Editing Adventures in Modern Recording (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Adventures in Modern Recording
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[the Buggles]]
| cover      = AdventuresInModernRecording.jpg
| alt        = In a space with clouds, green grass of shading patterns, and a sky that fades from white to blue lies a plant with various fruits growing out of it and glasses reflecting a window, with the right shade broken and opening another dimension that's black-and-green and grid-like.
| caption    =
| released   = {{start date|1981|11|df=yes}}
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Sarm East Studios|Sarm East]], London<ref name="albumnotes"/>
| genre      = [[Progressive music#Electronic|Progressive electronic]]
| length     = 34:29
| label      = {{flatlist|
* [[Carrere Records|Carrere]]
* [[CBS Records International|CBS]]
}}
| producer   = {{flatlist|
* [[Trevor Horn]]
* [[Geoff Downes]]
* John Sinclair
}}
| prev_title = [[The Age of Plastic]]
| prev_year  = 1979
| next_title =
| next_year  =
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Adventures in Modern Recording
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[I Am a Camera (song)|I Am a Camera]]
 | single1date = 2 October 1981<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1981/Music-Week-1981-10-03.pdf|title=Music Week|page=30}}</ref>
 | single2     = Adventures in Modern Recording
 | single2date = 8 January 1982<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Buggles&titel=Adventures+In+Modern+Recording&cat=s|title=Buggles singles}}</ref>
 | single3     = Lenny
 | single3date = March 1982 (EU)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Buggles&titel=Lenny&cat=s|title=Buggles singles}}</ref>
 | single4     = On TV
 | single4date = 9 April 1982 (UK)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Buggles&titel=On+TV&cat=s|title=Buggles singles}}</ref>
 | single5     = Beatnik
 | single5date = 7 October 1982 (France)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Buggles&titel=Beatnik&cat=s|title=Buggles singles}}</ref>
}}
}}
'''''Adventures in Modern Recording''''' is the second studio album by English [[New wave music|new wave]] group [[the Buggles]], released in November 1981 by [[Carrere Records]]. Although the Buggles began as a duo of [[Trevor Horn]] and [[Geoff Downes]], the album ended up as mostly Horn's solo effort, as Downes left to join the English rock band [[Asia (band)|Asia]] on the day recording was originally scheduled to begin. It contains nine tracks, including a version of a track from the [[Yes (band)|Yes]] album ''[[Drama (Yes album)|Drama]]'' (1980), recorded during Horn and Downes' short initial tenure with the band.  Originally named "[[Into the Lens]]", the Buggles rendition is titled "I Am a Camera". 

A stylistically and sonically varied progressive electronic album, ''Adventures in Modern Recording'' depicts Horn perfecting his skill as producer and was described by journalists as a document for how he would produce his later works. It was one of the earliest albums to use the [[Fairlight CMI]], one of the first digital [[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampling synthesizers]].

Upon its release, ''Adventures in Modern Recording'' faced mixed reviews from [[music journalist|music critics]] and performed poorly commercially in the United Kingdom, failing to make it on the [[UK Albums Chart]]. The album did well in other territories, such as in North America and mainland Europe, reaching number 161 on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. Additionally, retrospective reviews praised how comparable in quality its sound was to music released in later years.

Five [[single (music)|single]]s were released from ''Adventures in Modern Recording'': "I Am a Camera", the title track, "On TV", "Lenny", and "Beatnik". Except for "Beatnik", the singles were minor hits in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, "Lenny" being a top-20 hit in the latter country. Both "We Can Fly from Here" and "Riding a Tide" (appearing as demos on the 2010 reissue) were re-recorded by Yes (with Horn as producer and Downes on keyboards) for their twentieth studio album ''[[Fly from Here]]'' (2011).