Name: Life's a Gas by BASS LMNT
Duration: 3 min 28 s
Description: I always wanted to honour one of my early youth's heroes, Marc Bolan. But never could decide on the one song out of his huge catalogue that would really fit me. Then, the other day I heard "Life's a Gas" playing from a random playlist, and I knew this had to be it! Enjoy like I do

Like comets race across the sky to reach the afterglow...

Afterglow

I always wanted to honour one of my early youth's heroes, Marc Bolan. But never could decide on the one song out of his huge catalogue that would really fit me. Then, the other day I heard "Life's a Gas" playing from a random playlist, and I knew this had to be it! Enjoy like I do

Life's a Gas

A poppy reggae-ish number from a former band of mine, called Noble Island Lovers (N.I.L.) (1992-1994). The number has been grabbed from a vinyl ep, the band's only production. Some of the others are uploaded as well. Enjoy.

2021-08-09:
I finally found the original DAT masters so I'm able to replace the first version (digitized from vinyl record) with the original one - sounds MUCH BETTER!

N.I.L. - The Gate (1993)

This is the dub version of The Gate, which I also uploaded here. We had lots of fun doing this. Again, this has been grabbed off a vinyl ep.

2021-08-09:
I finally found the original DAT masters so I'm able to replace the first version (digitized from vinyl record) with the original one - sounds MUCH BETTER!

N.I.L. - The Gate Dub (1993)

This one's more on the reggae side than the others from N.I.L.'s vinyl ep "The Point Of Balance" from 1993

2021-08-09:
I finally found the original DAT masters so I'm able to replace the first version (digitized from vinyl record) with the original one - sounds MUCH BETTER!

N.I.L. - Pictures Of The Enemy (1993)

Finally, this is the fourth and last track off N.I.L.'s vinyl ep from 1993 (The Point Of Balance")

2021-08-09:
I finally found the original DAT masters so I'm able to replace the first version (digitized from vinyl record) with the original one - sounds MUCH BETTER!

N.I.L. - No. 59 (1993)

Unfortunately, there aren't too many recordings from our Echo Park Dub Alstars project. The only one decent one we succeeded to make was a digital live recording done at one of our gigs in March 2001. Since the recording was done mainly using room microphones there's a lot of audience talking and screaming on the recordig, as well.
I picked this recording here because audience noise isn't as high as with the others.

Echopark Dub Allstars - Blue Dubbing (2001)

The 2nd of the two B side titles off The Welcome Idiot's first single / ep ("Hold On Me"), published on vinyl in 1990.

The Welcome Idiots - Crawl in the Dirt (1988)

Our 2nd EP's title track. Claus's playing his guitar as dirty as it can get here

Love for Sale (1989)

We invariably had a hard time finding the right place for Running Down in our concert playlists because of it's "cow-punk" style. We always found a solution, though...

The Welcome Idiots - Running Down (1989)

BASS LMNT is a home studio project, but also a band I'm playing with, together with a bunch of long-time friends.

I mostly play bass and guitar, and if I concentrate well enough I find the right keys on a piano. But my main instrument is my voice: I just love singing all day long; chances are I'm also singing in my sleep, but I'm not sure about that. I'm also a member of a classical choir, but that's a different story. 

I love to re-arrange songs, mostly end up with down-tempo variations. In my earlier days I also wrote a few songs of my own back in time when I played Punk and Rock with The Welcome Idiots (https://soundcloud.com/welcomeidiot) but then I decided that others have more talent in that area. Nevertheless, you can find 2 of my songs here. Totally re-arranged and slowed down, of course. 

Currently I collected my songs in 2 playlists "Going Nowhere" (https://soundcloud.com/elem089/sets/going-nowhere) and a 2nd one "All Directions" (https://soundcloud.com/elem089/sets/all-directions). A 3rd list is a collection of songs arranged for the band, to be played live at Munich's repeating SOS ("Same Old Song") event. Check out a few video clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrbA_XQ5bd0De1M33UjCzC1_T03cokZg5.

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Life's a Gas

BASS LMNT

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