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Looking Into Cameras 2021

by Simon Slator

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Do not pay more than 50p for this three-track single.
(That's the closest I'll ever get to sounding like Billy Bragg!!!)

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On my hard drive is a folder labelled "Juvenalia". This folder contains the works of one Simon Slator, back when he was between 18 and 22. So young and naive was he, he didn't know that he'd spelled "Juvenilia" wrong until he was almost 42. Almost everything he wrote into FastTracker/ModPlug modules was in here, as were his early attempts at MIDI recording, of which this is one.

I have very little love for these early recordings, not least because they sound absolutely dreadful - I knew bugger all about mixing and mastering back then. Despite this, I have been told on occasion - by real people who weren't drunk - that "The Dream Arena" is actually quite good. 2021 marks its 20th Anniversary, so I thought I'd attempt to re-record one of its tracks as a potential "single"

It's not an exact note-for-note re-recording, but it certainly sounds better-mixed than the original.

There's a little easter egg in there too... see if you can spot it!

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released April 30, 2021

Originally recorded for "The Dream Arena", 2001
Inspired by the second verse of a poem of the same name by Colin Townsend

Produced by Simon Slator, February 2021

I totally nailed that solo... not!

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Simon Slator Tamworth, UK

That bloke who used to make nice music like "Four Patterns", then went all dark and psychedelic and droney and all that 'evvy stuff.

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