James Murphy Drops 10-Minute Remix Of David Bowie Track For 'The Next Day' Collector's Edition

As if we needed more proof that James Murphy is a benevolent disco god who was sent down to make the world a better place through uber-hip throwback jams. The former LCD Soundsystem frontman remixed  David Bowie's "Love Is Lost" for the The Next Day: Collector's Edition, a reissue of Ziggy's latest album.

The track serves as an homage to minimalist composer Steve Reich and apes some of his experiments with music made from handclaps. More importantly, the impressive composition distracts from the Bowie doing a David Bowie impersonation vocals that weighed down the original track (and the album as a whole). Listen to it here.

Here's Murphy's explanation of the track during an interview with BBC Radio 6 (He hits BBC 8: The Ocho later to provide color commentary on the Midget Highland Games).

I was obsessed with Steve Reich's clapping music, so I opened [the remix] with a phasing clapping piece," Murphy explained. "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." 

The Next Day: Collector's Edition drops November 5.