The 10-minute James Murphy remix of David Bowie's "Love is Lost," or "Hello Steve Reich Mix," premiered this morning on BBC Radio 6.
The former LCD Soundsystem frontman takes Bowie's track, off the recent The Next Day, and takes it for a clap-driven, choppy-synth ride. About halfway through, the song migrates to a more standard dance track.
Listen to the track now via Consequence of Sound and watch out for it on Bowie's website.
The Next Day is scheduled for release on Nov. 4 as an expanded three-disc set. The collection includes five unreleased tracks and two new remixes (one of which is Murphy's) as well as a DVD.
According to Consequence of Sound, the song came about around the time the two were collaborating on Arcade Fire's "Reflektor" and is an homage to American composer Steve Reich's clapping music.
"I was obsessed with Steve Reich's clapping music, so I opened [the remix] with a phasing clapping piece," Murphy told them. "I had a couple people. I had Hisham Bharoocha, who's this percussionist-artist. He used to be in Black Dice and he's done stuff with the Boredoms and he's a friend of mine. So he was in town and I hadn't seen him. He was doing this [piece] over at the Gallery where he was smashing up a room with some other percussionist-artists and I hadn't seen him in a long time, so I literally just wanted an opportunity to hang out with my friend and work on something (laughs) since I'm always working and they're always working. Sometimes you just have to be, "let's do this thing together," so I had him come over and we just made this little clapping, phasing clapping piece, that began the track. It was originally going to be the whole remix, just clapping."
Listen to Murphy's BBC interview here, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!
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