Welcome to a new series on collecting records and sampling. I can remember back in the nineties when volume 1 came out, because I had a copy on cassette. I think I wore it out after listening to it too

Last night was absolutely amazing, check out my previous post to learn more about the event which was an Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) night at the excellent Old Street Records in London. If you know

We’ve all heard of Open Mic nights before, especially here on Hive, as there are a number of people who love to perform, grabbing a guitar and a microphone to belt out a well known song or two. There are

There are some days where I’m going to write an Actifit post rather than a post post, if you see what I mean and it might just boil down to time and not having posts ready. I’m determined to complete the

Having lived close to Reading most of my life, I’ve never been in the museum, well apart from when I was a kid possibly but I can’t remember. There has been one thing especially that I wanted to find there

I’ve no idea where October went or many of the months before it, this year, as far as work is concerned has been something of a slog. It’s been a challenging year to date, mainly good challenges I’m glad

Getting back into doing some walkthrough videos, this one was recorded for Substack but I’m posting it here too. I’m trying to figure out the best ways of posting to both platforms at the moment.Uploaded

Let me start off with a link to a forthcoming event I’ll be performing at in London on the 3rd November an event that makes me think of @tdctunes and some of the things he’s been doing over the years.

I’ve got access to this new app via TestFlight today and it’s a machine for making drone sound textures, it’s very pretty looking and you can create some really good evolving sounds with it. Give it a

Building drum loops on the iPad is a lot of fun and there is just as much, if not more scope here than with traditional drum machines. So today I’m kicking off a new collection of useable drum loops with

@nicklewis just finished a 2.94km walk, that lasted for 33 minutes. This walk helped nicklewis burn 33.0 calories. Description from Strava: A busy old day today, rearranging the house to make it work better

It’s been a busy day today, mainly sorting out the house quite a bit. Listened to some great stuff whilst doing it all. Especially been enjoying the music and indeed videos of Takeo Watanabe who comes

@nicklewis just finished a 1.79km walk, that lasted for 21 minutes. This walk helped nicklewis burn 90.0 calories. Description from Strava: A morning walk is a great thing, especially when working from

We started the day with a walk and ended the day with a walk. The sunset was incredible tonight, right over our street and I caught sight of this silhouette. Hope you’ve all had a great day? This report

I hope you are all keeping well and I wanted to post something to this community to one say, I am still alive and so is this community project. In fact one of the key problems that was stalling it for

This video has taken me a few days to edit as I wanted to make it look really good and the music was created with elements from Suno Studio and some composed by myself. So really proud of that. Using AI

I will write some proper posts this week. I’ve got some time off. Yesterday was a busy one having a good old tidy. The day before will be a proper post because we went on a bit of a trip around west Berkshire

Welcome back to the hive Sound library and I’m kicking off a new series on plug-ins, that will cover those for the iPad and also for the desktop. Ova synth is a new product that is predominantly aimed

St Bartholomew's Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of Lower Basildon in the county of Berkshire, England. Built in the late 13th century, the structue was substantially renovated

@nicklewis just finished a 3.88km ride, that lasted for 21 minutes. This ride helped nicklewis burn 55.0 calories. Description from Strava: My wife and I fancied a quick blast around on our bikes like