Too Many Faces

Big Black Eye is track 11 from Lola Demo's 17 track album Second Skin released April 2025.

Second Skin

Big Black Eye

BIG BLACK EYE

The Ice Cream Van Man

Downtempo, electro, experimental electronic, IDM, glitch

Count Tokyo

The kings of violence

Projekt Energy_1

cable

This track started off with a question that lead to a premise that lead to...Interbay.  (Everything leads to Interbay, eventually.)  

The question is...what would Prince or Rick James or Parliament/Funkadelic sound like if instead of being funk artists who allowed themselves to be influenced by new wave, they were funk artists influenced by modern electronic dance music?  

The premise is...they'd use the new modern sounds to make their music sound..."more."  

Well, this is track is definitely "more."  

What I've come up with here is that specific variety of rock funk pushed to the limits.  Neuro bass joins slap bass guitar.  Keyboards are squidgey and distorted and everywhere.  Add some very P-funk vocals and a couple of snippets of dialogue from a classic blacksploitation film (bonus Interbay points for anyone who knows which one!) and you end up with "Bout To Turn It Out".  

Early on, it may feel oppressive or claustrophobic.  The neuro bass fills up a lot of space that you'd expect in a funk song.  Not only that, but the vocals start off singular and a bit weak.  As the track continues, space is added and the singular voice turns into a group chorus.  

I think it works.  I'll be interested in what you think.  

Now, regular Interbay listeners will be familiar with my calls for everyone to listen, like, repost, etc.  For more than a year, that's worked out pretty well...but occasionally, the algorithms would just skip a song every so often...and deserving songs would unfairly be ignored and unlistened to...  

...well, this has now happened three times this week...including the two days prior to this one.  

Perhaps the algorithm changed?  Perhaps the strength of SoundCloud's recommendation program has started to evaporate?  I don't know--but I've gotten used to the "every song gets at least 140 listens and some get far more" expectation...so, seeing track listens in two digits...or, gulp, single digits...is disheartening.  

So, if you have the time...I would definitely appreciate if you gave this track a listen...and then, go back and check out some other Interbay tracks.  They're all very different and all very Interbay at the same time.  You might find a new favorite!  (...one that would be worthy of shares, reposts, playlist adds and, hopefully, likes!  Feel generous!  It all helps.  Really.  And thank you!)  

If you like the wild ride that this Interbay music project takes you on, give this page a follow, too.  There are new tracks being dropped EVERY SINGLE DAY (for well over a year, so far) and it might be fun to hear what's new each day.    

...because we 'bout to turn it out.  



"Bout To Turn It Out" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

A Kind Of Longing

Lost Paradise

A Kind Of Longing EP

Self Help Song

Downtempo, IDM, Glitch, Techno, Breakbeat, Progressive, House, Ghettotech

Count Rabat

Post-punk, dance, indie, electronic, and mutant pop in various styles (seriously!)--new tracks being posted daily (every day for over a year, so far!)

Interbay is the new project of Peter Greyy (previously of Cremation Dance and DangerScience), based out of Seattle and Phantom Laboratories West.