“Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”, a song by British synth-pop duo Eurythmics. It was released as the fourth and final single from their second album in January 1983. It was their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide. It reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in March 1983, and number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 six months later, it was their first single released in the US.

Every synth sound has been reconstructed using the NINA synth. The vocals are taken from the original Eurythmics release and extracted using Ultimate Vocal Remover. The final master I did in Audacity.

Both Audacity and UVR are Open Source and free software.

As always, maybe you like it, maybe you don’t… But who doesn’t like a good synth?

Just dream…

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