Let’s see what happens with this new experiment of mine, to sell sample packs online, this is just a little one but I’m working on some beefier selections that I will be selling as Koala projects and as a bundle of zipped up files. This one features a collection of sounds recorded around my kitchen, that could be used in percussive ways and there are a couple of drone loops in here that were recorded from our fridge. All you need to do is download the pack from here:

Google Drive

HiveSoundPack1-around-the-house - Google Drive

Please zap in order to pay for the pack, it’s kind of like donationware. I’m sure there are other ways of selling digital products here, let me know of your favourites and I will try those out in the future.

Funky Sunday guys and girls!

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Radio Stereon • Ep 43 - Junk Funk • Listen on Fountain

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@PappasBland hope you’re doing well. Saw your message on Substack regarding tips for getting your UK based brother up and running on Bitcoin. I was going to reply and Substack seems to have gone down. Strike does work here and you don’t need much to get it going either. As little or as much as you wish to throw in there. Nostr works the same as anywhere and I jump between Nostur and Primal. In terms of investment tools and exchanges, that’s where it gets a bit harder to advise. I’m running on sats and Nostr currently and not doing much more than that.

A hot air balloon flies over our house. So low, in fact at one point he was lower and boosted his gas passing over the house behind us and at the point of this photo, I reckon was under 100ft above us. The Daily Express is a British newspaper but I suspect this craft might have once promoted the newspaper. I had a look online and a balloon like this has flown at a number of big events. Is it one of a kind? In other photos I noted it had a number, some kind of ID I guess?

This sculpture was absolutely wild. It’s called Infinity Blue and is located in the Core building at the Eden Project, where the long term exhibition “Invisible Worlds” is currently running. Here is the gumpf

Eden Project

∞ Blue (Infinity Blue)

This huge breathing sculpture by Studio Swine pays homage to one of the world's smallest living beings.

Have just updated my Nostr address and LN address. The lights are still on. Cool.

Reading 2025 - black and white photos taken doing the Kennet & Avon Canal. Includes the old Gas building, former employees homes for the Huntley Palmer biscuit factory.

A very wet day in Cornwall bleurgh. E we had two really nice days though. You have to take the rough with the smooth after all.

The weather yesterday at Newquay was vicious and this photo doesn’t do it justice! We had to wring ourselves out when we got back to our accommodation.

The Cornish weather stone is hilarious

If only the Arcades in Cornwall worked with bitcoin!

We kayaked around this yesterday. Not right up to the boil, that would be very dangerous but we had fun in the fast moving water that it created in its tail. We’ve been kayaking for a number of years now and this was the first time in years my wife or I had done anything like this. We had coaching and learnt a lot and took a little trip around the islands in the river at Shepperton, Thames.

Gonna have a go at making beats on my sampler outdoors. Something I see a lot of Americans, Mexicans and peoples in warmer climate than me doing on their YouTube channels. I’m looking for new sources of sounds all of the time, whether outdoors, vinyl records or sometimes Tracklib for example. If anyone can recommend some for me to check out that will be super.

Always enjoy these and there are some lovely tracks on here. Wondering if all of these originate from Wavlake and other similar places. Interested to learn of others always.

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Taking these two gadgets with me to Cornwall this week to do some sound recording. Well it is a family holiday but a man needs to escape for awhile or three. I’m hoping to capture some cousin Cornish sounds and create some beats on the SP using them. I’ll document my process a like bit with some video (maybe). If you are not familiar with these items , let me introduce them to you. On the left we have the Zoom H6 a handy recorder with interchangeable microphone and line inputs to record various things. On the right is the Roland SP404 mk2 a versatile sampler and effects system.

Don’t think I’ve posted this one here so far. A few weeks ago we headed down to Portsmouth and I recorded this video with my X3. I walked from old Portsmouth in the direction of Southsea and it was a glorious morning. Added some of my own music to the video mixing in the sound of the wind and the sea lapping against the shore.

It’s high time I shared some of my musical experiments again on here. I’m driving my Hydrasynth here with Logic Pro for iPad and making live tweaks to the synth on the fly.