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Golden Years: New David Bowie iPhone app coming soon
04.05.2011
03:21 pm
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In 2009 to “commemorate”  the 40th anniversary of the release of his Space Oddity album—also known as squeezing another buck out of the back catalog—David Bowie and Virgin/EMI released an iPhone app with the multi-track stems from the title tune. Remixing the song on your iPhone set you back $2 bucks.

On June 6th, there’s going to be another Bowie multi-track iPhone app “celebration,” this one for “Golden Years”. Geekier Bowie fans will be able to manipulate Bowie’s vocals; the backing vocals; the 12-string guitar; guitar; bass; drums; harmonium and percussion (including blocks, congas, claps).

If you’ve heard the 5.1 surround remix of Station to Station, recently released in an obscenely expensive box set, it’s easy to imagine that any Bowie fan could make a better surround mix of “Golden Years” than heard there. (I couldn’t wait to hear it and it’s just terrible, a huge disappointment as I love that album. And it’s not just me, every review I’ve read of it is bad).

Below, Bowie lip-syncs “Golden Years” on Soul Train.
 

 
Thank you Syd Garon of Los Angeles, CA!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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04.05.2011
03:21 pm
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