under the hat 2

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diff --git a/album/one-year-older.yaml b/album/one-year-older.yaml
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--- a/album/one-year-older.yaml
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@@ -568,13 +568,17 @@ Additional Names:
     Under The Hat (Bonus)
   Annotation: >-
     [composer's release](https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hat-bonus)
+- Name: >-
+    trollcopsjammin.mp3
+  Annotation: >-
+    [Tumblr filename](https://www.tumblr.com/jitmakesstuff/5889719815/and-now-more-piano-recordings-so-i-discovered)
 Duration: 3:27
 URLs:
 - https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hat-bonus
 - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hat-bonus
 - https://youtu.be/tBfUV056rjo
 Referenced Tracks:
-- track:under-the-hat-lofam
+- Trollcops
 Sheet Music Files:
 - Title: Piano score by Erik Scheele (original composer)
   Files:
@@ -593,6 +597,40 @@ Commentary: |-
     Of course, not being able to play something magnificently and to the best form of the genre didn't really stop me from playing around with this piece. So I did.
 
     I also think it would fit in during the first Intermission, with all the under-the-hat chicanery and stabbings that went on.
+
+    <i>Erik Scheele:</i> ([Tumblr](https://jitmakesstuff.tumblr.com/post/5889719815/and-now-more-piano-recordings-so-i-discovered), 5/27/2011)
+
+    And now, more piano recordings.
+
+    So I discovered that the Under the Hat (aka Trollcops) changes can get an incredible jive to them. But this one other time, that’s in the recording here, I played around with it.
+
+    In other words, it’s played plain, then with an improvised solo (that has some sucky bits), then through again with a little reprise.
+
+    Hope you enjoooooy
+
+    <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 8/13/2025)
+
+    This version from One Year Older was first released [on Tumblr](https://jitmakesstuff.tumblr.com/post/5889719815/and-now-more-piano-recordings-so-i-discovered) in May 2011. (The download is dead, but it's preserved [in the sound test](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_1Hl0I-KsI). It's actually the same recording!)
+
+    Although the release of [[album:alterniabound]] and this Tumblr recording are only about two months apart, and the Tumblr commentary above is written some amount of time in retrospect, we still figure that [[track:trollcops]] precedes this piano improv/arrangement. Voila the reasoning:
+
+    - This track is contextualized with "Under the Hat (aka Trollcops) changes can get an incredible jive to them."
+    - This track's filename (as posted on Tumblr) is <code class="filename">trollcopsjammin.mp3</code>.
+    - The booklet commentary for Trollcops makes it pretty clear that the mellotron saved that track, probably during when it was being arranged.
+
+    We're confident they're referencing each other one way or the other; besides the structure, the improv/solo sections have particular common material. But since the timeframe is ambiguous and our reasoning above is a bit shenanigans, "which came first?" could still go either way.
+
+    As for the "chiptune version" which Scheele refers to in the booklet commentary for *this* release, August 2012, on One Year Older? Totally a mystery! We've seen no sign of that one anywhere, online.
+
+    And one more Tumblr post [from August 2011](https://www.tumblr.com/jitmakesstuff/8392340269/and-then-one-time-i-improvised-around-on-piano):
+
+    > And then one time I improvised around on piano with Trollcops. And thought it was good enough to like, post around and such.<br>
+    > What a stupid idea that was<br>
+    > \*laugh track\*
+    >
+    > (although in all honesty this is probably some of the better solo improvising I've done and managed to catch on recording)
+
+    It might have been a reupload of this same recording, though we can't tell because the SoundCloud upload, "under-the-hat-stuff", has gone missing. If it was a reupload (the original was just via Dropbox) then it maybe makes sense that it was removed in favor of the proper album release on Bandcamp, but that's speculation.
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 Track: Mother (Piano)
 Additional Names: