WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from January 18, 2024

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from January 18, 2024

Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.

Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.

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January 18, 2024: Bowie-esque

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
David Bowie	David Bowie on David Bowie					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Moog Cookbook	Ziggy Stardust "Ziggy Stardust" by "The Moog Cookbook"	Ye Olde Space Bande Plays The Classic Rock Hits	Restless Records	1996
The Wedding Present	Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family	Loveslave/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family 7"	RCA	1992	"Diamond Dogs is arguably [Bowie's] most significant album, a pivotal work and the most 'solo' album he has ever made...his best-sounding, most complex record to date, and it still pulls you into its romantic and doomed world decades on..." hant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" predated Talking Heads' exploration of African rhythms and experimentation in the late 1970s...something that the band "Foxtrot" explore deeply in their cover...but here...the Wedding Present's version becomes a grinding, intimidating dance indeed!	0:03:12 (Pop-up)
Tearist	Repetition "Repetition" by "Tearist"	We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie	Centaurus Entertainment	2010	"I decided to write something on the deeply disturbing subject of wife abuse in the manner of a short-form drama. I had known more instances of this behaviour than I would have preferred to have been made aware of and could not for the life of me imagine how someone could hit a woman, not only once but many, many times." Released in 1979, it is penultimate song on David Bowie’s Lodger album. Hearing this song handled by a female front lead creates even more urgency and Tearist create a soundscape even more bleak and urgent on their amazing take on this song. Tearist is an American electronic and industrial band formed in 2009 by Yasmine Kittles (vocals, percussion, synthesizer) and William Strangeland (synthesizer, programming) in Los Angeles, California. The members of Tearist have stated that they were intending to create a movement more than a band, accepting all influences and dissecting them to allow for a new and instinctual musical product to emerge...	0:05:38 (Pop-up)
The Associates	Boys Keep Swinging	Boys Keep Swinging 7"	RCA	1979	"Boys Keep Swinging" is a song by English musician David Bowie, released on 27 April 1979 by RCA Records in the United Kingdom as the lead single from his 1979 album Lodger. It was written by Bowie and Brian Eno and recorded in Montreux and New York City in September 1978 and March 1979. The recording utilized techniques from Eno's Oblique Strategies cards, which resulted in the musicians swapping instruments. In October 1979, Scottish new wave band the Associates released a cover of the song as a way to infringe copyright and get themselves noticed. Their version, which reached number 15 in Record Mirror's Scottish chart and gained them airplay on John Peel's Radio One show, earned the band their first record contract.Band member Billy Mackenzie later said that the band recorded the song "to prove the point. It was a strange way of proving it, but it worked. People said, 'That is awful. How dare they!'"	0:08:45 (Pop-up)
Duran Duran	Fame "Fame" by "Duran Duran"	Careless Memories 12"	EMI	1981	One of the first of many songs covered by Duran Duran, and one of the most effective! A collaboration between David Bowie and John Lennon, ‘Fame’ became Bowie’s first US number one single. It was a late addition to the Young Americans album, along with a cover version of the Beatles’ ‘Across The Universe’. There was a degree of malice. I’d had very upsetting management problems and a lot of that was built into the song. I’ve left all that behind me, now … I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. Other than that, there’s very little about it that anybody would covet. It’s really not much of a deal. I still have my favourite times when I’m not recognised, or at least left to my own devices.	0:12:30 (Pop-up)
Easy Star All Stars feat Mortimer	Soul Love	Ziggy Stardub	Easy Star Records	2023	Easy Star All-Stars return with their first new tribute album in over a decade! ZIGGY STARDUB, a reggae re-imagining of David Bowie's entire The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album. Blending musical versatility, instrumental prowess, beautiful vocal harmonies and a premier rhythm section, Easy Star All-Stars have established themselves as one of the top international reggae acts on the scene today. “Soul Love” sounds as though it had been written for a reggae framework. It has the strut and skank of classic reggae, yet Bowie had something much different in mind when he and the Spiders from Mars recorded it 51 years ago...but it works...oh so, so well!	0:15:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Wee Trio	Queen Bitch "Queen Bitch" by "The Wee Trio"	Ashes To Ashes: A David Bowie Introspective	Bionic Records	2012	I love this.	0:19:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Meridian String Quartet	Young Americans	String Bowie Quartet: New Classical String Arrangements	Meridian String Quartet	2014		0:25:45 (Pop-up)
Laid Back Country Picker	David Bowie	Laid Back Country Picker	Self-Released	2017	Real Name: David Prince. Did not know about him until this week. His latest release is a cover of Bauhaus' Bela Lugosi's Dead. He has a handful of shows coming up in 2024... Starting this Saturday... //////// JAN 20 SAT The Southgate House Revival @ 8:00pm -- Shelby Lore (MUSIC) -- Newport, KY, United States -- Tickets RSVP //////// JAN 27 SAT Court Street Grill @ 9:00pm -- Luna and the Mountain Jets Pomeroy, OH, United States --Tickets RSVP //////// FEB 4 SUN Outlaw Country Cruise 2024 @ 7:00pm -- Steve EarleLucinda WilliamsBlackberry Smoke49 WinchesterRay Wylie HubbardDrivin' N' Cryin'Dale WatsonElizabeth CookDash Rip RockRoger Alan WadeMojo NixonWarner E. HodgesJason Ringenberg -- Andover, FL, United States Tickets RSVP//////// FEB 17 SAT Duke’s Indy @ 8:00pm -- Luna and the Mountain Jets -- Indianapolis, IN, United States Tickets RSVP //////// AUG 17 SAT Folsom Field @ 7:00pm -- Tyler ChildersShakey Graves -- Boulder, CO, United States	0:29:55 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Seven (Beck Mix #2) "Seven (Beck Mix #2)" by "David Bowie"	Hours... [Expanded Version]	ISO Records	1999 / 2004	Beck, in some of his reflections about one of his musical heroes, David Bowie: "I first saw David Bowie play live in ’83 on the Let’s Dance tour. At that point, he was in his mid-thirties, but he already had the weight of a legend. It was at the US Festival in San Bernardino, and there were maybe 100,000 people. He really stood out to me even as a child because there was this gravitas and weight that really set him apart; it was like seeing Sinatra or Elvis. //// The way he anchored a stage was striking. He could do so much with so little, he could just be there to hold the audience. I don’t hear this mentioned a lot — maybe there’s a hint of it in that clip of him with Bing Crosby — but I always thought of Bowie as kind of a bridge from the era of the crooner to the rock frontman. He somehow straddled those two worlds in a way that nobody else did, bringing that effortless worldliness and marry it with the rock frontman. When I heard Elvis’ song “Black Star,” that reference made Bowie’s “Blackstar” resonate deeper than I could imagine. I can imagine somebody growing up in the Fifties, and that song capturing the sort of Elvis-by-way-of-Hollywood version of an Old West mythic figure, that sort of lone rider on the plains, with mortality hanging above them. Those are some of the most difficult things to express in art."	0:34:26 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Good Karma Mix By Tim Simenon)	1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle) [Expanded Version]	ISO Records	1995 / 2015	The remix by Tim Simenon. "Simenon, an Englishman of Malaysian origin, born in London in 1968 and currently living in Prague. Simenon was a Dj at the Wag club when he decided to attend a studio-engineering course. His first record "Beat Dis" was the product of the studio trickery he learnt during the course and samples from a bag full of records. The timing was perfect with the general public getting customed to the flavour of "homemade" dance records like M/A/R/R/S - "Pump Up The Volume". The Thunderbirds sampling "Beat Dis" reached number 2 in the UK charts in February 1988. Tim Simenon has since produced tracks for artists like Neneh Cherry (Buffalo Stance), Adamski (Killer), Seal (Crazy), and also worked closely with Depeche Mode, Björk and Naomi Campbell amongst others. //// Aliases: DJ Loops, Flow Creator //// In Groups: Bomb The Bass, Ghost Capsules, Interference, Nation 12, Slant"	0:39:36 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	I'm Afraid Of Americans (NIN V.1 Mix)	Earthling (Expanded Edition)	Sony / ISO	1997 / 2015	Lyrics By – David Bowie // Music By – Brian Eno, David Bowie // Performer [Additional] – Nine Inch Nails // Producer – Nine Inch Nails // Mixed By – Dave "Rave" Ogilvie --- Trent Reznor had actually already remixed The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Alt. Mix) a couple of years earlier in 1995. This song, though, offered him not only the opportunity for a few more remixes; but also a key role in the video as the American (stalker) of whom Bowie seems to be most afraid. Wouldn't have seen that coming prior to 1997. I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Music Video) [4K Upgrade]	0:44:36 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	A Better Future (Remix By AIR)	Heathen (Deluxe Edition)	Columbia / ISO Records	2002	Remix – AIR / Written-By – David Bowie "Air is a French electronic / rock duo composed by Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, active since 1995. // The band has given conflicting statements about whether "AIR" is an acronym (for Amour, Imagination, Rêve, meaning Love, Imagination, Dream)."	0:50:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Bowie	Pallas Athena (Don't Stop Praying Remix #2)	Pallas Athena (12" Promo / Digital Single)	Arista / EMI / Parlophone / Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LCC	1993	Remix (#2) by Meat Beat Manifesto, who are the "Industrial, Electronic, Experimental music act started by John Stephen Corrigan aka Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens in 1987, Swindon, United Kingdom. Jack Dangers has led the group and been the only permanent member, collaborating with other members along the way. Meat Beat Manifesto worked with Consolidated and The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy to pioneer the early '90s "industrial hip-hop" sound. Meat Beat Manifesto's earlier work is widely credited with influencing trip hop, drum & bass and big beat." -- "The "Don't Stop Praying Mix #2" later appeared on the limited edition 2CD+DVD issuances of "Black Tie White Noise"	0:55:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Bowie	Pallas Athena (Don't Stop Praying Remix #1)	Pallas Athena (12" Promo / Digital Single)	Arista / EMI / Parlophone / Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LCC	1993	"Don't Stop Praying Mix #1" later appeared on the "Jump They Say" single, as "Don't Stop Praying Remix".	1:02:31 (Pop-up)
Midge Ure	The Man Who Sold The World	The Man Who Sold The World 7"	A & M	1982	Nirvana often gets the credit for best cover of this song...but no...oh no no no...This cover by Midge Ure captures not only the best of Ultravox...but also retains the sadness and longing of the original song. It's absolutely gorgeous, from top to bottom. The keyboard work and choice of sounds on this is simply ...I am also very sure that David must have approved highly of this version. It is fantastic!	1:08:09 (Pop-up)
