"When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed."

Bertrand Russell (Interview 1959)

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/album/i-turn-my-back-on-all-your-truths

On all your truths

"[...] Wir träumen von Reisen durch das Weltall: ist denn das Weltall nicht in uns? Die Tiefen unsers Geistes kennen wir nicht. – Nach innen geht der geheimnisvolle Weg. In uns, oder nirgends ist die Ewigkeit mit ihren Welten, die Vergangenheit und Zukunft. [...]"
aus: Novalis: "Blütenstaub"

"We dream of traveling through the universe—but is not the universe within ourselves? The depths of our spirit are unknown to us—the mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds—the past and future—is in ourselves or nowhere."
from: Novalis: "Pollen"

"Engage!"
Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Original picture by 8385 @ pixabay

Frontier

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/haunted-playgrounds
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6KC0SqCwKFlbCT6tNrqEUv?si=3207c3796e304c98

Recently visited some of the places from the time when I was a kid. A strange experience. One moment I had the impression everything was gone and it was a location like any other, but a second later there was something like a ... presence, like now and then melted together. I observed the boy I was and when he took notice of the man I am he looked at me in a way that made me so unsure about if he would chime in with what he saw.
[If I were an adherent of psychotherapy I would now visit a psychiatrist.]

"Die Vergangnen zu erlösen und alles 'Es war' umzuschaffen in ein
'So wollte ich es!' – das hieße mir erst Erlösung!
F. Nietzsche: "Also sprach Zarathustra"

“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was’ into an ‘I wanted it thus!’ — that alone do I call redemption!”
F. Nietzsche: "Thus spoke Zarathustra"

Original cover picture by hifijohn @ pixabay

Haunted Playgrounds

Download from bandcamp: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/mariupol
All my revenues will go here www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/index.php to help people in and from the Ukraine in their desperate situation.

This may not be my most polished work, it was done within two days in a very strange mood. I started doing "something with music" to take my mind off the things happening - and ended up composing while at the same time having a news-channel permanently showing all that madness on a little screen on my desk. I really wanted to turn it off, most of the pictures and texts were repeated constantly, there was kinda no point in having the device active all the time - but I just couldn´t. 
Strangely enough even in this "setting" creating music did for me what it has been doing for 25 years now: When things come too close, when I reach that point where I think "Man, if you don´t stop thinking now, if you don´t stop walking on the edge of this abyss right now, everything may fall apart to a point of no return", then transforming this lurking nothingness into something has so often saved me in a way. 
Therefore a lot of my tracks are like time-capsules for me - when I listen, I can exactly re-feel what was wrong (most of the time something was wrong) or what I was thinking about back then.
More and more I realized that this piece of music perhaps would be connected even closer to the very moment it was created than usually. I really hope that, given time, I will look at this one and say "These were some dark weeks in history and I remember them exactly when listening, but at least in the end it didn´t turn out as terrible as it could have".

Mariupol [Download at bc to support people from Ukraine]

„You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.“
„First you´ve gotta know – not fear, know – that someday, you´re gonna die.“
[Tyler Durden, „Fight Club“]
Whenever I see a crowd of people, ecstatically dancing and (seemingly) completely letting themselves go, euphoria and widened pupils everywhere, at some point these words come to my mind. Then a celebration of life suddenly changes into a collective ritual of denial. That´s basically why I used to feel quite sad at outdoor-raves.

Original artwork pictures by Pete Linforth and moritz320 @ pixabay.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/_JW7IhA5KRg

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com


Disco Melancholica

"In your happier days how could you ever
Know how far away your harbor lies?
Home, poor heart, you cannot rediscover,
If the dream alone does not suffice."
(F Hölderlin: "To Nature", 1795)

"Das erfuhrst du nicht in frohen Tagen, 
Daß so ferne dir die Heimat liegt, 
Armes Herz, du wirst sie nie erfragen, 
Wenn dir nicht ein Traum von ihr genügt."
(F. Hölderlin: "An die Natur", 1795)

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com

Original artwork photography: Pexels @ pixabay

Lost

Thanks to a friend for the use of the photo. And - even more -  for being a friend.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZJfIaxaPs

This track was featured on Synthwave Sunday, the show included an interview with me as well, listen here: https://soundcloud.com/immclovin33/radio-pure-gently-synthwave-sunday-with-marko-maric-08-06-2014-week-17

To you I dedicate all these ruins

“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Ich habe die Wüste immer geliebt. Man setzt sich auf eine Sanddüne. Man sieht nichts, hört nichts. Aber durch die Stille pocht und schimmert etwas..."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com

Video contains sequences by (in order of appearance, all @ pixabay): Mohammed Hassan, Amir Irani, Pietkeutel

Seclusion

Choose your favourite Ism! Relief is just a swallow away!

Ism Incorporated

Free download @ mental-minority.bandcamp.com

Cordicopolis

Sounds a bit like some tracks I did ten years ago. Nostalgia takin' over!!

Free download @ mental-minority.bandcamp.com

We shouldn´t part on a bitter note

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”
Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"

“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense.” 
Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451"

Wait for me

To get you through your lonely nights.

Some words, thanks to https://weeclaire.com :
https://weeclaire.com/2016/08/11/a-song-a-day-mental-minority-solitary-nights/

Solitary Nights

Dedicated to Marcus, my childhood friend, who passed away about ten years ago not even reaching the age of 30. When I think of him today, our childhood seems to have been a neverending summer, full of spending our time with exploring every corner of our part of town, watching movies, playing games on his Commodore 64 or discussing who would win a fight between Luke Skywalker and He-Man. Obviously this hasn´t much to do with how things actually were, but I really don´t give a damn and just try not to forget the boys we were.

