Hello From Me Bandcamp People!

September 17, 2023

Hello From Gas No Light

Hi, my name is Laurence AKA Gas No Light AKA LaLa and I hope you don’t mind me emailing you but I got your email from the Bandcamp mail list. I added you all to the list so when I update by post on this website you will be notified by email. It will be all about my music like music news from my major releases and my free Bandcamp stuff, visuals, and playlists from other people’s music which is mainly old-school, my own playlists, podcasts eps, my own playlists of my music, interactive stuff, games and all the stuff I make basically.  You can opt out by unsubscribing at the bottom of the email if not it’s nice to have you on board.   

As you probably can guess I make music and also I love computer designing and making a lot of visuals and other stuff for my website and for YouTube but mainly for my website. I’ve done a lot of things during my time on this earth and I’ll be thirty-nine next year I was born in 1985 in Bristol in the UK. I was brought up around promoting and doing bits and bob with music and I’ve been playing the piano and keyboard since I was seven. But being around promoting took me to some very good places including working in the music industry as a dummy which is more like a handyman but for music and I did various jobs from on and off the keyboard and sound testing. It was for Ant Records a House record company and I did that in the 2000s I also did some work on the UK Funky House scene. Also, some kid’s TV work working with puppets. It’s funny actually as I got the job due to my young self doing a job with a man I knew who had his own Punch and Judy show for those who don’t know what Punch and Judy show is it’s a seaside set up a stall show with puppets about a husband, wife, dog baby and plenty of sausages.

I knew a man who had his own licence and did the show and I was messing about with the puppets as we were packing up and he noticed I could do one of the moves he said I had flexible fingers so long story short he taught me how to handle the puppets and that turned into me getting hired. I did it every weekend and was mainly kids’ parties but at first, it was on the seaside. He always said he would hire me for the long term if I wasn’t young cos I was around 10. When I was 18 I was doing agency work for kids’ TV and one day there was a call for flexible people with little to no experience in handling puppets so I thought I had a bit of experience and after what he said, I was doubtful but more like I might get the job so I applied and ended up getting it and got hired a few times working for Cebebbies and CITV. It was kind of like a bad time for me but I was stuck in this dream and nightmare. At the time the shows that I was on just come out apart from one so I wasn’t really taking notice of the names of the shows I did get my name in the credits which ones I can’t remember but it was the shows out after 2001 when I left school. 

I won’t bore you with my whole life story but that was a bit about me you can go to the about me page in the main menu of my website gasnolight.co.uk and read the full thing. As I said I do like to design stuff on the computer and have been designing since the 2000s when I went to uni to study computer and design which was designing on the computer, algorithms and a bit of psychology I went to America to study. Another funny story there was an ad to study aboard it gave me the inspiration to do and it worked out a lot cheaper and was a change of scenery. I suffer from a mental health problem and gave up working for my health it was bad and I was losing it I was also young and dumb and now I’m a lot better or feel better even though it’s not the case.

Anyway, I’m trying to keep this shortish so that’s enough typing for one day but take care and the next email you will get will be a post from my website even though it won’t be just yet. 

Take Care

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Seven Deadly Syns – Wrath

This is part of an online quiz I made and is What Deadly Sin Am I? You answer the questions and you get one of seven answers depending on what you answer you know the drill by now. This one is Wrath so angry and distorted tracks that will leave you even more angry only kidding. It is all synthesizer music hence the name Seven Deadly Syns and is all of stuff I made in the past 6 years and stuff that is not released anymore but I’m giving it away as a free download to enjoy anyway enjoy the free download.

Seven Deadly Syns – Sloth

This is part of an online quiz I made and is What Deadly Sin Am I? You answer the questions and you get one of seven answers depending on what you answer you know the drill by now. This one is Sloth so slow and lazy tracks to doss around and do nothing only kidding. It is all synthesizer music hence the name Seven Deadly Syns and is all of stuff I made in the past 6 years and stuff that is not released anymore but I’m giving it away as a free download to enjoy anyway enjoy the free download.

