Ghosting Radio Mixtapes; Radiology – Halloween 2023

A Halloween special from tracks played on my radio Ghosting Radio home to all my released and unreleased music which I’ve been making again since 2017. If you like to hear more Halloween tracks, then please tune in from the 21st of September to the 1st of November from 8.00 PM to 12.00 AM Monday to Friday and 6.00 PM to 12.00 AM Saturday and Sunday Greenwich for more tracks like this. It was all on my online radio station Ghosting Radio, home to all my music creations. The radio has different shows throughout the day, night, and year, including morning, random, afternoon, new and latest released music, and seasonal and nighttime. For more details on times and dates for any of the shows, including the seasonal playlist Spring, Summer, Halloween and Christmas/Winter and Winter please go to the main menu under G.N.L. Hub>Ghosting Radio for more details including a radio player to stream or click the Website Radio Page button below. I’m in Greenwich time here in the UK. This is a free download and can be found on my Bandcamp page, where all my free stuff is. Come join me. 

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

September 21, 2023

BANDCAMP NEWS

15/09/2023 - New Mixtape; Seven Deadly Syns Mixtape - Greed

This is 3 of 7 and is a mixtape series I’m doing the Seven Deadly Sins but Deadly Syns or synths same concepts just with music and a visual of course since I enjoy making them. This one is greed so expect synths that may leave you wanting more and are of a greedy rich nature it’s hard to explain this one but as always I did my best to make the music sound suit and are all my old tracks I made throughout the years and can no longer release as I have already released it on major platforms under different names. I was thinking like rich, wanting more, melodic, sounding good, needing something, waiting for something and impulsiveness but not the people with the condition but more rich and well which is no jealousy to them at all. I don’t think I have to explain this one but for the  benefit of the tape Greed is described as Greed (or avarice) is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as status, or power. Greed has been identified as undesirable throughout known human history because it creates behavioural conflict between personal and social goals.

Nature of greed

The initial motivation for (or purpose of) greed and actions associated with it may be the promotion of personal or family survival. It may at the same time be an intent to deny or obstruct competitors from potential means (for basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities; therefore being insidious or tyrannical and having a negative connotation. Alternatively, the purpose could be a defence or counteractive response to such obstructions being threatened by others. But regardless of purpose, greed intends to create an inequity of access or distribution to community wealth.

Modern economic thought frequently distinguishes greed from self-interest, even in its earliest works, and spends considerable effort distinguishing the line between the two. By the mid-19th century – affected by the phenomenological ideas of Hegel – economic and political thinkers began to define greed inherent to the structure of society as a negative and inhibitor to the development of societies. Keynes wrote, “The world is not so governed from above that private and social interest always coincide. It is not so managed here below that in practice they coincide.” Both views continue to pose fundamental questions in today’s economic thinking.

Weber posited that the spirit of capitalism integrated a philosophy of avarice coloured with utilitarianism. Weber also says that, according to Protestant ethics, “Wealth is thus bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care.”

As a secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of ordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of “wants” once desired “needs” are eliminated. Erich Fromm described greed as “a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”. It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may equally be applied to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.

One individual consequence of greedy activity may be an inability to sustain any of the costs or burdens associated with that which has been or is being accumulated, leading to a backfire or destruction, whether of self or more generally. Other outcomes may include a degradation of social position, or exclusion from community protections. So, the level of “ordinance” of greed pertains to the amount of vanity, malice or burden associated with it.

Views of greed

In animals

Animal examples of greed in literary observations are frequently the attribution of human motivations to other species. The dog-in-the-manger or piggish behaviours are typical examples. Characterizations of the wolverine (whose scientific name (Gulo gulo) means “glutton”) remark both on its outsized appetite and its penchant for spoiling food remaining after it has gorged.

Ancient views

Ancient views of greed abound in nearly every culture. In Classical Greek thought; pleonexy (an unjust desire for tangible/intangible worth attaining to others) is discussed in the works of Plato and Aristotle. Pan-Hellenic disapprobation of greed is seen by the mythic punishment meted out to Tantalus, from whom ever-present food and water are eternally withheld. Late-Republican and Imperial politicians and historical writers blame the demise of the Roman Republic on greed for wealth and power, from Sallust and Plutarch to the Gracchi and Cicero. The Persian Empires had the three-headed Zoroastrian demon Aži Dahāka (representing unslaked desire) as a fixed part of their folklore. In the Sanskrit Dharmashastras, the “root of all immorality is Lobha (greed).” as stated in the Laws of Manu (7:49). In early China, both the Shai Jan Jing and the Zuo Zhuan texts count the greedy Taotie among the malevolent Four Perils besetting gods and men. North American Indian tales often cast bears as proponents of greed (considered a major threat in a communal society). Greed is also personified by the fox in early allegoric literature of many lands.

Greed (as a cultural quality) was often imputed as a racial pejorative by the ancient Greeks and Romans; as such it was used against Egyptians, Punics, or other Oriental peoples and generally to any enemies or people whose customs were considered strange. By the late Middle Ages, the insult was widely directed towards Jews.

In the Books of Moses, the commandments of the sole deity are written in the book of Exodus (20:2-17), and again in Deuteronomy (5:6-21); two of these particularly deal directly with greed, prohibiting theft and covetousness. These commandments are moral foundations of not only Judaism, but also of Christianity, Islam, Unitarian Universalism, and the Baháʼí Faith among others. The Quran advises do not to spend wastefully, indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils…, but it also says do not make your hand [as though] chained to your neck…” The Christian Gospels quote Jesus as saying, “”Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions”, and “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”.

 

The colour of greed is yellow and the punishment in hell for committing a greedy act is boiled alive in boiling oil and has been around since the middle ages. 

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Seven Deadly Syns – Pride

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 Pride so music to look in the mirror all day and be vain and pretty 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 – Envy

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 Envy so tracks that will leave you with envy and jealously hopefully not to me 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.

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. 

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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.