Book of Love	Sound + Vision "Sound + Vision" by "Book of Love"	Lovebubble	Sire	1993	I could not imagine a better fit for this song than Book of Love. With their signature tubular bell chimes and vocals...it's an obvious choice for them to rock. This cover appeared on their fourth and final album "Lovebubble" Lovebubble did not chart, and was released to little fanfare amidst the changing musical tides of the early nineties with grunge dominating the alternative landscape. The album's cover sleeve, a tic tac toe square of nine different images, was designed by Talking Heads' frontman David Byrne. Sound and Vision was the lead single from David Bowie’s 1977 album Low, ‘Sound And Vision’ was a top ten hit in the UK, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. A very sad song for me is ‘Sound And Vision’. I was trying very hard to drag myself out of an awful period of my life. I was locked in a room in Berlin telling myself I was going to straighten up and not do drugs anymore. I was never going to drink again. Only some of it proved to be the case. It was the first time I knew I was killing myself and time to do something about my physical condition. I had a few scares and thought, ‘Well, I got through that by the skin of my teeth.’ Serious haemorrhaging from the nose, passing out… awful stuff."	1:13:30 (Pop-up)
Kelley Polar	Dance Magic Dance "Dance Magic Dance" by "Kelley Polar"	Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered	Rapster Records	2008	Only David Bowie could have played the role of Jareth, the Goblin King in the 1986 movie Labrynth. Since then, his characterization...and his codpiece and tights have become part of pop culture history. His performance is campy, joyful, strange and....truly Bowie. Backing singer Diva Gray’s baby was unable to gurgle on the microphone during the studio recording, so the noises were taped by Bowie instead. ‘Dance Magic’ gave me a bit of a problem. It’s a song for the Goblin King and the baby. In the recording studio the baby I picked – one of the backing singers, Diva, had this cute little baby, and couldn’t put two gurgles together! [laughs] And it wouldn’t work for me. I mean it just wouldn’t go; I kicked it, I did everything to make it scream, and it really buttoned its lip. So I ended up doing the gurgles, so I’m the baby on that track as well. I thought, ‘What the hell, I’ve done ‘Laughing Gnome’, I might as well go all the way.’ I never thought in twenty years I’d come back to working with gnomes." This version is particularly wonderful. Kelley Polar, born Michael Kelley, is an American musician, alternative dance vocalist and music producer. He is based in Sullivan, New Hampshire. What I love most about his take on the song is that it harkens back to another beloved band...Sparks. Seriously...this could be a Sparks song!	1:17:14 (Pop-up)
Stereo Total	Heroes "Heroes" by "Stereo Total"	Heroes 7"	Disko B	2013	Stereo Total was a Berlin-based multilingual, French-German duo which comprised Françoise Cactus (born Françoise van Hove and formerly co-leader of the West Berlin band Les Lolitas) and Brezel ('pretzel') Göring (aka Friedrich von Finsterwalde, born Friedrich Ziegler, ex-Haunted Henschel, Sigmund Freud Experience). Mainstays of the electroclash and synthpop movement of the early 2000's their career gave us many delightful nu-disco synthy pop gems that were always playful and tongue in cheek. Their version of Heroes stands apart from others in that it does not attempt the "serious" retelling of that fateful original story behind the song...and keeps it light and playful..true to their style! Says Tony Visconti of the sessions for the original..."They use “Heroes” for every heroic event, although it’s a song about alcoholics. We did it on twenty-four tracks in Hansa Studios in Berlin. With all of the backing vocals and instruments on it, we only had one track left for the vocal. So Bowie would do a take and listen to it and he’d say: ‘I think I’ve got one better.’ And I’d say, ‘Well, you know we can’t keep that take.’ This was before digital recording. So he’d pull his socks up, take a deep breath, and go and do a better take than the one he did before. And that was it, it was gone, the previous vocal was gone. We kept doing that. Having experience in the studio, you have to know when to say, ‘I think we’ve got the take.’ There’s no way of going back to take five or take two; they were gone, evaporated. I did a lot of records that way. That’s when you work as a team, as a producer, coach, singer, artist. Everybody’s on the same page and everyone is just hyped up with adrenaline."	1:22:33 (Pop-up)
Jahrukus feat. Bunny Rugs	Ashes To Ashes	Ashes To Ashes/Island Girl Single	Soul Messin' Records	2021	Who knew that Reggae and Bowie would go just so well together! This version of Ashes to Ashes is by Jahrukus and Bunny Rugs and it DELIVERS. Jahrukus (Jah-ruckus) pay homage to the early Tuff Gong era, active on the Melbourne club scene circa 2005-08, the five-piece ensemble won local and international acclaim and a clutch of major awards nominations. Believed to be the first reggae version of Bowie’s timeless classic “Ashes to Ashes”, it was recorded above a crash-repairs shop in the south of Melbourne between one and five o’clock in the morning after a gig, and before the shop opened. It was a fan attending a concert who gave the band the idea, when they said: “This band is so good, you could re-work any song into a reggae jam”. So they did! The sub-text of ‘Ashes To Ashes’ is quite obviously the nursery rhyme appeal of it and for me it’s a story of corruption. It’s also about as subversive as one can get in popular music terms inasmuch as I would love to get a record played by the BBC containing the word “junkie”. I thought that was quite successful (grins). There’s not much you can do these days; we’re all such a blasé, world weary lot (laughs). But if one can make anything more serious out of it all other than that it’s The Further Stories Of, it’s that when I originally wrote about Major Tom I was a very pragmatic and self-opinionated lad that thought I knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should stop. Here we had the great blast of American technological know-how shoving this guy up into space and once he gets there he’s not quite sure why he’s there. And that’s where I left him. Now we’ve found out that he’s under some kind of realisation that the whole process that got him up there had decayed, was born out of decay; it has decayed him and he’s in the process of decaying. But he wishes to return to the nice, round womb, the earth, from whence he started. I guess it’s that simple. I really don’t think there’s anything more insidiously perverse about the thing at all. It really is an ode to childhood, if you like, a popular nursery rhyme. It’s about space men becoming junkies (laughs). David Bowie	1:25:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Easy Star All-Stars	Five Years Dub	Ziggy Stardub	Easy Star Records	2023	I cannot get enough of this and I hate having to talk over it!	1:29:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vitamin String Quartet	Let's Dance	VSQ Performs David Bowie	Vitamin Records	2002		1:33:12 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA)	The Next Day Extra EP	Columbia / ISO Records / Legacy / Sony	2013 / 2023	Issued as a digital EP ijn 2013 & reissued for 2022 record store day. Written-By – David Bowie // Vocals, Keyboards – David Bowie // Bass – Gail Ann Dorsey // Drums – Zachary Alford // Guitar – Gerry Leonard // Handclaps ["Clapping Chorus"] – Hishan Bharoocha*, James Murphy, Jordan Hebert, Matthew Thornley // Producer [Remix Produced By], Remix [Remix Mixed By] – James Murphy, who is, of course: "James Jeremiah Murphy; Born February 4, 1970; an American musician, producer, DJ, and co-founder of record label DFA Records. His most well-known musical project is LCD Soundsystem."	1:36:24 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Seven (Beck Mix #1) "Seven (Beck Mix #1)" by "David Bowie"	Hours... [Expanded Version]	ISO Records	1999 / 2004	Beck, in some of his reflections about one of his musical heroes, David Bowie: "David Bowie started making records around the beginning of my life, and his career kind of tracks with my life. There’s always been a David Bowie record. He’s always been doing something. He’s always been kind of guidepost or gravitational force for me. He’s someone that you set course to or measure what you’re doing against. If you’re working on something intently and you don’t know if it’s complete garbage or a waste of time, there are certain works or artists you look to and go, “How far off course am I here? Because I know that’s good. That’s the top of the mountain, and are we going the opposite way here? //// He was really one of those figures to a lot of musicians. I think that has a lot to do with his singular approach to what he did, which was to take from theater, literature, pop culture, avant-garde and create this modern concept that maybe began with Sgt. Pepper’s, where you’re bringing in all these mediums together and creating something new and three-dimensional. For me, as a working musician, I have always been in awe of how he was able to manage to write these classic songs and create a sort of visual language around each body of music; these ambitious stage productions, iconic videos and imagery. To do one is really a full-time endeavor. You got the idea of a mad scientist, somebody in the laboratory who’s sort of lost all sense of place and time. Believe me, I’ve been there, where you haven’t slept in months and you’re just kind of a mess, but he was able to do it with this kind of calm, effortlessness about it that is really interesting. I’ve worked with people that have worked with him, and I’ve heard he’d come in and just kind of come up with something and sing it once or twice and be done. It doesn’t conjure up the typical struggle and Sturm und Drang of trying to get great art. When an artistic presence infuses so much, when that person’s gone, there’s such a tremendous absence that it almost feels like losing family."	1:46:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Bowie	Little Wonder (Danny Sabre Dance Mix)	Earthling (Expanded Edition)	Sony / ISO	1997 / 2015	"Danny Saber (born 1966) is a musician in Los Angeles. He is an audio engineer, record producer, and remixer as well. He is a former member of Black Grape and Agent Provocateur. He plays organ, and keyboards, and is a prominent Los Angeles DJ. //// Saber is known for diversity in his production and remixing. The genres of the artists with whom he has worked have included pop (Madonna, Seal), rock (David Bowie, U2, Michael Hutchence, The Rolling Stones), heavy metal (Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Marilyn Manson), hip-hop (Busta Rhymes, Public Enemy, Jadakiss). Saber co-produced and performed on Alice Cooper's Along Came a Spider album, and has songwriting credits on eight of the eleven songs on the album. He has scored film music and contributed music to a wide range of films (Blade II, Moulin Rouge!, Dallas 362, The Limey, Played). //// In 1999, Saber worked with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto to form a project named Spontaneous Human Combustion. The project was unusual in that it was among the earliest to make and release music entirely online for free without the involvement of a music label. //// Saber was also a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers."	1:50:33 (Pop-up)
Anna Calvi	Lady Grinning Soul "Lady Grinning Soul" by "Anna Calvi"	Strange Weather	Domino Recording Co	2014	Hearing Anna Calvi wrap her voice around this song is an exercise in sensuality. It is...in a word...incredible. ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ was a departure for Bowie, who had never before put such an open outpouring of desire on record. He had recently spoken of how his emotions often emerged in his lyrics in spite of his natural reservation, and here was the culmination. "I’m a pretty cold person. A very cold person, I find. I have a strong lyrical, emotional drive and I’m not sure where it comes from. I’m not sure if that’s really me coming through in the songs. They come out and I hear them afterward and I think, well, whoever wrote that really felt strongly about it. I can’t feel strongly. I get so numb. I find that I’m walking around numb. I’m a bit of an iceman." - David Bowie	1:56:10 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:53pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:54pm DJ Babs: Hello hello UD! Great to see ya! Hope you are ready for your fix of Bowie adjacent!!
