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New Better Than The Book single Artificial Ignorance comes out TOMORROW, another episode of Smarty Moose from Fun Station 4 Kids + setting and reflecting on more goals!

6/6/2019

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Hi everyone and I hope you've been having a fantastic and exciting week so far! After a relaxing weekend away playing an obscene amount of video games and seeing the new Godzilla: King of the Monsters film which was phenomenal (maybe even better than Avengers: Endgame IMO), it's been back to intensely busy times making the final preparations and sorting out Patreon rewards for tomorrow's big launch of the new Better Than The Book single "Artificial Ignorance", as well as taking part in some press interviews about the upcoming album! Exciting! A few cool things + the usual beginning of the month reflections to share this time, so let's start with tomorrow's launch!

First of all this week, I hope you're as excited as I am for the latest and 2nd single from Better Than The Book's upcoming Hopes and Dreams album, and it's back to horns, organ, walking basslines and skankin' guitars for this next ska punk banger "Artificial Ignorance"! Mark your calendars for 6pm BST on Friday 7th June and join me tomorrow at the premier via the video link below. I hope you enjoy it! For all the patrons too, you'll be getting an MP3 / WAV download of the track and more depending on your subscription tier as soon as the track goes live on Friday! More details to come on Patreon tomorrow and brace yourselves for some more life lessons and ska punk fun with "Artificial Ignorance"!

The ​Hopes and Dreams album is available for pre-order on Bandcamp:
https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/album/hopes-and-dreams

But if you can't wait to hear it in its entirety, then sign up to the $5+ tier on Patreon to get the entire BTTB discography as well as the new album in full before the public release on July 19th. Enjoy!

https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding/​

Next this week, I have another animation to share with you from Fun Station 4 Kids, and this time Smarty Moose returns in his 2nd episode to explain how a car engine works! Once again I'm doing the background music for this one and I hope you enjoy this fun and super informative educational piece, and maybe even learn something new! Let's here it for Smarty Moose!

​Lastly this week, let's finish off with the usual monthly reflections and set some new goals for June. Here were the goals for May:

1) Finish editing and send off press photos
2) Make a detailed promo plan from May until September and finish 
preparations for the single release on May 10th
3) Sort all streaming uploads for the new album (YouTube, SoundCloud, Newgrounds, etc...)
4) Upload the JabunAudio catalogue to AdRev (less urgent)

And it's mostly done! Horray! The only slightly not done bit was that while I've uploaded all the streams for Newgrounds I can't seem to test the "full album" stream for some reason. That's due to be made public mid September though so it's no rush and I'll count the goal as done. Overall, and on top of all the other busy things that have been going on this past month, I'd say it's been quite the success! Onto goals for June, let's set:

1) Sort the launch/teaser video for when the album drops on July 19th
2) Decide on and sort the $5+ Patreon reward for July 5th (when the 3rd single is released)
3) Start on a new leisurely recording project

Of course there'll definitely be more busy things to do this month so after last month's strain I thought it best to tone it back a little for June (especially since July is going to be even busier). 1) I want to make a short announcement video on YouTube to launch the album on the day, so hopefully that shouldn't be too difficult or time consuming. 2) I still need to decide on what to give as the $5+ reward on Patreon for when the 3rd single goes out, but hopefully that should be simple to sort out once I've decided what to do, and 3) since the album has been technically finished since mid April, I've been very itching to get back to some music making, so whether it's a new original piece, a cover, or a simple beat/jam, I'd like to start on some new recording material at some point this month. Lots of ideas to possibly choose so I'm sure it won't be difficult to get started, though I don't recon I'll finish anything until after the album is out at the very earliest. Wish me luck and feel free to let me know your own goals in the comments so we can keep each other accountable! All the best!

And that about wraps things up for this post. Tomorrow's going to be an exciting evening and hope you enjoy "Artificial Ignorance" when it goes live! The following week is looking to be busy with promo stuff for the new single(s) too as well as press interviews and other things, but I'll aim to get started on those 3 goals above when I can. Until the next one, I hope you have a great week and enjoy the new music and animations and thanks as always for supporting JabunAudio, Better Than The Book and my various projects! Take care! 
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Cyber link
10/6/2019 14:42:08

Obligatory good things going on comment of the week. :) Seems like a steady pace as always, another great release, and I'll have to have a look at that movie soon too...

Might stir up some serious debate here with the claim that it's comparable to the one and only too. The endgame. Engaging readers. Or... enraging readers? Should do that a bit more often with my blogs too. XD Good week!

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Jabun
10/6/2019 16:21:33

Many thanks, Cyber! Steady pace indeed. Not sure how easy it'll be to make faster, but the deadlines are set in stone now so no point on overworking either.

Definitely see Godzilla at the cinema if you can :D Big Kaiju need the big screen and big sound for full appreciation! Also indeed about the comment, though honestly, I really think it is THAT good IMO! It might not have the 10+ years of the MCU franchise backing/leading up to it, but it does have the 60+ years of cinematic history leading up to it and for me it really did not disappoint (not that Endgame did, they're both beautiful films). Anyways I'll have to wait until you've seen it, but I super hope you enjoy it when you do! A good week indeed :D

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Cyber link
10/6/2019 22:52:19

Ah I didn't mean steady as in slow, more like steady full steam ahead! Always good with deadlines too.

Ah the sound design too. Curious, how do you feel Marvel compares to DC in regard to that? I've always felt like the latter just can't seem to build up the characters as well, or the worlds, or the feeling that they all actually belong to the same realm, but they do have pretty solid sound design. As far as I can remember.

It's a good thing you add in an IMO there too. XD Can never be too careful! But that is an impressive legacy indeed. TBC!

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Cyber link
10/6/2019 22:54:07

I mean: looking forward to seeing it, and I shall return with fresh impressions then.

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Jabun
11/6/2019 10:25:40

Ah, that makes sense and indeed. No worries :D

Yes the sound design!!! I think the DC animated films do a much better job of tying the world together than the DC live action ones IMO. Not that I don't like the DC films, but I think Marvel has done a better job creating a cohesive universe overall. Music and sound in both is very good though I think :)

Haha! Indeed and looking forward to your impressions when you see it. Hope I haven't hyped it too much!

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Cyber link
11/6/2019 11:40:31

:)

Yeah that might be true! Still haven't seen a great deal of those, but they have a different kind of chemistry there. At the least there's always a larger group of superheroes with each one... of the ones I've seen, at least. Alright, equal competition on sound at least. :)

I'll try to hype it down a bit before I see it for potential expectation surpassing! XD Always best that way. For sure.

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Jabun
11/6/2019 12:59:07

Definitely worth a watch :) Various thumps up all around!

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