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Back in 2000, "Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 2: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music" appeared on the scene 
featuring a startling casiotone / vocal interpretation of the Electric Prunes' "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night" 
credited to the Space Lady. The internet being the universal embracer of all things weird and wonderful, it wasn't 
long before word was spreading and now finally in 2013 we have the first widely available commercial collection 
of her music available. Susan Dietrich (that's The Space Lady to you) was apparently a regular sight performing on 
the streets of San Francisco in the late seventies and eighties, with a particularly strong following in the Haight and 
Castro communities. Armed only with a casiotone keyboard with inbuilt drum machine, she tackled popular hits 
that ranged from "Fly Like An Eagle" to "Puttin' On The Ritz" running them through her own unique filter, and 
the results are unlike anything that you're likely to hear anywhere else. Let me also clarify that the Space Lady is 
in no way a novelty act. While the eccentric elements of her music and costuming would naturally lead one to 
that conclusion - at least on paper, the recordings on offer here transcend their confined trappings and are 
something very special indeed. Dietrich's voice is heavily treated with echo and phaser, giving it an otherworldly 
beauty that makes even the most familiar of these tunes sound impossibly exotic, and her fragile, crystaline 
phrasing often brings to mind a psychedelicized Judee Sill. Originally recorded for a self released 1990 cassette 
tape (complete with mood enhancing but never distracting analogue hiss), these tracks are deceptively complex 
interpretations of often quite simple songs, which refuse to be pigeon-holed but would nestle comfortably among 
the Pram, Silver Apples, Broadcast and Fifty Foot Hose albums in your collection. Highlights are numerous - "Born 
To Be Wild" with it's mind expanding space pop breakdown, but literally anything plucked from here will make an 
impression. And the best news?  Dietrich has returned to making music after a considerable time away.

Tracks
01. Humdinger 2:44
02. Synthesize Me 4:45
03. Major Tom 5:15
04. Ghost Riders In the Sky 5:06
05. Domine, Libra Nos / Showdown 4:09
06. Fly Like an Eagle 3:14
07. Born To Be Wild 4:36
08. I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night 4:35
09. From the Womb To the Tomb 2:45
10. Ballroom Blitz 1:52
Bonus Cd
01. All Shook Up 3:34
02. Slapback Boomerang 2:57
03. Puttin' On the Ritz 3:28
04. Radar Love 4:45
05. 20th Century Fox 4:03
06. Shakin' All Over 3:10