"Wasted Time" is a song specially produced for Spectrasonics' 2011 OMG-1 contest: I’m a big fan of Omnisphere, Trilian and Stylus RMX, and when Spectrasonics announced that contest I thought it could be some kind of challenge for me to create a song using primarily sounds of Omnisphere’s Bob Moog Tribute Library.
It all went quite fine so far: the song was written, its instrumental tracks were recorded as well as Frank’s vocals and mine, and still we had 4 weeks time until submission date for Ayuma’s vocal performance — when suddenly Ayuma caught a really bad cold and could not even think of singing.
With Spectrasonics' closing date approximating and Ayuma’s cold not getting better we almost thought that we’d be running out of time so that we would not be able to enter the contest — but then Ayuma finally recovered just 3 days before deadline and so we got everything worked out and ready just a few hours before the official contest closing.
I really love many of the great Synth Pop bands of the Eighties: Human League, Soft Cell, Yazoo, OMD and Tubeway Army (just to name a few), and the sounds of the Bob Moog Tribute Library instantly brought back memories of these days, so “Wasted Time” — a song about falling out of love because the two protagonists didn’t take enough care for their love but took it for granted instead — sounds a lot like the legacy of the golden age of British Synth Pop, although I really can’t recall a song from these days featuring an opera singer (and also many thanks to Frank J. Hennig for his wonderful contribution).
All instruments and male vocals by Sid
Female vocals by Ayuma
Baritone vocals by Frank J. Hennig
Music and lyrics by Sid
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