experiencing under the influence of DMT. He later explained: "I was writing what I felt were some quite soul-searching songs and I wanted to marry it all in another world. In another land, if you will." Kember recorded Forever Alien with fellow members Alf Hardy and Pete Bain, the latter of whom is credited as Pete Bassman. The album was recorded at Cabin Studios, Coventry with Hardy co-producing with Kember (again credited as Sonic Boom). Andre Knecht mastered the album at Ark Digital Pasadena, Canada. Kember was becoming interested in modular synthesisers at the time, including the EMS VCS 3, and became intrigued in the "endless possibilities" he felt they presented. Consequently, Forever Alien was recorded mainly vintage analogue synthesisers. Kember was intrigued with modular synthesis as it allowed him to create more effects than he could with the "limited palette" of a guitar, and also allowed him to "control it with great detail and link things." He later described the VCS 3 as a "very elegant study in limited resources" and noted his taste for the synth's slow modulations and slow changes, which he felt was absent in most synths. He elaborated: "A lot of equipment never lets you get dangerous. You just get this narrow band of what’s considered usable. I like stuff with the safety locks all taken off. I was always interested in sounds that were not really of this world. I very much believe in animism. Inanimate objects and sounds can have real personalities." As Forever Alien was Kember's attempt to explore modular synthesis, the album features little of Kember's guitar work and contains almost no songs with bass. Kember instead plays a range of electronic instruments, namely the EMS VCS 3, EMS Synthi AKS, OSC OSCar, the theremin and the Serge Modular Music System, in addition to singing on the album and using the vocoder. Hardy also uses the vocoder, and plays voltage-controlled synthesisers and the vibraphone, while Bain is credited for "programming vibrations." During recording, Kember contacted former BBC Radiophonic Workshop musician Delia Derbyshire after he noticed his friend's copy of the BBC Radiophonic Music album contained a blurb about Derbyshire that mentioned her birthplace as Coventry. Kember remained friends with the musician for the last years of her life, and credits her with teaching him "pretty much everything I know about the physics of sound. The basis of modular synthesis I taught