Announcing updated Patreon REWARD ARCHIVE posts for 4th October 2018 -> 8th June 2022 including my full discography: BTTB, Jabun, Nick Standing, covers, mashups, articles, demos, exclusives and more, discussing my future on Patreon + monthly news and more!
Hello everyone and hope you've had a great June since the last post! Today I announce the updated set of archive posts for all rewards covering from 4th October 2018 (when I started on Patreon) to 8th June 2022 for the convenience of Patreon supporters and new patrons, as well as discuss my future on Patreon going forward.
These past months' rewards cover the full discographies (as of 8th June 2022) for my ska punk / pop punk project Better Than The Book, electronic / cinematic / ambient project Jabun, originals and covers as Nick Standing, as well as bonus tracks, mashups and more, and the REWARD ARCHIVE is here for your convenience so you can pick up all these rewards (Mp3s, WAVs, artwork and more depending on your tier) in one place when you sign up on Patreon. No need to search through all the posts manually: Just click the link to the REWARD ARCHIVE below (which will be pinned to the top of your feed when you sign up), select the archive for your tier, dig in and enjoy the music! Hope to see you in the comments!
Become a patron for as little as $1 a month to access the REWARD ARCHIVE below and all new music as it's released:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/44580119
Music rewards include:
Better Than The Book's full discography (as of 8th June 2022):
One Small Step EP
Heartbeats [The Knife] + GG [Good Game]
Meteor Shower 2017 demo, MLGG + Stars Racing {Patreon exclusive}
Two Years On album
Two Years On [Instrumentals] album
A selection of pre-BTTB demos {Patreon exclusive}
Hopes and Dreams album + press photos, lyric sheets, and a behind the scenes studio photo and story
Get A Haircut [Radio Edit] {Patreon exclusive}
Hopes and Dreams [Radio Edit] {Patreon exclusive}
Mark Your Wall & The Bigger Call, Maybe... {Patreon exclusive}
Hopes and Dreams [Instrumentals] album
Better Than The Book & Jabun - 1314
Jabun's full discography (as of 8th June 2022):
Bergamot
Diamond Eyes - Nine Fifteen Ft. Jess (Jabun Remix)
3rd September 1939
Apollo
Clare Jeffrey - 60 Days [Jabun Orchestral Mix]
Distance
Home
Verlies Projekt - (Feels Like) Heaven [Jabun Hardcore Remix]
The Ocean Above + Noir
Jabun [Alternate Reality] - Warrior (Kesha METAL Cover) {Patreon exclusive}
Daydream album
15-4-20 album
Generation Supernova album
Tides album
As well as:
Erase Stuff (Mashup) {Patreon exclusive}
Nick Standing - Nothing Else Matters (Metallica cover) {Patreon exclusive}
Nick Standing - Sonnet For A Spider Girl
Nick Standing - Mr. Knife + I Won't Eat My Broccoli!!!
Nick Standing - Mayhem Market
Nick Standing - Closing Scene and See Ya Later
Nick Standing - Piggyback Ride
Nick Standing - Our Adventure
Nick Standing - Postcards
Nick Standing - Unwrap With Caution (Cover EP) {Patreon exclusive}
Nick Standing - Merry Christmas The Dings 2017 (Cover EP) {Patreon exclusive}
Nick Standing - Mouth (Season's) Greetings (Mashup EP) {Patreon ULTRA exclusive}
Nick Standing - 5 Tracks, 4 Years, 3 Piece Band, 2 Of Us, 1 Leap (Cover EP) {Patreon exclusive}
Nick Standing - 5 Tracks, 4 Years, 3 Piece Band, 2 Of Us, 1 Leap [Instrumentals] (Cover EP) {Patreon exclusive}
Nick Standing - 520 Kisses, 22 Years, 9 Months, 1 Eva (Cover EP) {Patreon ULTRA exclusive}
For those of you on the $10+ DEMOlition Pigeon tier, you also have access to all the work in progress, demos and behind the scenes monthly articles too including:
A sneak peek at Better Than The Book's "(The Travelling To See Eva Song)"
Journey into Better Than The Book's "Get A Haircut"
Better Than The Book - One Small Step's artwork story + a new mix
A deep dive into Better Than The Book's "Meteor Shower"
More Better Than The Book artwork stories + another first(ish) draft mix from the new album
Work in progress artwork for Better Than The Book's upcoming Hopes and Dreams album + a demo master for track 06 "Get A Haircut"
An in depth look into the creation of Better Than The Book's Hopes and Dreams album cover (+ demo alternatives)
A behinds the scenes look into Better Than The Book's "The Hardest Part"
A behinds the scenes look into Better Than The Book's "Artificial Ignorance"
A behinds the scenes look into Better Than The Book's "And I Fear"
A behinds the scenes look into Better Than The Book's "Brighton"
A behinds the scenes look into Better Than The Book's "GG"
A behinds the scenes look into Better Than The Book's "You've Got A Lot to Say"
A behinds the scenes look into Better Than The Book's "Hopes and Dreams"
10 minutes of exclusive demos for upcoming Jabun tracks
Another behind the scenes look at an exclusive Jabun demo
Another behind the scenes look at an exclusive Jabun demo
Another behind the scenes look at an exclusive Jabun demo
Another behind the scenes look at an exclusive Jabun demo
Another behind the scenes look at an exclusive Jabun demo
A look into the artwork for the 2nd Jabun album
A sneak peek demo at an upcoming cover song
A behind the scenes breakdown of Jabun [Alternate Reality]'s Kesha Warrior metal cover
An exclusive sneak peek at next year's 3rd Jabun album, demo + photo
Another sneak peek demo from next year's 3rd Jabun album
An exclusive first sneak peek demo from Better Than The Book's next album
Artwork reveal (with story) for Jabun's 3rd album
Another sneak peek demo from Better Than The Book's next album
An exclusive unreleased Jabun demo from the writing sessions of 2019/2020
An exclusive unused unreleased demo from the writing sessions for Better Than The Book's upcoming 3rd album
An exclusive unreleased Jabun demo from the writing sessions of 2019/2020: "Arc-welder"
The first work-in-progress studio recording demo from Better Than The Book's upcoming 3rd album!