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
Stephen King - "Stand by me"

Watch a beautiful (and translating my track and words to images) video done by https://soundcloud.com/marvel83 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmy8MsEgZTc

The boys we were

Watch the video on The80sGuy´s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhCazac7mZI

Never Forget

Thanks for the beautiful artwork to Noro Nori.(https://www.artstation.com/artist/mehtalamaija)

We Walk Alone

Say goodbye to another summer gone.
A very special and atmospheric video: https://youtu.be/QKzyTs1C6qs

Heartburst

Shifting the Decades

http://electronicrumors.com/2012/04/06/two-new-tunes-from-mental-minority/

I used to feel quite sad at outdoor raves

Enjoy the summer. Every little bit of it.

One Last Summer

Some nice words about the track, proms & hair - clap your hands:
http://handclapmovement.com/post/23984876546/german-producer-mental-minority-first-wowed-us
Again great support from the amazing Clive:
http://electronicrumors.com/2012/05/30/mental-minoritys-new-track/

Take my hand

Welcome to the new age of ideologies, in which everyone seems to know exactly what the truth is - or alternatively claims that truth is nothing but a chimera and thus only might makes right. Welcome to 2018. Welcome to DYSTOPIA NOW.
Free download here: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/album/dystopia-now
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/CYbT8-rSqo0
Artwork by Odysseus: https://www.youtube.com/c/OdysseusOfficial

Dystopia Now

Quite some words...
http://electronicrumors.com/2012/08/20/two-new-tracks-from-mental-minority/
"Tales of love and lost" - oh yes:
http://www.mdnghtstrt.com/2012/09/triple-sundaes-with-mental-minority.html
Got your girl back with a little help from me? Let me know...
http://handclapmovement.com/post/30870831917/mental-minority-who-is-quickly-becoming-one-of-our

Casey Truax from Pennsylvania produced a wonderful video for this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_aj_VETkE or watch it here by clicking the "Track Video" - icon above.
Visit Casey Truax here http://soundcloud.com/alphonsin or here http://www.youtube.com/user/continental851

So this is for you

Hmm, perhaps not as retired as I thought.

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.” 
Stanisław Lem, "Solaris"

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/the-stars-won-t-save-us

The stars won´t save us

´“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” 
“It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.´
                                          Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

´"Wo sind die Menschen?", fuhr der kleine Prinz endlich fort. "Man ist ein bisschen einsam in der Wüste." 
"Man ist auch bei den Menschen einsam", sagte die Schlange.´
                                           Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Der kleine Prinz"

Free download at https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/
Artwork originally by Tomislav Jakupec (Pixabay)

A Moment, Eternal

Download here: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/the-void-of-atrocity
From an Interview with Ray Bradbury:

" - You grew up believing that to fantasize was the same as to daydream, to be idle, to be some kind of a ne'er-do-well but yet I know that you don't look upon fantasizing as something that's ... evil.

- No, and it's a shame that this concept ever got going with any people at all because I've always claimed that the ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow."

From "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt:

"The judges were right when they finally told the accused that all he had said was “empty talk”—except that they thought the emptiness feigned, and believed that the accused wished to cover up other thoughts, which were not empty but hideous. This supposition seems refuted by the striking consistency with which Eichmann, despite his rather bad memory, constantly repeated, word for word, the same stock phrases and self-invented clichés (when he did succeed in constructing a sentence of his own, he thereupon repeated it until it became a cliché) in referring to every event or incident that was of some importance to him. Whether he wrote his memoirs in Argentina or in Jerusalem, whether he talked to the police examiner or to the court, what he said was always the same, expressed in the same words. The longer one listened to him, the more obvious it became that his inability to speak was closely connected with an inability to think; that is, to think from the standpoint of somebody else. No communication with him was possible, not because he lied but because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the words of others, or even the presence of others, and hence against reality as such." [In the german version of the text Arendt adds: "absoluter Mangel an Vorstellungskraft", translated: an absolute lack of imagination].

Original photo by Andreas Samuelsson (pixabay)

The Void of Atrocity

What we do when there´s nothing to do...

Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/isolation-theme

Isolation Theme

Tomorrow I´ll smile more

Hoping every day that this brittle bridge to the child I´ve been won´t break.
Free download: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/childhood-whispers
Original picture by FelixMittermeier @ pixabay.

This track on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/24SbVmEVxubWW3fmkGFt0w

Childhood Whispers

This track is part of "The 80's Dream Compilation Tape - Vol. 2", released by NewRetroWave.

And don´t forget to lift your eyes to the stars from time to time.

Under the Stars

Some tracks have been deleted when I turned this account from paid to free. You can still listen to everything that is not here anymore on Youtube and Spotify, downloads are available at Bandcamp.
Get in touch: mentalminoritymusic@gmail.com

FAQ
Q: I hate your music, what can I do?
A: I don´t know, really.

Q: Where do I have to click some 'like' buttons to get access to free downloads?
A: What?

Q: Do you really think the world needs still more dreamy or melancholic music?
A: No.

Q: Will you ever do a track called "Night Drive", "Neon Future" or "Miami Sunset Boulevard City Lights L. A. Cruisin´ Replicant Force ´86"?
A: I´m not sure. [Edit July 4th, 22: Sure! Listen to it on my Youtube!]

Q: I´d like to put out a compilation including one of your tracks, remix one, use it for a filmwork or in some other way - interested?
A: !

Q: But there is no money involved, still interested?
A: !!

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