Mark, 4 is funny as hell, but a guy once said many of the artists do
this to escape some of the loopholes, that labels try to stick on em(add
in their contract). I dont know but that sounded good at the time,
besides I am not complaining.
How else would I be able to hear Great shit from the likes of Global,
John Beltran, Sensorama, Ro70, Alter Ego, Holy Garage, Chaos & Julia
Set, Primitive painter, Placid Angels, Indio etc.......
Ha ha ha ha, it has served me just fine!
Hk!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Kolmar [SMTP:mkolmar@xnet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 1:50 PM
> To: IDM List
> Subject: (idm) re: aliases
>
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Irene McC 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.
>
> I have never been able to understand aliases either. I can come up
> with
> at least three decent reasons:
>
> 1. To attempt to remove a sense of continuity from one release to
> another
> (If that is your thing. I prefer the opposite, e.g. Psychic TV. Or
> even
> when no continuity is intended but they keep the name anyway, e.g.
> Underworld mk1 vs mk2)
>
> 2. Signing a contract that says you can't use a certain name except on
> a
> particular label
>
> 3. To become a different artist in some metaphorical way, to take a
> new
> approach (not sure why that would require a new name though, unless
> the
> goal is also #1 above)
>
> 4. In order not to confuse or anger people who think
> "bleep-blop-biddy-
> boom-bop" is entirely unrelated to "boom-blop-biddy-bleep-bop"
>
> --Mark
>
>
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