Editing Aztec Camera (section)

===''Dreamland'', ''Frestonia'' and split (1993–1995)===
Frame then recorded the next Aztec Camera album, ''Dreamland'', with Japanese composer [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]]. Released in 1993, the album was mixed by [[Julian Mendelsohn]], who had previously worked with the band. While mixing the album at Hook End Manor, an 18th-century red-brick building that had been converted into a studio in the Berkshire countryside of England, UK, Frame explained that he waited for a lengthy period of time to work with Sakamoto, due to the latter's busy schedule. Frame finally met with Sakamoto in [[Ibiza]] and both eventually recorded the album in New York City, US over a four-week period.<ref name="Giles">{{cite news|author1=Giles Smith|title=MUSIC / The Roddy and Ryuichi roadshow: When Roddy Frame wanted to make his new album with Ryuichi Sakamoto, he had to wait in line. Giles Smith reports|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music--the-roddy-and-ryuichi-roadshow-when-roddy-frame-wanted-to-make-his-new-album-with-ryuichi-sakamoto-he-had-to-wait-in-line-giles-smith-reports-2321177.html|access-date=22 June 2014|work=The Independent|date=6 May 1993}}</ref> Frame's interest in Sakamoto was elaborated upon in the same interview:

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I liked what he did when he was in the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and I also liked that album where he plays the music from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence on piano. That's where you realise that the atmosphere around his compositions is actually in the writing – it's got nothing to do with synthesisers.<ref name="Giles" /></blockquote>

Frame's decision to ask Sakamoto was finalised after he saw his performance at the Japan Festival that was held in London, UK.<ref>{{cite web|title=Roddy Frame Interview Safe in Sorrow, Spanish Horses, Belle of the Ball|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50oDFsCDVLM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/50oDFsCDVLM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|website=mrjbroberts on YouTube|publisher=Google Inc|access-date=22 June 2014|format=Video upload|date=10 March 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> During the recording process, Frame's routine consisted of: working in the studio from the early afternoon until around 2{{nbsp}}am; a turkey sandwich at a deli off [[Times Square]] ("because it was possible to get one at two in the morning, and for no other reason"); a cab-ride back to the [[Mayflower Hotel]], where he was staying; an hour of listening to [[Shabba Ranks]]; and then bed.<ref name="Giles" />

For Frame's final album under the Aztec Camera moniker, and the last original studio recording for the WEA label, Frame worked with renowned production team [[Clive Langer|Langer]]-[[Alan Winstanley|Winstanley]], who had previously worked with [[Madness (band)|Madness]] and [[Elvis Costello]].<ref>{{cite web|title=CLIVE LANGER & ALAN WINSTANLEY: Producing Madness, David Bowie, Mick Jagger & Elvis Costello|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul98/articles/langer.html|work=Sound on Sound|publisher=SOS Publications Group|access-date=17 April 2014|date=July 1998}}</ref> ''[[Frestonia (album)|Frestonia]]'' was released in 1995 and the Reprise Records label issued it in the US. "Sun" (1996) was the only one song from the album that was released as a single.