Had to blow a LOT of dust off of THIS one.  It had been one of my longest unfinished projects, languishing in the back of The Vault...now, finally, brought to life.  

Originally, this was just a "proof of concept idea"--to see if I could come up with an interesting remix of a popular song from the 80s.  You might ask if the song chosen would be easily recognizable and to that I say "Yes, it is."  

I never finished it--I'm not sure how interested I am in producing bootleg "pure" remixes, in general.  On the other hand, sending Icarus up to see how high they can go, regardless of any concern for their safety...that IS something I'm definitely into.  

So, with that in mind, it felt like a job for Blendersample...and sure enough, there is some sampleriffic madness going on now...and, in case you've been living in a box, you could recognize some of the sources.  Yes, you could.  

There's a fun section that sounds like New Order (but it isn't.)  There's some breakbeat that sounds a llitle like Art of Noise (but it isn't.)  There are some female vocals that sound like they should be from something you've heard on the radio (they're not--they come from a royalty free sample pack.)  There are some sounds that definitely sound like a music box (they're not--that's the Obscurium synth.)  

This is a weird combination of pretty and gretty, of precision and blunt force.  In other words...it's classic Interbay.  

New tracks are being dropped every single day (so far!) so follow this page so you don't miss any...  I will never suggest that you'll love every single track posted here, but you'll never be bored!  

I only ask that you give this a listen.  If you like what you hear, give it a like.  You could also repost it, share it, comment on it, and/or put it on a playlist.  Those are all good things!  

If it intrigues you--there's a back catalog here that is closing in on 20 hours deep.  There are some slept on gems in there that could use some shine!

...and, as always...thank you.

"So the Story Goes" (blendersample mix) *SoundCloud Exclusive*

So, this is how Interbay parties.   

If I was still dj'ing, I might have thrown this into my NYE mix, depending on the crowd.  It certainly presents a shameless party vibe, ripe for celebration.  The original "Fun Baby" version ended with the fading out of the young men of the beach singing about the enjoyment they'll feel until their male parent removes access to the family vehicle--everything after that was added when it was decided that "Fun Baby (remix)" would be my New Year's Eve Interbay post.  

This is a feast for trainspotters and ex-record store employees.  There's so many different elements at play (with a healthy foundation of 80s, because...Interbay) and, again, this is a track that just makes me feel giddy when I hear it--and I can't wait for YOU to listen to it.   

BONUS INTERBAY POINTS...if you can pick out everything thrown into the blender to make this one happen... 
  
Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this crazy journey of posting never before heard Interbay tracks every single day (so far) in 2024.  I have a lot of plans for the new year, including digitizing music from my previous music making efforts, remixing Interbay experiments that posted previously on Facebook, and seeing how long I can keep this streak of consecutive days posting a track going (we're at 230 days and counting--including one that I took down because it wasn't good enough, and I'll remix and post that one again, I'm sure--and one that SoundCloud zapped (rest in peace, Icarus), though I did quickly replace that one with a reasonable alternative mix.)  

Yes, I'd love to have more listeners.  No, I'm not at a point where I necessarily deserve to have more.  And, unfortunately, no, I'm not in a position to hire anyone to help me with promotion or artwork.  (Though, perhaps someday--I'm working on it...making my mistakes in public and learning as I go along.)  

For now, it's enough that you're reading this...and that you're listening to Interbay.  

However, if you want to help.  Listen to more Interbay.  Give a like to any of the songs you like (there is a DEEEEEEEP back catalog of tracks waiting for you to discover.)  Consider giving an Interbay track a repost or share it with friends.  If you have a playlist that you think an Interbay track should be added to, go for it!  If you have a comment to make (especially encouraging ones), I welcome comments.  I remain backed up on disappointing hopeful marketers who have sent me messages that I haven't responded to yet, but I'm working my way through them...and you can certainly message me if you'd like to.  

Most of all, what would help me most, would be if you followed this page.  (And, as ever, a follow earns a follow back.)  

From everyone involved with Phantom Laboratories West (and East, for that matter) and from me...happy new year.

"Fun Baby (extended blendersample NYE medley mix)"  *SoundCloud Exclusive*

If you were to say "This song rocks"--that would be very kind of you, thank you.
If you were to say "This song is about rocks"--that would be mostly accurate. 

So, if you have a crystal structure forming as part of a metamorphic rock, it is either an idioblast (which means the crystal still develops fully as a crystal, with crystal faces) or it is a xenoblast (which means the crystal doesn't have crystal faces...but its shape is determined by what is around it.)  

...but I'm no geologist.  

(It's also the title of a jazz album and is in the name of some fun video games...but that just made it harder to Google.)  

I wanted a song with a title that started with X.  
I wanted a song with a title that suggested that it would be cool and fun.  

So, be prepared to have a XENOBLAST with today's Interbay track.  It is a bouilabaisse of styles and sound fragments (though, isn't EVERY Interbay track?)--it's a synthy techy housey funky disco sort of thing with some robots and some classic late 80s r&b (and a dash of 90s italo house.)  

It's a hodge podge.  And, thus, it is very Interbay.  

I might, someday, go back and give this track a remix.  I was going for a blend of new and old--of Motown style "everything forward" mix, with modern instrumentation--but playing it back this morning, I think I overdid it in the mastering.  Might need to tone it down a bit and bring back some of the depth and organic feel.  

