Lost Dreams - Part II

1 week ago by @candle

Liner Notes

#一sýƶýģý一 #ambient #nietzsche #philosophy #theantichrist #nihilism #übermensche #archive一dot一org #vocalsamples #hgfortune #wde #minimalism #jeskolabuzz #jeskola



I've been puttering away at this bit of a massive track for about a week now. I'm not 100% satisfied with it, maybe because I don't often do #minimalism because I'm always wanting to add "more stuff" to the soundscapes I create. This time, I reigned in that urge & kept things relatively simple. Sound sources for this one consist of HG Fortune's Avatar ST & Silver Orbit VSTi's. The vocal is taken from the audiobook reading of Freidrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist, available on archive.org. It's played back via WDE's Audio Block ((Native Buzz Machine).

I have decided to release this in four parts, as well as the complete 12+ minute track at the end, for all to enjoy in whatever way they prefer. This is Part II.

Nietzsche. Probably the most misunderstood, misinterpreted, & misrepresented Philosopher in History. His ideas were twisted by the Nazis (which he would have been angry about, as he was completely against Antisemitism - something that was the origin of his beef with Wagner) thanks, in part, to the ideas of his sister. But when you actually dig deep into what he says on a fundamental level, he not only makes one think, but urges all of Humanity to be better. In the words of his infamous character Zarathustra: "Mankind is something to be overcome!" I don't think there are many other thinkers who have looked at our modern world & given us a more hopeful path to finding our purpose & happiness in this life.

Tho, I don't agree with him 100%, he has had a massive influence on my own philosophy.

See You In The Shadows…

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Lyrics

The Antichrist - Section 4
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Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or stronger or higher level, as progress is now understood. This "progress" is merely a modem idea, which is to say, a false idea. The European of today, in his essential worth, falls far below the European of the Renaissance; the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.

True enough, it succeeds in isolated and individual cases in various parts of the earth and under the most widely different cultures, and in these cases a higher type certainly manifests itself; something which, compared to mankind in the mass, appears as a sort of superman. Such happy strokes of high success have always been possible, and will remain possible, perhaps, for all time to come. Even whole races, tribes and nations may occasionally represent such lucky accidents.

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