Music News – New Album; Free Range Love

September 15, 2023

Music News

12/09/2023 - New Album; Free Range Love

In nine days’ time, summer will be officially over and Autumn will begin so I made a Synthwave album something a bit longer than an EP and also something old school lol. I love making this type of music and don’t really make much of it every now and then when I’m in the mood to do something old school and from the 80s as I was born in 1985. I made a mixed bag of Electro beats and some good old Dream Pop or some slower stuff and I’m pretty happy with the results. I called it Free Range Love as I feel love is free, and should be and also the healthiest love you can get. I don’t eat a lot of meat but when I do it has to be free range whatever it is cos it’s better for nature and also fairer. This sums up the title of the eight-track album which was inspired by the 80s and Boogaloo.  I do have feelings of regret about what I could have been doing now and who knows also making the wrong decisions but I don’t hate myself for it I just know now not to make that mistake again and also be vocal with what I disagree with where it counts. I will say though it’s good to have regrets cos it makes you appreciate the things you have depending on what type of person you are but I feel a bit of regret never hurt anybody. One of my biggest regrets was not having believed in myself or listened to what people said I do listen though but sometimes I think they are just being too nice or avoiding the conversation completely, I’ve been making music for quite a few decades now on and off so I should hope I would be able to make something good out of what I  got but I have many and different tastes that scale from Rock to Hip Hop and everything in-between as I would say. I’m really happy with the song Force To Break on this album the synths which I used the Mini and the Prophet from Artuia really bring out the old school flavour and the drum kit which I used Zenhieser 80s drum kit which is one shots (one hit sounds) which I put together inside FL Studio 20.  I used to listen to a lot of old-school Nu Groove and Electro beats on online radio from 2008 onwards so I hope I caught some of that lock, pop and drop and no you ain’t on fire…well sort of. I also was brought up with music like Force To Break and music simlair which is why I’m so obsessed with it and love it so much. To mark Aaliyah’s passing on the 25th of August I thought I do a song for her which is called Till We Meet Again. I met her when she came to my school in Bristol, UK in 1997 it was. I was so devastated when the news broke being a fan of her from the first album and that was how I was introduced to rapper and singer Missy Elliott one of my favourite female rappers and singers. But yeah I was heartbroken and went into shock I never got over it not fully but she will always be in our hearts for the saint she was.  I called one of the tracks Big Butts and Ifs and is the thing called your backside I called it that as I thought it was a quirky title and needed something a bit different from the other titles, I thought I would have run out of titles by now but it turns out I can go for miles with no batteries. I will be making more Synthwave stuff when I’m in the mood it’s the end of summer by the next release so it will be something synthy but I will be making some more House and Jungle/Drum & Bass which I haven’t made for a while now.

Bandcamp News – New Mixtape Release; Seven Deadly Syns – Gluttony

September 15, 2023

BANDCAMP NEWS

14/09/2023 - New Mixtape; Seven Deadly Syns Mixtape - Gluttony

I’m back with another mixtape and this one is Gluttony so I made this with fat basses and songs that hopefully leave you wanting more. I decided to release another one as I have something that is tied to these mixtapes that I want to use the visuals for or the audiovisuals for something that I already finished just waiting to do the other 5 now as there are seven deadly sins in total so do keep your eyes peeled for that. Gluttony is like greed but is linked to food and drink and the definition states;

 
Gluttony (Latin: gula,)
 
Derived from the Latin gluttire meaning “to gulp down or swallow”) means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food or drink.

In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be withheld from the needy. Some Christian denominations consider gluttony one of the seven deadly sins.

Etymology
In Deut 21:20 and Proverbs 23:21, it is זלל. The Gesenius Entry (lower left word) has indications of “squandering” and “profligacy” (waste).

In Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34, it is φαγος (“phagos” transliterated character for character),  The LSJ Entry is tiny and only refers to one external source, Zenobius Paroemiographus 1.73. The word could mean merely “an eater,” since φαγω means “eat”

In religion

Judaism
Rambam, for example, prohibits excessive eating and drinking in Hilchot De’ot (e.g., halachot 1:4, 3:2, 5:1). The Chofetz Chaim (Yisrael Meir Kagan) prohibits gluttony on the basis of Leviticus 19:26, in Sefer Ha-Mitzvot Ha-Katzar (Prohibition #106).

Christianity

Gula – The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, by Hieronymus Bosch
Church leaders from the ascetic Middle Ages took a more expansive view of gluttony:

St. Gregory the Great

Pope Gregory I (St. Gregory the Great), a doctor of the Church, described the following ways by which one can commit the sin of gluttony, and corresponding biblical examples for each of them:

1. Eating before the time of meals in order to satisfy the palate.

Biblical example: Jonathan eating a little honey, when his father Saul commanded no food to be taken before the evening. (Note that this text is only approximately illustrative, as in this account, Jonathan did not know that Saul had forbidden eating.)

 

2. Seeking delicacies and better quality of food to gratify the vile sense of taste.”

Biblical example: When Israelites escaping from Egypt complained, “Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,” God rained fowls for them to eat but punished them 500 years later.

3. Seeking to stimulate the palate with overly or elaborately prepared food (e.g. with luxurious sauces and seasonings).

Biblical example: Two sons of Eli the high priest made the sacrificial meat to be cooked in one manner rather than another. They were met with death.

 

4. Exceeding the necessary quantity of food.

Biblical example: One of the sins of Sodom was “fullness of bread.”

 

5. Taking food with too much eagerness, even when eating the proper amount, and even if the food is not luxurious.

Biblical example: Esau sold his birthright for ordinary food of bread and pottage of lentils. His punishment was that of the “profane person . . . who, for a morsel of meat sold his birthright:”  we learn that “he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully, with tears.”
The fifth way is worse than all others, said St. Gregory, because it shows attachment to pleasure most clearly. To recapitulate, St. Gregory the Great said that one may succumb to the sin of gluttony by: 1. Time (when); 2. Quality; 3. Stimulants; 4. Quantity; 5. Eagerness. He asserts that the irregular desire is the sin, not the food: “For it is not the food, but the desire that is in fault”.

St. Thomas Aquinas
In his Summa Theologica (Part 2-2, Question 148, Article 4), St. Thomas Aquinas reiterated the list of five ways to commit gluttony:

Laute – eating food that is too luxurious, exotic, or costly
Studiose – eating food that is excessive in quality (too daintily or elaborately prepared)

Nimis – eating food that is excessive in quantity (too much)

Praepropere – eating hastily (too soon or at an inappropriate time)

Ardenter – eating greedily (too eagerly)

St. Aquinas concludes that “gluttony denotes inordinate concupiscence in eating”; the first three ways are related to the food itself, while the last two are related to the manner of eating. He says that abstinence from food and drink overcomes the sin of gluttony, and the act of abstinence is fasting.[19]: A2  (see: Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church) In general, fasting is useful to restrain the concupiscence of the flesh.

St. Alphonsus Liguori

St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote the following when explaining gluttony:

“Pope Innocent XI has condemned the proposition which asserts that it is not a sin to eat or to drink from the sole motive of satisfying the palate. However, it is not a fault to feel pleasure in eating: for it is, generally speaking, impossible to eat without experiencing the delight that food naturally produces. But it is a defect to eat, like beasts, through the sole motive of sensual gratification, and without any reasonable object. Hence, the most delicious meats may be eaten without sin, if the motive be good and worthy of a rational creature; and, in taking the coarsest food through attachment to pleasure, there may be a fault.”

Islam
An interpretation of the meaning of a part of a Qur’anic verse is as follows:

“And eat and drink but waste not by extravagance, certainly He (Allah) likes not Al‑Musrifoon (those who waste by extravagance)” [al-A’raaf 7:31]

The Sunnah encourages moderation in eating and strongly criticizes extravagance.

