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Are you one of the people who likes it when Interbay gets a little weird?  A little out there?  

Well, boy, do I have a SoundCloud Exclusive track for you on this sunny (at least in Seattle, after quite the rainy weekend) Monday morning!    

If I told you that I planned to make a swing jazz jump up western folk lounge bluegrass swamp blues big band boogie tune, I'd be lying to you--but that is somehow what I've ended up with here.  

I know I started off with a 1960s drum program, and I came up with the odd little two-step beat.  I thought I was headed towards a '60s garage pop rock thing...but it didn't go there, at all.  

I almost threw it away.  It felt like I was chasing something that wasn't there...but, then I remembered the months I spent at the Cricket Theater, working as an usher, when they did Greater Tuna--a two person, twenty character play that is chock ful of stereotypes and classic country.  

That's where I discovered Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys.  I had no idea there was something called Western Swing...but I loved it (espceially when mixed in with Patsy Cline and Hank Williams!)  

This is NOT Western Swing (no matter how many falsetto ad libs I threw in there)...but that pushed me to see how I could mix in swing-y jazz vibes...and then, suddenly, all sorts of genres fell into the blender...and this is the smoothie that came out.  

I originally named this "Frogstomp"--but, not only was that the name of the big album by Australia's grunge band Silverchair, it also worried me that it might be a reference to something offensive...so, I changed it to "Magnolia Stomp"--named for the Seattle neighborhood my late wife grew up in.  It has nothing to do with that neighborhood, but I needed a name.  

When I added the framing device--I realized that it really combined a lot of genres that are very specific to North America.  (Yes, I'm including Canada and Mexico...and yes, that is a mild rebuke to the current administration here in the States...but, whatevs...)  

The framing device:  It is a natural phenomena that certain atmospheric conditions at night can allow AM radio stations to "skip" great distances away from where they originated--and where people are used to hearing those stations...    

This is how rock and roll spread so quickly and so much faster than it would have otherwise.  This is how country and western artists were influenced by rhythm and blues, and vice versa...which is how rock and roll was born at all!  

So, this song starts and ends with some scratchy attempts to tune an AM radio and getting multiple different stations, all fighting to be received, late at night.  And that's why the song that follows is such a mixture of different styles (and even different eras)...it's getting a skip signal from time and space.  

(I'll blame The Doctor.  That's what U.N.I.T. would do.)  

Not your normal track--I couldn't even justify the "electronic" tag this time.  But, I think it is fun.  It shows that you really can do anything (and because of that, I'll continue to follow my muse wherever it points...even when it spins around like it did here.)  

As always, please:  Listen! Like! Repost! Share! Comment! Playlist! Follow!

Tomorrow, expect something completely different.  (Imagine if I had another genre blending stomper ready to drop for tomorrow!  Impossible!)

"Northamerican Stomp" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

I have a laptop and a brain. I make music with these things..

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.

New tracks tagged #Genre Blender