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''Adventures in Modern Recording'' is the second and final studio album by British synthpop duo The Buggles, released in 1981 on 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. 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''. ==Background and production planning== On 10 January 1980, The Buggles, a duo of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, released their debut album ''The Age of Plastic''. Labeled by writers as the first electropop landmark,〔 the album, lyrically both promoting and concerning modern technology, included musical influences and elements of disco, punk, progressive rock and pop music from the 1960s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Buggles )〕 Four singles were released from the album, one of them including "Video Killed the Radio Star" which topped sixteen international record charts.〔 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 ‘Vermilion 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 () and I ever did I thought."〔 When ''Adventures'' was about to be recorded, Buggles member Geoff Downes had split from the group to form the band Asia, and the group was also dropped from Island Records, which they originally thought they finished the album. Horn, angered and shocked, had to make a second Buggles, so Jill Sinclair decided she make a deal with French label Carrere Records, and DJ Claude Carrere would help fund the album.〔Peel, Ian (1 January 2010). (From the Art of Plastic to the Age of Noise ). Sleeve notes for the deluxe reissue of ''Adventures In Modern Recording'', posted on trevorhorn.com. Accessed from 19 May 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adventures in Modern Recording」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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