On the drive up from Milwaukee yesterday, my kid (as they always do when our rental doesn't have SiriusXM took over the car sound system with their playlist via Bluetooth...and as they had just seen Frost Children and Porter Robinson at Summerfest, their choices on this day included a lot of hyper pop.  I heard one track that had rave vibes--certain breakbeats, certain instruments and sounds...it took me right back there (I suppose it didn't hurt that, the day before,  I'd visited the now ex-girlfriend who I'd flown over there to be with...so there were memories of that time already churning in the water.)

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

Now You’re My Never

Surrender

From a great height

Rise

Unbound

Vibe

Downtempo, electro, experimental electronic, IDM, glitch

Count Tokyo

The kings of violence

(So, the internet is a bit spotty where I've set up the Phantom Laboratories West Mobile Recording Unit...so if this upload is incomplete, I'll re-do it until it's all here.  A promise to you, loyal Interbay listener--whoever you may be!)

Was 1991 a good year?  There are certainly good things about it that I remember, but there are some memories which aren't so happy, as well.  

I suppose the biggest memory I have of 1991 was that it was my first international flight.  Because of the recent Gulf War, air travel was temporarily cheaper...and my parents thought it would be a very good idea to treat me to a trip to the UK, to visit my girlfriend, who had been spending a semester at Harlaxton College in Grantham.  

To say that I enjoyed my visit would be both a huge understatement and somewhat ungentlemanly.  I think the fact that I've returned to the UK so many times in the years since is telling.  

I do remember going to a nightclub in London--not a trendy one, but one fairly close to Picadilly Circus, so there were mostly other tourists in there.  And they were blasting rave music, it being 1991 and all.  Now, I knew some rave music thanks to the Hot Mix 5 out of Chicago, thanks to off-the-radio cassette tapes that landed in my hands...and though Eau Claire wasn't quite ready for that yet, I sure was!  I'm more of a club with smoke and cool lights than tramping out into a field type--so, this felt like heaven to me (though, it wasn't Heaven...if you're familiar with the scene at the time.)  

I still remember SO many choons I heard that night--and I'd gone by myself (something I would NEVER do today) as my girlfriend had classes, so I ventured into London on my own.  Nomad's "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion", Xpansions "Move Your Body," and, the inspiration for today's track, Bizarre Inc's "Playing With Knives."  The DJ managed to work that track in four or five times over the course of the night...and it shouldn't surprise anyone that I bought and brought home all three of those 12" singles (thank you to the dj record store in Grantham who not only had all three in stock but didn't refuse to sell it to me when he found that I was also buying a Jivebunny & The Mastermixers 12" and the Grease Medley 12" (as Eau Claire WAS ready for those!)  "Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, garbage, trash--but it's yer money," I remember the clerk saying to me--and he wasn't wrong.  

(I do also remember that the clerk told me that he could  line me up with some gigs if the stuff I spun was like the first three tracks.  Said I could even get a residency at a club, which could pay me enough to live in the UK.  Don't think I didn't consider it.  Don't think I didn't look into what all I had to do.  Don't think that I didn't ALSO go to the offices of Trent FM in Nottingham, where I was told that UK advertisers LOVE American voices--so, if I DID manage to get myself residing in the UK, I'd have a job there waiting for me.)  

1991.  What a year.  Legendary.  
(...but no, it didn't happen because I couldn't make it work.  Sigh.)  

This track is my tribute to all of that...and more.
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