Hey people it’s Synthi@ here. This is a extended page for all the things I’ve been keeping my eyes open about and is mostly Gas No Light music and stuff he has created for mainly his three websites gasnolight.co.uk, gameforexperimentation.co.uk and randomgas.com but there is also going to be other stuff as well who knows what I’ll put on the page it’s my page LOL!
Bandcamp News – New EP Release – Sideways Steps
BANDCAMP NEWS
01/02/2024 - New EP: Sideway Steps
I decided to give away some music and started off with one track but decided I should find another three tracks to make a EP out of and I thought while I thought I was cooking with gas so to speak I should make some more. Sideways Steps is a four track EP I made last night and is now on my free alternative page on Bandcamp and also on Soundcloud where it will be and only be as I don’t own rights to any of the vocals or lyrics so I can’t sale them. The four tracks are from famous songs which I found the acapellas to online and made new songs but they are Megan’s Thee Stallion – Hiss more on that in a mo. Aaliyah’s – Miss You, Rihanna’s – Skin and Guy’s – I Like. I chose my favourite songs from that artists or the last one group and each one I hope is different to each other. I will be adding it altogether in my Remix This series where all the songs I did in the most recent time get’s put on a album and also a free download on my free Bandcamp page. I called it Sideways Stepping as I feel it’s something to dance to and I would call the tracks club/rave music but you can just have it on in the background. I made a visual for the EP as I liked it so much but that can be found at the bottom of this page underneath the Bandcamp audio version or on my YouTube channel Gas No Light. About that thanks to the people who has subscribe to me on there I have twenty one subscribers now and I’m not sure if it’s that one video the one I did for Halloween and was part of my Halloween project which can be found on my other website randomgas.com but I know a couple like music making and music in general. Okay the first song is from Megan Thee Stallion’s Hiss and for those who don’t know it’s a whole over four minutes of venting by clearing the smoke and dissing a lot of people including the famous rapper Niki Minaj. Okay first thing first I don’t like to see people fight or when it gets out of line but damn I found it funny when I saw Niki Minaj go off for 64 hours including in the end of that space a whole diss track called Big Foot which was all over a mention with one line that left Niki looking like she’s a Storytime of Lil’ Kim’s book in my opinion but ONE LINE. The remix to Hiss is a G House mix and has a upbeat beat and bass with bossy lyrics which is why I like Megan Thee Stallion a lot she’s bossy, my two favorite rappers at this time is Erica Banks and Megan Thee Stallion for their style and lyrics alone. The next track is from Aaliyah’s I Miss You and like the first is another favorite on the EP as I like the bass and the vocals which I pitched down and up for a mix mash of range. I delicate to this one to Aaliyah of course and anyone you may of lost in your life no matter how close or distant you were from them. She was a big impact to not only in the music industry but was a inspiration to anyone she was in front of including myself and she really was angel disguise she was, and on that note shout out to Brandy also. The next track the remix to Rihanna’s Skin is a Funky House track with once again pitched up and down vocals with loud basses and catchy melodies. To have a deep conversation about skin and what it means to be certain shades and the power words like light skin is a whole new topic but I’m just getting the whole take on that and am relearning stuff like Tribalism and also the one drop rule stuff I used to be quite familiar. I’m British or English mixed with mostly African but I’m Scottish and Welsh as well as Germanic Europe and places like Nigeran, Togo and Benin, and have tribal links to Bantu People so I class myself as and identify of being white and black which makes brown. The last track from Guy’s I Like It is a special one and I found some decent 80s Acid House drum pattern which I filled with the acid bassline and the vocals plus other stuff. It reminds me of when I went to Sunrise Back To The Future in 1989 which was a rave that played House and New Groove and Disco and Soulful tracks throughout the night to the next day usually in a field or abandoned place. But it reminds me of that and by the way I was four and it was a different time. I tried to make it like the DJs were spinning tracks with scratching and shouts over the acid house beat I like it and no pun intended. If you would like to hear the tracks I sampled please go to randomgas.com and under the main menu is Hub is Inspirations please click on that to hear the original track and the remix I made.
