Artist: Momus & Germlin

You know Momus, of course. Sophisticated, educated, devastatingly sexy, it's almost as if he's the Doklands of music. Here he is in collaboration with Joe Germlin, king of the 8-bit arcade machine wall of sound. Ask yourself, which is the more authentic sound of 1980: David Bowie or Defender ? Why bother to pick when you can have both at once, in the form of this utterly crazed cover version. There's something of the broken-down fairground ride in Ashes to Ashes . It's woozy and staggering rather than conventionally glitchy, and crammed [...]

• Momus & Germlin - Ashes To Ashes
• Momus & Germlin - Ashes To Ashes