On Wed, 19 May 1999, Lance @ Inaudible wrote:
quoted 17 lines At 05:24 PM 5/19/99 +0200, you wrote:> At 05:24 PM 5/19/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >WHY oh why do people have to hide behind so many different
> >monikers and aliases? This criticism has often been levelled
> >against >our< kind of music - the facelessness of the people
> >behind it, but they obviously want it this way. (Check the MASK
> >releases..., Gescom etc). How to confound the trainspotter.
> >
>
> A few reasons for different monikers/aliases:
> - different guises for different styles of music produced....
> - sometimes certain monikers/aliases are signed exclusively
> to certain labels. so other monikers/aliases are necessary
> to release music on other labels...
> - sometimes other monikers/aliases are used for
> projects sed artists does with another artist (i.e.
> collaborative projects)...
- sometimes the artist just wants to regain some anonymity
- artists might get sick of their old names, esp if they use them a long
time
- artists might find the name resembles something unintended (witness ICU
becoming IQU) later on
- artist might find another recording project using the same name or
copyright issue (chameleons vs chameleons uk, or Panasonic)
Solenoid