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Chris Harris
2021 will be my ninth 50/90 and this time you can expect a few changes from me. I've completely reorganised my setup since last time and my gear is no longer crammed under a bunk bed. Instead, when last year's challenge finished I finally got round to installing the "proper" studio desk that I'd been promising myself for two decades. It's amazing how much better monitors sound when they're not sitting directly underneath a mattress. Best of all, I have finally put the days when I would cut my head open on the bed when I stood up without checking where I was behind me for good!
A number of health issues mean that I've more or less retired. I've been spending all that free time making music all year, and I've been releasing an album on Bandcamp more or less every month. I thought taking part in Fifty/Ninety and FAWM were good for polishing your chops, but working continuously on music seven days a week at a proper studio desk has taken things to a different level entirely. I've been amazed just what a difference it has made to my recordings.
But my aim is the same: I want to make the sort of music that teenaged me dreamt of making, all those decades ago. I think he'd be impressed by how far I've come.
Should you wish to do so, you can watch what I get up to: more than a year after I started live streaming on Twitch, I'm still doing shows on Sundays and Thursdays.
https://www.twitch.tv/headfirstonly
My gear list got much too complicated to describe here, so it now lives on the page linked below, which also has more about my musical history.
http://headfirst.www.idnet.com/about_music.htm
"Leonard-Cohen-meets-prog." - PROG Magazine issue 98
"The Bob Ross of prog metal." - @ductapeguy, FAWMStock online

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2 | Layers |
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3 | Hooray For Freedom |
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4 | Steady On, Chaps |
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5 | Obsessed |
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6 | A Question for the Ages |
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7 | Can't Leave It Be |
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8 | Pattern Matching |
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9 | Halting Problem |
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10 | Bug Hunt (A Quality Engineer's Lament) |
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11 | I Hurt, Therefore I Am |
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12 | Breathing Space |
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13 | Think Cool Thoughts |
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14 | Personality Test |
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15 | Nonviolence |
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7 | 11 months 1 week | |||
16 | Instability |
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6 | 11 months 1 week | |||
17 | Never Argue with Idiots on the Internet |
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11 | 11 months 1 week | |||
18 | The Udon Noodle Gambit |
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6 | 11 months 1 week | |||
19 | A Fondness for Familiar Things |
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20 | Threat Detector |
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15 | 11 months 1 week | ||
21 | Velocity Curve |
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22 | Confuzzled |
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8 | 11 months 6 days | ||
23 | Power Play |
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Candle | 7 | 11 months 6 days | ||
24 | Unrelenting |
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8 | 11 months 4 days | |||
25 | Numbers Game |
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9 | 11 months 3 days | |||
26 | The Hardest Hearts |
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27 | My Better Nature |
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6 | 11 months 2 days | ||
28 | Happenstance |
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10 | 11 months 19 hours | |||
29 | Running Repairs |
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5 | 10 months 3 weeks | |||
30 | Incoherence |
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9 | 10 months 3 weeks | |||
31 | Someone Needs a Whack with the Clue Stick |
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32 | Too Much Distance |
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8 | 10 months 3 weeks | |||
33 | Not Enough Bliss |
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34 | Chirality |
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35 | Threshold |
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8 | 10 months 2 weeks | |||
36 | Some Put Their Trust In Sloths |
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8 | 10 months 2 weeks | |||
37 | Harry Harrison's "Toy Shop" |
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4 | 10 months 2 weeks | |||
38 | False Starts, Decisive Endings |
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39 | Delusions of Competence |
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4 | 10 months 2 weeks | |||
40 | Rain to Stop |
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41 | Maudlin |
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5 | 10 months 1 week | |||
42 | Still Raining |
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43 | The Wall |
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4 | 10 months 6 days | |||
44 | Noises Off |
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45 | Retrograde |
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46 | Sick and Tired |
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47 | Omega Block |
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48 | Inconceivable |
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8 | 10 months 1 day | |||
49 | Forgotten |
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8 | 10 months 21 hours | ||
50 | Waiting |
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5 | 9 months 4 weeks | |||
51 | Fripperies 1 |
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52 | Fripperies 2 |
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53 | Fripperies 3 |
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54 | Expeditionary Force |
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55 | Fripperies 4 |
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56 | Fripperies 5 |
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57 | Fripperies 6 |
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58 | Interstitials |
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59 | Thrown For A Loop |
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2 | 9 months 3 weeks | |||
60 | A Brief Demonstration |
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5 | 9 months 3 weeks | |||
61 | Things Fall Apart |
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62 | Wrong Place |
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63 | Cognitive Deficit |
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64 | Triplanetary |
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65 | Shoeless Joe |
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66 | Travel By Piano |
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8 | 9 months 2 weeks | |||
67 | Transport Issues |
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68 | Delayed Again |
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69 | Magic Square |
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70 | Gumption Shortage |
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71 | Nadine's Feeble Grasp of Infosec |
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10 | 9 months 2 weeks | |||
72 | Just What Was I Thinking? |
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73 | Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? |
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3 | 9 months 1 week | |||
74 | Under The Weather |
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75 | X |
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6 | 9 months 1 week | |||
76 | Zip Ribbon |
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3 | 9 months 1 week | |||
77 | Your Password Has Expired |
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10 | 9 months 1 week | |||
78 | Make It Quick |
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79 | Riding With Ghosts |
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80 | Undertow |
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81 | Don't Believe A Word He Says |
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82 | Wear and Tear |
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5 | 9 months 6 days | |||
83 | Misdirection |
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84 | Ritualistic Behaviour in the Modern Consumer |
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5 | 9 months 4 days | |||
85 | A Reluctance to Abandon Old Habits |
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6 | 9 months 4 days | |||
86 | It Seemed Like A Good Idea (At The Time) |
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3 | 9 months 4 days | |||
87 | Castle Dragondreams Garden Party Blues |
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88 | Unfamiliar Territory |
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89 | Saturated |
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90 | Polysaturated |
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91 | Someone Else's Heyday |
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92 | Not All Apostrophes Are Equal |
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93 | Trickle Charge |
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94 | Nearly |
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95 | A Last One For The Road |
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