Flip Fantazia

Development biography · earlier archive

Development profile compiled from project source and retained records in October 2026. Dates and test results describe those records; they do not imply a new build, live acceptance test or public release.

Collected read-only on 2026-10-17 by the Claude session that built v1. No builds, no deploys, no edits. Network checks weren't possible today, so all live-site facts are as last verified on 2026-10-04.

Biography

The problem. Flip Fantazia have two artist records and a large back catalogue of production music, but their official Wix site undersold both. An audit on 4 October 2026 found:

• a broken "Order from our bandcamp" link (404)
• "Silent Boom" misspelt four times
• an unqualified "100% sustainable" claim
• no player on the Silent Bloom page
• a sync reel that was actually Tim's solo work
• file-name alt text on 24 of 47 images
• URLs like /projects-8
• pages of 0.56–0.94 MB of HTML

Doug asked for "an amazing site that would suit", developed locally and hosted on his own Cloudflare account. Source: session transcript, and ops/to-verify.md items 22–24.

The idea. v1 makes the newest record the front door. The homepage hero is the Silent Bloom sleeve with an SVG record that slides out and flips between side A and side B, under the line "Cinematic electronica from an old bank vault in Brighton."

Each record has its own page and mood:

• Silent Bloom: dark with saffron accents
• The Trip: dusk-toned

Release dates live in one config object (RELEASE in src/assets/site.js), so a pre-order can switch to "out now" without editing pages.

Listening experience.

• Track groups cue the official Bandcamp player.
• SoundCloud playlists play Flip Fantazia's own Ninja Tune and Delimusic work (Tim's solo reel is no longer used).
• YouTube loads only after a click, through a privacy-friendly facade.

The distinctive piece: the listening comparison. Silent Bloom is pressed on plant-based Evovinyl with a conventional PVC reference pressing. The page carries a Web Audio comparison tool (src/assets/listening-test.js). Once the two transfers are published, it:

• lines the two recordings up automatically using cross-correlation (FFT)
• matches their levels
• shows spectrograms, a difference curve and the quietest passages
• counts clicks by finding isolated spikes against the surrounding energy (rewritten after the first version over-counted)
• lets the listener focus on one frequency band
• runs a 16-round ABX blind test that reports a binomial p-value

It turns a sustainability claim into something a listener can test. Until the transfers exist it runs on files the visitor supplies, and the PUBLISHED config is null. A pressing log and partner credits sit alongside it.

For buyers. The Film & TV page (old /projects-8 and /sync redirect here) collects:

• three collections with SoundCloud and Bandcamp examples
• a 33-album library catalogue in six groups, linking every album the duo have written for, reconstructed from the Wix SYNC page
• the libraries table: Ninja Tune Production Music, Cavendish, Delimusic, BMG Production Music labels, Cutting Edge, SATV, 360 Records and others
• three ways to work with them
• a "new directions" section (adaptive music, sonic identities), honestly labelled as things they are taking on rather than past credits
• a brief form that builds an email; it doesn't submit to a server

Other pages:

• Music: artist records, library albums with Apple Music links, and the Cypherpunx techno alias
• The Vault: the duo's story, collaborators and timeline
• Press: a downloadable press-kit PDF, generated from the page with headless Chrome

Design history. A plainer "own words, real photos" rework was deployed on 2026-10-04 after a bandmate called v1 "a bit Claudesque". Doug preferred the original, which was restored the same day (commit a7b412a), keeping the new catalogue in the original style. That restored design is the current v1.

The v2 / Scene Room prototype (separate, never deployed). A Codex session built /v2/ and /v2/scene-room/ in the same repo as a concept aimed at music supervisors. It has:

• a listening desk of six synthetic 24-second sketches, each with a full and a dialogue-friendly mix, measured waveforms and a shortlist
• six real recordings (Silent Bloom, Warm Rain, Collateral Damage, Streets Of Rage, Dança Este Samba, Boogaloo Breakdown) played through their native Bandcamp or SoundCloud players
• a cue builder: three story beats per documentary, thriller or brand-film brief, each set to calm, tension, release or silence, with variable length, switchable layers and an A/B compare
• picture sync with generated stills, a 24-second example film, or a local video file that never leaves the device
• timecoded notes, project export and import, and share links that leave out private notes

v2 is always noindex, even in a launch build, because its audio is synthetic and its images (including a portrait-based "studio re-enactment" of Doug and Tim) are AI-generated. Sources: ops/v2/README.md, ops/v2/scene-room.md.

