The Dream Arena, by Simon Slator

The Dream Arena

by Simon Slator

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	1.	The Dream Arena I 06:09
	2.	The Dream Arena II 04:37
	3.	The Dream Arena III 05:37
	4.	The Dream Arena IV 05:00
	5.	Looking Into Cameras I 05:17
	6.	Looking Into Cameras II 05:07
	7.	Looking Into Cameras III 05:48
	8.	Looking Into Cameras IV 05:13

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By polite request of Seffi Starshine, "The Dream Arena" is now back on Bandcamp. At the time of writing, it's May 6th (Bandcamp Friday), and all monies raised on this day (along with any future sales of this album) will be donated to the DEC's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

www.dec.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal

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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 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 bit the bullet and re-mastered it.

The album was originally recorded by wiring my MiniDisc walkman to the headphone jack of my Casio keyboard, and pressing PLAY on my MIDI sequencer (can't remember the name of it, but it was free). With the exception of Track 8, all of the parts were recorded into two lengthy MIDI files - I didn't start composing the next part until the previous part was finished.

The sound quality of that original master was, without fear of contradiction, DULL! While every attempt has been made to preserve the dynamics of that original master, on a few of the tracks, there wasn't much to work with anyway due to my rather lazy approach to mixing.

The album was re-released as a free download for one month back in May 2021, and is now back as a pay-if-you-want-to with all money earned from it going to charity.

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released April 30, 2001

All sounds and compositions by Simon Slator

"Looking Into Cameras" inspired by the poem of the same name by Colin Townsend

Re-mastered from an ageing CD-R rip (Traxdata brand... remember them?!), February 2021

Play that clunky music, Dudley boy

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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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