	7:55pm Robm: evening beach goers
	7:55pm ultradamno: If that means Iggy...
	🏝 7:56pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Bogus Beach Bowies! 🌏🌞🍻😎💨🍺🍺🌊🏖️⛱️🌴
	7:56pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Rob! re: Iggy...shockingly not musically but he shall be mentioned!
	7:57pm DJ Babs: Hello Scott!
	7:57pm ultradamno: ...and Ronnie www.reddit.com... sometimes Dinah i.pinimg.com...
	7:57pm DJ Babs: Tonight I am faced with the additional challenge of putting on a full face of bowie makeup while doing a radio show lol...
	7:57pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @7:57 And Bing!
	7:58pm Robm: ↳ DJ Babs @7:57 good luck with that babs
	7:58pm DJ Babs: haha I will explain why later...
	7:59pm Robm: good morning scott
	8:00pm ultradamno: I hate the little drummer boy though! You know he was lying when he said "come they told me", no one wanted him to show up with a drum, a woman is trying to give birth in a barn...
	8:02pm laurapanic: I like a different and slightly different approach, tops!
	8:03pm ultradamno: ...Scott Walker, certainly.
	8:04pm shellioh: salut mes amis!!!
	8:04pm Robm: i think my 3 bowie songs are blue jean heroes and let’s dance
	8:04pm ultradamno: Covers...I vote for Eater's Queen Bitch.
	8:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Shelli!!!! So good to see ya!
	8:05pm DJ Babs: My favourite song changes all the time I can't pick one...but tonight I'm singing Scary Monsters...Fashion and Under Pressure....
	🏝 8:05pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Robm @7:59 G'day Rob!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	8:06pm DJ Babs: I think right now Repetition is my favourite. The Next Day....I also fucking love Absolute Beginners so much. Same with Loving The Alien
	8:07pm DJ Babs: I loooove this cover!
	8:07pm ultradamno: By the way, if you're looking for something to buy on the return of BC Fridays, Cuntroaches' debut album is now up for pre-order cuntroaches.bandcamp.com...
	8:08pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" by "T... Yes, that Wedding Present song ended with a musical reference to The Fall... Bremen Nacht... Fall-adjacent/Bowie-adjacent/Adjacent-adjacency.
	8:09pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, hello Robm, Hey Scott, Hey Hey Laura, 'Lo Shellioh, hello hello hello!!!
	🏝 8:10pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:02 G'day Laura, still stinkin hot up there mate? 🍻😎🤙💨🍹🌻
	8:11pm Robm: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:09 hi derek
	8:11pm DJ Babs: Hi Laura! Great to see ya!
	8:11pm DJ Babs: I love the sheer audacity of this cover!
	8:16pm Robm: ↳ Song: "Fame" by "Duran Duran" now this is a very interesting version of a david bowie song babs
	8:16pm ultradamno: Matt Fiveash played a Motörhead cover of a certain DB last night filling in for Therese, we discussed how they should have done it as Villains
	8:16pm DJ Babs: Duran Duran certainly have their way with covers, that's for sure! This one is an oooooldie! One of the first records I bought myself!
	8:17pm DJ Babs: I realize this could be HIGHLY divisive but goddamn I cannot get this out of my head this week....it's perfection!
	8:17pm Tyler: Good Evening Bowie Beachers!
	8:18pm DJ Babs: heeeeey Tyler!!! great to see ya!
	8:18pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:17 Hello Tyler! Welcome to the Bowie beach!
	8:18pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:18 Hiya Babs! This Soul Love cover WORKS!
	8:19pm DJ Babs: OH ITS SO GOOD
	8:21pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:18 Hi Derek! Are you wearing your harlequin outfit & walking the beach with your mother followed by a bull dozer?
	8:22pm Tyler: Good Vibes!
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:21 I... Think so?...
	8:24pm Robm: babs i am sure david had security around to keep you from doing that
	8:24pm Dutch___☆___: Ziggy stardub.....BRING IT ON PLZ!!!!
	8:25pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Dutch___☆___ @8:24 Hello Dutch! Welcome!
	8:26pm Tinley Park Randy: Great show! Are you Canadian?
	8:26pm Dutch___☆___: Hi
	8:27pm Dutch___☆___: Gotta check this Ziggy Stardub album...
	8:30pm Tyler: On the original release of Diamond Dogs, 'Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family' is a locked groove, so it just keeps repeating if you have a manual turntable.
	8:30pm ultradamno: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:26 Babs and Derek are both Canadians broadcasting from Canada
	8:31pm Androu B.: Hi Babs! Hi Derek! & Hello Beach Party Paricipants! Julie from Dark Night Of The Soul would be glad to know you guys decided to do this show, as she is as much a Bowie fan as...well, as much as anyone here on the Woof-Moo (listeners included), not to mention rock fans everywhere in the world!
	8:31pm ultradamno: ...err streaming
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:26 Yes, yes, it's true what Ultra says... Toronto, Ontario, to be specific... Welcome Tinley Park Randy... Welcome here!
	8:34pm DJ Babs: Hi Androu! Hi Dutch! Hi Randy! Welcome to the beach!!!
	🏝 8:34pm Kristine: Happy Thursday to you all!
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @8:31 Aww, thanks Androu, that's sweet to know! Hope everyone enjoys... We went a bit sideways in our tribute, and yet, here it is!
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:34 Hi Kristine K... How are things? Hello!
	8:35pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine!!
	🏝 8:36pm Kristine: hiya! I am doing good!
	8:36pm ?: Hi guys!!!!
	8:36pm DJ Babs: Hello ?!
	8:36pm Androu B.: Btw, are you guys feeling the "lake effect" out where you are?
	8:37pm DJ Babs: Ah Derek I love your musical surprises!! And yes it is FUCKING COLD HERE but not as bad as the prairies those poor people had like -42 celcius last week
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Seven (Beck Mix #2)" by "David Bowie" Beck completely deconstructs this song & makes it a completely new racket. I quite love this version. I love irreverant takes on things. Plus, he loves Bowie, so he wasn't taking the piss.
	🏝 8:38pm Kristine: it was worse yesterday and the day before!
	8:38pm lesliehastonhurst: ? Was me! I forgot to sign in
	8:38pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:37 I welcome the cold & clear skies over the 7-8 weeks of grey & drizzle we had over the holidays...
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ lesliehastonhurst @8:38 Hello Leslieastonhurst! Hello!!!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: hahah! Hi Leslie!!!
	8:39pm lesliehastonhurst: Oh Leslie….
	8:39pm DJ Babs: I admit I have never checked out a ton of David Bowie remixes...ever! So Derek is schoolin me
	8:39pm Tinley Park Randy: Thanks. New to the show. 🤓
	8:40pm Tyler: Beck's got the full tool kit out on this one :)
	8:41pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:40 He really went for it!
	8:41pm Androu B.: There's also AI Bowie covers on YT, and (be forewarned) not all of them are all that good!
	8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:39 Fantastic, TPRandy... It's a Bowie-centric one tonight, so hope that works for you! Sometimes we have themes, sometimes we have not. :)
	8:43pm Robm: ↳ Kristine @8:36 hey kristine
	8:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @8:40 Wonder if that includes the E-meter
	8:44pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:39 Love having new people join our beach party! And yes Androu...we avoided the AI covers..tho I bet Bowie would have been fascinated lol
	8:45pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:43 I forgot, he claims to have never been a Scientologist
	8:45pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @8:43 No Stylophone break, though... :)
	8:46pm Robm: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:39 tinley i consider the internet only streams a lot better, because you can hear songs with dirty words and the djs can have potty mouths too
	8:46pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @8:45 live.staticflickr.com...
	8:46pm DJ Babs: ahhh this tour was so good. I loved this album tho it was quite maligned I think by some!
	8:46pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @8:45 Maybe we're all Scientologist now after listening to that mix :)
	8:47pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @8:46 I hope I won't get billed...they do not like people not paying up.
	8:48pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:46 I am forgiving of any album that includes a song as great as 'Little Wonder'.
	8:49pm Robm: ↳ Song: "I'm Afraid Of Americans (NIN V.1 Mix)" by "David ... if trump gets elected again then yes
	8:49pm Tyler: @Babs if you're in need of a Stylophone for tonight's concert, I could bring one of mine.
	8:49pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "I'm Afraid Of Americans (NIN V.1 Mix)" by "David ... I will say that I am very amused that Trent Reznor plays the American stalking & freaking out David Bowie in the video...
	🏝 8:50pm Kristine: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:49 hey derek, isnt he supposed to be a creep anyway??
	8:50pm ultradamno: ↳ Robm @8:49 Magnets will be required to not work when wet by law going forward to make him retroactively correct.