Behind the scenes: clip library. clip-library/ is a zero-dependency Python toolkit for building a tagged library of the duo's own MIDI parts. It:

• parses MIDI files
• estimates key (Krumhansl-Kessler), swing and timing feel
• describes drum patterns
• validates tags against a mood/feel/role/rights vocabulary
• searches with transposition and nearest-mood fallback

SPEC.md specifies a future "Clip Sketcher" in AssistantApp that turns a brief into a sketch built from real Doug and Tim parts.

A concrete visitor journey (v1).

• A music supervisor lands on the homepage and sees the sleeve open.
• They go to Film & TV, scan the six catalogue groups and play a SoundCloud example from "Tension & momentum".
• They open the brief form, choose budget and deliverables, and send a prepared email.
• A record buyer goes the other way: Silent Bloom, the Bandcamp player, the pressing log, then loads two transfers into the comparison tool and takes the ABX test.

Modules and features

Technical foundations

• Build: build.mjs (Node, no framework) turns front-matter pages plus partials into dist/. It generates sitemap.xml, robots.txt (Disallow all unless --launch) and _headers. Assets are cache-busted with a ?v= SHA-256 hash.
• Hosting: Cloudflare Workers static assets, configured in wrangler.jsonc: html_handling: auto-trailing-slash, not_found_handling: 404-page.
• Scripts:
• scripts/deploy.mjs: labels each Cloudflare version with the git commit
• scripts/check-links.mjs: internal links and anchors, with optional external checks
• scripts/press-pdf.mjs: builds the press-kit PDF with headless Chrome
• v2 only: check-v2.mjs, generate-v2-audio.py (numpy synthetic stems), generate-room-film.swift (AVFoundation)
• Third-party at runtime: Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube embeds; Google Fonts; Bandcamp, Wix and YouTube image hosts (allowed in the CSP).
• Dependencies: the only npm package is wrangler, and the clip library has no dependencies. No local Swift packages: AssistantApp is related but not linked.
• Ops templates (ops/, not deployed): catalogue, placement and pitch registers (CSV), pitch template, delivery spec, sync plan, new directions, a Silent Bloom press release, and the to-verify list.

Maturity (evidence and dates)

Git history (.git/logs/HEAD):

• 7327162: initial build
• cd2d9db: rework + catalogue
• a50c785: ignore symlinked node_modules
• a7b412a: restore design

All four commits are dated 2026-10-04. Nothing in the reflog after that.

Limitations and roadmap

Limitations:

• 25 facts await the band , including:
• the vinyl date (18 Nov vs 4 Oct)
• PVC edition status
• sugar beet vs sugarcane
• writer splits
• The comparison tool has no published transfers yet.
• There are no real band or studio photos.
• Artwork is hot-linked from Bandcamp and Wix servers.
• The brief form is mailto only.
• Collection examples were picked from titles, not by listening.
• The bandmate prefers the existing Wix site and says traffic is low, so launch is undecided.

Roadmap (aspirations, not built):

• confirm the facts and launch with npm run deploy:launch, then move the domain (needs Doug)
• publish the Evovinyl and PVC transfers
• host artwork locally
• real photos
• possibly fold cleared material from v2 into the site, using real stems and real briefs
• the clip library and Clip Sketcher in AssistantApp, then adaptive game-music pilots

FAQs

Is this the official Flip Fantazia site? Not yet. It's an unlaunched preview. flipfantazia.com is still the Wix site.

Can I hear the Evovinyl vs PVC difference? The tool is built, but the two transfers aren't published yet. You can load your own files.

Is the music in the Scene Room by Flip Fantazia? No. The sketches are synthetic demos. Real tracks play through Bandcamp and SoundCloud.

How do I license a library track? Through the library listed for each album (e.g. BMG Production Music), or via the Film & TV brief.

What does it run on? Static files on Cloudflare Workers, with no server code and no tracking scripts.