of Marimba? This Remix Is So Good It Could Be Used In An Apple Commercial”
Somehow that made my annoying ringtone seem legit again.
Where can i get it?
Ok, found a way to download it, but it’s too long so it couldn’t sync with the iPhone :(
So how do we download and use?
awesome, how do we download it?
Hey everyone, I’m the one who wrote this “putins” or Will Neaverson! Here’s a download link for the MP3: http://tinyurl.com/cbngrun – the author is free to use this in the article, too.
Here’s my version of a commercial set to this remix – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkqnRiuuCDE&feature=youtu.be
Big props for the gesture! Thanks, Will.
Will this is amazing work! I would really like to make up a mash up of commercials myself. I feel like the other video was good but i would like to spend a day or two on an edit to really get it perfect and up to an Apple quality standard. I would really like it though if the song was 2 minutes or more. So do you think you could make another version that art longer but is still amazing as it is now? I’m not one to edit music so I could really use your help! I want this movie to be great.
so how do we download this for a ringtone? Please
To download the song go to the link at the top and click on soundcloud and create an account then there will be instructions to download as a m4.r file that will take it directly to itunes and put it into your tones library.
Everyone?! Marimba is too annoying. I use ringtones I’ve found online or have created my own, it’s easy! You can use Apps or GarageBand. There is this thing called the Internet and EVERYTHING can be looked up.
http://soundcloud.com/allan-amstadt/marimba-take-two-ringtone
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-xl00U_m5utdlhQaDVBaVVDamM