	8:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 Ah, a callback! Nice!
	8:51pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:49 The alternate mixes of the songs from this album are much to my liking, they breathe a little more whereas the originals I find very dense & over-stuffed.
	8:51pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @8:50 I thought that was Thom Yorke
	8:51pm Androu B.: ↳ DJ Babs @8:39 Since you bring that up, I happen to have an ersatz compilation of Bowie remixes (simply titled "Mixes Colection", supposedly released in 2007) in my Bowie mp3 archive, many you may likely haven't heard of. (I'd personally recommend Trent Reznor's remix of "Scary Monsters" and one of "Moonage Daydream" by Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder & UK producer Andy Wright.
	8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @8:49 no stylophone for tonight's tunes! But thank you!!!
	8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 lolz!
	🏝 8:52pm Kristine: i did find that video amusing once upon a time though!
	8:52pm DJ Babs: ↳ Androu B. @8:51 oooohhhhhhhhh anything on Ersatz is always tops!
	🏝 8:52pm Kristine: ↳ ultradamno @8:51 ha!
	8:53pm DJ Babs: uuuuuugh this is so good. I had no idea this existed.
	8:53pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:51 OK - FINE, Babs! I'll just have to busk outside The Piston with my Stylo! :)
	8:53pm DJ Babs: ↳ Androu B. @8:51 ah wait you mean dodgy ersatz not on the label ersatz! Either way very cool!
	8:54pm Androu B.: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 Yes, when I say "ersatz", I mean it was cobbled up & compiled in an archive
	8:55pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @8:51 Sounds like some excellent mixes might be lurking out there! My cobbling was piecemeal at best. I'd love to have found some of the more obscure mixes out there...
	8:56pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 This is a great mix by Air. The year Bowie died I made a mega-comp of alternate versions I called 'Capsule' & included this. I also took my family to see the 'Celebrating Bowie' show at the Danforth Music Hall. I think you were there, Babs & Derek.
	8:59pm ultradamno: I can't think of a direct Bowie cover by Björk, but more than anyone, I think her work is healthily informed by him...
	9:00pm Androu B.: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:55 Ever heard of Go Home Productions? That was a fella from Scotland by the name of Mark Vidler who made a name for himself as one of the first mashup artists. He did a mix called "Bowie X" which coincided with the realease of the "Reality" album (also featured on the compilation I just mentioned earlier).
	9:04pm DJ Babs: Yes! I love Go Home Productions...he is fantastic. He did a ton of great mashups I used to spin them all the time in my indie sleaze rock days!
	9:08pm ultradamno: Also Stephen Hawking was born on January 8 and, of course, Noah Cyrus.
	9:11pm Tyler: This one has a very Japan feel to it.
	9:11pm DJ Nico: Better late...
	9:11pm Bob Barth: BOWIE NIGHT!! I love it. We must be drinking from the same well. Hey D & B! Hey Everybody!!
	🏝 9:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:00 I have definitely heard of Go Home Productions, but am not really familiar with it at all... Sounds interesting... I've definitely encountered it through my radio travels over the years, but I do not really know the world of Go Home Productions.
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:11 Hi Nico!
	9:14pm DJ Babs: Hi Will Hi Nico! Hi Bob!
	9:15pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @9:11 Well well, Bob... The well from which we drink... And what is forthcoming in Sheena's on your "One Night Stand" programme...???
	9:16pm ultradamno: Well, that is a pretty long title about a guy doing something, but it's no The Supreme's Dr Goodfoot & The Bikini Machine
	9:16pm Androu B.: ↳ DJ Babs @9:04 Some of my faves are "Bus Stop Runner", "ABBA & The Bunnymen", "Ray Of Gob", "Paperback Believer" & "Wrapped Detective". You might also remember he was the one responsible for "Rapture Riders" which actually made it's way onto a Doors compilation.
	9:17pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:16 Ah yes... I do know at least a couple of those... Definitely "Rapture Riders"... Yes, yes... Excellent stuff!
	9:17pm Bob Barth: Thanks for asking Derek! Tonight we are checking the sexy, disco, blue eyed-soul of Mayer Hawthorne!! That plus all the usual madness coming up in the next hour!
	9:19pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @9:17 Fantastic Bob... Can't wait! Everyone, find your way from here to there... Bob Barth follows us in Sheena's...
	9:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Androu B. @9:16 I was suggesting last night I want to hear a I Wanna Be Your Dogfood...I think a Stooges mashup with Iggy Pop isn't too incestuous
	9:22pm Tyler: This is pretty EPIC! Hope you'll play it at Juicebox sometime. I'd dance to this...
	9:24pm DJ Nico: Love Stereo Total
	9:25pm Tyler: Nice bridge!
	9:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:24 They're a great band!
	9:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Heroes" by "Stereo Total" It's a great version!
	9:26pm Tyler: Funk To Funky... :)
	9:27pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @9:22 Duly noted! Also I can't give up the Bowie reggae
	9:27pm ultradamno: Tom Dash got me thinking recently, are there sub-genres of egg punk...scrambled, poached, over-easy etc?
	9:27pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:27 It WORKS! This is GREAT!
	9:29pm ultradamno: Eggs punk benedict would be fancy
	9:30pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:29 Haha... Questions that beg answers... Egg answers...
	9:30pm Androu B.: ↳ Bob Barth @9:17 Hi Bob! Just want to share something with you. Micah, host of Music Of Mind Control on the mothership played this track that I believe might be right up your alley! This is by the New Hope International Singers, a chorus group consisting mainly of stage actors assembled by the Unification Church. It actually has the sound & feel of a stage show, so you might enjoy this: https://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=3&show=135959&archive=246986&starttime=0:41:59
	9:30pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:29 Eggs Punk Benedict Arnold :)
	9:31pm Tyler: 500 Years...
	9:37pm Androu B.: Last year, I (re)watched "The Man Who Fell To Earth". Strange and surreal at times, but Bowie's performance was typically irreverent. (Now if I can only find a streaming service that's playing "Christian F"...)
	9:37pm Tyler: James Jeremiah Murphy - that's my name, too! Whenever we go out, the people always shout...
	9:37pm Bob Barth: ↳ Androu B. @9:30 Why thank you! I'll totally take a look see. Thanks.
	9:38pm Tyler: ↳ Androu B. @9:37 Have never seen 'Christian F.' and to this day, have never seen a VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu Ray, etc of it...
	9:39pm Tyler: ↳ Tyler @9:38 .. but I do have the soundtrack on cassette.
	9:42pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:38 Only recently when I caught a scene from the movie (on YT, I think) did finally understand what the premise of it was.
	9:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:42 I am not familiar with it at all...!
	9:44pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:38 Also will never forget his role as a detective in "Fire Walk With Me".
	9:44pm shellioh: what a fabulous selection of tunes tonight guys! thanks for making work so much more enjoyable! 🥰❤️😊
	9:45pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ shellioh @9:44 Awww... Thanks for dropping back to the comments to let us know that, Shellioh... Glad to have helped make enjoyment...!
	9:45pm ultradamno: It's a shocking film, just ask it www.imdb.com...
	9:47pm Androu B.: Babs, for those here who may have never heard it, see if you can fit in "I'm Deranged" from the Outside album.
	9:47pm ultradamno: TP: FWWM is his cinematic high point
	9:48pm Tyler: ↳ Androu B. @9:44 Yes, I'm a big Lynch fan and remember that scene vividly.
	9:49pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:48 It was shown again in a flashback on an ep of Twin Peaks: The Return.
	9:50pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Seven (Beck Mix #1)" by "David Bowie" This Beck remix is a little less kitchen-sinkish, than the other one, maybe?
	9:50pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:45 I seem to recall reading it created quite a stir when it came out. I don't know if it's ever been released in North America. It certainly hasn't passed through my radar...
	9:52pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:50 The previous Beck mix was almost like a deconstruction of the song, kind of exploring all of its musical possibilities. This one retains more of the original melody & tone with some nice production touches. IMO
	9:52pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:50 If it was ever shown in the US, it most likely was relegated to urban art house cinemas.
	9:52pm ultradamno: Also, The Hunger i.pinimg.com...
	9:54pm Tyler: ↳ Androu B. @9:52 I don't recall it being screened at any of our Rep Theatres in Toronto, nor at Cinmetheque or TIFF Bell Light Box. I might have to plant the suggestion at The Paradise or Fox Theatre to see if they might screen it for us.
	9:54pm DJ Nico: Thanks Babs and Derek!
	9:54pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Little Wonder (Danny Sabre Dance Mix)" by "David ... I have both the official CD single & the radio-only promo version with callouts.
	🏝 9:54pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Babs & Derek! Been enjoying while buzzing about getting stuff sorted. Heading to Trash Cult tonight for Melbourne all Women Punks SPUNK! They look like they have attitude to spare! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌻🌻❤
	9:55pm Tyler: @derek did Beck do 7 remixes of Seven?
	9:56pm Bob Barth: Nailed it!
	9:56pm Tyler: Thanks Derek, Babs, Executive Producer Meepmoop & Bowie Beachers in the chat. Gotta jet to The Piston...
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Well done, guys: a whole show of Bowie that I was not familiar with at all. And I thought I was a fan!
	9:57pm Bob Barth: Welcome to the Panic Room gang! wfmu.org...
	9:57pm Tyler: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Many new sounds for me, as well, and I've been collecting Bowie my whole life...
	9:58pm Tyler: @Derek - this is lovely
	9:59pm Androu B.: Thanks Babs & Derek! This was a marvellous idea for a show! This should be a yearly event for the show! I mean, why not?
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Mr. Fab! Hello! Awww... So happy you found new surprises!
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @9:56 Thanks Tyler, travel safe!
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:59 Androu, good point... If we can do a whole month of The Fall, surely we can do a yearly Bowie... Haha.
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:54 Thanks Nico!
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:54 Thanks Scott... Have fun!
	🏝 10:02pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Dj Babs and Derek!!!
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @10:02 Thank-you Will thee!
