David Bowie: Love is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for The DFA)

James Murphy's Bowie remix, Kishi Bashi, Boston Bun's "Flasher" and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

James Murphy’s Hello Steve Reich Mix of David Bowie’s 2013 track “Love is Lost” has a lot going on. There’s the busy Steve Reich “Clapping Music” beginning and bouncy synths reminiscent of Kraftwerk’s “Pocket Calculator” underscoring Bowie’s tumultuous vocals from the original, and a few piano references to “Ashes to Ashes”—a Ziggy Stardust classic. But as you would expect from two respective legends, the 10-minute …

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James Murphy's Bowie remix, Kishi Bashi, Boston Bun's "Flasher" and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

Fatima: Black Dough (prod. fLako) The stylish doyenne of London-based Eglo Records, Swedish songstress Fatima offers up the B-side to her forthcoming single “Family/La Neta” with the Bandcamp teaser “Black Dough.” Produced by burgeoning beatmaker fLako—a self-described “soul-documentarian”—the song reflects not only their seemingly instinctual harmony together, but their common ground as artists who are able to meld playful compositions with velvety smooth, confident deliveries. …

“Unreliable Machinery”

$2,000 beer, Hypercolor cars, Google's Quantum AI Lab and more in our weekly look at the web

As tech powerhouses like Google and Apple fight to make their products increasingly context aware, Studio NAND is fighting back. Software developers are working to estimate a user’s activity by tracking mobile device sensors to gain insight into that person’s behavior and environment. But will users behave differently knowing their actions are being traced? Studio NAND’s “Unreliably Machinery” project focuses on making up the context, …