Experimenting in sound, progressive electronic not house or deep house, trance elements, progressive flow, energetic happy emotions and vibes to this sound, maybe a little Indie EDM alternative, 140 beats per minute

Neon Borealis

Neon Borealis - Free Download

(If you didn't give yesterday's Interbay track, "Discontinuity", a listen--go and do that now.  It's worthy of your attention--and this song will still be here when you get back.  Thanks! pg)

"Now I dream of you...passing by..."  

This track is the 398th song posted in the Interbay music project since mid-January 2023.  (This is the 258th straight day of posting tracks here on SoundCloud and before that, 140 tracks--with videos--were posted on Facebook.)  And this is the first time that I think I've created something truly distinctly original.  I don't know of anything else that sounds like this.  

Granted, I always say that no matter what I'm trying to sound like, it always sounds like Interbay more than anything else--but when I use the tag "mutant pop" to describe nearly every Interbay song...in THIS case, I can't think of a closer description.  

Go ahead, hit play...and read along as I'll try to catalog the combination of elements that I'm not sure has ever come together like this before.  

You've got singing on this track.  Lots of it.  While all Interbay tracks posted here to SoundCloud, there will be a vocal element--but often, it is in the form of dialogue or spoken word.  Occasionally, there's some singing--but this track is silly with it.  

You've got a female vocal line--very ethereal and dreamy (reminds me a bit of the slept on Interbay track "Selfishly"--go check that one out, it is deep in the back catalog.)  You also have a male vocal line with a more complete narrative, singing about a girl that he seems to both admire and, perhaps, feel intimidated by...at the same time that he doesn't worry about saying something negative about that same girl.  The interplay between the two creates the central tension in the song.  But then there's a bunch of wordless vocal adlibs...soaring into space and surrounding the entwined narrative elements.  

The first instrumental element you'll hear sounds like a synth sound you might have heard from a pop trance song of the late 90s early 00s, but it's actually a piano...the hammers hitting strings without the cabinet resonance.  It sometimes gets buried by other sounds, but it is, I think, always there throughout the song.  Add to that an insistent and occasionally relentless drum pattern-- that can best be described as "rest-kick-kick-kick" (though there actually is a rimshot on the 1, it blends in with the first note from the piano so you might not notice it.)  And don't forget some crazy hi-hats propelling everything forward.  

This track has guitars.  You've got an almost Spanish style guitar playing minor arpeggios, you've got another guitar playing palm muted plucks, and still a third guitar--an acoustic playing rather punk-like down struck chords.  

The bass has a nice bounce that counterplays with the guitars well.  There's some synths, subtle and grainy, a few times in the track...

What else?  Oh...you've got big 80s orchestra hits (what?) and something that sounds like a duck. (WHAT???)  

If this isn't mutant pop, I don't know what is.  (Otherwise, I'd have to come up with a word that means "Electronic indie trance pop 80s 90s spanish rock midtempo house jangle alternative rave up."  I'm pretty good with words, but I'm not THAT good.  

So, if you're up for an adventure into the world of mutant pop, the world of Interbay...then you'll get into "Passing By" in a big way!  

...and, as always, it would help if you listened, liked, reposted, shared, added to a playlist, left a comment, sent a message...but MOST IMPORTANTLY, give this page a follow as new tracks are being posted EVERY SINGLE DAY (258 days straight so far!)  

...this also means there is a DEEP back catalog for you to explore at your convenience.  There's some really good stuff in there that you'd like, I'm sure!

"Passing By" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

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Profile: Herman Giebartowski (a.k.a. Primitive Alchemy)

Based in: Melbourne, Australia

Disciplines: Electronic music production · Experimental sound design · Spoken word · Multimedia installation

Genres: Ambient · Post-Industrial · Leftfield electronica · Electroacoustic · Experimental techno · Liquid D&B

Active since: 1995
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📄 Artist Bio

Herman Giebartowski is a Melbourne-based electronic music producer and multimedia artist whose work blends ambient textures, modular\beat synthesis and the spoken word. With a background in audio engineering and live performance, Giebartowski creates immersive soundscapes that often explore urban decay, mythos, memory, and technology. His releases span both digital and cassette formats and have been featured in underground electronic circles across Australia and Europe.
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📄 Artist Bio (Extended)

Herman Giebartowski is a multidisciplinary artist and producer working at the intersection of electronic sound design, experimental music, and conceptual performance.

With a formal background in audio production and sound theory from secondary school onwards, Herman began performing under the tag Pyrotechnica in 1995. His live sets are known for blending slow-evolving ambient landscapes with fragmented post-industrial rhythms and spoken word overlays. His work has appeared at independent electronic events, clubs, warehouse shows, and gallery-based listening rooms throughout Melbourne, with international interest via curated playlists.

Giebartowski is a boundary-dissolving artist navigating the liminal spaces between sound, text, and memory. Drawing on a hybrid lineage of Eastern European folklore, post-communist architecture, and algorithmic decay, his work evokes the static hum of lost transmissions and the poetic distortion of time.

His signature “glitch chants” and ambient-noir soundscapes have earned underground acclaim in Melbourne’s electronic scene and Europe’s cassette-based art communities.

Whether composing for avant-garde theatre, broadcasting cryptic radio rituals, or exhibiting obsolete data as sculpture, Giebartowski’s aesthetic is a constant archaeology of the near-now.

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🔍 Education & Background
•	Bachelor of Arts: The University of Melbourne
•	Bachelor of Creative Arts: La Trobe University

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🛠️ Tools & Gear
•	Impulse Tracker 2.14 - patch #5
•	Ableton Live + Max for Live
•	Virtual DJ
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🔁 Themes in Practice

•	Environmental memory and field resonance
•	Post-industrial spaces and sonic textures
•	Voice and machine interplay
•	Loops and archival processes in sound

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📣 Public Presence
•	Instagram: @primitive.alchemist
•	Affiliated collectives: Pyrotechnica, Mindmonkey: the Monkeymind, Alienation Theory, Primitive Alchemy

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