Love that mood & feel - (got a little bit of the Koy division-moods!)

The concept of model citizen in a dark wave song is interesting. In a dark society, what would be the role of the citizen? To obey or disobey?

9 tracks by The Ginger Twins

1.   Yet Again
2.   Derivative
3.   The Model Citizen
4.   True Regret
5.   The Lesson 
6.   Something Amiss
7.   Obsoletion
8.   Shattering Me
9.   A Shimmer in the Darkness

Vacancy

Song by The Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down reality
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down adversity
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down reality
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it

The Lesson

It's time to wake up! This song should be a wake-up call to anyone who feels trapped in a period of uncertainty or doubt. This track is to remind you that there is always hope, even if the world sometimes seems bleak. 'Wake Up' wants to motivate you to step out of the shadows, find your energy and move forward full of drive. Let the beats carry you and feel the power of new beginnings! 

DAW Cubase
Halion Sonic 7
Groove Agent SE
Retrologue 2
Padshop 2
Colors LoFi Tapes
Novel Piano
Verve
Transverse
Hybrid Hit
X-Stream
CRE8 Wave Engine
Navia Harp
Evo Elysium
Kontakt Etheral Earth
Habitat by Domink Eulberg
Iconica Sketch
Ocular Sounds

100 bpm

Picture by Merlin Lightpainting on Pixabay

wake up

Song by The Ginger Twins….
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven….

Lyrics:
Free from independent thought
Loved only by the things you’ve bought
Trained since my life began
To be the model citizen
To be the model citizen
The model citizen
Gone is any choice to make
Free from any risk to take
Programmed and retrained again
To be the model citizen
To be the model citizen
The model citizen

The Model Citizen

Song by The Ginger Twins…
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven…

Lyrics:
Brand new initiative
Somewhat prohibitive
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
Like a dog fears thunder
The thumb I’m under
Brand new initiative
Somewhat prohibitive
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
I once knew what I wanted
I pursued what I wanted
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
Like endless hunger
The spell I’m under
I once knew what I wanted
I pursued what I wanted
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative

Derivative

My absolute 'dream team' at work here: Subharmonicon does the chord progression and sequences the note changes on DFAM (bells) and my DIY Minimoog clone (bass). As always everything was recorded simultaneously. 

In A Room

Embedded

This is an ambient version of the Sonically track. It is made by stripping down the patch from Sonically keeping the pad, bass and flute.

Sonically Ambient

Song by The Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…
She lies awake at night
Haunted by that day
The price forever pay
Alive but dead inside
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…
Greeted by the face of truth
Can’t deny mistakes we’ve made
Defined by careless youth
Now until the grave
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…

True Regret

The Lost Temple

2025-04-09

It will be dawn soon.

Song by the Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
Standing, facing the firing line
Cold hearts without a care I find
Climbing, racing a ticking clock
Path blocked – can’t reach the mountaintop 
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again and again and the sky grows dim
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
I am mistreated again
I have retreated again
Mind racing with endless thoughts
Distant memories of love and loss
Staring down at the firing line
No resolution and a truce declined
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again and again and the sky grows dim
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
I am mistreated again
I have retreated again
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
Yet again


Yet Again

Fractured Silence

Song by the Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven 

Lyrics:
Help – it’s gonna take me down
Way – it’s gonna take me way down, down, down, down
Hey – it’s gonna break me down
Way – it’s gonna break me way down, down, down, down
Stay until the morning comes
Stay until it comes
Wait until the morning comes
Wait until it comes
Help – it’s gonna take me down
Way – it’s gonna take me way down, down, down, down
Help – it’s gonna take me down
Way – it’s gonna take me way down, down, down, down
Stay until the morning comes [It’s gonna take me down, down, down down]
Stay until it comes [It’s gonna take me down, down, down down]
Wait until the morning comes [It’s gonna take me down, down, down down]
Wait until it comes [It’s gonna take me down, down, down down]
It’s gonna take me down
Way - it's gonna take me way down, down, down, down
Way down, down, down, down,
It’s gonna take me down

Down

Nebula EP by Petrified Entity released August 24, 2025

Nowhere

https://soundcloud.com/nasoshnik
Not my track. I do not own this. 
Original song and lyrics (Polish) by Nasoshnik.
https://soundcloud.com/nasoshnik

English vocals by Cymru Roberts
https://soundcloud.com/vinectochoir

Nasoshnik - Świecące Próchno (Bioluminescence)

Authentic soundscapes of melody and noise....The Ginger Twins is an alternative music project by Philadelphia based musician Brian Beethoven.  Formed in 2023, The Ginger Twins produce songs with a varying blend of unique post-punk, dark wave and experimental electronic sounds. 


#darkwave #minimalsynth #alternative #postpunk #coldwave #experimental

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