Bandcamp News – New Mixtape Release; Seven Deadly Syns – Greed
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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.
Bandcamp News – New Mixtape Release; Seven Deadly Syns – Gluttony
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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;
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.
Bandcamp News – New Mixtape Release; Seven Deadly Syns – Lust
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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.
Bandcamp News – New Album Release; Remix This Vol. 3
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10/07/2023 - New Album Release; Remix This Vol. 3
Decided to make a new Remix This and is Vol 3 so far and is of tracks I made ages ago and some I just made last night but the old tracks have been released ages ago on Bandcamp but they aren’t on there no more so I decided to rerelease it again and is a free download, I can’t sell them on the major platforms so enjoy. The remixes are from artists like Mary J Blige, Brandy, CeCe Peniston, Monica, Snap, Baby D, Adina Howard, Zhane and more, for more details on the exact songs used you can go to Creation Zone>Inspirations for the original track used in the songs. I do enjoy making remixes of acapella I found online it’s always hard to pick a song that I like and can use I also like to make my own acapella with Iztope RX whatever the number as it keeps going up. It’s always fun to make the acapella and hope it doesn’t mess up the bit you intend to use and that is always the way guess I’m bad at picking bits beforehand which is why I like to do it while I making it instead of it being planned and beforehand. I must admit I do feel blessed with all the songs and acapella at my fingertips but I do miss having the acapella on a single which was a main feature on most CDs and tapes of the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. I don’t even know if they still do the acapella on a single or on the album which is rare unless it’s at the end with the remixes and that but I do miss having acapella on the singles, I would be making more remixes as. I find it hard to pick songs from the top of my head, I used to be good at knowing songs without playing them as I played them so much but now I struggle to think of songs, especially the more obscure ones mainly from the 90s but nowadays they are overplayed a little like One For The Money by Horace Brown. I can’t remember the first remix I ever listened to that would be a hard one but I did love all the remixes from the 90s especially R’n’B and Hip Hop/Rap and I love when they flip it around and turn Hip Hop to R’n’B or vice versa they did that a lot in the 90s and 2010s era in Trap, Hip Hop and R’n’B. They did some sick Hip Hop to R’n’B one of my favourites was just a female perspective something I also love when they switch perspective but one of my favourites is Milla J Don’t she was pretty good and had a couple of hits in my opinion but the most played was Smoke, Drink & Breakup but I like that remix a lot also the SWV remix to Anything Featuring Wu Tang Clang.
Bandcamp News – New Single Release; Cozy (GNL Remixes)
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24/05/2023 - New Single Release; Cozy (GNL Remixes)
It’s been a while since I did a free download, so I decided to make a single from Beyonce’s latest track off her album Renaissance and my favourite on that album, Cozy. I was inspired after listening to someone else’s remix and that was titled Cozy in 1994 it was a dance track right on point actually with all the right stuff on the track but that lead me to want to make my own track and I thought I do a couple of versions from House, Jungle/Drum & Bass, UK Funky and UK Garage all in club style as the track I heard was very 90s club scene and I love my club scene. I like Cozy as it says a lot and the beat is infectious something I could dance to even though the beat is kind of slowish but at a reasonable speed. Quick thoughts on the album well it’s not over-hyped and I enjoyed it apart from one or two tracks that were more ballads and something I don’t really like that much but I do appreciate the singing. Being comfortable in your own skin is very important and love starts within which means you have to love yourself more than you love the people around you in some ways as being comfortable with who you are and what you are about is more important than material things and even self appearance even though it is good to look after all the above but being secure within yourself leads to a happier and fuller you, not a shell in the corner worried about this and that cos at the end of the day hanging around get’s you nowhere in life which is something I have to tell myself that and doing it right now. Being content is also good but saying that you can’t be too cosy within your surroundings is good to step out of the box every now and then and try something new and wild. I can’t remember the last wild thing I did but I feel like I want to do something with my newfound confidence anything is better than staying in all day and I love to get out and see life but the last decade or two I haven’t been feeling myself but I feel like I’m getting better and am looking for new stuff to try and do cos as they say you have plenty time to rest when you die and hopefully my time is not soon but you never know. Summer is just around the corner and I might actually get out a lot more if it’s not too hot to go out but I wanted to go to London again I haven’t been for years and would be good to go out and have a bit of fun for the day. The last time I went was in 2011 when I went on a day trip I went to London’s Dungeon and The London Bridge Experience it was so fun lol I was lauging all day with the jokes we was having.
Bandcamp News – New Mixtape Release; Ghosting Radio Radiology Vol. 1
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13/03/2023 - New Mixtape Release; Ghosting Radio Radiology Vol. 1
A mixed genre mixtape from shows on my online radio station Ghosting Radio home to all my music I make released and unreleased and stuff from my old accounts I had like Vision Of Colour and The Other Side Of V.O.C. that I haven’t even put back up. The tracks are all from shows I recorded and are on YouTube and are just some of them and the best ones or the ones I thought were okay. I have shows throughout the day and night and the tracks come from those shows which are The Morning Playlist from 6.00 am to 10.00 AM, The Random Playlist from 10.00 AM to 12.00 PM and then 2.00 PM – 4.00 PM, The Afternoon Playlist from 12.00 PM – 2.00 PM, The Seasonal Playlist from 6.00 PM to 10.00 PM and then The Late Night Playlist from 10.00 PM to 6.00 AM. Also, 4.00 PM – 6.00 PM is my freshly squeezed slot where it should be my latest stuff but it always doesn’t play guess I should try and sort that out at some point. Seasonal is throughout the year and includes spring from the 20th of March, summer from the 21st of June, Halloween from the 25th of August and then winter from the 25th of November it is all seasonal stuff or stuff I thought sounded seasonal. There are a few ways to stream the live radio and one of them is by the main menu under My Music or by the link in the button below. This is a free download and can be found on my Bandcamp page where all my free stuff is and I do plan on adding lots more once I go though it all at some point but to be honest I’m dreading it as there is quite a lot to go through. Obviously, there will be a Vol. 2 at some point once I got enough to go through as I am picking the ones from the recorded shows and that is on YouTube and there aren’t many more shows to record for a vol. 2 just one or two shows I think as I’m doing them in batches, anyway enjoy.