Hi everyone and hope you're having a great summer so far! It's finally time to release another Jabun album: the complete soundtrack I composed for the Apotheosis video game by Meneer Guus! Pick it up on Bandcamp and come join the listening party tonight at 8pm BST on YouTube. Hope to see you there! Remember that today is Bandcamp Friday too, where Bandcamp waives all its usual fees and gives all revenue directly to the artists! If you want to support the project, now's the best time to pick up a copy on Bandcamp!

Bandcamp: https://jabun.bandcamp.com/album/apotheosis-ost

Listening Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XonALOrdJ4Q

Unfortunately, not every project I work on makes it to full completion, but this game project was immense fun to be a part of and I'm super pleased with the soundtrack work I did for it. This OST was originally composed from September 2014 to March 2018, and contains 11 tracks from the project including a few which didn't make it into the final public release game demos. With it being a legacy project so to speak, I decided to give this official soundtrack release only the lightest of remastering from the original demos of 7+ years ago. I hope you enjoy this long overdue collection of cinematic tracks to accompany the bullet hell, roguelite that is Apotheosis!

Although it never got a finished release, Apotheosis had some very fully fledged game demos available for free public download! Read more about the project and check out the latest demo below. It's a tonne of fun!

meneerguus.itch.io/apotheosis

To celebrate the release my supporters on Patreon have downloads for the full album including mp3s and artwork (+ the Master WAVs for the $10 patrons)! If that sounds good to you, grab the album below, and remember you'll be getting all past rewards for your tier when you sign up to Patreon too including the full BTTB and Jabun Discographies + a tonne of Patreon exclusives. I hope to see you around the posts!

$1 Rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/136534556
$10 Rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/136534561
Reward Archives: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50344842
Find out more: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding

Jabun - Apotheosis OST

01 - Prologue
02 - Level 1
03 - Level 2
04 - Level 3
05 - Boss Theme
06 - Final Boss Theme Phase 1
07 - Final Boss Theme Phase 2
08 - Victory Fanfare
09 - Post-Victory
10 - Game Over
11 - Apotheosis Trailer Suite

All tracks written, performed and produced by Nick Standing [Jabun]
Recorded, mixed and mastered at JabunAudio by Nick Standing [Jabun]
Album Artwork by game designer Meneer Guus (Lars Warink)

No generative A.I. tools were used in the creation of this album.

A huge thanks to Apotheosis game creator Meneer Guus (Lars Warink) for letting me score his fantastic game and all the feedback and discussions that went into creating and polishing this soundtrack. I'm so happy to finally be able to release it to the world in full!

A big thanks also goes to all my subscribers on Patreon past and present who keep my music going each month with special mention to the current $10+ patrons: Michael White! Thank you all so much for your help and support in making my musical dreams a reality! You folks are amazing!

Full album credits, special thanks and descriptions are available on the Apotheosis OST Bandcamp page:

https://jabun.bandcamp.com/album/apotheosis-ost

That about wraps things up for this post! With the Apotheosis OST album now FINALLY out to the world I'll be getting back to going through my unfinished Jabun ideas and aim to start releasing some "Lost Tracks" on YouTube/Newgrounds/Patreon very soon (the $10 Patreon supporters will getting some sneak peeks starting from next month too)! Until then, thanks as always for supporting my music and projects however you can, I hope you enjoy the Apotheosis OST as much as I did composing it, and take care!

​Next up on this month's news, after the release of Better Than The Book's Side Character In My Own Life album, I've gone and updated the reward archives on Patreon again for you all! Check out the updated archive below

Updated Rewards Archives: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50344842

New additions include the SCIMOL and instrumentals albums + the "Something Riffy" exclusive demo and various WIP BTTB Art packages for $10 Patrons. Enjoy!

And speaking of Better Than The Book's Side Character In My Own Life, Punktuation Web Magazine gave the album an amazing feature and review earlier this month! Thanks so much for all the kind words and sharing the music! Check it out below:

https://www.punktuationmag.com/album-review-better-than-the-book-releases-side-character-in-my-own-life/

While we're on the topic of the web and internets, after a LONG time waiting to do it (mainly until after the Side Character In My Own Life album release), I've finally decided to quit Twitter/x. I'll be leaving my account active for people to discover (and be redirected) for now, but I'll no longer be posting there or sharing the link around. The best places to find me for the moment are on Patreon, YouTube, Newgrounds, Instagram and Facebook.

Onto creativity! After so many album release cycles (4 in the last 12 months would you believe?!!) it's been nice to get back to some creative studio work again going through and polishing some of my "lost" Jabun ideas mainly from 2019 onwards! 7 mixes have been finished so far with a total of 20-30 I'll be aiming to complete for "this project" before moving onto the next (which'll potentially be some non-BTTB guitar heavy music). It's been nice to relax a little in the studio again and get creative! There's been a few tracks teased before on YouTube, but prepare yourself for some emotional cinematic wanderings, chill jazzy hip hop (à la Daydream) and some more "out there" experiments too! I'm still not sure how exactly I'll be collecting them (and not every track will likely get an official release), but for now it's just about creating, having fun, and sharing the music! On a side note, it's been a fun challenge transferring lot of grooves from the MPC1000 into Ableton for mixing and arranging! I think I'm getting the hang of it!

Meanwhile and lastly, while there are no new videos last month, I have been working on a little geeky side project: making a detailed sound list spreadsheet for my Roland J-6 synthesizer! It's a grand little preset based synthesizer based of the legendary Juno-60 but the manual doesn't come with a detailed sound list or ANY details of what the presets are?! After a TONNE of tweaking and experimenting I've finally finished a spreadsheet containing all details of the approximate settings along with patch descriptions, notes and suggestions! It's stuck in Excel for the moment, but I'll be aiming to transfer it into a more printer friendly format and sharing it with the world soon. I'm sure it's something people will find useful!

That about wraps things up for this time and I'll be back on Friday for the Apotheosis OST album release! Until then I hope you have a great week and as always thanks as always for supporting my music however you can! Take care and see you soon!