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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]
February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]

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We have Rainbow Headcleaner, Release Candidate 1. It's ... kind of done.

I want to write release notes for the whole thing, with information about the source materials etc.

You can probably have it next week sometime!

Directory listing of all the tracks on Rainbow Headcleaner in FLAC format.

Audio production protip - if you're trying to figure out why your tune sounds really different on your phone and why it has some weird audio glitches, maybe turn off all the "enhancement" settings in the music player app that you were screwing around with a few weeks ago before you start trying to fix it in the editor.

The problem this has caused though, is that now I have to play it on every device I own to decide if I like how it's mixed ... and to try to do that without thinking that the fact that it's different to what I was used to isn't necessarily wrong or bad, because of course it's different.

I fired up the old Mac yesterday with the intention of re-exporting the highest quality copies possible of the old tracks to add to the album collection.

The first one I made that started the project off, Jimmy Beware, has always bugged me a bit because it feel a bit short of the intention of being a subversion of the source material and I've liked it less and less over the years - but it belongs on the album because it's the beginning.

"Fixing" it would have required re-sampling the source video, wiping the vocal tracks, and doing them over again from the start.

So I did.