I don't mind that, but it made the original mix harder to do because the levels were jumping and there are a few blatant errors. This was the first song we recorded for the album and it was quite messy, really loosey-goosey playing. He was 22 years old, and he was feeling it like the rest of us were feeling it. I'd be writing musicals.’ But on this album, he was speaking for his generation. I asked him, in recent years, ‘What would you have done if you weren't a rock star?’ He goes, ‘Oh, I’d do music hall. He was thinking about himself at 40 or 50 years old-king of the musical theater. He wasn't afraid to be politically incorrect. “ was in a good space when he wrote this. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (2019 Mix)

Like, you don't realize that the drummer and the bass player were really grooving-the kick drum was always buried in the original mix.” I think the mix actually makes your body move. Now I can make the album that I want to make.’ I think I’ve made it sparkle and explode a bit more. I said to David, ‘I suppose you’re going to stay with Gus.’ And he said, ‘No, I've got that out of the way.

The job that Gus Dudgeon did was fantastic. We had just had all these orbits around the Earth, something that was in the news every day.

Here, he guides us through it, track by track. He’s excavated what he calls “hidden treasures”-notes, sounds, vocals-that had been buried in the original mix, and created a brighter, bolder Space Oddity. “So, during the mixes, I turned to that space quite a bit and I said, ‘Well, what do you think, David?’ Not that he answered me, but I just feel like he’s never really left us.” The duo’s bond was strong enough that Visconti can feel confident Bowie would approve of the job he’s done here. “I have this second chance to do something right about that album, and I’m terrified that I might do something wrong,” Visconti says. He sweated over the process in his New York studio, where a framed drawing of Bowie hangs over the spot where rock’s great chameleon would sit while the pair worked on his final albums, The Next Day and Blackstar. I was a novice-a decent musician, but not very good at running production.” That’s why remixing the album for its 50th anniversary was something of a catharsis. The music is great, but the mixing was really bad. “Things that if I could’ve done them better, I would have done them better. Tony Visconti always listens to Space Oddity, the first album he produced for David Bowie, with trepidation.

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