Engineered & Produced by Lee McMahon (audio engineer - The National / Pale Waves)
Mixed by Ryan Davison

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I'm in, when you're out
You're twist, and I'm shout
You're bark, and you're bite
Well I'm kiss, and I'm fight

You're rough, and I'm rougher
You're tough, well I'm tougher
But she'll make me suffer
Under the cover

Come and take a ride with me
Across the country lines
To the other side

I'm falling through your liquorice dreams
Your dark history
No, I've no place to hide

No place to hide

I'm rum, you're coke
I'm stick, you're poke
That one master stroke
Oh she's the fire to my smoke

Come and take a ride with me
Across the country lines
To the other side

I'm falling through your liquorice dreams
Your dark history
No, I've no place to hide

No place to hide

...

I'm always too high

No Place To Hide

Composed in June 2020, edited and published in March 2021.

12 tracks with native MS2 instruments and the old Xewton forum.

5 additional tracks from Synthmaster One

Made, like all my other compositions, exclusively with ipad.

It is something different from the rest of my compositions. I hope you like it .

Chrysalis

Go Ahead

Hendrik @cosmic-ratzzz asked for my rhythm trax from Cecilia's "Fresh Pure Air" @specialvocals  a tune he had collaborated on with me. I though he would do an instrumental version, and he did add some great instrumentation, but he had an ace up his sleeve in the form of Mz Emily Coy @freevocals 
We hope you enjoy this mash-up remix "The Madness"

The Madness w/ Cosmic Ratzzz  ft. Emily Coy

Production: RiZLiX https://soundcloud.com/rizlix
Lyrics/Vocals: Mizero
2021
It was my pleasure to work with RiZLiX! 
Video: https://youtu.be/gdejsd9yJtg?si=MEyoKbnIHpdtVBUh  
Lyrics:
i used to be a whore
for the sound
it would spin me round
and round
the bass is what i'd die for
and then the beat
i listen so much,
can't eat or sleep
now i am a queen
for the stereo machine
and the speaker
speaks to me
much deeper

all i do is hear and feel anymore
i'm way down to the core
to miss it makes me sore
im down to the core

and the speaker
speaks to me
much deeper
and the speaker
speaks to me
much deeper..
i'm down to the core...

RiZLiX Ft. Mizero - Down To The Core

RiZLiX Ft. Mizero - Down To The Core (VIDEO in description)

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

Race Against The Wind

Searching Forever

An ode to ideas both good and bad
Lyrics:
Crawling up
Out of the primordial ooze
Now we're standing  erect
And walking around
Dreaming of designer shoes
We invent languages
Fire & light
So we can see each other
When we fight on Saturday night (that's right!)
The Caveman he's painting on the cave walls
But, he's not artistically satisfied
He says: there's got to more
Like a great creator
some kind of entity that oversees us all
With rules and dogma
That we all follow

I've got to write this down!
Everything permanent once it's written on a cave wall
I've got to write this down

Don't smile  so much
Because it makes me wonder what your trying to sell me
Adam Smith & Walt Disney
A couple funky capitalists
Based our society around supply & demand
Now the worlds moving at the speed of cash

I've gonna to write this down!
Once it's written in a stock ledger
You know it's real
I'm gonna write this down

I've been creating a little Rock & Roll chop shop
With Frankenstein parts 
From funk, soul and R&B
I've got Woody Guthrie in the box car
It's like skimming from an all cash bar
Les Paul said: Let's amplify those guitars

I need to re-read the Book of Love
You know it's all written down somewhere
I've got an emotional bloody nose
That's how it goes
The Book of Love only available
To those in the know
I don't know what's going happen in the world next
An AI simulation
Or a UFO guest
There going to look back at us
They going to say: We ain't gonna do it like that
They're going to write it down
I need to write this down!

Write This Down

SHOULD I STAY SHOULD I SPLIT
WHO WILL TELL ME SO
WILL I EVER MAKE IT 
TO WHEREVER I GO
I DON’T KNOW
BLOW WIND BLOW
FLOW SILVER RIVER FLOW

DON’T ASK WHAT DIRECTION
DOES MY EAGLE FLY
DON’T ASK ME NO QUESTIONS
I WON’T TELL YOU NO LIES
COS I DON’T KNOW
HIGH FROM LOW
LOVING OR NOT DOING SO

I DON’T KNOW
BLOW WIND BLOW
YOU SHOULD’NT HAVE EVER LET ME GO

I DON'T KNOW (Lyrics)

Just a small electric guitar solo from my CD Keepsakes. Emika – Japanese – blessed, beautiful child.  

The youtube video link below is of the song Emika from photos of Tori Yamashita's extremely cute dog Kooza at various sites in Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6_oFLHMOY&t=3s

Emika

I was inspired by Liisa Pentti’s recording of “Black Is the Color” to do a remix of her interpretation of a traditional folk song.  I was so impressed with her performance and her beautiful voice, so I roughed out an initial version and sent it over to her.  She offered me her original recorded tracks, which enabled me to produce this posted version.  I am very thankful to Liisa for allowing me to do the remix and post it for your enjoyment.  Please visit her SoundCloud site @liisapentti and listen and comment on all of her amazing songs.

- Vocal by: Liisa Pentti, @liisapentti
- Liisa's original version: @liisapentti/black-is-the-color
- Original folk version performed and written by John Jacob Niles, @johnjacobniles/black-is-the-color-of-my-2
- Remix arranged and produced by: Robin Benjamins
- Photograph: "Rue des Mages” by Robin Benjamins

Key: G minor
Time signature: 4/4
BPM: 106.75

Instruments:
- Arturia KeyLab 88

DAW:
- Mac Pro 12 Core, macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina)
- Apple Logic Pro X 10.5.1
- Plug-ins: Logic Stock, Ez Drummer
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 40
- Mackie Control Universal

Liisa Pentti - Black Is the Color (B•F•S mix)

This track is included in my new collaborative album HIGHFLUX: ariad.bandcamp.com/album/highflux I collaborated with my amazing friend @primaloop. I hope you will like the result as we do.  The full album contains a bonus track.

Primaloop: drums, textures 
Ariad: balafon, flute, clarinet, keyboards, vocals

More infos:  www.ariad-music.com
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdlAJ5SYfA

HIGHFLUX

Toucan

GET FULL ALBUM

In Mexico, I played with bands like  "Atrás del Cosmos", "Queso Sagrado", " Broken Heart", "Decibel", "Bardo Thodol", "Kathmandu Ensemble", Silent Light. In New York City I played with Bands like, "King"s East", "In The Service Of", "Fist of Facts", "Desire", "Dense Undergrowth"," "Matahari", "Like Wow", "Devil's Breakfast", "Muse Mob", "Atlantis 3000", "Monster", "Zenith", "Andromeda Crash" "Night Shade", I also collaborated with Hector Zazou, Harold Budd, Elliott Levin, Dennis Charles, Tetsu Inoue, Bettina Koster. Barbara Gogan, Salvatore Principato, Ken Man, Scott Hartley, Thomas Truax , Johanna Hugring, Martina Hoogland, Amanda Garrett and many others. For many years I also wrote Jingles for a lot of products like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mc Donalds, Toyota, Kodak, Payless Shoes, Rothman's, Salsa Tabasco, JC Penny, Liberty Science Center, American Heart Association, MCI, Reebok, AT&T, Fanta, Play Movil, etc, I also made music for Viacom writing music for cartoon networks, Bravo TV, Chanel 1, and MTV. Also wrote music for Bill Moyers (PBS)and also for Fax TV in Germany.