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all, have a wonderful day/night/aft/eve... Whatever you may have, wherever you may be!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
David Bowie	David Bowie on David Bowie					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Moog Cookbook	Ziggy Stardust "Ziggy Stardust" by "The Moog Cookbook"	Ye Olde Space Bande Plays The Classic Rock Hits	Restless Records	1996
The Wedding Present	Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family	Loveslave/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family 7"	RCA	1992	"Diamond Dogs is arguably [Bowie's] most significant album, a pivotal work and the most 'solo' album he has ever made...his best-sounding, most complex record to date, and it still pulls you into its romantic and doomed world decades on..." hant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" predated Talking Heads' exploration of African rhythms and experimentation in the late 1970s...something that the band "Foxtrot" explore deeply in their cover...but here...the Wedding Present's version becomes a grinding, intimidating dance indeed!	0:03:12 (Pop-up)
Tearist	Repetition "Repetition" by "Tearist"	We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie	Centaurus Entertainment	2010	"I decided to write something on the deeply disturbing subject of wife abuse in the manner of a short-form drama. I had known more instances of this behaviour than I would have preferred to have been made aware of and could not for the life of me imagine how someone could hit a woman, not only once but many, many times." Released in 1979, it is penultimate song on David Bowie’s Lodger album. Hearing this song handled by a female front lead creates even more urgency and Tearist create a soundscape even more bleak and urgent on their amazing take on this song. Tearist is an American electronic and industrial band formed in 2009 by Yasmine Kittles (vocals, percussion, synthesizer) and William Strangeland (synthesizer, programming) in Los Angeles, California. The members of Tearist have stated that they were intending to create a movement more than a band, accepting all influences and dissecting them to allow for a new and instinctual musical product to emerge...	0:05:38 (Pop-up)
The Associates	Boys Keep Swinging	Boys Keep Swinging 7"	RCA	1979	"Boys Keep Swinging" is a song by English musician David Bowie, released on 27 April 1979 by RCA Records in the United Kingdom as the lead single from his 1979 album Lodger. It was written by Bowie and Brian Eno and recorded in Montreux and New York City in September 1978 and March 1979. The recording utilized techniques from Eno's Oblique Strategies cards, which resulted in the musicians swapping instruments. In October 1979, Scottish new wave band the Associates released a cover of the song as a way to infringe copyright and get themselves noticed. Their version, which reached number 15 in Record Mirror's Scottish chart and gained them airplay on John Peel's Radio One show, earned the band their first record contract.Band member Billy Mackenzie later said that the band recorded the song "to prove the point. It was a strange way of proving it, but it worked. People said, 'That is awful. How dare they!'"	0:08:45 (Pop-up)
Duran Duran	Fame "Fame" by "Duran Duran"	Careless Memories 12"	EMI	1981	One of the first of many songs covered by Duran Duran, and one of the most effective! A collaboration between David Bowie and John Lennon, ‘Fame’ became Bowie’s first US number one single. It was a late addition to the Young Americans album, along with a cover version of the Beatles’ ‘Across The Universe’. There was a degree of malice. I’d had very upsetting management problems and a lot of that was built into the song. I’ve left all that behind me, now … I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. Other than that, there’s very little about it that anybody would covet. It’s really not much of a deal. I still have my favourite times when I’m not recognised, or at least left to my own devices.	0:12:30 (Pop-up)
Easy Star All Stars feat Mortimer	Soul Love	Ziggy Stardub	Easy Star Records	2023	Easy Star All-Stars return with their first new tribute album in over a decade! ZIGGY STARDUB, a reggae re-imagining of David Bowie's entire The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album. Blending musical versatility, instrumental prowess, beautiful vocal harmonies and a premier rhythm section, Easy Star All-Stars have established themselves as one of the top international reggae acts on the scene today. “Soul Love” sounds as though it had been written for a reggae framework. It has the strut and skank of classic reggae, yet Bowie had something much different in mind when he and the Spiders from Mars recorded it 51 years ago...but it works...oh so, so well!	0:15:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Wee Trio	Queen Bitch "Queen Bitch" by "The Wee Trio"	Ashes To Ashes: A David Bowie Introspective	Bionic Records	2012	I love this.	0:19:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Meridian String Quartet	Young Americans	String Bowie Quartet: New Classical String Arrangements	Meridian String Quartet	2014		0:25:45 (Pop-up)
Laid Back Country Picker	David Bowie	Laid Back Country Picker	Self-Released	2017	Real Name: David Prince. Did not know about him until this week. His latest release is a cover of Bauhaus' Bela Lugosi's Dead. He has a handful of shows coming up in 2024... Starting this Saturday... //////// JAN 20 SAT The Southgate House Revival @ 8:00pm -- Shelby Lore (MUSIC) -- Newport, KY, United States -- Tickets RSVP //////// JAN 27 SAT Court Street Grill @ 9:00pm -- Luna and the Mountain Jets Pomeroy, OH, United States --Tickets RSVP //////// FEB 4 SUN Outlaw Country Cruise 2024 @ 7:00pm -- Steve EarleLucinda WilliamsBlackberry Smoke49 WinchesterRay Wylie HubbardDrivin' N' Cryin'Dale WatsonElizabeth CookDash Rip RockRoger Alan WadeMojo NixonWarner E. HodgesJason Ringenberg -- Andover, FL, United States Tickets RSVP//////// FEB 17 SAT Duke’s Indy @ 8:00pm -- Luna and the Mountain Jets -- Indianapolis, IN, United States Tickets RSVP //////// AUG 17 SAT Folsom Field @ 7:00pm -- Tyler ChildersShakey Graves -- Boulder, CO, United States	0:29:55 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Seven (Beck Mix #2) "Seven (Beck Mix #2)" by "David Bowie"	Hours... [Expanded Version]	ISO Records	1999 / 2004	Beck, in some of his reflections about one of his musical heroes, David Bowie: "I first saw David Bowie play live in ’83 on the Let’s Dance tour. At that point, he was in his mid-thirties, but he already had the weight of a legend. It was at the US Festival in San Bernardino, and there were maybe 100,000 people. He really stood out to me even as a child because there was this gravitas and weight that really set him apart; it was like seeing Sinatra or Elvis. //// The way he anchored a stage was striking. He could do so much with so little, he could just be there to hold the audience. I don’t hear this mentioned a lot — maybe there’s a hint of it in that clip of him with Bing Crosby — but I always thought of Bowie as kind of a bridge from the era of the crooner to the rock frontman. He somehow straddled those two worlds in a way that nobody else did, bringing that effortless worldliness and marry it with the rock frontman. When I heard Elvis’ song “Black Star,” that reference made Bowie’s “Blackstar” resonate deeper than I could imagine. I can imagine somebody growing up in the Fifties, and that song capturing the sort of Elvis-by-way-of-Hollywood version of an Old West mythic figure, that sort of lone rider on the plains, with mortality hanging above them. Those are some of the most difficult things to express in art."	0:34:26 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Good Karma Mix By Tim Simenon)	1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle) [Expanded Version]	ISO Records	1995 / 2015	The remix by Tim Simenon. "Simenon, an Englishman of Malaysian origin, born in London in 1968 and currently living in Prague. Simenon was a Dj at the Wag club when he decided to attend a studio-engineering course. His first record "Beat Dis" was the product of the studio trickery he learnt during the course and samples from a bag full of records. The timing was perfect with the general public getting customed to the flavour of "homemade" dance records like M/A/R/R/S - "Pump Up The Volume". The Thunderbirds sampling "Beat Dis" reached number 2 in the UK charts in February 1988. Tim Simenon has since produced tracks for artists like Neneh Cherry (Buffalo Stance), Adamski (Killer), Seal (Crazy), and also worked closely with Depeche Mode, Björk and Naomi Campbell amongst others. //// Aliases: DJ Loops, Flow Creator //// In Groups: Bomb The Bass, Ghost Capsules, Interference, Nation 12, Slant"	0:39:36 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	I'm Afraid Of Americans (NIN V.1 Mix)	Earthling (Expanded Edition)	Sony / ISO	1997 / 2015	Lyrics By – David Bowie // Music By – Brian Eno, David Bowie // Performer [Additional] – Nine Inch Nails // Producer – Nine Inch Nails // Mixed By – Dave "Rave" Ogilvie --- Trent Reznor had actually already remixed The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Alt. Mix) a couple of years earlier in 1995. This song, though, offered him not only the opportunity for a few more remixes; but also a key role in the video as the American (stalker) of whom Bowie seems to be most afraid. Wouldn't have seen that coming prior to 1997. I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Music Video) [4K Upgrade]	0:44:36 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	A Better Future (Remix By AIR)	Heathen (Deluxe Edition)	Columbia / ISO Records	2002	Remix – AIR / Written-By – David Bowie "Air is a French electronic / rock duo composed by Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, active since 1995. // The band has given conflicting statements about whether "AIR" is an acronym (for Amour, Imagination, Rêve, meaning Love, Imagination, Dream)."	0:50:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Bowie	Pallas Athena (Don't Stop Praying Remix #2)	Pallas Athena (12" Promo / Digital Single)	Arista / EMI / Parlophone / Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LCC	1993	Remix (#2) by Meat Beat Manifesto, who are the "Industrial, Electronic, Experimental music act started by John Stephen Corrigan aka Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens in 1987, Swindon, United Kingdom. Jack Dangers has led the group and been the only permanent member, collaborating with other members along the way. Meat Beat Manifesto worked with Consolidated and The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy to pioneer the early '90s "industrial hip-hop" sound. Meat Beat Manifesto's earlier work is widely credited with influencing trip hop, drum & bass and big beat." -- "The "Don't Stop Praying Mix #2" later appeared on the limited edition 2CD+DVD issuances of "Black Tie White Noise"	0:55:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Bowie	Pallas Athena (Don't Stop Praying Remix #1)	Pallas Athena (12" Promo / Digital Single)	Arista / EMI / Parlophone / Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LCC	1993	"Don't Stop Praying Mix #1" later appeared on the "Jump They Say" single, as "Don't Stop Praying Remix".	1:02:31 (Pop-up)
Midge Ure	The Man Who Sold The World	The Man Who Sold The World 7"	A & M	1982	Nirvana often gets the credit for best cover of this song...but no...oh no no no...This cover by Midge Ure captures not only the best of Ultravox...but also retains the sadness and longing of the original song. It's absolutely gorgeous, from top to bottom. The keyboard work and choice of sounds on this is simply ...I am also very sure that David must have approved highly of this version. It is fantastic!	1:08:09 (Pop-up)
