Vietnam Ranking: https://soundcloud.com/josef-schweinzer/sets/ramixjoeworldcontest2025?si=8772ffb0264f4695abcdc0b4214718da&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Originaltitle: Việt Nam - Ta Cùng Đi

Vietnam is an elongated coastal state in Southeast Asia. It borders China, Laos, Cambodia, the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea. The capital of Vietnam is Hanoi, the largest city by population is Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon); other important metropolises in the country are Hải Phòng, Cần Thơ and Đà Nẵng. The majority of the population are Vietnamese.

The first historically documented kingdom in what is now Vietnam emerged in the 1st millennium BC. Afterwards, peaceful coexistence developed between the Yue and the Han during the Triệu dynasty. 111 B.C. The dynasty came under the control of the Han Chinese as a province of the Han dynasty in 200 BC and remained so - interrupted by brief periods of independence - until 939 AD, when it was defeated after the Battle of the Bạch-Đằng River (Autumn 938 AD) gained independence. In the following centuries, Vietnam expanded southward with successive dynasties and a period of Chinese occupation from 1407 to 1428.

In the 19th century, the area gradually came under French colonial rule as part of French Indochina. Japan occupied the region during World War II. From 1946 to 1954, France tried unsuccessfully to restore its colonial rule in the First Indochina War. As a result of the French defeat in 1954, Tonkin and the northern part of Annam became the socialist North Vietnam with the capital Hanoi, and Cochinchina and the southern part of Annam became the Western-supported South Vietnam with the capital Saigon. From 1964 to 1973, the United States failed in the Vietnam War to defeat North Vietnam and its allied National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. Instead, the two Vietnamese states were reunited under communist leadership in 1976.

Vietnam remains a one-party dictatorship to this day. The authoritarian government regularly commits serious violations of human rights.

Vietnam - Ta Cùng Di

Machinery of  Forgetting

Someone promised to wait.
To wait beyond.
Beyond the hourglasses and the mounds of swollen flesh.
Beyond the cuneiform codices, the spiral labyrinths, the bone flutes of extinct birds.
Past the pyramids of time and the colossal granite dolmens slumbering beneath Antarctic glaciers.
But no one came back.

The song is the lament of those who still hope to say goodbye.
To say goodbye fiercely—with their eyes, with their hands, with everything that exists beyond the body.
To part with such violence that reality thins, and the blazing ground of grass takes on the texture of dragonfly wings.
The voice of the one still waiting calls out, demands, roars through the wound that a heavy slab carved with the word “LOVE” can barely cauterize.
The slab of a forgotten grave, in a windswept cemetery on the Atlantic coast.
At the edge of a cliff where—warmed by magma beating to the phases of the moon—earth, ocean, and sky fuse together: into amber, into lead, into cobalt.

When those who wait begin to sing, their voices pierce the unyielding concrete of nuclear reactors, the crust of the earth, the frozen core of the gas giants in the solar system.
Their voices rattle dead loudspeakers, tear through the white noise of radios lost in the ether, whisper in the echoes of abandoned cathedrals, and sigh in crackling exhaustion through the worn-out waiting rooms of hospitals.

You can’t stop their voices from rearing up inside your eardrum, nesting forever in the synapses of your auditory nerve—so you can carry them far.
Perhaps all the way to the one who never received the goodbye.

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Alguien prometió esperar. Esperar más allà. Más allá de los relojes de arena y de los montículos de carne tumefacta. Más allá de los códices cuneiformes, de los laberintos en espiral, de las flautas de hueso de pájaros extintos. Allende las pirámides del tiempo y los colosales dólmenes de granito que dormitan bajo glaciares antárticos. Pero nadie volvió.

La canción es el lamento de los que esperan poder despedirse. Despedirse intensamente. Con los ojos, con las manos, con todo lo que hay más allá del cuerpo, despedirse con tal violencia que la realidad se adelgace y el suelo fulgurante de hierba adquiera consistencia de alas de libélula. La voz de quien aún espera reclama, inquiere, brama a través de la herida que una pesada losa con la palabra "AMOR" apenas logra cauterizar. La losa de una tumba olvidada, en un remoto cementerio azotado por el viento del Atlántico. Al borde de un acantilado donde, calentados por un magma que late siguiendo las fases de la luna, tierra, océano y cielo se fusionan; en ámbar, en plomo, en cobalto.

Cuando cantan los que esperan, sus voces atraviesan el hormigón implacable de los reactores nucleares, la corteza de la tierra, el núcleo congelado de los gigantes gaseosos del sistema solar. Sus voces sacuden altavoces desconectados, rasgan el ruido blanco de las radios perdidas en el éter, susurran en las reverberaciones de catedrales abandonadas, y suspiran crepitantes en las extenuadas salas de espera de los hospitales.

No puedes evitar que sus voces se te enjirafen al tímpano y aniden eternamente en las sinapsis de tu nervio auditivo, para que las lleves bien lejos. Tal vez hasta quien no pudo recibir el adiós.

Llévame lejos

Live recording, 4 analog synths plus added guitar as a second track.

Meadows

Available on my new Album 'Formulations'.

The picture is taken from when I was experimenting with video synthesis.

Overshadow

A student of mine is learning this piece, so I decided to learn it too. But it sounded incomplete, so...

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Based on "Menuett in C-Dur, Op. 38, No. 4" from "50 Stücke für Anfänger"
Music composed by Johann Wilhelm Hässler
Arranged and performed by Thomas O'Higgins Horna
Produced at Kolima Forest Studios
Cover art by broadacre.

This track is not to be used to train AI.

Hässlers menuett

Electric guitar, e-bow, effect pedals, non synchronized loops, two tube amps, analog bass synthesizer, djembe. Audio-snippets taken from Fox News, 06.08.2025. All sounds (except the original voices), mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

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Cheeky little collab with my buddy Si Green (Surreal8Zero/SurrealSi). Cheers Si dude :-)

DigitalDred v Surreal8Zero - Collision

Influences are Eat Static, Orbital, Aphex twin, Banco de Gaia, FSOL, Chris Liberator et al. 90’s electronica all the way. 
Using Reason 11 from October 2019 with the ABL3 TB-303 emulator, also some hardware (Arturia Microfreak, Behriinger Model D, Korg volca bass and beats). Reason 2.5 before that!!
Scambots please fuck off, thank you :-)

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