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== Recording ==
== Recording ==
Much like previous albums, the songs were first tracked acoustically at Corgan's house in late 1998<ref name="late 1998">{{cite web |url=http://www.spfc.org/band/studio.html?session_id=46 |title=spfc.org : Studio Sessions : Late 1998 – Sadlands (Billy's House) |work=spfc.org |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref> before the band set to work on them at their practice space and the [[W:Chicago Recording Company|Chicago Recording Company]]. The recording was conducted with the team responsible for finishing ''Adore'' – co-producer [[Flood]] and engineers Howard Willing and [[W:Bjorn Thorsrud|Bjorn Thorsrud]].
Much like previous albums, the songs were first tracked acoustically at Corgan's house in late 1998<ref name="late 1998">{{cite web |url=http://www.spfc.org/band/studio.html?session_id=46 |title=spfc.org : Studio Sessions : Late 1998 – Sadlands (Billy's House) |work=spfc.org |accessdate=October 9, 2012}}</ref> before the band set to work on them at their practice space and the [[Chicago Recording Company]]. The recording was conducted with the team responsible for finishing ''Adore'' – co-producer [[Flood]] and engineers Howard Willing and [[W:Bjorn Thorsrud|Bjorn Thorsrud]].


The band took a break from recording in April 1999 to embark on the Arising! tour, which took the band to nine small clubs. After the tour's conclusion, the bass guitarist, [[D'arcy Wretzky]], left the band, leaving the rest of them in a difficult position. Corgan later said, "This put a stress obviously on the full integrity of the project, because it was connected to the band not only bringing the music to fruition fully, but also the public component of being in character. I ended up in a broken band with a half-ass enthusiasm towards finishing a project already started."<ref>[http://hipstersunited.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/ch6the-story-of-machina-so-what-could-i-do-but-try-to-finish/] Archive of [http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/news_9270]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. September 12, 2008.</ref>
The band took a break from recording in April 1999 to embark on the Arising! tour, which took the band to nine small clubs. After the tour's conclusion, the bass guitarist, [[D'arcy Wretzky]], left the band, leaving the rest of them in a difficult position. Corgan later said, "This put a stress obviously on the full integrity of the project, because it was connected to the band not only bringing the music to fruition fully, but also the public component of being in character. I ended up in a broken band with a half-ass enthusiasm towards finishing a project already started."<ref>[http://hipstersunited.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/ch6the-story-of-machina-so-what-could-i-do-but-try-to-finish/] Archive of [http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/news_9270]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. September 12, 2008.</ref>