SSTN-4 Tomorrow 5:19 PM

SSTN-4 from Second Square To None on Vimeo.

Here's a bit of something I'm working on for the visuals. Check out the line-up here.

Euphiomix_2 11:16 AM

Sundaymix by Dusk Grotesk

Note: You can download the mix by clicking the down arrow at the right of the SoundCloud player.

songs, folk, minimalism, instrumental, rock, mallet music

This is a mellow mix, the likes of which one might play on a Sunday afternoon or late at night. It features songs interspersed with instrumentals (lots of mallet and melodic percussion stuff). There is acoustic material from the likes of Nick Drake and Elliott Smith, minimalism from Steve Reich and Philip Glass, bands such as Sonic Youth and Xiu Xiu, and instrumental stuff by everyone from Clark and Machinefabriek to Moondog and Max Roach. It's a collection of stuff I really enjoy and consequently it's not just a litany of obscure bands that I think I am oh-so-painfully-cool to know about, there's all sorts of stuff in there. Wrap this mix around you like a blanket and go back to bed, there's no school today.

EDIT:
Here's the setlist:
Aphex Twin - Hy a Scullysa Lyf a Dhagrow - Drukqs
Devendra Banhart - My Dearest Friend - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Neil Young On The Beach - On The Beach
Colleen - Summer Water - The Golden Morning Breaks
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel No. 2 - New Skin For the Old Ceremony
Antony & The Johnsons - Spiralling [ft. Devendra Banhart] - I Am a Bird Now
Elliott Smith - Going Nowhere - New Moon
Moondog - Utsu - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue
Eels - I Like Birds - Daisies of the Galaxy
Philip Glass - Part 1 - Music In Twelve Parts
Radiohead - Videotape - In Rainbows
Steve Reich - Music For Mallet Instruments - Works
Pearl Jam - Sometimes - No Code
Bon Iver - Flume - For Emma, Forever Ago
Machinefabriek - Lau - Xylophonique
Beck Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Clark - Night Knuckles - Body Riddle
Manic Street Preachers - Williams Last Words - Journal For Plague Lovers
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks - The Blue Notebooks
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Love Comes To Me - The Letting Go
Max Roach - Twinkle Toes - M'Boom
Lou Reed - Andy's Chest - Transformer
Moondog - Viking 1 - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue
A Perfect Circle - The Nurse Who Loved Me - Thirteenth Step
Xiu Xiu - I do what I want, when I want- Women As Lovers
David Lang - Wed - Elevated
New Order - Ceremony - Substance
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Song For Jesse - The Assassination of Jesse James
Queens Of The Stone Age - I Never Came - Lullabies To Paralyze
Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed - Sonic Nurse
David Lang - Under Opheus 1 - Are You Experienced?
Smashing Pumpkins - In The Arms Of Sleep - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Dandy Warhols - Godless - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Nick Drake - From The Morning - Pink Moon

My birthday 1:09 AM

One of the highlights of my birthday was getting a card from Melissa featuring her artwork, on the right there. It features Jeremy Irons (Melissa's future pug) wishing me a happy birthday.

Had a very nice day really, had cheesecake in work, went for dinner with Melissa & her mum, Sharon, my housemate Amanda made another cake and I ordered a new synth (the very sexy DSI Mopho, below) funded by my lovely family.

Additional note: to top it all off I also saw Jane from the bus who waved excitedly at me. This made me feel VERY special.

Second Square To No Life 12:51 PM

Again, have been spending all my spare time over at secondsquaretonone.com.

I did a post about audio-visual performance. Check it out here.

Full line-up announced for SSTN_4, including live performances from Sunken Foal, Blue Food, Gland & Conduit, Ventolyn & Becotyde, Jimmy the Penguin, aswell as some amazing DJs. Check here for details. Very excited about the line-up, can't wait to see what all these lads come up with. We'll be making more announcements regarding the visual artists who'll be doing stuff on the day so check back at the blog, or join the Facebook group.

www.secondsquaretonone.com 10:33 AM

Been very busy the last few days trying to get new blog designed and operational for Second Square To None. Getting serious staring-at-computer-screen-headache as that's all I've done from morning to night all weekend.

However, this is just about done now, if I could ever stop tinkering about with it..

Anyway, please do check it out, it's gonna be a pretty deadly resource for finding quality Irish music that's a bit off the beaten track, with lots of great livesets/mixes/artwork/video by top talent from about the place.