Acstc_1: Carnival 4:42 PM

Acstc 1: Carnival by Dusk Grotesk
First post in my acoustic series, more to follow. This one is for Melissa.

Some artwork I made 6:48 PM

I did some cover artwork for Jimmy the Hideous Penguin's set for Second Square To None. Ten variations featuring lots of penguiny goodness.

List_2: Choons on Soundcloud 12:31 PM

I'm a big fan of the Soundcloud service. Their player is aesthetically pleasing (with the waveform view & ability to comment on the waveform being a stroke of genius), tunes stream really well, easy access to downloads, nice overview of statistics & a useful element of social networking that gets you listening to all sorts of interesting things if you have a bit of a look around. The fact that Soundcloud doesn't place limitations on lengths of tracks means that alot of producers put up full livesets and mixes, which is a great way of finding new music. At the moment my big interest is in the many variants and hybrids that relate to dubstep and there is wealth of artists on Soundcloud who are at the cutting edge of this type of music. These are some of the artists that I think are worth checking out:

Dubstep & related music
http://soundcloud.com/16bit
http://soundcloud.com/2562amadeupsound
http://soundcloud.com/akira-kiteshi
http://soundcloud.com/bluedaisy
http://soundcloud.com/drokkr
http://soundcloud.com/floatingpoints
http://soundcloud.com/gunjack
http://soundcloud.com/hexadecibel
http://soundcloud.com/jamievexd
http://soundcloud.com/jus_wan
http://soundcloud.com/kanji
http://soundcloud.com/shift-recordings
http://soundcloud.com/somatics
http://soundcloud.com/stagga
http://soundcloud.com/stormfield
http://soundcloud.com/kid606

If anybody knows any other interesting artists on Soundcloud drop a comment on this post.

Bonus...
Labels
http://soundcloud.com/black-acre-records
http://soundcloud.com/ragandbone

Radio-y People
http://soundcloud.com/maryanne/favorites
http://soundcloud.com/rob_booth

& my Soundcloud is http://soundcloud.com/euphiophone !

New blog & general update 2:47 PM

I have a problem. I keep setting up blogs! And look at the state of euphiophone.com, sure it's fierce neglected. Anyway, I set up a blog for my Dad at www.neliusflynn.com to showcase/publicise his art. He's gonna be maintaining it himself from now on so expect to see regular updates on work that he is doing, a large selection of his paintings/drawings/wood burnings/sculptures/other specialist projects, as well as information about his commissioning service etc. It's in its infancy right now but there are some lovely examples of his gouche work uploaded that I am a big fan of.

Apart from that, I have been working away on designing a Junior Cert History book (nearly finished) and then spending my evenings trying to figure out how my Mopho synth communicates with Logic 8 using all the Environment window MIDI routing shananigans. Am dying to get making some bowel-shaking-monster-bass-heavy tunes, just have to get the bleedin' thing working first...

Am also plotting one or two regular features for my blog, such as a bi-weekly solo acoustic upload. This would let me get all my old tunes out in the open and hopefully force me to:

1. write some new songs
2. get some collaborations on the go in order to get the tunes a bit finished
3. get some of the songs that I have written over the last ten years (that I still think are any use) recorded so I can either say, 'what was I thinking, this is just as rubbish as that other one that I wrote about being an angsty teen', or if I still don't hate a song I can move on with it and get it to a more finished state.
4. practise guitar & singing more

First one is coming this week at some stage.