Book of Love	Sound + Vision "Sound + Vision" by "Book of Love"	Lovebubble	Sire	1993	I could not imagine a better fit for this song than Book of Love. With their signature tubular bell chimes and vocals...it's an obvious choice for them to rock. This cover appeared on their fourth and final album "Lovebubble" Lovebubble did not chart, and was released to little fanfare amidst the changing musical tides of the early nineties with grunge dominating the alternative landscape. The album's cover sleeve, a tic tac toe square of nine different images, was designed by Talking Heads' frontman David Byrne. Sound and Vision was the lead single from David Bowie’s 1977 album Low, ‘Sound And Vision’ was a top ten hit in the UK, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. A very sad song for me is ‘Sound And Vision’. I was trying very hard to drag myself out of an awful period of my life. I was locked in a room in Berlin telling myself I was going to straighten up and not do drugs anymore. I was never going to drink again. Only some of it proved to be the case. It was the first time I knew I was killing myself and time to do something about my physical condition. I had a few scares and thought, ‘Well, I got through that by the skin of my teeth.’ Serious haemorrhaging from the nose, passing out… awful stuff."	1:13:30 (Pop-up)
Kelley Polar	Dance Magic Dance "Dance Magic Dance" by "Kelley Polar"	Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered	Rapster Records	2008	Only David Bowie could have played the role of Jareth, the Goblin King in the 1986 movie Labrynth. Since then, his characterization...and his codpiece and tights have become part of pop culture history. His performance is campy, joyful, strange and....truly Bowie. Backing singer Diva Gray’s baby was unable to gurgle on the microphone during the studio recording, so the noises were taped by Bowie instead. ‘Dance Magic’ gave me a bit of a problem. It’s a song for the Goblin King and the baby. In the recording studio the baby I picked – one of the backing singers, Diva, had this cute little baby, and couldn’t put two gurgles together! [laughs] And it wouldn’t work for me. I mean it just wouldn’t go; I kicked it, I did everything to make it scream, and it really buttoned its lip. So I ended up doing the gurgles, so I’m the baby on that track as well. I thought, ‘What the hell, I’ve done ‘Laughing Gnome’, I might as well go all the way.’ I never thought in twenty years I’d come back to working with gnomes." This version is particularly wonderful. Kelley Polar, born Michael Kelley, is an American musician, alternative dance vocalist and music producer. He is based in Sullivan, New Hampshire. What I love most about his take on the song is that it harkens back to another beloved band...Sparks. Seriously...this could be a Sparks song!	1:17:14 (Pop-up)
Stereo Total	Heroes "Heroes" by "Stereo Total"	Heroes 7"	Disko B	2013	Stereo Total was a Berlin-based multilingual, French-German duo which comprised Françoise Cactus (born Françoise van Hove and formerly co-leader of the West Berlin band Les Lolitas) and Brezel ('pretzel') Göring (aka Friedrich von Finsterwalde, born Friedrich Ziegler, ex-Haunted Henschel, Sigmund Freud Experience). Mainstays of the electroclash and synthpop movement of the early 2000's their career gave us many delightful nu-disco synthy pop gems that were always playful and tongue in cheek. Their version of Heroes stands apart from others in that it does not attempt the "serious" retelling of that fateful original story behind the song...and keeps it light and playful..true to their style! Says Tony Visconti of the sessions for the original..."They use “Heroes” for every heroic event, although it’s a song about alcoholics. We did it on twenty-four tracks in Hansa Studios in Berlin. With all of the backing vocals and instruments on it, we only had one track left for the vocal. So Bowie would do a take and listen to it and he’d say: ‘I think I’ve got one better.’ And I’d say, ‘Well, you know we can’t keep that take.’ This was before digital recording. So he’d pull his socks up, take a deep breath, and go and do a better take than the one he did before. And that was it, it was gone, the previous vocal was gone. We kept doing that. Having experience in the studio, you have to know when to say, ‘I think we’ve got the take.’ There’s no way of going back to take five or take two; they were gone, evaporated. I did a lot of records that way. That’s when you work as a team, as a producer, coach, singer, artist. Everybody’s on the same page and everyone is just hyped up with adrenaline."	1:22:33 (Pop-up)
Jahrukus feat. Bunny Rugs	Ashes To Ashes	Ashes To Ashes/Island Girl Single	Soul Messin' Records	2021	Who knew that Reggae and Bowie would go just so well together! This version of Ashes to Ashes is by Jahrukus and Bunny Rugs and it DELIVERS. Jahrukus (Jah-ruckus) pay homage to the early Tuff Gong era, active on the Melbourne club scene circa 2005-08, the five-piece ensemble won local and international acclaim and a clutch of major awards nominations. Believed to be the first reggae version of Bowie’s timeless classic “Ashes to Ashes”, it was recorded above a crash-repairs shop in the south of Melbourne between one and five o’clock in the morning after a gig, and before the shop opened. It was a fan attending a concert who gave the band the idea, when they said: “This band is so good, you could re-work any song into a reggae jam”. So they did! The sub-text of ‘Ashes To Ashes’ is quite obviously the nursery rhyme appeal of it and for me it’s a story of corruption. It’s also about as subversive as one can get in popular music terms inasmuch as I would love to get a record played by the BBC containing the word “junkie”. I thought that was quite successful (grins). There’s not much you can do these days; we’re all such a blasé, world weary lot (laughs). But if one can make anything more serious out of it all other than that it’s The Further Stories Of, it’s that when I originally wrote about Major Tom I was a very pragmatic and self-opinionated lad that thought I knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should stop. Here we had the great blast of American technological know-how shoving this guy up into space and once he gets there he’s not quite sure why he’s there. And that’s where I left him. Now we’ve found out that he’s under some kind of realisation that the whole process that got him up there had decayed, was born out of decay; it has decayed him and he’s in the process of decaying. But he wishes to return to the nice, round womb, the earth, from whence he started. I guess it’s that simple. I really don’t think there’s anything more insidiously perverse about the thing at all. It really is an ode to childhood, if you like, a popular nursery rhyme. It’s about space men becoming junkies (laughs). David Bowie	1:25:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Easy Star All-Stars	Five Years Dub	Ziggy Stardub	Easy Star Records	2023	I cannot get enough of this and I hate having to talk over it!	1:29:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vitamin String Quartet	Let's Dance	VSQ Performs David Bowie	Vitamin Records	2002		1:33:12 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA)	The Next Day Extra EP	Columbia / ISO Records / Legacy / Sony	2013 / 2023	Issued as a digital EP ijn 2013 & reissued for 2022 record store day. Written-By – David Bowie // Vocals, Keyboards – David Bowie // Bass – Gail Ann Dorsey // Drums – Zachary Alford // Guitar – Gerry Leonard // Handclaps ["Clapping Chorus"] – Hishan Bharoocha*, James Murphy, Jordan Hebert, Matthew Thornley // Producer [Remix Produced By], Remix [Remix Mixed By] – James Murphy, who is, of course: "James Jeremiah Murphy; Born February 4, 1970; an American musician, producer, DJ, and co-founder of record label DFA Records. His most well-known musical project is LCD Soundsystem."	1:36:24 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Seven (Beck Mix #1) "Seven (Beck Mix #1)" by "David Bowie"	Hours... [Expanded Version]	ISO Records	1999 / 2004	Beck, in some of his reflections about one of his musical heroes, David Bowie: "David Bowie started making records around the beginning of my life, and his career kind of tracks with my life. There’s always been a David Bowie record. He’s always been doing something. He’s always been kind of guidepost or gravitational force for me. He’s someone that you set course to or measure what you’re doing against. If you’re working on something intently and you don’t know if it’s complete garbage or a waste of time, there are certain works or artists you look to and go, “How far off course am I here? Because I know that’s good. That’s the top of the mountain, and are we going the opposite way here? //// He was really one of those figures to a lot of musicians. I think that has a lot to do with his singular approach to what he did, which was to take from theater, literature, pop culture, avant-garde and create this modern concept that maybe began with Sgt. Pepper’s, where you’re bringing in all these mediums together and creating something new and three-dimensional. For me, as a working musician, I have always been in awe of how he was able to manage to write these classic songs and create a sort of visual language around each body of music; these ambitious stage productions, iconic videos and imagery. To do one is really a full-time endeavor. You got the idea of a mad scientist, somebody in the laboratory who’s sort of lost all sense of place and time. Believe me, I’ve been there, where you haven’t slept in months and you’re just kind of a mess, but he was able to do it with this kind of calm, effortlessness about it that is really interesting. I’ve worked with people that have worked with him, and I’ve heard he’d come in and just kind of come up with something and sing it once or twice and be done. It doesn’t conjure up the typical struggle and Sturm und Drang of trying to get great art. When an artistic presence infuses so much, when that person’s gone, there’s such a tremendous absence that it almost feels like losing family."	1:46:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Bowie	Little Wonder (Danny Sabre Dance Mix)	Earthling (Expanded Edition)	Sony / ISO	1997 / 2015	"Danny Saber (born 1966) is a musician in Los Angeles. He is an audio engineer, record producer, and remixer as well. He is a former member of Black Grape and Agent Provocateur. He plays organ, and keyboards, and is a prominent Los Angeles DJ. //// Saber is known for diversity in his production and remixing. The genres of the artists with whom he has worked have included pop (Madonna, Seal), rock (David Bowie, U2, Michael Hutchence, The Rolling Stones), heavy metal (Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Marilyn Manson), hip-hop (Busta Rhymes, Public Enemy, Jadakiss). Saber co-produced and performed on Alice Cooper's Along Came a Spider album, and has songwriting credits on eight of the eleven songs on the album. He has scored film music and contributed music to a wide range of films (Blade II, Moulin Rouge!, Dallas 362, The Limey, Played). //// In 1999, Saber worked with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto to form a project named Spontaneous Human Combustion. The project was unusual in that it was among the earliest to make and release music entirely online for free without the involvement of a music label. //// Saber was also a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers."	1:50:33 (Pop-up)
Anna Calvi	Lady Grinning Soul "Lady Grinning Soul" by "Anna Calvi"	Strange Weather	Domino Recording Co	2014	Hearing Anna Calvi wrap her voice around this song is an exercise in sensuality. It is...in a word...incredible. ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ was a departure for Bowie, who had never before put such an open outpouring of desire on record. He had recently spoken of how his emotions often emerged in his lyrics in spite of his natural reservation, and here was the culmination. "I’m a pretty cold person. A very cold person, I find. I have a strong lyrical, emotional drive and I’m not sure where it comes from. I’m not sure if that’s really me coming through in the songs. They come out and I hear them afterward and I think, well, whoever wrote that really felt strongly about it. I can’t feel strongly. I get so numb. I find that I’m walking around numb. I’m a bit of an iceman." - David Bowie	1:56:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:53pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:54pm DJ Babs: Hello hello UD! Great to see ya! Hope you are ready for your fix of Bowie adjacent!!
