Heart of Glass '99

Back in 1999, Newtone was playing around in the studio together with producer Martin Johnsson, trying out new sounds and ideas. One song that came out of the collaboration was a version of Blondie's classic song. It was never finished and released. The recorded material was lost, save for a mix on CD. Today, we've taken the mix and separated the vocal and bass tracks using Demucs AI algoritm (htdemucs_ft v.4), and finished what we started that afternoon 24 years ago. Sadly, we had to discard Martin's lovely SP1200 drums that couldn't be separated from the sampling from Blondie's original, causing possible copyright issues. The rhumba loop was recreated using Roland CR-78 samples and a new drum track was programmed in the style of the SP1200. The guitars were re-recorded and backing vocals added, together with some Jupiter-8 lushness. Heart Of Glass seemed like an "old" song at the time we recorded it, but this version is actually older today than Blondie's original was then!