About

Hi, my name is Laurence AKA Gas No Light and I’m an independent producer from Bristol, UK.  I’ve been making music for over 24 years now from the synthy stuff to rave stuff to Hip Hop and a bit of R’n’B and Reggeaton I’ve made a bit of everything really.  I’ve made quite a few tracks now and have released them throughout the years going under different names Vision Of Colour, The Other Side Of V.O.C., and Rave Out the three artist names I changed a few times as I wasn’t happy with the name and wanted something a little edgy and mysterious which my new name Gas No Light is all the above I feel and is different to the normal names I have had in the past. I went to university which was to do with music and computers and had a lot of designing aspects with computers and music but music is my passion and love in life and always has been. One thing I love is being creative but always needed the right balance and music was one of them and spared me from going mental a few times and even helps now. Music has always been my passion that and helping people which I also like doing and apart from my music, I make I like to go out for walks and take my camera and I also like being generally creative whether that is if that’s video editing, messing about with the visualizers for cool videos, and also editing photos I took mostly to use for album covers and for Flickr and this website. I also once appeared on BBC news about institutional racism in 2019 where they asked me about my experiences with the police and how I deal with racism and the police on a day-to-day basis. I also did some secret work with Rockstar after I went to uni and was a sound picker, which I forgot about.  I have two websites randomgas.com which is the sister site and home to all my creative stuff other than music and this one. gasnolight.co.uk which concentrates on music and I put the websites together to showcase some of my creative work as I love to be creative on and offline and have a few hobbies like photography, and gaming making music making, writing and video editing not to mention the random stuff I make like scrapbooks.  As I probably mentioned I love synthesizers and have a good collection of VST plugins but the fascination started at an early age listening to all those great artists from the 60s, 70s, 90s and my decade the 80s when there were loads of great music which was either an instrument or an electronic one and I also loved the sounds and different textures of the tracks which I thought were exciting and ever-changing with new bits added in every so often it was a fascination and still is only I can play now. I’ve played the keyboard for over 33 years now but have been making music for over 22 years on and off. I used to have a Cassio keyboard and I used to play and try to imitate tracks from House, to Jungle to the more 70s and 80s tracks and make my own numbers up too, also I used to get gaming music sheet music like Sonic and practice in my spare time to master the track and I probably wouldn’t remember where to start now if I was to play it on top of my head. That’s my other love is old retro gaming music which I was hooked on not more than the game but it always stuck with me how catchy they were. I make gaming music myself as I have a few 8-bit and Chiptune plugins that work well. Also back in the 2000s when I used to send out melodies to companies I made a track called Hermit which I sent out to a famous toy company they had it in night light for toddlers which they took out not so-long after and replaced it with another simpler track. I also sent out music for the first Grand Theft Auto on the first couple of games which is probably how I got the job as a sound picker and that I felt wasn’t setting the mood of the game. I saw a job advertisement in the Voice shoutout to the Voice newspaper it basically stated are you into music? Do you make music? Are you into gaming music? I applied thinking I wouldn’t get it but I did and it was their best experience. I also did a bit of TV work for a children’s tv channel called CBeebies which was for toddlers and young infants and  I did some puppetry and other stuff that was weird but fun.  I must point out I was working as a cleaner at the City Inn in my home town Bristol when I decided to leave and sign up for an agent to get me some excitement in my life and make some money. I just left school it was 2002 or 2003 when I finally signed up by email request by the library and it was really fun being there and shout out to the Bristol Agency near the Hippodrome they definitely could get you the part if you knew how to sing and not even in tune I wonder if it’s changed.