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Dreams of Leaving |
Written by Philip Oakey, Ian Craig Marsh, Adrian Wright & Martyn Ware. |
Someone stopped the clock when we should have started early |
| Title |  | Dreams of Leaving |
| Songwriter | Philip Oakey, Ian Craig Marsh, Adrian Wright & Martyn Ware. | |
| Vocalist | John von Ahlen | |
| Backing Vocals | ||
| Production # | 209 | |
| Engineer | Juan del Toro | |
| Producer | John von Ahlen | |
| Dedicated to | John Cleese | |
| Studio | Subterrane Recording Studio | |
| Software | Cubase | |
| Instruments | Linn Drum LM1, Fairlight CMI IIx, Arturia Matrix Brute, Moog Voyager II, Roland Jupiter 4 and Jupiter 8, Oberheim OBX-a, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5. | |
| Time | ||
| BPM | 128.100 | |
| Copyright | Subterrane Records 2021 | |
| Appears on |   | |
| Additional Info: Recorded for our cover of the classic Travelogue album, which The Human League originally released in 1979. Released on Compact Disc on conzoom Records. The Deluxe Edition includes 3 Limited Edition CDs. Song production began on Thursday the 20th of February, 2020. Monday the 15th of March, 2021. 2006 hours. I'm working on V3 today. I did the other versions at the start of the year and the year before. Did a double class today of Muay Thai + Boxing as usual at lunchtime. Then I caught up with Paula at 1425 hours and we had coffee at Gloria Jeans. I spilt her coffee when I leaned over to say hello. I went to Sharyn's after that and we walked Jack, Roger and Fritz to CBA so she could get her documents chaged, but CBA was closed so we went to Westpac next door. I waited out the front with the dogs, and then a teller from the bank came out and saidf to me "We're dog friendly! You can wait inside". How lovely that was! And unlike Australia which is usually quite backward when it comes to dog friendly spaces. I got back to the studio around 1635 hours and thought I would play around with some of the new VSTis I bought (cherry Audio and UJam). I first loaded up Parralox - 232 - Prelude in E minor (Op. 28 No. 4) V3 - 2021 03 15, which I added a DCO-106 and printed that version at 1720 hours. I used a free version of the Pro One VSTi but it was unstable, so I deleted it. Then I did Parralox - 232 - Prelude in E minor (Op. 28 No. 4) V4 - 2021 03 15.wav with the new DCO-106 (it's rock solid) and printed that at 1749 hours. I then wanted to try out the Amber VSTi, and thought I would use it on a new Parralox song I was writing (Zenith) but then saw this song, and remembered I hadn't worked on it for ages, and I should really get a move on with it. And maybe how could it work to have some acoustic guitar in the track, even though I had already programmed a fairly dance/techno version. I recorded vocals for the song in the followinhg order V3 - 1809 V4 - 1811 V1 - 1817 V2 - 1825 C1 - 1841 C2 - 1843 C3 - 1850 C4 - 1853 C5 - 1855 Then I played the actual chords and added the acoustic guitar. I got rid of pretty much everything else I had programmed prior, except for the shakers, which I redid anyway. I left in the SFX and the stabby Phil Spector chords, and redid everything else from the ground up. I changed the bagpipe sound. Then I started work on that hideous Middle 8 section. Only hideous because it's such a diversion from the actual song and will be a bitch to program. I've added in tempo changes and manual VCA fades etc. I'm typing these notes now at 2018 hours. The song is half baked, but I think it's well on the way. I think I might be able to add some dance / Linn Drums and make it a biut more in line with the rest of the new versions. For now this is V3. V4 will probably have some drums added. 2142 and i'm printing V3. The pizza is ready! | ||
