It had been a while since we heard any details on the release, so we decided to do a quick Google search. We quickly stumbled upon a recent press release posted on the Duran Duran’s website and here’s what we learned. The release, titled Repetition – A Tribute to David Bowie, is now scheduled for release on September 6th as a two-disc set, available as a limited CD, limited double LP, and download with bonus tracks.

An updated tracklisting features a couple significant changes from the original. For one, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes and Jessica 6 are now included, while Soulwax and Marco Benevento are nowhere to be found (perhaps they’ll be included in the bonus tracks?). Also, MGMT, which previously had a TBA for its contribution, is now listed as the authors behind a rendition of Bowie’s 1976 single “TVC 16″.

For those looking to ensure that they’ll get a physical copy, Manimal is now accepting pre-orders. Find the album art to your top right and complete tracklist below.

Repetition – A Tribute to David Bowie Tracklist:
Disc 1:
01. Exitmusic – “Space Oddity”
02. Duran Duran – “Boys Keep Swinging”
03. Megapuss (Devendra Banhart) – “Sound + Vision” (en espanol)
04. Warpaint – “Ashes to Ashes”
05. Charlift – “Always Crashing in the Same Car”
06. A Place to Bury Strangers – “Suffragette City”
07. All Leather – “Fame”
08. We Are The World – “Afraid of Americans”
09. Carla Bruni – “Absolute Beginners”
10. VOICEsVOICEs – “Heroes”
11. Corridor – “Be My Wife”
12. Vivian Girls – “John, I’m Only Dancing”
13. Lights – “World Falls Down”
14. Keren Ann – “Life on Mars”
15. Genuflex – “Soul Love”
16. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes – “Memory of a Free Festival”

Disc 2:
01. MGMT – “TVC 15″
02. Aska & Bobby Evans (feat. Moon & Moon) – “African Night Flight”
03. Tearist – “Repetition”
04. The Polyamorous Affair – “Theme From Cat People”
05. Halloween Swim Team – “Look Back in Anger”
06. Jessica 6 – “I’m Deranged”
07. Rainbow Arabia – “Quicksand”
08. Swahili Blonde (feat. John Frusciante) – “Red Money”
09. Aquaserge – “The Superman”
10. Sister Crayon – “The Bewlay Brothers”
11. Lewis & Clarke – “Changes”
12. Mechanical Bride – “Sound + Vision”
13. Zaza – “It Ain’t Easy”
14. Ariana Delawari – “Ziggy Stardust”
15. Mick Karn – “Ashes to Ashes”
16. Xu Xu Fang – “China Girl”

But it’s this new Bowie tribute album that has most caught our attention. After all, as TwentyFourBit has discovered, Manimal Vinyl‘s forthcoming tribute sports quite the list of contributors. Quite, as in everyone from MGMT, Vivian Girls, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Chairlift to Devendart Banhart’s Megapuss, ex-Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante (playing w/ Swahili Blonde), Duran Duran, and Carla Bruni, aka the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Also lending their talents are Soulwax, We Are The World, Rainbow Arabia, Warpaint, The Polyamorous Affair, and 1/2 of the Benevento Russo Duo, Marco Benevento.

Yeah, you’re probably never going to see a tracklist like this again.

The yet-to-be-titled affair is expected to be released in May, and, according to Manimal Vinyl, tracks “will start leaking around February 15th.” Of course, the the whole thing is for charity, with 100% of the net profits going to War Child UK — a branch of an international charity for children affected by war.

Check out the 28-song tracklist below. Now ends the most enjoyable news story I have written in sometime.

Tracklist:
01. Exitmusic – “Space Oddity”
02. Vivian Girls – “John, I’m Only Dancing”
03. Megapuss (Devendra Banhart) – “Sound + Vision” (en espanol)
04. Carla Bruni – “Absolute Beginners”
05. Lights – “World Falls Down”
06. VOICEsVOICEs – “Heroes”
07. Duran Duran – “Boys Keep Swinging”
08. MGMT – TBA
09. Charlift – “Always Crashing in the Same Car”
10. Aska w/ Moon & Moon – “African Night Flight”
11. A Place to Bury Strangers – “Suffragette City”
12. The Polyamorous Affair – “Theme From Cat People”
13. Keren Ann – “Life on Mars”
14. Swahili Blonde (feat. John Frusciante) – “Red Money”
15. Marco Benevento – “Art Decade”
16. Corridor – “Be My Wife”
17. Aquaserge – “The Superman”
18. Warpaint – “Ashes to Ashes”
19. Rainbow Arabia – “Quicksand”
20. We Are The World – “Afraid of Americans”
21. Laco$te – “Within You”
22. Ariana Delawari – “Ziggy Stardust”
23. Pizza! – “Modern Love”
24. St Clair Board – “Secret Life of Arabia”
25. Caroline Weeks – “Starman”
26. Amanda Jo Williams – “The Man Who Sold the World”
27. Mick Karn – “Ashes to Ashes”
28. Soulwax – TBA