October 2025 Blog Post: Apotheosis Newgrounds Awards (+ Supporter Status), Bandcamp Friday, Better Than The Book LIVE gigs BIG updates, Jabun Lost Tracks updates + a sneak peek for the $10 patrons, an organ video and more!

​Hi everyone and hope you've had a great September and start to October (man oh man things feel like they've been moving fast)! It's been a busy hectic month as usual (only set to get to busier) and there's lots of news to share so let's get straight to it!

First of all of course, Jabun's Apotheosis OST was finally released on September 5th, and seems to have gone down very nicely! I've said a lot about it in previous posts so I'll not repeat myself here, but you can find out more over on Bandcamp: https://jabun.bandcamp.com/

It's also now available worldwide on Spotify and all those places too, and while we're on the topic of Bandcamp, it happens to be Bandcamp Friday again! If you've been meaning to pick up the latest Jabun or Better Than The Book records then now's the best time. Thanks so much for the support if you're able to:

Jabun: https://jabun.bandcamp.com/
Better Than The Book: https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/

Back to Apotheosis, thanks so much to Newgrounds for the 4 front page awards for the project! I'm super happy people have been enjoying the tunes! Check out the full list of awards below:

September 5, 2025 - Jabun's Apotheosis OST album receives Front Page Award on Newgrounds.com
​September 7, 2025 - Jabun's Apotheosis - Level 2 receives Front Page Award on Newgrounds.com
September 8, 2025 - Jabun's Apotheosis - Boss Theme receives Front Page Award on Newgrounds.com
September 9, 2025 - Jabun's Apotheosis - Final Boss Theme Phase 1 receives Front Page Award on Newgrounds.com

And keeping with the topic of Newgrounds thanks so much to PhantonArcade for nominating and awarding me Supporter Status for the month! It's a great honour and I hope to be able to become a more permanent supporter properly at some point soon! Newgrounds really means the world to me as one of the greatest communities that I've found on the net, and one of the last places that I still consider uncorrupted by the greed (and other stuff) that fuels much of today's online world. Let's keep building each other up together! Speaking of which, October means Inktober for Cyberdevil and he's back at it again with a rap a day! I'll have to cook up a beat for him soon!

Onto project updates, starting with Better Than The Book, over the past few months I've been intensely busy preparing for what I hope to be the project's first live show early next year for the 10th anniversary of the debut full-length album Two Years On! Dates have been put in the diary and feelers are out (and penciled) for a venue in Brighton, England with one support act (out of a hopeful two) confirmed for the night so far. The details have still yet to be finalised, but last week we had our first practice since last year, and things went great! So great we forgot to record any footage this time! There's still much to prepare but things are looking in a very good position for early next year including contingencies and backup plans in case of (minor) disaster this time! More details to be announced as soon as I can, and I hope you're as hyped as I am for an HOUR long set of BTTB celebrating Two Years On and much MUCH more! Fingers crossed we can actually get to make it happen this time!

And on the topic of Better Than The Book, the new Side Character In my Own Life album was back on Beefy's Ska Club Radio Show / Podcast last month, this time spinning the lead single from the album "Plot Holes"! Thanks so much to Beefy for sharing the tunes and love and you can listen back to the show below (it's a great one as always):

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/beefys-ska-club-6th-sep-2025-pod-2-ep-657/id1510126760?i=1000726202925

Next onto some Jabun project updates! As you're probably well aware by now, for the last few months (when possible), I've been going back through some of my unfinished/mostly done tracks and polishing them up for what I hope to be a long ongoing "Lost Tracks" project I'll start releasing soon. After finishing one more mix and bring the total to 8 earlier this month, I decided to go back and do the mastering for these 8 tracks before I start on finishing the recording and mixes for the next batch! That's 8 tracks (around 30 minutes so far) which are now mastered and complete out of around 20-30 unfinished tracks I'm hoping to complete over the next few months! I've not thought about a release schedule just yet, but just to tease a little, here are the names of the current completed tracks to come. I hope you're as excited as I am for some more Jabun:

01 Arc Welder
02 Flow State
03 Thinking
04 Cold Case
05 Chocolate Birds Part 1
06 Falling In Love
07 Longing
08 Moving Forward

Another 16 are already somewhat in progress currently, with a few more potential additions (or subtractions) from those! If you're a $10 patron then this month I'm sharing with you the final mix (pre-mastering) for Flow State, right here on Patreon! Head over here to grab the reward and hope you enjoy a new (old unreleased) jam!

$10 Extra reward: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140274727

Finally for this month, I've not being doing much video recording lately, but an unfortunate mishap made for an excellent opportunity to do so! Partway through the month, my Yamaha YC-25D Organ decided that one of the stop tabs (amongst other things) didn't want to work anymore which was very troublesome but after a teardown and deep clean and service its seems to have resolved itself nicely (and actually plays better now that it ever has done)! While I had the organ all opened up, I thought I do a little video explaining how it works, some common faults, and how to try to start solving them! The video seems to have gone down really well too so I hope the community finds it a useful resource. Check it out below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipoKcy-s8vA

And here's a link to the full updated gear related playlist of videos too. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm

And I've still got to a Patch Bay and J-6 sound list video to do at some point soon. Busy busy!!!

That about wraps things up for this month! More BTTB practice and Jabun Lost Tracks work for me this coming month and I recon it's going to be super busy trying to get as much as possible sorted before the next practice! I'll keep you posted with any gig related updates especially and until the next one, thanks as always for supporting my music and projects however you can and especially on Patreon and Newgrounds! Take care and all the best!

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