I’ve been driving a Polestar 3 (dual motor, long range, performance, for the nerds out there) for about a year now. Never having been particularly impressed with in-car audio before, I found the Bowers & Wilkins system in the Polestar to be incredible (there are going to be a lot of brand names in this post, bear with it). It was particularly good when set to ‘Studio Mode’ and ‘Driver Focus.’ Clear, deep, detailed, all the buzzwords! It has some sort of active noise cancellation, but I can’t say I can hear it.

Anyway, a few weeks ago it received yet another well needed Over The Air Update (OTA). This added a feature that I hadn’t been expecting called “Abbey Road Mode”.

It’s a collection of presets and processing (as well as a lot of fancy new UI elements) based on some ‘non-specific’ Abbey Road situations. I’m sorry I can’t explain that further, but the marketing was so heavy-handed with bullshit that I couldn’t stand to watch the whole thing. You know the type of thing: musicians so far up their own arse that they’ve come out the other end.

Anyway, in spite of the marketing, I found this new mode to really elevate the listening experience – which is no mean feat!

First things first, the presets are dog shit; don’t waste your time. I can’t believe that in this day and age, 2025, we still have processors that add reverb to the master. It’s insane. However, we’ve luckily been handed something called ‘Producer Mode,’ which allows the user to better tune the audio.

It works as an X-Y pad, one axis being reverb (feel free to use this if you are insane and want to ruin the listening experience of your expensive audio system), and the other varies the processing (EQ and additional harmonics?) between ‘modern’ and ‘vintage’.

Neither of these region, I feel, suit the given nomenclature – with ‘vintage’ producing a nice deep bass and nicer stereo image.

Anyway, if you have this update in the car, attached below are some images of how I would recommend setting this up for real music enjoyment.

All-in-all, this was a nice surprise from Polestar, hopefully some more to come.

No reason

Here’s a cool little EP from Canadian Punk band, Honest Injun. I don’t think it’s been available on the internet before this, so here’s a nice clean rip. Download below.

Had a difficult time finding a nice copy of this cover so I made one myself.

Hello everyone! Today, rather than writing some nonsense about The Outhere Brothers (which I will do soon, don’t panic), I’m moonlighting as an investigative journalist.

A few years ago I watched Jesse Michels YouTube channel. He’s a young go-getter, whippersnapper with seemingly endless money and contacts. I was fascinated in his focus on utter-nonsense and bullshit, and I generally found it quite entertaining to watch – not having a vested interest in the alien / UFO / conspiracy theory rubbish he pedals. It was like seeing people converse from an alternate universe.

He’d spin tails of alien visitors, all while interviewing curly-haired men who could speak for three hours without solidifying a single concept or observation, rambled on endlessly, all while Jesse encouragingly nodded along and interjected with congratulatory phrases and “supporting” information.

It was utter bullshit – but I know what I like.

In one episode, breaking from the norm, he interviewed yet another curly-haired rambling gentleman called Sam Bankman-Fried. Jesse regaled us of tails about growing up with Sam Bankman-Fried, how their fathers went to law school together and had been friends ever since. It stuck in my mind because Sam Bankman-Fried was such a strange, unpleasant man (“man”) who was making money seemingly from thin air (at his peak he was worth $16 Billion, with a ‘B’).

Ah, it was crypto currency. He’s a scam artist then.

I moved on, as did Jesse. Years passed, and I remained subscribed to his channel lapping up as much nonsense as anyone could reasonably stand. Aliens this, Government conspiracy that.

Then it happened. All over the news, Sam Bankman-Fried was going to jail for running what was the largest Ponzi scam of my life time. It was everywhere. An international scandal of massive scale. It wasn’t perpetrated by some evil genius with grand illusion, it was simple – unchecked lies by a fat, smelly, greedy little man. He’d taken peoples money, pretended it had magically shot up in quantity, all while secretly having no such mechanism in his business. It also didn’t help that Sam had been spending like a drunken sailor.

His messy hair and dirty clothes had fooled everyone. He wasn’t a crypto investor genius, he was a greedy, dirty little man who had stolen a lot of peoples life savings, investments, and likely ruined a huge number of lives. All helped by his family and friends.

But I remembered… I remembered how Jesse had gleefully told us about his relationship with Sam. About how is family were involved with his. Little buddies, all caught up in a hustle.

So I went looking on Youtube for the video, wondering what Jesse’s reaction would be in the comments. Would he be distancing himself from Sam? Would he be supporting his life long friend? How would he back peddle this whole relationship?

He’d deleted the video. He’d deleted the podcast. He’d deleted the TikTok promos. It was all gone. Thrown into a black hole (or beamed up by the Aliens, huh, Jesse?)

Well me, I’m not a man who easily forgets. And I’m not a man who calls it quits so easily. Everyone, say it with me –

When you put something on the Internet, it is there FOREVER.

Here is the long deleted podcast that ties Jesse Michels to Sam Bankman-Fried. Please download this and distribute it as you wish.

Why am I doing this? Because I’m sick of weasels helping others steal money. I’m sick of horrible little people like Jesse thinking he can do as he pleases, even to the detriment of thousands of others. Fuck him and Sam Bankman-Fried. Fuck Sam’s parents who helped him, fuck Jesse’s parents who think they can distance themselves from this whole scandal.

These people disgust me, and I host this video as evidence of their involvement in the theft of Billions of dollars.

Jesse – the only conspiracy theory you should be interested in is what did your parents do with the SBF money?

They kick ass. I’ll write more when not drunk

I had the opportunity recently to have some tracks cut on a modern lathe process. I thought it would be fun to do a track that’s already pressed to vinyl as a comparison.

I could rabbit on about the differences, but here’s a few direct recordings.

Original Digital Master

Vinyl Pressing

Vinyl Lathe Cut

Summary, lathe losses some high end in comparison to the vinyl pressing, but it fairs better than expected. It would likely fit some styles of music were you to plan ahead.

There’s unfortunately a bit of a channel balance issue with the lathe, that I’ll speak to the cutter about addressing.

I have remastered the cover image for this album that I love very much. I think it came out well, so thought I would share it with you all.

That’s all.

edit: Did the single version too…