New Album Release; Sin Bun Run
18/01/2024 - New Album; Sin Bun Run
Other than making music I like to make games especially retro-like games the older the better but I like current games as well and made a few now. This is the music from the retro platform game I made called Sin Bun Run and was inspired by a mascot I saw whilst on holiday in Cornwall but it looked evil and a bit sinister which later gave me a good character for a game. The game has seven levels and they are all hard and pretty long it was actually a nightmare to finish the level both playing and making but each level is a new world or scene. I made all the stuff in the game apart from the backgrounds and I opted to find free backgrounds that would be better than what I had in mind which was a real-life picture but it wouldn’t have gone with the retro theme I had in mind and was making. It’s quite a long album with thirty-six tracks that had six tracks on each level as I thought it would be annoying if you heard the same three tracks over so I went for six which I thought was a good number in the end and the best players won’t even get to the sixth track hopefully. I wasn’t going to release the album as a major release and I was going to keep it unreleased but since I got my other name which is this name Game For Experimentation I thought it be perfect to have it on all the major platforms under that name. I should point out the mascot I saw on holiday was a pink rabbit and actually, it was a female rabbit. I didn’t see the gender of it at first until I read it on the Park Dean website which is the holiday camp I stayed at and saw the mascot to. All the music on this album are from my gaming synths and specialize in making Chiptune and 8 Bit music which reminds me the 8 Bit version of this album can be found on my paid Bandcamp page where I changed the settings to get the 8-Bit feel. This version on all the major platforms is 24 Bit and had to be, to be released or I would have released it as an 8 Bit album to get the proper feel of it but feel free to change it to taste. All you need is the free software Audacity to change Bit or go to my paid Bandcamp page where it’s up and the only place to get the 8 Bit version. I don’t have a favourite on the album I like them all and think they are all different feels. I tried to fit the feel of the level, for example, cave music or woodland music but all in Chiptune and 8 Bit music form. I also tried to think back to what old school Chiptune and 8 Bit music sounded like and tried to match it a little with all the drums and synths patterns I made using a drum sequencer and my keyboard to play the melodies. If you want to try the game Sin Bun Run it can be found in the Arcade section of this site under Gaming Lounge or the link which I’ll leave at the bottom of this page if you feel like killing a few hours and jumping around franticly you might enjoy it.
Music News – New EP; Fear Inside You
Music News
08/12/2023 - New EP; Fear Inside You
The last EP of last year 2023 and more clubby house tracks. I called it Fear Inside You as I thought it was a good title for an EP but more importantly, the older I get I’ll be 39 next year but the older I get I realise that fear was inside me and I can’t be shy or get paranoid about silly things and also things that are out of my control. I’m more of a happier person now I have dealt with my paranoia and other issues that were a burden to handle from a young age but I survived and got through it and I can still produce a smile. It’s not only fear that lives inside you that needs to be let go of but it’s also your well-being and not overdoing it with say drug substances or alcohol too much is damaging for your body. You might end up regretting starting the abusive relationship you will develop from too much drug substances or alcohol for example. This is except for cannabis and some other drugs I won’t mention not to get the hype bandwagon out but too much of something is always a bad thing. The other thing as the song from Martin Ikin’s Nothing To Fear goes, (And in case you don’t know what song that is it is a house banger with an acid bass and diva singing.) As the song goes “I think it’s something I feel but there is nothing to fear.” It’s all inside you and something you feel which at times can be quite tense and scary but it’s mostly in your head. Especially when you have the haters on your back but if you know you’re not X, Y, or Z there is no need to stress about it as they also say the truth will set you free and lies will always be unwebbed. I am a believer in not letting your fear get the better of you and doing bold things like doing something you don’t do and is out of your comfort zone especially if you see light at the end of a very dark tunnel. I was lucky though I had the guidance around me to guide me through my younger years and also my teenage years which helped me help other people better whilst they went through their troubles and stuff but it’s all swings and roundabouts. It’s the same with the luck I had from my younger years to around 22 which I’ll be sharing on this website gasnolight.co.uk as I make them. The first track Ahead is a bassy house track not my favourite on the EP but I like it. I think it needs something more to it but you can be the best judge of