An exclusive LIVE Jabun ambient modular synth jam!
An exclusive acoustic instrumental demo from Better Than The Book's upcoming projects!
A LIVE 808 Day ambient Jabun jam!
Another exclusive WIP instrumental demo from Better Than The Book's upcoming projects!
Another LIVE ambient Jabun performance!
An exclusive WIP demo of Better Than The Book's "Plot Holes" (with rough vocals and horns)!
Another Jabun ambient LIVE Jam!
An artwork sneak peek and title / tracklist reveal from Jabun's 4th album!
Final artwork for Jabun's upcoming album!
An exclusive unedited version of the bonus track Inner Space!
Behind the scenes photos and videos from building the Leslie Speaker!
With my entire back catalogue of music now uploaded and archived on Patreon, there will no longer be regular monthly music rewards, but I'll be aiming to release at least 1 Album / EP a year and will continue to post monthly updates on what I've been up to and project progress as well as the monthly behind the scenes DEMOlition Pigeon rewards for the $10+ patrons starting August 2022 (next month). More Better Than The Book will be coming next as I'm busy recording/producing the project's 3rd album, but until the next post and then, thanks so much for supporting Better Than The Book, Jabun and my various music projects on Patreon, and I hope you enjoy the music (and articles) above and to come!
Onto some monthly updates, it's been a super hectic one this time with a fair few trips away as well as some unfortunate time off ill. There's been lots of (going to) gigs with an amazing trip to see Gorillaz (as well as Dreamcatcher and a whole load of other bands), Suzanne Ciani in Quadrophonic (an amazing experience), and finally the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (supported by Thundercat) for a fun birthday/retirement celebration for my Dad! Fantastic musicianship all around and those former 2 headliners especially have been a huge influence on my Jabun work, with RHCP's Flea being a huge inspiration to my bass playing too!
Meanwhile between those fun days out, I finally got the dreaded Covid which was no fun at all, put me out of it for about a week and has left me with some extended health difficulties even after "recovery", all of which very much hindered my goals for the month... When I was working however, I've been back to arranging horns for the upcoming Better Than The Book projects, as well as recording a few ambient Jabun jams and being back to working on some not-sure-if-secret-but-I-don't-think-so animation audio work for the biggest animation job I've had yet! Very exciting times there and I can't wait to show you when the time comes later this year!
Speaking of upcoming projects, with my music backcatalogue all out now, I thought I'd share an update on what's in the pipeline to come and where it's at. I'm a bit swamped with freelance and other non-audio work at the moment, but in terms of personal projects when I have the time to persue them, the next one I'm aiming for is as you probably already know Better Than The Book's next album project. There's a 10 track ~35+ minute album in the works + a 4 track ~13+ minute bonus EP and instrumental versions of each, and all of these are just awaiting the horn parts, vocals and a couple of extra things + the mixing and production, artwork etc... Unfortunately things are going rather slow at the moment, and the illness with Covid has really done a number on my voice and lungs so I'll need to really train up to get back to full health there (majorly sucky). I'm aiming to release the first of these 4 grouped BTTB projects at some point next year (the 10 track main album), then releasing the others at (probably) 6 month intervals to space things out. There's certainly a lot of BTTB to share and I'm really looking forward to getting it out into the world!
On top of that, there's still over 70 minutes of Jabun demos as well as a few more live jams to share, though that's much less structured at the moment. I'll aim to get back to that after the Better Than The Book projects, though I'm very sure it's all going to keep me very busy on top of freelance work and non-audio work. All in all, lots of stuff in the pipeline though unfortunately no concrete ETAs just yet, but I'll keep you all updated with what's going on each month and if you're a $10 patron, you'll have demos and behind the scenes peeks too.
In terms of other news this month, Inner Space was featured on the Tank Tribune No.61's phonograph playlist on Newgrounds! Thanks as always for sharing the music TTT and keep up the great work!
https://thetanktribune.newgrounds.com/news/post/1277300
That about wraps things up for this post. I'll be back in August for the usual Patreon reward posts (apart from there being no new monthly music), but until then I hope you have an amazing July to come and thanks as always for supporting my music however you can! Take care and I can't wait to show you what I've been working on!
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