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===Sessions with Brothers in Rhythm=== Brothers in Rhythm put together a few songs initially planned for ''Impossible Princess'' but scrapped them because Minogue had started writing and they saw she had development as an artist.<ref name="BiR"/> In order to work closely with Brothers in Rhythm, Minogue shared a house with them across the road from the [[Real World Studios]] in [[Box, Wiltshire]], where each morning she would present a set of lyrics from the night before to Brothers in Rhythm producer [[Dave Seaman]].<ref name="Smith134">{{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=134}}</ref> Minogue then sang her ideas for the melody to the duo who tried to compose the backing tracks, find a suitable style, record rough demos, and add subtle lyric and melody ideas to each of them.<ref name="BiR">{{harvnb|Rees|1999}}; {{harvnb|Deconstruction|1997a|ps=, track 3}}</ref> Production took place mainly at Real World, where the rough demos were rearranged.<ref name="BiR"/> Strings were added at [[Sarm West Studios]] in London, and the tracks were then sent back to Real World for the final mixes, handled by engineer Alan Bremner.<ref>{{harvnb|Rees|1999}}; {{harvnb|Mushroom|1998d}}; {{harvnb|Flynn|2019|ps=: "Non-Stop Dancing" by Hurley, Oliver|page=38}}</ref> From those sessions, Brothers in Rhythm developed five more songs that ended up on the final tracklist: "[[Did It Again (Kylie Minogue song)|Did It Again]]", "Limbo", "Dreams", "Say Hey", and "[[Cowboy Style]]".<ref>{{harvnb|Mushroom|1998d}}; {{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=135}}</ref> "Too Far" was written at Sarm West, where Anderson came up with the piano line on the final version.<ref name="classic38">{{harvnb|Flynn|2019|ps=: "Non-Stop Dancing" by Hurley, Oliver|page=38}}</ref> According to Anderson, the production grew as the song was created, and many ideas on the demos made it onto the finished tracks.<ref name="BiR"/> "Limbo", "Too Far", "Did It Again" and "Cowboy Style", were released in their original demo form because Minogue felt the rawness of the tracks worked better than being polished.<ref>{{harvnb|Deconstruction|1997a|ps=, track 37}}; {{harvnb|Flynn|2019|ps=: "Classic Album: ''Impossible Princess''" by Lindores, Mark|page=48}}</ref> Anderson considered "Too Far" and "Drunk" to be the examples of Minogue's artistic progression, and her poetry lyrics were different from standard pop song structure.<ref>{{harvnb|Rees|1999}}; {{harvnb|Flynn|2019|ps=: "Non-Stop Dancing" by Hurley, Oliver|page=38}}</ref> Pete Hadfield, the label's director, was ill, leaving Minogue to take partial creative control over the project.<ref name="record1">{{harvnb|Flynn|2019|ps=: "Classic Album: ''Impossible Princess''" by Lindores, Mark|page=48}}; {{harvnb|Smith|2014|page=135}}</ref> To help produce the album, she attended each session with Anderson and Seaman to learn about composing, arranging instruments, and distorting sections of the album's tracks.<ref name="interview7">{{harvnb|Deconstruction|1997a|ps=, track 7}}</ref> As a result, she is credited as a co-producer with Brothers in Rhythm on the songs "Too Far", "Breathe", and "Say Hey"; she played the [[synthesizer]] and provided backing vocals.<ref name="linernotes"/>
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