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quoted 1 line I checked out the Mu-Ziq web pages today

>I checked out the Mu-Ziq web pages today

Big up AMP! Respect all hyperreal.com.

quoted 1 line that he is also Kid Spatula

>that he is also Kid Spatula

on reflective...shoots 'em just like a gun, slays suckers one by one, even.

quoted 1 line and Jake Slazenger.

>and Jake Slazenger.

and representing the large gaping hole in my collection, is it only a matter of time? Tusken has it's charms. Anyway, to answer your real question, I think the alias stuff might have something to do with the fact that several companies or labels have brought the mans work to the light of day.

quoted 1 line Boredom?

> Boredom?

Nope. If Paradinas was bored he'd be online with all us stiffs. (The joke's on Jake though cuz@we.rule.c ;-) If he was smart he'd be posing as DJ K-1 on 313 and taking home what's sure to be a primero Iron Man T-Shirt. I listgress.

quoted 1 line Fright?

> Fright?

You know what's frightening, I *just* picked up _In Pine Effect_ and there's some special stuff here. Really distored and raw special stuff. Shufflestuff. Teep on now: TV-99-AD "Mother G"<-- :o aran@mit.edu po box 581 cambridge,ma 02142 USA

quoted 4 lines I checked out the Mu-Ziq web pages today and was surprised to find out

>I checked out the Mu-Ziq web pages today and was surprised to find out >that he is also Kid Spatula and Jake Slazenger. I started thinking and I >wondered what you people think about artists using multiple pseudonyms -- >why do they do it? Boredom? Fright? I was just curious...

Based upon what I have heard Mike and other pseudonym-prone artists like L.Vibert speak about in interviews when queried on the issue, as well as evidence from my own ears, artists seem to use different names than usual when bringing out works that exhibit significantly different styles. Slazenger differs significantly in compositional technique, degree of levity, timbral variety, et cetera from Mu-ziq (esp. the earlier stuff like Tango, which is very "dark" in some places), and Spatula, despite the fact that several songs on "Spatula Freak" had similar titles to things already released as both Mu-ziq and Slazenger, is different in the sense that minimalist technique is used more extensively (otherwise, it sounds a bit like a cross between Slazenger and later Mu-ziq material). Aphex Twin is similar, with respect to differences between Aphex and Polygon Window; Polygon tended to sound softer, like Ambient Works 85-92, but more dance oriented. AFX stuff sounds basically the same as Twin, though, so I don't see the need for distinction there (AFX could be pronounced "aphex" anyway). Then there is Luke Vibert, whose Plug stuff differs from Wagon Christ in the fact that one is jungle, the other is not. The other project, Vibert and Simmons, sounds more electro, and radically different from WC or Plug. So there are three (related) examples of how multiple pseudonyms might prove useful to artists who like to make a very eclectic range of tunes. In this light, I think Subtropic should be something else (the Throb ep sounds WAY different from Homebrew... hmm). Now I'll leave it to others to discuss how people like Pete Namlook fit into this...