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Remix David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on your iPhone
I'm a big David Bowie fan, regardless of the era. From Ziggy Stardust to Tin Machine, I'm a just a fan. Bowie's first big UK hit, "Space Oddity," was originally released on July 11, 1969. It was released in conjunction with the Apollo 11 mission and became a smash in the UK, though it wouldn't break through to US audiences until 1973.
Coinciding with yesterday's Apollo 11 anniversary iKlax Media and EMI have come together to release Remix David Bowie - Space Oddity [iTunes link] for the iPhone and iPod touch. Essentially Remix David Bowie is the Space Oddity 40th Anniversary EP [iTunes link], but it lets you create your own "mix" of the track.
iKlax's Remix app has a pretty neat interface that separates the original track into various stem-specific elements. You can control the volume for each of these stems (for things like the lead vocal, the vocal dub, the electric string guitar, orchestra, mellotron and others).
In addition to letting you control what elements you want to adjust, you can also listen to some of the pre-arranged samples, like "acoustic," "a cappella" and "instrument only." This actually coincides with the versions and stems on the Digital EP release that is available as a music download.
You can make track adjustments on the fly, but you can't alternate levels in various parts of the track. That would be expecting a bit much from a $1.99 app, but I thought I should point it out.
After you create your custom mix, you can name it and save it. Unfortunately, you can't share that mix with others, which I imagine is a licensing issue, but it's too bad. Sharing custom remixes, even if it was through a web player, would be really cool.
At $1.99US, Remix David Bowie is a pretty fun app for the would-be DJ/Bowie-fan.
Gallery: David Bowie's "Space Oddity"
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joseph said 7:35PM on 7-21-2009
ground control to major tom...
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brownman said 7:44PM on 7-21-2009
I'm stepping through the door,
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way,
And the stars look very different today......
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Dan Woods said 7:41AM on 7-22-2009
For here,
Am I sitting in a tin can,
Far above the world.
Planet earth is blue,
And theres nothing I can do.
EH1 said 8:07PM on 7-21-2009
And I think I'll shoot me some smack into my arm here and see how the world seems then...
I paraphrase.
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LA Craig said 8:11PM on 7-21-2009
Major Tom is a junkie (Ashes to Ashes).
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lrtitze said 8:56PM on 7-21-2009
Not available in Canada.
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lrtitze said 11:28PM on 7-21-2009
Correction: The link from iKlax is not available in Canada. I was very happy to discover that the iTunes link in the article works just fine. It is downloading now!
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