06/04/2022 - New Mixtape Release; Synthia's Mixtapes 3
The third part of the series Synthia’s Mixtapes and is a free download on Bandcamp as they are tracks I once released and can’t put them out again as I’ve changed my artist name from Vision Of Colour to Gas No Light and those are the rules so I’m giving it away for free. I put these beats on a mixtape album as I wanted to release them again as I liked them but I couldn’t put them on Spotify etc so I decided to give it away as a free download and as part of a four part series of synthy or synergy – synth beats with energy. I like to make synth beats on top of the House and Jungle and Drum & Bass and the other genres that I touch on now and then like UK Garage and UK Funky but when it comes to playing the keyboard I like to play over synthy tracks as I have more reign on the projects and gives me more ideas like creative wise but I like to make lots of different beats.Â
04/04/2022 - New Mixtape Release; Synthia's Mixtapes 2
Part two of the Synthia’s Mixtapes series I’m doing is Vaporwave and general synthy beats from downtempo to upbeat and is a free download on Bandcamp. The idea came when I had a little visual and I thought to get the inventive side out of me and do something that was a little different from what I usually do which is just make music with no imagination and that’s boring I like to see if I could get a theme or feel from my music I make and most of the time I do but the rest is so so the stuff I don’t even finish making some tracks. The mixtape is a free download on Bandcamp but feels free to donate if you want. The mixtape was first recorded on a cassette tape but that didn’t go too well and I ended up deleting it and doing the normal version without the cassette deck as it came out soft and a bit hissy to enjoy the music but it did remind me of what it sounded like on a stereo.
03/04/2022 - New Mixtape Release; Synthia's Mixtapes 1
Synthia’s Mixtapes is a free download on Bandcamp that was inspired by music and technology with the use of robots. The whole backdrop was Synthia is a musical robot with all the latest gadgets and accessories for the musician and has built-in speakers and MP3 sockets to play music where she finds the best ones and plays it oh it’s also set in space even though it doesn’t have a space theme in the songs, not these ones but funny enough I do have some that I will put out soon a space EP and mini album which I have finished already. They are some of the old tracks that I can’t release anymore as I can’t release them twice on the major platforms so I thought I’d make a mixtape and give it away for free. The mixtape is a synthesizer instrumental mixtape and a mixture of dark and light with upbeat and mellow tracks that I liked and thought it be a shame to waste the good tracks so I’m giving it away for free.
This EP is about the lost toy store Toys R US a loved shop by many and part of many side jokes that I actually can’t remember. My experience with toy shopping was always disappointing as I never got what I was looking at which is the way of life but damn that action figure looked cool on the TV and I refuse to swear about it lol. I also decided to make it as I was messing about and discovered some things in the making of it that I yet haven’t discovered if I set out what I was hunting for which was toy music. Without sounding too old-fashioned ain’t the toys nowadays technical oh wow and also quite expensive to keep buying or is it phones and IPads they desire? I desire synths which are my toys and I like to mess around with them a lot but I know they ain’t toys but I call them that as they are fun and you never get bored okay you do but it takes a long time depending on many days, weeks, months or years you’ve been playing for. I can go for a while but I take breaks and do other things like promoting and video visuals and editing and also photoshop but also my website too which I love to do in my spare time which is all the time at the moment.Â
Vol 1 of my remixes I made of other people’s pretty famous tracks from Dru Hill, Missy Elliot, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, Adventures Of Stevie V, Jean Knight, Evelyn “Champagne” King, Sister Sledge, and Rose Royce. With films and TV programs from Home Alone, Dracula, Pink Flamingo, and Prisoner Cell Block H. If you want to know the songs and clips used in the songs then don’t worry I got you you can head over to the inspirations page for the clips and tracks with my track as well these are at the bottom of the page.
26/03/2022 - New Mixtape Release; Remix This Vol. 1
A House mixtape for you of famous songs but remixed as it’s been a while and felt like doing some House for the summer to come. I made the acapella’s myself or found them lying around and they are some of my favorite tracks the originals and only choose the best vocal samples and the beats of course. I’ve been making a series of it and I am also giving them away as a free download on Bandcamp as I can’t sell them without getting rights to their tracks and also it’s not what I make for the main genre so I’d thought I make it free. I remixed songs from both films and songs from all sorts of decades and eras and are some of my favorite films and songs though I’m more into my music than films and I can’t remember when I last saw a film probably a decade ago when I was watching TV and had a subscription to cable which gets boring after a while and I usually have it on in the background for the sound and busy doing stuff in the background. Now I listen to music and watch YouTube that’s all I need really but thank goodness for the internet as life would be boring without it and not much to do but the old stuff like board games, cards, and the tv and radio.
I’ve been on my MIDI keyboard a lot and I think I am finally going back to how I used to play but probably a bit slower now and less technical with the keys and the overall design of the tracks. Â This EP is a free download as I used the tracks in a blog post I made not so long back which was about my top 5 favorite synthesizers plugins I have a few now and I actually kind of collect the best ones and can be quite expensive but there are deals you know I love a good bargain and I wouldn’t say I was cheap without sounding off speed so to speak. There is something about synth music that does it for me and all the BS aside it can appeal to anyone and as a producer there is a lot you can do with and fits all sorts of genres some are quite surprising but not really if I thought about it but it’s a win, win situation for me anyway. You can read about the synth plugin I use and what I like in the blog post I made which has some demonstrations of what the synths sound like to get the full picture of them and how they sound and why I love them so much.
1 Ugly Salon 2. Returning 3. Fever High 4. Now 5. Insomnia (Remix) 6. Grim Wua 7. Absorbed (Remix) 8. Spring Morning (Spring Day Remix) 9. Fun With ElectricityÂ
Mr. Postman’s joke though it’s not really a joke and just a play on the song by the Please Mr. Postman by The Marvelettes the Motown song and not actually about the song itself in the tracks. I used to get excited to see the postman even though it wasn’t that much but it was important now I just leave it to fill up and pick the mounting letters up when I’m ready to as its bills bills bills or buy buy buy and all my money mostly goes on my music and I’ve put in some money along the way as I feel it does help though a bit unfair at times. I hate writing though with pen and I’m so glad those days are over and we now type which is a lot faster and cleaner for the environment but most important of all it means my hands don’t get stiff or dead from overwriting but yes it’s much better now but I must say I do like expression and that happens a lot in letters and stuff which is why I used to love writing especially to the stars of Hollywood which I’m glad I never got a reply as I would have passed out or something which is not cool for me lol….or uncool funny enough.