April 2026 Blog Post: A Better Than The Book April Fools AMV, Jabun's Lost Tracks releases, features and project updates + a personal update.

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great April Fools Day so far! There's not a whole lot to share this time which I'll address as the end of the post but lets start with the fun stuff:

To kick things off, here's a Better Than The Book AMV with one of the best trashy anime's I've seen in recent years! This has been sitting unlisted on YouTube for around 2 years now, and with the Side Character In My Own Life and debut gig out of the way, it's finally time to let it loose and see how many subscribers I can lose! Happy April Fools Day and enjoy "Dropkick on Jashin Chan's Artificial Ignorance 「AMV」"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zuGfl_u-Y

Next on the news this month, the first 4 tracks from Jabun's Lost Tracks Collection have been released, and track 2 "Flow State" even got a Front Page feature on Newgrounds! Thanks peeps! Check it out below along with the rest of the playlists on YouTube (new tracks added on Thursdays):

Flow State: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1539493

Playlist on Newgrounds:
https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/519920/jabun-lost-tracks

Playlist on YouTube:

​https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvR3yfzBxSSvM9ll42HqoDOW

While we're on the topic of Jabun's Lost Tracks, a quick update for the project to share: as it stands 6 out of the 8 tracks planned for Volume 2 are now fully recorded and just need a mix and a master! For those who want a sneak peek, I'm sharing the pre-mix for one of my favourite tracks so far "The Journey" with all the $10 patrons this month. Check out the post below and I hope you enjoy it!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/154493623

Finally for this month and all jokes aside, a personal update: I'm not usually the type to share stuff like this especially when things aren't positive so I'll keep things intentionally vague, but it's come to a point where it's significantly impacting my work, ability to make music, and just generally function, so I think it's important I let you know.

The short of it is, despite the outwardly positive and productive news I've been sharing, I've not actually been doing well at all for a few months now, and it's come to the point where I need to seriously take a step back, slow down, reassess and address some things, and get some help. In terms of what that means for me musically, that means I'll be taking things at a completely no-pressure pace for the foreseeable future with the main projects at the moment being Jabun's Lost Tracks and Better Than The Book's Ten Years On LIVE album. As well as this, there may be some difficult decisions to make regarding other aspects of things and JabunAudio. I'll post updates as and when but in the mean time, thanks as always for supporting me and my music however you can and I hope to be back to my usual self soon. I'm hoping this time to reassess and reset will make for a more sustainable future for my music.

That's it for this post. I'm hoping to work on those last 2 tracks of Jabun's Lost Track volume 2 in this coming month, but we'll see how it goes (I've got all that good New Tax Year stuff to sort). In any case, the next 4 tracks of Lost Tracks volume 1 will be out over the next few weeks so I hope you enjoy them! In other news I flew a Hawk named Percy the other day which was a nice break from things. He was a cool bird! Take care and see you in the next post!

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