Cookie’s monster rendition of Tom Waits’ “God’s Away On Business”…

N.A.S.A. in collaboration with Indaba Music and Anti-Records release ALL the tracks from The Spirit of the Apollo as acapellas and instrumentals – and offer you a tremendous opportunity to remix, mash-up, cut up and create a new N.A.S.A. track. Register HERE to get access to all tracks.

Go crazy with the likes of Kanye West, David Byrne, Chuck D, RZA, The Cool Kids, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Tom Waits, DJ AM, KRS-One, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Lykke Li, Santigold, George Clinton, Scarface and M.I.A – and do your thang.

The winner of the competition will be included on an official remix album of The Spirit of Apollo AND will also receive a cool $1000 for their work! How about them apples?

song by Tom Waits
design, photography and lettering by Jackie Lay
awarded a Certificate of Typographic Excellence by the Type Directors Club

The countdown is on. Santogold, Tom Waits, Kanye West, MIA and David Byrne are among the artists who will appear on NASA’s forthcoming album, The Spirit of Apollo. We refer not, of course, to the USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That NASA, the space-exploring one, is too busy fiddling with Mars probes to lay down tracks with Spank Rock and CSS’s Lovefoxxx. No, we mean the other NASA, a DJ duo also known as North America/South America, who have been putting the record together for years, criss-crossing the globe to work with their favourite musicians. The group is composed of Squeak E Clean – aka DJ Sam Spiegel, brother of director Spike Jonze – and DJ Zegon, aka producer and professional skateboarder Ze Gonzales. The Spirit of Apollo will be released by Anti on February 17. It’s a truly star-studded album, the culmination of five years’ work by Spiegel and Gonzales. "It’s not about cash or anything," Spiegel told NME. "It seems that almost everyone I’ve asked to be on the record has been really down for music just for inspiration … It was like, ‘Oh cool, I like this music, I wanna be involved.‘" The list of cameos is almost unprecedented. DJ AM, who was injured in a plane crash last month, appears. So does the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard and a slew of other Wu-Tang Clan members. Not to mention Chuck D, Seu Jorge, John Frusciante, George Clinton, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O and Nick Zinner, and many more.
(read more @ The Guardian )

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Tom Waits VS Ken Nordine

this is not your happy smiley dancey tune
but the world is not a funny place after all