LIFE BEYOND MARS: DAVID BOWIE COVERED - VARIOUS ARTISTS (LP)

Life Beyond Mars: David Bowie Covered -Various Artists on Vinyl LP! 

In 2006, Rapster released the acclaimed Exit Music album featuring adventurous new covers of Radiohead songs by artists as diverse as Sa-Ra, Matthew Herbert and Mark Ronson, whose version of "Just" has endured as one of his most in-demand tracks.

In 2007, as David Bowie turned 60, Rapster embarked on a follow-up, seeing out electronic artists that have been heavily influenced by the legacy of the Thin White Duke. The selected artists could choose any track from his catalog and create their own fresh interpretation, however faithful or different to the original. The result is a fascinating range of interpretations by some of the leading players in today's electronic music from Detroit's Matthew Dear and Carl Craig to Joakim, Playgroup and Au Revoir Simone, all tapping into the cryptic, expressionist core of Bowie originals.

Bowie's Low, one of the famed 'Berlin Trilogy' produced by Brian Eno and the pre-Eno R&B and electronics of Station To Station both loom large as an obvious root source to the machine music of 2008. Elsewhere, the new versions reference Ziggy Stardust's cosmic glam and the cinematic low art of Hunky Dory. Even less acclaimed Bowie albums are re-visited including the Labyrinth soundtrack from 1989 and the dramatic stylings of Tonight from '84.

Life Beyond Mars features specially commissioned illustrated artwork by Berlin artist Maria Tackmann.

Life Beyond Mars: David Bowie Covered Track Listing

1. Au Revoir Simone - Oh! you Pretty Things
2. Heartbreak - Loving The Alien
3. Emperor Machine - Repetition
4. Kelley Polar - Magic Dance
5. Leo Minor - Ashes To Ashes
6. Matthew Dear - Sound & Vision
7. Drew Brown - Sweet Thing
8. Carl Craig - Looking For Water
9. Playgroup - This Is Not America
10. Susumu Yokota feat. Efterklang - Golden Years
11. Metronomy - track TBC
12. Jaokim & The Disco - A New Career In Town
13. Richard Walters & Faultline - Be My Wife
14. The Thing - Life On Mars