The Prophet said: The son of Adam does not fill any vessel worse than his stomach. It is sufficient for the son of Adam to eat a few mouthfuls, to keep him going. If he must do that (fill his stomach), then let him fill one-third with food, one-third with drink and one-third with air.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (2380); classed as saheeh (truthful) by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah (2265).

The Colour of Gluttony is orange and the punishment in hell is to be force-fed rats, toads and snakes. 

 

The Executioner mixed brodifacoum, bromethalin, and strychnine (rat poison) into his cocaine stash. After consuming it in secret, They then begin to bleed from the eyes and froth at the mouth. They die a few seconds after presumably due to heart failure or internal bleeding.

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Seven Deadly Syns – Gluttony

This is part of an online quiz I made and is What Deadly Sin Am I? You answer the questions and you get one of seven answers depending on what you answer you know the drill by now. This one is Gluttony so fat and round music that will leave you eating for days and non stop only kidding. It is all synthesizer music hence the name Seven Deadly Syns and is all of stuff I made in the past 6 years and stuff that is not released anymore but I’m giving it away as a free download to enjoy anyway enjoy the free download.

Bandcamp News – New Mixtape Release; Seven Deadly Syns – Lust

September 7, 2023

BANDCAMP NEWS

07/09/2023 - New Mixtape; Seven Deadly Syns Mixtape - Lust

I am getting religious on your asses with my seven-part mixtape Seven Deadly Syns. To point out the obvious it’s called syns after synths and is pronounced how you read it sins. The first one is Lust so there are smooth and seductive tracks or what I call bedroom music for synth lovers and is romantic but tantalising. I do plan on doing the other six as there are seven as you might know and they will all have different vibes and atmospheres on each mixtape. I plan on releasing one every seven weeks and I decided to go all the way in on this one and make visuals for YouTube and will be at the bottom of this page, in the video section of this website or officially on my YouTube channel. Fun facts time blue is the colour of lust and the punishment for this sin is smothered in fire and brimstone which dates back to the bible in the Old and New Testaments but specifically in Genesis 19:24, where it’s used to describe the eternal torments of the damned in Hell and God’s extreme judgment of them. It was also used to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah Fire and brimstone usage trends. It was later used by churches and law enforcement and was said that they claimed they were acting on god’s behalf and the punishment was a wrath from god. Brimstone is Sulfur and is Molton Sulfur which is highly flammable and explosive. The risk of a fire or an explosion is 450 oF (232oC) which I guess is high risk and is used nowadays to make car batteries, bleach paper, cerement detergents, pesticides and a few more major things, oh and the boiling point meaning how hot it gets is 444.6 °C (832 °F.)  and to put that all in perspective in the UK it just goes over 30 °C and boiling water is 100 °C so three times hotter then boiling water OUCH! Sulphur was known in ancient times and referred to in Genesis as brimstone. Assyrian texts dated around 700-600 BC refer to it as the “product of the riverside”, where deposits could be found. In the 9th century BC, Homer mentioned “pest-averting sulphur”. There is the phrase Brimstone and Ashes too and it has a couple of meanings which I found on a website called grammaist.com here’s the examples of how it’s used.

  • The preacher stood at the front of the church and warned the sinners about the fire and brimstone that awaited them if they didn’t repent.
  • Your fire-and-brimstone speech about the consequences of ignoring climate change left the audience in shocked silence.
  • I loved that film that portrayed the dictator’s regime as one of fire and brimstone.
  • Foley’s fire-and-brimstone approach to discipline kept her students in line.
  • He was well known for his fire-and-brimstone rhetoric, which suddenly seemed to polarize his loyal listeners.

There’s a lot of talk about brimstone and fire in both the Old and New Testaments I won’t put them all but I chose my favourite which is from Revelations Rev. 21 where it says; “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Lovely isn’t it lol only kidding but I like what it stands for all the above cos it’s about worshipping your god but at the same time putting yourself first before an act of good samaritans or whatever. I know they say to have faith and you will reap the rewards but I rather have faith in myself than have faith or rely on someone else. I still have my faith and getting more religious the more I get older but another fun fact I don’t like using the word god as a swear word but I still do.

 

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