...but this is what this song is today--and I think its a blast (pun both intended and not intended.)  Hope you agree--good song for a Saturday, too!  

Please give it a listen, a like, a repost, a share, an add to a playlist, a comment...and most importantly, follow this page for a brand new track every day (so far!)...and maybe check out the DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP Interbay back catalog for more gems (or crystals, be they idioblasts or xenoblasts...or off on their own!  I think the analogy sort of broke down that time...)    

Seriously, though--despite the rather dour thumbnail image, this track is groovy and fun!!!

"Xenoblast" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

PIPPONG

needs more bass (feat. nibo)

At The Tone (feat. Slowmotion Livestream)

Occupied (feat. .čunfa)

razočarati (feat. Nikson)

Remember yesterday, when I said that I THOUGHT I knew what I was going to post--only to change my mind and, instead, posted the track I'd just finished?  

...well, I did it again.  

I thought for sure I would post the track I'd intended on posting yesterday today...but I'm keeping it in The Vault a little longer, as "Know a Man Who Does" pushed itself out the door before I could stop it.  

The conceit here is simple:  There is a genre of electronic dance music known as "UK Garage" and I thought, wouldn't it be fun to make a UK Garage song about an auto service and repair garage in the UK?  

Well, I thought it would be fun--and I think this track, the result of that stray thought, is pretty undeniably fun.  

There are tons of choppy edits--both of the beat and the UK car services ads I found to incorporate in the track.  The main beat is skippy and nearly full on electro or full on big beat in parts.  There are multiple basslines, each competing to be felt as the deepest one.  I threw in some trancey-synths, too!  (Because...well, Interbay.  

"Duhh"-B. Eilish

Like yesterday's track, this one seemed to come together quite easily--in comparison with other Interbay tracks in progress that sometimes linger in the Vault waiting that one idea that makes it all make sense and only THEN does the track qualify for being released.  I knew what I needed to do as I did it, and then I done did it.  ;)  

Is this profound?  Will it change the world?  Is this the first sign that Interbay will someday dominate the world of music?  

Don't be silly!  

But, is the track good to listen to, fun to hear, and easy to tap your foot to...and what more could you want on a Thursday?  

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

(And maybe, just maybe, it will be our Joy Division's time to finally make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--by which, I mean, maybe tomorrow the track that was scheduled to post the past two days but got pushed aside each day...will actually get to enjoy its time in the sun.)

"Know a Man Who Does" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

(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.
Listen! Like! Share! Repost! Comment! Playlist! and, most of all, Follow!  please...



"Nineteen Ninety One (MWRR)" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

"I put the hands on the record.  I put the hands up."  

I was a nightclub dj for twenty years...and boy did I love hip-house.  I loved cut & paste.  I loved being really active in the mix.  I loved records that blurred genre lines.  I loved records that kept surprising me and never stopped moving.  

i would have loved "Hands and Needles" by Interbay.  I wish I would have made it when I was still spinning.  

But, because I also love you--the people willing to spend a few minutes to listen to these daily drops of Interbay--I did something I almost never do.  

I edited myself.  (I know, right?)  

Somewhere in my head, there's a version of this track that doesn't fade out, that kept going and building and...well, it would have been as long as any of the often Interbay tracks posted here.  

Instead, you're getting a far more easily digestible version, suitable for radio play...with the energy compressed into something approaching a criticality.  

I honestly think that it is better this way--though, I reserve the right to change my mind--but, for now, the longer version will be held in The Vault...perhaps only to be shared with Phantom Laboratories West Patreons some day...  (Some day...)  

The only decision that I regret, but one I felt was necessary, is the addition of a vocal synth to a sample that would definitely have put Icarus into potential danger.  The sad part is that recognizing the sample would definitely have given you a giggle--it certainly makes me smile every time I think of it.  (And I have a version without the vocal synth on that sample to amuse myself, that I daren't share here--again, perhaps a bonus for future Patreons?  (Perhaps.) )

(If you want to deconstruct the mix to better imagine the un-vocal synth'd version, ask yourself why at the very end of the track does the vocal become "hands across the needles" (or why the word "needles" is repeated, with effects that make it sound like it is underwater?)  A love of 70s pop should give you your answer.  (One more hint to make it obvious?  "The butter wouldn't melt, so they put it in a pie.") )

This track is purposefully a little messy.  It is part of the charm of the era that it is an homage to, that sense of imperfectness makes it feel, for lack of a better term, a bit more punk rock.  Just as you didn't need to be Emerson Lake & Palmer to make a compelling and glorious noise with your limited skill, you didn't need to be DJ Qbert to cut & paste and scratch a bit and make something delightful and floor filling.  

As my best times dj'ing were almost always on a Massive Saturday Night, it feels rather natural to share this track in time for Saturday night clubbing.  Even if your club is, essentially, your home, your car or your headphones...I hope that Interbay can get your blood pumping.  

Sorted.  

As always, I merely ask that you give this Interbay track a listen and a like, if you do.  You could also choose to repost it, share it, add it to a playlist, and comment on it.  

And please, follow this page!  It is important to me--and it means that you won't miss any new Interbay track.  (Did you know that there's a new Interbay track posted here every day (so far!)?)

"...but we want more!"

"Hands and Needles" (merciful edit) *SoundCloud Exclusive*

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 #cut &amp; paste

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