Music News – New Album; Another Year Flying By

Another Year Flying By is a seven-track Electronic album and the first album of the year so I’ll start off soft since New Year’s Eve is over for another year but hey the party continues in due course. I called it another year flying by cos that is what happening and I still can’t believe we are in another year already how time goes fast when you keep yourself busy. This mini album is to say goodbye to 2024 and welcome in the new year 2025 and I wonder what it has installed for us more dire circumstances and more shocking moments to come but I hope not. 2024 was a busy one for me with three websites; this one gasnolight.co.uk my main website, my second website gameforexperimentation.co.uk and my random website randomgas.com with all the music I have released during 2024 under my main artist name Gas No Light and my secondary artists name Game For Experimentation it’s been relentless. I actually spent New Year’s Eve the way I always do and is a new thing but I was changing hosting to a more affordable one and  I got it for £3.00 for the first three months and then after I paid £20.00. Bearing in mind I was paying £60.00 each month for C Panel and hosting with Go Daddy my old host and I was getting 200 GB storage space and the new host is sky’s the limit so this is why I changed my host and spent New Year’s Eve migrating all three websites to the new host.  That was a breeze but a windy breeze which means I ran into a few difficulties along the way but it wasn’t that bad since I did it once before swapping my WordPress host to C Panel with Go Daddy. WordPress hosting and C Panel are both great tools you will need to get your website up and running and are the hub for all the stuff you put out and all the backend stuff too (things the viewer won’t see like security, emails, SSL keys (the padlock on your website and means you are on a secure connection) that kind of stuff. I did mess up randomgas.com by changing the records too soon. The records in this case but are used for various things, is to point to the new server of your hosting which basically means keeping your old hosting plan and I used All In One WP Migration and UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugins to migrate the websites which is all the content seen on the websites. I recommend both tools for migration if you are using WordPress but UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin does have the upper hand as it’s free to backup and restore websites as All In One WP Migration you have to pay $60.00 for a year to restore it once you backed it up and downloaded the copy. I use FileZilla for that a free, open-source file transfer protocol (FTP) client that allows users to transfer files between a local computer (a computer that a user is currently using on a network) and a remote server (a remote computer that stores and processes information and performs tasks. The server is accessible over the internet.) My New Year’s Resolution is to save money and to find alternative cheaper sources so I can have more at the end of the day but still have all the things I need to get this show on the road. I’m making great progress I just got my internet and phone bill to do as I swear they put me on one of the higher packages that costing me money and I don’t even watch TV as I don’t pay a TV licence as I discussed before. All I need is a cheap internet and phone package and that would be swell I don’t want the sports channels or the film channels thank you very much.  The first track Auld Lang Syne – Intro is a quick intro I made since it’s a New Year album I thought I’d add that in. The next track Welcoming The New Year is a melodic slow-paced track to welcome the New Year. I like the bass over the synths and is one of my favourite bass patterns on this album and also I like the second synth sound and pattern which I think goes together quite well, it’s also my favourite on the album.  The next track Giving It Up is about making New Year’s Resolutions and is a sharp dark track to go with the theme of willpower and stamina whilst you are going through the pain of giving whatever it is you are giving up. It has a dark and distinctive sound which I quite like and I like to make dark tracks too so this is another one for the books. The next track Fresh Calendar is a soft and yet again melodic track that I enjoyed making and like to listen to. I like the synths over the bass which like all the tracks on this mini album I used Artuira and  Omnisphere and for the drums like always I used my samples that came from the Mar’s Collection a collection of all the most famous drum kits like the Roland 606, 707, 808, 909, the LinDrum and more, I used the Roland 808 for most of the tracks on this album. The next track Chillaxing is another melodic just chilling track. I like the bells and the bass on this one and I think goes well together and is the perfect track to have on in the background while you are chilling at home or wherever you are chilling to. The next track Another Year Passes is yet again a chilled track to have on in the background while you chill. I like the synths to this one and the bass on top of it which I think compliments it quite well. It should be a bit quicker in BPM to insight into the fast pace of this world but I wanted a slow easy-going album to start the year off so I went for calm and slow-ish. The last track Auld Lang Syne – Outro is the outro to the album and is slightly different from the intro. I really enjoy making intros and outros so I will be making more of them for my Electronic albums since they came out so well and I enjoy making them as you never know what I’d put in them or representing in song.