''Maybe I'm Dreaming'' is the debut studio album by American electronica project

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, released on March 17, 2008. Despite having been self-released and not recorded by any major producer, it managed to reach the top 20 of the '' Billboard'' Electronic Music Album Chart. The seventh track, "The Technicolor Phase", is featured on '' Alice in Wonderlands compilation album, ''

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''. Following the surprise success of Owl City's second album, '' Ocean Eyes'', ''Maybe I'm Dreaming'' was pressed and re-released by

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on March 30, 2010. An official music video for the song "Early Birdie" was filmed in March 2008 by Adam Young's childhood friends/bandmates Andy and Anthony Johnson (

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), and then released on January 13, 2011, via

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Track listing

Notes

*"On the Wing" and "The Saltwater Room" were included on the band's second studio album ''Ocean Eyes''.

Personnel

Owl City *Adam Young – vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, drums, programming,

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Additional musicians and production *

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– additional vocals (1, 4, 6) * Austin Tofte - additional guitars, additional instrumentation, additional vocals (1, 2, 5)

Chart performance

Music videos

Notes and miscellanea

*On November 24, 2010, Andy Johnson of

published his cover of "Sky Diver" on

References

2008 debut albums Owl City albums {{2000s-pop-album-stub