Pointless is as pointless does. Guetta may share his forename with the legend that is David Bowie, but he sure shares little as far as DB�s pioneering music visions have always gone.
For want of a more detailed description, all Guetta has done is nicked a sample from Bowie�s original classic anthem �Heroes� and tackily nailed a phat-as-feck club beat to the original tune that�s barely recognizable beneath the naff pound � that does nothing for the song whatsoever.
Why? Why? Why? And has Bowie himself commissioned such a �remix�? He may make a few quid in royalties and it might just introduce his music to the current youth of today (if indeed this tune does make it big in Clubland), but to be perfectly honest the result is simply cheap, minimalist and nasty.
Bowie is no stranger to producing music that�s purposefully beat-led not simply as a means to an end but in the context of some downright awesome songs as witnessed on one of his most under-rated albums, �Earthling.� If only he�d taken it upon himself to remix his �Heroes.� At least then we�d have been guaranteed 143% originality.
�If just for one day��
6/5 (for the Bowie/Eno-penned underscore); 0/5 (against this �re-mixed� waste of time)
(STEVE RUDD)