	7:55pm Robm: evening beach goers
	7:55pm ultradamno: If that means Iggy...
	🏝 7:56pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Bogus Beach Bowies! 🌏🌞🍻😎💨🍺🍺🌊🏖️⛱️🌴
	7:56pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Rob! re: Iggy...shockingly not musically but he shall be mentioned!
	7:57pm DJ Babs: Hello Scott!
	7:57pm ultradamno: ...and Ronnie www.reddit.com... sometimes Dinah i.pinimg.com...
	7:57pm DJ Babs: Tonight I am faced with the additional challenge of putting on a full face of bowie makeup while doing a radio show lol...
	7:57pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @7:57 And Bing!
	7:58pm Robm: ↳ DJ Babs @7:57 good luck with that babs
	7:58pm DJ Babs: haha I will explain why later...
	7:59pm Robm: good morning scott
	8:00pm ultradamno: I hate the little drummer boy though! You know he was lying when he said "come they told me", no one wanted him to show up with a drum, a woman is trying to give birth in a barn...
	8:02pm laurapanic: I like a different and slightly different approach, tops!
	8:03pm ultradamno: ...Scott Walker, certainly.
	8:04pm shellioh: salut mes amis!!!
	8:04pm Robm: i think my 3 bowie songs are blue jean heroes and let’s dance
	8:04pm ultradamno: Covers...I vote for Eater's Queen Bitch.
	8:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Shelli!!!! So good to see ya!
	8:05pm DJ Babs: My favourite song changes all the time I can't pick one...but tonight I'm singing Scary Monsters...Fashion and Under Pressure....
	🏝 8:05pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Robm @7:59 G'day Rob!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	8:06pm DJ Babs: I think right now Repetition is my favourite. The Next Day....I also fucking love Absolute Beginners so much. Same with Loving The Alien
	8:07pm DJ Babs: I loooove this cover!
	8:07pm ultradamno: By the way, if you're looking for something to buy on the return of BC Fridays, Cuntroaches' debut album is now up for pre-order cuntroaches.bandcamp.com...
	8:08pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" by "T... Yes, that Wedding Present song ended with a musical reference to The Fall... Bremen Nacht... Fall-adjacent/Bowie-adjacent/Adjacent-adjacency.
	8:09pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, hello Robm, Hey Scott, Hey Hey Laura, 'Lo Shellioh, hello hello hello!!!
	🏝 8:10pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:02 G'day Laura, still stinkin hot up there mate? 🍻😎🤙💨🍹🌻
	8:11pm Robm: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:09 hi derek
	8:11pm DJ Babs: Hi Laura! Great to see ya!
	8:11pm DJ Babs: I love the sheer audacity of this cover!
	8:16pm Robm: ↳ Song: "Fame" by "Duran Duran" now this is a very interesting version of a david bowie song babs
	8:16pm ultradamno: Matt Fiveash played a Motörhead cover of a certain DB last night filling in for Therese, we discussed how they should have done it as Villains
	8:16pm DJ Babs: Duran Duran certainly have their way with covers, that's for sure! This one is an oooooldie! One of the first records I bought myself!
	8:17pm DJ Babs: I realize this could be HIGHLY divisive but goddamn I cannot get this out of my head this week....it's perfection!
	8:17pm Tyler: Good Evening Bowie Beachers!
	8:18pm DJ Babs: heeeeey Tyler!!! great to see ya!
	8:18pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:17 Hello Tyler! Welcome to the Bowie beach!
	8:18pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:18 Hiya Babs! This Soul Love cover WORKS!
	8:19pm DJ Babs: OH ITS SO GOOD
	8:21pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:18 Hi Derek! Are you wearing your harlequin outfit & walking the beach with your mother followed by a bull dozer?
	8:22pm Tyler: Good Vibes!
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:21 I... Think so?...
	8:24pm Robm: babs i am sure david had security around to keep you from doing that
	8:24pm Dutch___☆___: Ziggy stardub.....BRING IT ON PLZ!!!!
	8:25pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Dutch___☆___ @8:24 Hello Dutch! Welcome!
	8:26pm Tinley Park Randy: Great show! Are you Canadian?
	8:26pm Dutch___☆___: Hi
	8:27pm Dutch___☆___: Gotta check this Ziggy Stardub album...
	8:30pm Tyler: On the original release of Diamond Dogs, 'Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family' is a locked groove, so it just keeps repeating if you have a manual turntable.
	8:30pm ultradamno: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:26 Babs and Derek are both Canadians broadcasting from Canada
	8:31pm Androu B.: Hi Babs! Hi Derek! & Hello Beach Party Paricipants! Julie from Dark Night Of The Soul would be glad to know you guys decided to do this show, as she is as much a Bowie fan as...well, as much as anyone here on the Woof-Moo (listeners included), not to mention rock fans everywhere in the world!
	8:31pm ultradamno: ...err streaming
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:26 Yes, yes, it's true what Ultra says... Toronto, Ontario, to be specific... Welcome Tinley Park Randy... Welcome here!
	8:34pm DJ Babs: Hi Androu! Hi Dutch! Hi Randy! Welcome to the beach!!!
	🏝 8:34pm Kristine: Happy Thursday to you all!
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @8:31 Aww, thanks Androu, that's sweet to know! Hope everyone enjoys... We went a bit sideways in our tribute, and yet, here it is!
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:34 Hi Kristine K... How are things? Hello!
	8:35pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine!!
	🏝 8:36pm Kristine: hiya! I am doing good!
	8:36pm ?: Hi guys!!!!
	8:36pm DJ Babs: Hello ?!
	8:36pm Androu B.: Btw, are you guys feeling the "lake effect" out where you are?
	8:37pm DJ Babs: Ah Derek I love your musical surprises!! And yes it is FUCKING COLD HERE but not as bad as the prairies those poor people had like -42 celcius last week
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Seven (Beck Mix #2)" by "David Bowie" Beck completely deconstructs this song & makes it a completely new racket. I quite love this version. I love irreverant takes on things. Plus, he loves Bowie, so he wasn't taking the piss.
	🏝 8:38pm Kristine: it was worse yesterday and the day before!
	8:38pm lesliehastonhurst: ? Was me! I forgot to sign in
	8:38pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:37 I welcome the cold & clear skies over the 7-8 weeks of grey & drizzle we had over the holidays...
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ lesliehastonhurst @8:38 Hello Leslieastonhurst! Hello!!!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: hahah! Hi Leslie!!!
	8:39pm lesliehastonhurst: Oh Leslie….
	8:39pm DJ Babs: I admit I have never checked out a ton of David Bowie remixes...ever! So Derek is schoolin me
	8:39pm Tinley Park Randy: Thanks. New to the show. 🤓
	8:40pm Tyler: Beck's got the full tool kit out on this one :)
	8:41pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:40 He really went for it!
	8:41pm Androu B.: There's also AI Bowie covers on YT, and (be forewarned) not all of them are all that good!
	8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:39 Fantastic, TPRandy... It's a Bowie-centric one tonight, so hope that works for you! Sometimes we have themes, sometimes we have not. :)
	8:43pm Robm: ↳ Kristine @8:36 hey kristine
	8:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @8:40 Wonder if that includes the E-meter
	8:44pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:39 Love having new people join our beach party! And yes Androu...we avoided the AI covers..tho I bet Bowie would have been fascinated lol
	8:45pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:43 I forgot, he claims to have never been a Scientologist
	8:45pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @8:43 No Stylophone break, though... :)
	8:46pm Robm: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @8:39 tinley i consider the internet only streams a lot better, because you can hear songs with dirty words and the djs can have potty mouths too
	8:46pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @8:45 live.staticflickr.com...
	8:46pm DJ Babs: ahhh this tour was so good. I loved this album tho it was quite maligned I think by some!
	8:46pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @8:45 Maybe we're all Scientologist now after listening to that mix :)
	8:47pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @8:46 I hope I won't get billed...they do not like people not paying up.
	8:48pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:46 I am forgiving of any album that includes a song as great as 'Little Wonder'.
	8:49pm Robm: ↳ Song: "I'm Afraid Of Americans (NIN V.1 Mix)" by "David ... if trump gets elected again then yes
	8:49pm Tyler: @Babs if you're in need of a Stylophone for tonight's concert, I could bring one of mine.
	8:49pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "I'm Afraid Of Americans (NIN V.1 Mix)" by "David ... I will say that I am very amused that Trent Reznor plays the American stalking & freaking out David Bowie in the video...
	🏝 8:50pm Kristine: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:49 hey derek, isnt he supposed to be a creep anyway??
	8:50pm ultradamno: ↳ Robm @8:49 Magnets will be required to not work when wet by law going forward to make him retroactively correct.
	8:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 Ah, a callback! Nice!
