Started on February 25, 2018 and completed...in mid 2018? I can't remember. This track was yet another track I made whilst bored at my computer, where I took a looping arpeggio I came up with at random, and added a bassline to it, separated by sparse percussions.

I believe I had the idea of creating this sort of uplifting but hypnotic "summer"-ish track with synthwave being the dominant inspiration for it, which explains the 80s-ish snare. It was one of the tracks I played a snippet of once to my friends back in 2018 when I made this, and one of them said it sounded like synthwave so...there's that, I guess.

I felt it was really appropriate to release this now. Like many musicians, 2020's coronavirus pandemic has been a big inspiration for their music, with songs, videos, artworks, tracks, and other creative works inspired by this "black swan" event. I reflected this in this track by "social distancing the letters" and adding a remote island to my work with the cover art and title; the music to me just screams "remote island".

Isolation and solitude were ideas for the track even back then, a dominating feeling for many, especially now. While this track was made in 2018, renamed to suit the times, tracks like "Cockburn Central" and "2020 OVERTURE" (unreleased at the time of typing this) ARE new tracks directly inspired by my own feelings towards the pandemic, made in it, not before it.

The title was also inspired by living in Perth, already one of the most isolated cities in the world, and for the first time, my home state Western Australia has shut its border down, and is now divided into 8 "regions" to restrict movements to slow the coronavirus spread. Now it's the most isolated it has ever been! It's been described by the premier as being an "island within an island" so I used that as the title for my work. It seemed very fitting.

It was originally going to be part of a sequence of three tracks titled "Strange Things", "Stranger Things", and "Strangest Things", the former being my second-ever track, which has since been released as "Smellody" (moule.bandcamp.com/track/smellody). This track was going to be called "Stranger Things", but at the last minute, I renamed it to "Island within an Island" to avoid confusion with the TV show of the same name.

Overall, the theme I'm trying to present here is social isolation and repetition (seeing the same four walls every day at home...something I've been doing long before this pandemic happened!). But yeah...this has got to be the most bizarre timeline our planet has landed on so far.