Kester Jones – Mars Production Remix/Reworking

Here’s my reworking of this song.
Following the contest rules, I kept Steve and Kim’s great vocals exactly the same, but had a lot of fun with the idea of changing everything else and making it unique, including reharmonisation.

It actually started off as a kind of Bossa Nova chord sequence on acoustic guitar, but then gradually evolved into this final version. I’m not really sure what style I’d call this – any suggestions are welcome!

Apart from the drum loops and drum machine, all the instruments are played and, although the Minimoog synth bass and Mellotron are Virtual Instruments, there’s no sequencing, quantising or copy and pasting.

By the way, I added the Mellotrons from the second chorus as a homage to early-period David Bowie, which must have been some inspiration behind the lyrics in the chorus!

Drum loops from Looperman.com, thanks to:
– OwnTempo
– Rasputín
– Alexkvist99