that. I do like the vocals which like always I get my vocals and one-shots and loops from splice.com. It reminds me of stuff you would hear in a club and I would say it is danceable or something you could stick on at a party but not my first choice. The second track You is not the most danceable go-at-it track on the EP but I think it’s the type of music to have on in the background while you do your thing but is suitable for the lounge of a club or something for the cloak staff in the cloakroom. It does get more clubby at the end where I like to change the beat into something new, upbeat and faster-paced to close the song down. It’s one of my favourites on the EP and I like the end bit the most on this track even though I should have added more elements to it like some unexpected sounds. I’m relearning how to make music and is a step-by-step process which involves listening to other people’s music from the early years the most to get a good feel again. The next track There goes to the haters simply questions snivelling vinegary tits are you there? As in are you all there? Or do you need a blanket and some coco ha! I like the vocals on this and the bass I made which made it more unaware dancing in the club track which I’m happy with. It’s another favourite on the EP and probably my overall favourite on the EP as it’s something to dance to and have a good time and is something I would dance to in a club or rave for example. The last track Let Me is a bassy track and is a medium-paced track that is danceable but also good for just chilling or doing what you do like on the computer or jogging/working out. It’s not a favourite on the EP but once again I do like it and am happy with it even though I don’t class it as my favourite I like the change of feel to this track which makes it sound different from the others’s tracks on the EP as I like to make them all different or though that’s always the plan.
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New Album Release; The Gaming Soundtrack I
5/01/2024 - New Album; The Gaming Soundtrack I
When I’m not making music I like to make stuff from my computer and put on the internet and making games is one of them. I love to design and is something I specialize in though I used to be better at coding in the 2000s when coding was easier and less things to remember but I lost my way so I look for non coding software and online apps like Construct 3 which is what I build the games with. I say build I also like to get templates of games and do all the designing myself like the sprites which is the main characters, enemies, weapons and devices and contraptions, the buttons, the backgrounds everything you see in the games basically it all gets changed and made by me. I made a few games now around under 20 and vary from space shooters, Pacman, a memory game, a Christmas poker game, Gin Rummy the card game, Solitaire the card game, Ping Pong the retro version, a zombie shooting game, Tetris which is in weed form, A Halloween version of Candy Crush, a trading card game, and a space invaders game. They all can be found in the Gaming Lounge section on this site in the main menu under Arcade they are all there and ready to play if you want something to do. They are mostly old styled games which I enjoy making more but I did enjoy putting Hallow Crush together which is a Candy Crush alternative game but same rules and principals and a new style game compared to say Pac Man but I could be wrong. Now I think about it Candy Crush is similar to the game Bubble where you shoot bubbles in the right space to match the colours and stop the balls from overlapping the top. I used to love that game and is why I was hooked to that witch bubble game on Facebook last decade now when it was very popular, I advanced pretty far with the rebound trick I used to do for those difficult positions. Making games for my website and other platforms meant making music to go with it as games equals music so I made tracks for each game sometime more than one track per game but I didn’t put everything on the album just the ones that were A, long enough and wasn’t just a 30-second loop and B, the actual songs not just background noise to help concertation or get in the game. As the games are diverse and vary, so are the tracks on this album which are both Cinematic and Chiptune tracks combined on one album and are electronic, Hip Hop, and other genres which I made based on the game I was making at the time. I like to make retro games and music and I have a couple of synths that make gaming genres like my 8 Bit synth plugin and another one I can’t remember the names of them but they are good though and tend to make good old-fashioned gaming music. I used it in a few tracks on this album and is on Wolkman (Main Theme), Astro Dog (Main Theme), Inferior, and Robot Invaders. Those are the older retro songs from the retro games I made and the rest is cinematic or upbeat Hip Hop like on Weedtris (Alternative Version) where I used Hip Hop drum kits to make it sound more like Hip Hop. I like all the tracks on this album but my overall favorites are Solitude, Weedtris (Alternative Version), The Christmas Trade, Astro Dog, Inferior, North Pole, Wolkman (Main Theme), North Pole, Pong, Betting On It, Hallow Crush and the last track Toyz Alive.