They are best known for 1979 debut single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which topped the UK Singles Chart and reached number one in 15 other countries.
Adventures in Modern Recording is their second studio album, released on 11 November 1981 by Carrere Records. Made one year after their stint as members of Yes, the album contains nine tracks, including a stripped-down version of Yes's "Into the Lens", here entitled, "I Am a Camera". The album as released was mostly a Trevor Horn solo effort, Geoffrey Downes having joined Asia before recording began. Bruce Woolley assisted in completing the tracks.
Adventures in Modern Recording was one of the earliest to use the Fairlight CMI, one of the first digital sampling synthesizers.
Although Adventures suffered commercial failure in the United Kingdom, it did get chart performance in the United States, reaching number 161 on the Billboard 200. Like The Age of Plastic it was positively received by critics. Both "We Can Fly from Here" and "Riding a Tide" (appearing as demos on the 2010 reissue) were rerecorded by Yes (with Horn as producer and Downes on keyboards) for their 2011 studio album Fly from Here.
According to Trevor Horn, Adventures in Modern Recording was planned to be more "left-field" than The Age of Plastic: "We had some pretty weird material. Things like ‘Vermillion Sands’ and some weird little things that we’d done. The best we had was ‘I Am A Camera’ which had been one of the things that was a demo we’d done on a Sunday afternoon and was one of the best things Geoffrey [Downes] and I ever did I thought."
As Adventures was about to be recorded, Downes left to form the band Asia, and the Buggles were dropped from Island Records. Jill Sinclair made a deal with French label Carrere Records, with DJ Claude Carrere helping fund the album.
While Adventures in Modern Recording was mostly a Trevor Horn solo project, Downes was still involved in the project. He has writing and production credits on three tracks from Adventures, "Vermillion Sands", "I Am a Camera" and "Lenny", where he also handled the drum programming, as well as being the keyboardist on a song he didn't co-write with Horn, "Beatnik". Australian producer Julian Mendelsohn and Gary Langan, who also handled the mixing and recording for The Age of Plastic were engineers on the album.
Langan, Horn, and Anne Dudley, who is credited as keyboardist on "Beatnik", would later form The Art of Noise. Other note-worthy contributors including percussion on "Beatnik" was from Horn's long-time collaborator Luis Jardim, while Yes bassist Chris Squire was brought on board to provide "sound effects" for the title track.
Horn said, "There were bits of Geoff on it and bits of Simon Darlow. But I finished it off myself with Gary [Langan]. But really by the time I’d finished it off I’d sort of lost interest in it a little, because I didn’t think there was a single there…"
This album also marks the first time in Horn's production career that he had worked with sampling, which the sampling techniques on Adventures would later be used for records Horn produced like Slave To The Rhythm by Grace Jones, Art of Noise's The Seduction of Claude Debussy and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome. Adventures in Modern Recording was one of the first commercially available albums to feature sounds from the Fairlight CMI, one of the first digital sampling synthesizers.
"Things like ‘Beatnik’ were me just messing around with gear and just having a silly idea,” he said. “I was quite fascinated by Fairlight brass and all of those kind of things that Geoffrey and I had started messing around with before he went off to join Asia. And I thought that was a pretty good direction... So I sort of perfected a load of production tricks on Adventures In Modern Recording. Loads of productions tricks…"
Side A
A1. Adventures in Modern Recording - 3:46
A2. Beatnik - 3:38
A3. Vermillion Sands - 6:48
A4. I Am a Camera - 4:56
Side B
B1. On TV - 2:48
B2. Inner City - 3:22
B3. Lenny - 3:12
B4. Rainbow Warrior - 5:22
The Buggles
- Geoff Downes – keyboards, drum programming, production
- Trevor Horn – vocals, bass, guitar, drum programming, production
- John Sinclair – drum programming, cymbals, guitar, vocals, production
- Simon Darlow – keyboards and guitar
- Chris Squire – sound effects
- Anne Dudley – keyboards
- Luís Jardim – percussion
- Bruce Woolley – vocals
- Danny Schogger, Rod Thompson – keyboards
- Gary Langan, Julian Mendelsohn – engineering
- Stuart Bruce – assistant engineering
- Rory Kee – illustrator
- Glenn Travis Associates – design
Release: 1981
Format: LP
Genre: Synth-pop
Label: Carrere Records
Catalog# 67828
Prijs: €10,00
Vinyl: Very Good
Cover: Very Good
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