Editing Adventures in Modern Recording (section)

== Background ==
On the day studio sessions for ''Adventures in Modern Recording'' were to begin, [[the Buggles]]' keyboardist [[Geoff Downes]] left to form the English rock band [[Asia (band)|Asia]]. Although [[Island Records]]' publisher renegotiated with Downes, his departure gave the publisher a false impression that Buggles singer and bassist [[Trevor Horn]]'s career ended, resulting in Island dropping the duo; this in turn led to Horn's other industry acquaintances having a similar viewpoint. Horn recalled feeling "astounded" and "fucking angry [...] I hadn't even got started yet..."<ref name ="Ianpeel"/> Shortly afterwards, Horn's wife Jill Sinclair made a deal with French label [[Carrere Records]] to fund, promote and release the album.<ref name="Ianpeel">{{cite web|authorlink=Ian Peel (journalist)|last=Peel|first=Ian|date=1 January 2010|url=http://www.trevorhorn.com/horniculture/from_the_art_of_plastic_to_the.html|title=From the Art of Plastic to the Age of Noise|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111231255/http://www.trevorhorn.com/horniculture/from_the_art_of_plastic_to_the.html |archive-date=11 November 2013|publisher=Trevor Horn|access-date=19 May 2013}}</ref>

While ''Adventures in Modern Recording'' was mostly a Horn solo project, Downes was still involved in the writing and production of "Vermillion Sands", "I Am a Camera" and "Lenny" (where he also handled the drum programming) and played keyboards on "Beatnik".<ref name ="Ianpeel"/><ref name = "2010renotes"/> Other collaboraters included [[Julian Mendelsohn]] and [[Gary Langan]] as engineers; [[Anne Dudley]], who would later form [[The Art of Noise]] with Langan and Horn, as keyboardist on "Beatnik"; Horn's long-time collaborator [[Luis Jardim]] as percussion on "Beatnik"; and [[Yes (band)|Yes]] bassist [[Chris Squire]] as providing "sound effects" for the title track.<ref name ="Ianpeel"/><ref name = "2010renotes"/> One of the tracks, "[[I Am a Camera (song)|I Am a Camera]]," started as a Buggles demo that turned into a "slightly more overblown" track for their [[Yes (band)|Yes]] collaboration album ''[[Drama (Yes album)|Drama]]'' (1980), named "[[Into the Lens]]"; although Horn appreciated the Yes version's "unadulterated" melody and complex arrangement, he liked the Buggles' recording more.<ref name ="Ianpeel"/>