	8:51pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:49 The alternate mixes of the songs from this album are much to my liking, they breathe a little more whereas the originals I find very dense & over-stuffed.
	8:51pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @8:50 I thought that was Thom Yorke
	8:51pm Androu B.: ↳ DJ Babs @8:39 Since you bring that up, I happen to have an ersatz compilation of Bowie remixes (simply titled "Mixes Colection", supposedly released in 2007) in my Bowie mp3 archive, many you may likely haven't heard of. (I'd personally recommend Trent Reznor's remix of "Scary Monsters" and one of "Moonage Daydream" by Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder & UK producer Andy Wright.
	8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @8:49 no stylophone for tonight's tunes! But thank you!!!
	8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 lolz!
	🏝 8:52pm Kristine: i did find that video amusing once upon a time though!
	8:52pm DJ Babs: ↳ Androu B. @8:51 oooohhhhhhhhh anything on Ersatz is always tops!
	🏝 8:52pm Kristine: ↳ ultradamno @8:51 ha!
	8:53pm DJ Babs: uuuuuugh this is so good. I had no idea this existed.
	8:53pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:51 OK - FINE, Babs! I'll just have to busk outside The Piston with my Stylo! :)
	8:53pm DJ Babs: ↳ Androu B. @8:51 ah wait you mean dodgy ersatz not on the label ersatz! Either way very cool!
	8:54pm Androu B.: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 Yes, when I say "ersatz", I mean it was cobbled up & compiled in an archive
	8:55pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @8:51 Sounds like some excellent mixes might be lurking out there! My cobbling was piecemeal at best. I'd love to have found some of the more obscure mixes out there...
	8:56pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 This is a great mix by Air. The year Bowie died I made a mega-comp of alternate versions I called 'Capsule' & included this. I also took my family to see the 'Celebrating Bowie' show at the Danforth Music Hall. I think you were there, Babs & Derek.
	8:59pm ultradamno: I can't think of a direct Bowie cover by Björk, but more than anyone, I think her work is healthily informed by him...
	9:00pm Androu B.: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:55 Ever heard of Go Home Productions? That was a fella from Scotland by the name of Mark Vidler who made a name for himself as one of the first mashup artists. He did a mix called "Bowie X" which coincided with the realease of the "Reality" album (also featured on the compilation I just mentioned earlier).
	9:04pm DJ Babs: Yes! I love Go Home Productions...he is fantastic. He did a ton of great mashups I used to spin them all the time in my indie sleaze rock days!
	9:08pm ultradamno: Also Stephen Hawking was born on January 8 and, of course, Noah Cyrus.
	9:11pm Tyler: This one has a very Japan feel to it.
	9:11pm DJ Nico: Better late...
	9:11pm Bob Barth: BOWIE NIGHT!! I love it. We must be drinking from the same well. Hey D & B! Hey Everybody!!
	🏝 9:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:00 I have definitely heard of Go Home Productions, but am not really familiar with it at all... Sounds interesting... I've definitely encountered it through my radio travels over the years, but I do not really know the world of Go Home Productions.
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:11 Hi Nico!
	9:14pm DJ Babs: Hi Will Hi Nico! Hi Bob!
	9:15pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @9:11 Well well, Bob... The well from which we drink... And what is forthcoming in Sheena's on your "One Night Stand" programme...???
	9:16pm ultradamno: Well, that is a pretty long title about a guy doing something, but it's no The Supreme's Dr Goodfoot & The Bikini Machine
	9:16pm Androu B.: ↳ DJ Babs @9:04 Some of my faves are "Bus Stop Runner", "ABBA & The Bunnymen", "Ray Of Gob", "Paperback Believer" & "Wrapped Detective". You might also remember he was the one responsible for "Rapture Riders" which actually made it's way onto a Doors compilation.
	9:17pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:16 Ah yes... I do know at least a couple of those... Definitely "Rapture Riders"... Yes, yes... Excellent stuff!
	9:17pm Bob Barth: Thanks for asking Derek! Tonight we are checking the sexy, disco, blue eyed-soul of Mayer Hawthorne!! That plus all the usual madness coming up in the next hour!
	9:19pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @9:17 Fantastic Bob... Can't wait! Everyone, find your way from here to there... Bob Barth follows us in Sheena's...
	9:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Androu B. @9:16 I was suggesting last night I want to hear a I Wanna Be Your Dogfood...I think a Stooges mashup with Iggy Pop isn't too incestuous
	9:22pm Tyler: This is pretty EPIC! Hope you'll play it at Juicebox sometime. I'd dance to this...
	9:24pm DJ Nico: Love Stereo Total
	9:25pm Tyler: Nice bridge!
	9:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:24 They're a great band!
	9:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Heroes" by "Stereo Total" It's a great version!
	9:26pm Tyler: Funk To Funky... :)
	9:27pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @9:22 Duly noted! Also I can't give up the Bowie reggae
	9:27pm ultradamno: Tom Dash got me thinking recently, are there sub-genres of egg punk...scrambled, poached, over-easy etc?
	9:27pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:27 It WORKS! This is GREAT!
	9:29pm ultradamno: Eggs punk benedict would be fancy
	9:30pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:29 Haha... Questions that beg answers... Egg answers...
	9:30pm Androu B.: ↳ Bob Barth @9:17 Hi Bob! Just want to share something with you. Micah, host of Music Of Mind Control on the mothership played this track that I believe might be right up your alley! This is by the New Hope International Singers, a chorus group consisting mainly of stage actors assembled by the Unification Church. It actually has the sound & feel of a stage show, so you might enjoy this: https://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=3&show=135959&archive=246986&starttime=0:41:59
	9:30pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:29 Eggs Punk Benedict Arnold :)
	9:31pm Tyler: 500 Years...
	9:37pm Androu B.: Last year, I (re)watched "The Man Who Fell To Earth". Strange and surreal at times, but Bowie's performance was typically irreverent. (Now if I can only find a streaming service that's playing "Christian F"...)
	9:37pm Tyler: James Jeremiah Murphy - that's my name, too! Whenever we go out, the people always shout...
	9:37pm Bob Barth: ↳ Androu B. @9:30 Why thank you! I'll totally take a look see. Thanks.
	9:38pm Tyler: ↳ Androu B. @9:37 Have never seen 'Christian F.' and to this day, have never seen a VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu Ray, etc of it...
	9:39pm Tyler: ↳ Tyler @9:38 .. but I do have the soundtrack on cassette.
	9:42pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:38 Only recently when I caught a scene from the movie (on YT, I think) did finally understand what the premise of it was.
	9:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:42 I am not familiar with it at all...!
	9:44pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:38 Also will never forget his role as a detective in "Fire Walk With Me".
	9:44pm shellioh: what a fabulous selection of tunes tonight guys! thanks for making work so much more enjoyable! 🥰❤️😊
	9:45pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ shellioh @9:44 Awww... Thanks for dropping back to the comments to let us know that, Shellioh... Glad to have helped make enjoyment...!
	9:45pm ultradamno: It's a shocking film, just ask it www.imdb.com...
	9:47pm Androu B.: Babs, for those here who may have never heard it, see if you can fit in "I'm Deranged" from the Outside album.
	9:47pm ultradamno: TP: FWWM is his cinematic high point
	9:48pm Tyler: ↳ Androu B. @9:44 Yes, I'm a big Lynch fan and remember that scene vividly.
	9:49pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:48 It was shown again in a flashback on an ep of Twin Peaks: The Return.
	9:50pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Seven (Beck Mix #1)" by "David Bowie" This Beck remix is a little less kitchen-sinkish, than the other one, maybe?
	9:50pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:45 I seem to recall reading it created quite a stir when it came out. I don't know if it's ever been released in North America. It certainly hasn't passed through my radar...
	9:52pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:50 The previous Beck mix was almost like a deconstruction of the song, kind of exploring all of its musical possibilities. This one retains more of the original melody & tone with some nice production touches. IMO
	9:52pm Androu B.: ↳ Tyler @9:50 If it was ever shown in the US, it most likely was relegated to urban art house cinemas.
	9:52pm ultradamno: Also, The Hunger i.pinimg.com...
	9:54pm Tyler: ↳ Androu B. @9:52 I don't recall it being screened at any of our Rep Theatres in Toronto, nor at Cinmetheque or TIFF Bell Light Box. I might have to plant the suggestion at The Paradise or Fox Theatre to see if they might screen it for us.
	9:54pm DJ Nico: Thanks Babs and Derek!
	9:54pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Little Wonder (Danny Sabre Dance Mix)" by "David ... I have both the official CD single & the radio-only promo version with callouts.
	🏝 9:54pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Babs & Derek! Been enjoying while buzzing about getting stuff sorted. Heading to Trash Cult tonight for Melbourne all Women Punks SPUNK! They look like they have attitude to spare! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌻🌻❤
	9:55pm Tyler: @derek did Beck do 7 remixes of Seven?
	9:56pm Bob Barth: Nailed it!
	9:56pm Tyler: Thanks Derek, Babs, Executive Producer Meepmoop & Bowie Beachers in the chat. Gotta jet to The Piston...
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Well done, guys: a whole show of Bowie that I was not familiar with at all. And I thought I was a fan!
	9:57pm Bob Barth: Welcome to the Panic Room gang! wfmu.org...
	9:57pm Tyler: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Many new sounds for me, as well, and I've been collecting Bowie my whole life...
	9:58pm Tyler: @Derek - this is lovely
	9:59pm Androu B.: Thanks Babs & Derek! This was a marvellous idea for a show! This should be a yearly event for the show! I mean, why not?
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Mr. Fab! Hello! Awww... So happy you found new surprises!
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @9:56 Thanks Tyler, travel safe!
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Androu B. @9:59 Androu, good point... If we can do a whole month of The Fall, surely we can do a yearly Bowie... Haha.
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:54 Thanks Nico!
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:54 Thanks Scott... Have fun!
	🏝 10:02pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Dj Babs and Derek!!!
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @10:02 Thank-you Will thee!
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all, have a wonderful day/night/aft/eve... Whatever you may have, wherever you may be!

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from January 18, 2024

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