Late Nights is a House EP I made and is for the summer which is just over a month’s time, one month and one day to be exact. It is an upbeat club EP that I got the vocals and drums from off the internet and I made my own synthy patterns up but I did get the one-shots off the internet too. I called it Late Nights as I’ve been having a few of them lately but also in the past and like to spend my time making music and doing other stuff too. I always find myself staying awake or at least staying awake till morning and then going to bed which is terrible I know but I have a funny sleeping pattern. I guess I’m used to all-nighters or late nights and I used to go out a lot but I’ve calmed down now and barely have the energy to go out or I’m too busy to go anywhere which is something that happens a lot but going out raving doesn’t help with insomnia or the fact that my life is kind of boring or though I do inject some fun into my life when I get really bored of my situation. But I don’t think I could go raving no more and do the early morning after-party that’s always a killer and takes preparation and a warm-up but I can stay awake for a long time if I had good sleep and that’s important, I mean sleep.
Way Thru is a vocal Jungle/ Drum & Bass EP I made not so long ago and is of the old skool nature as I like that more rather than the dubstep kind of stuff you get. I got the vocals and breaks online and I went for the more is less is more approach on this one I also started using the limiter to give it that full feel as I now notice without it the sounds are in the back and not distinctive enough to notice bits you wouldn’t hear without the limiter. I was going to make it all instrumental but I enjoy tracks with vocals and it’s more fun and I feel it sounds better so I added them in. I’ve been trying to get back into the harder Jungle and Drum and Bass as I noticed my tracks were more for relaxing pleasure rather than for dancing and even though it was at the correct BPM it came across as slow and relaxing and I hope this EP gets you moving in some way. I plan on doing more Jungle/Drum & Bass soon as it’s soon the summer and I love to make and play summer tracks in the summer obviously and rave music has that summer appeal to it and is something I do every summer so expect more of that real soon over the summer and autumn too.
It’s a bit early but I decided to do a Halloween album using my cassette shoebox I bought a while ago and still haven’t got full use of it but I’m thinking and using it when I feel like I can and have a good idea. The album consists of taped and nontape instrumental tracks that I taped the samples on the recorder and then chopped them up a bit to make the final sounds so technically there are two versions to some of the tracks on the album. As I said I know it’s a bit early but I was messing about and thought on the spot to make a Halloween album using the recorder as I like the eerie sound to the track which reminded me of some of my old mess about tracks I used to make also using the tape player as I was a tape deck boy. I would say I miss the cassette tape but I don’t but I would say I miss fiddling about with the tapes and the fact you could bootleg anything I’m sorry but I did record a lot of my songs off the radio when I was younger but yes digital is better. The tracks are eerie and slow and melodic to get ready for Halloween or for music for the day which is still a long way to go but I’m sure it will come round fast. I’ll probably do another Halloween album nearer the time but for now, it’s nearly summer so I’m making House, Jungle, and other rave genres, for now, that’s all up on Soundcloud.
Space Lemonade is a what I call this album aka Afrofuturism music which is a new concept music-wise and I see there isn’t a big splash in the music world so I thought being I was interested in the topic and wanted to try something new I thought I’d make a new album as there was one before but it didn’t turn out the way I liked it so I made another one but this time without too much of the bongos, there’s an album with bongos and other African drums that wasn’t too great and this one is without the African drums and more Sci-Fi mixed with Sci-Fi music genres like G Funk and Synthy genres. The album was inspired by the old genres like G Funk, Electro, and other synth-based genres that were Sci-Fi and synthy that I used to listen to growing up and really feel the music. I would say it’s the 80s inspired even though it the not the normal Synthwave album you will hear and the sounds come from the 80s but also the 70s when there was a big popular thing with Sci-Fi here in the UK but also it was on a lot on the TV worldwide and also in fashion but that was before my time and I was born in the 80s a decade after. It was after watching the film Black Panther that I decided to make some Afrofuturism too after getting a few ideas from the film which I and the public thought was inspirational.
1. Alien Slave
2. Wannabe A Vicious Snakey
3. High Fever
4. Beyond The Ice
5. Going Home (Around The Way)
6. Ghosts Streets
7. See Through Protection
8. Face The Mirror
9. Teaser
10. Crossroads (Remix)
11. You’re Cray Cray
1. Dawg Pose (Alternative Version)
2. Be True
3. Beamed Up (Spark Afro Remix)
4. Going Home (Around The Way)
5. No Time (Like Tomorrow)
6. Go
7. Russian Doll
8. Not Enuff Light
9. Unfair Fair (Alternative Version)
10. Profiled (Alternative Version)
I made this album ages ago but under a different name but I changed the name and released it on the 21st of March a couple of years ago which is anti-racism on that day and a good day to release a synthy instrumental album on a day against racism. I would like to say it’s gotten better over the decades but I feel it’s gone both ways and now is just a race row or war at the worse with what you identify with, that’s how I feel. The album is about racism and how I feel about and deal with it and being in the middle of the race row which is where I exactly want to be. But my experiences have been good and bad for all the right and wrong reasons. They say I’m lucky to be biracial as I’m in the middle but I feel it’s not and get it from all sides from the strangest stuff to the obvious I have been called all sorts of names for my race and background but I don’t care and I’m proud of who I am and I really don’t see what all the fuss is about when it comes to disliking someone because of their nationality, be proud of all you are and it’s not your fault they think everyone is the same as the next person lol, please read a book though….the right one!
A special mixtape of synthy vibes I made from 2018 and am now giving away for free as a free mixtape download. I made all the shouts and stuff to I like to get my hands messy so I made some shouts and tags using my own voice and free sound FXs from online, anyway enjoy the free download.Â
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
