A new electronic musician is keeping their identity shrouded in mystery. 44 Ardent is described as a music producer who wishes to keep their identity secret.
Their first track Fading 22 which dropped today is a gorgeous mix of muted vocals and plonking keyboards. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Some other mystery artists
Paul McCartney The former Beatle and Wings frontman may be one of the most famous musicians in the world but that hasn’t stopped him putting out records under different names over the years. He’s been known to drop a few white label mixes of his tunes to DJs and his ambient project with Youth called The Fireman was first released it was not known who was behind the name.
George Michael In 1988 George Michael scored a hit in Britain with a cover of The Bee Gees Jive Talkin. The record was by Boogie Box High and when people said it sounded like George Michael on lead vocals the singer insisted it was his cousin on the record. It really was the Wham! singer though but contractually he was not allowed to be credited on the tune.
Moby while he’s released a ton of albums over the years the electronic musician also puts out his more ambient records under the name Voodoo Child. It’s a handful of monikers that Moby regularly uses.
Babble the 90’s electronic ambient band put out a couple of great albums and their cover art did not feature any images of the band, but they were a new identity for a hugely success band from the previous decades. As Thompson Twins Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey has a string of top 10 hits. While they were reinventing themselves as a ambient outfit, they were also writing chartbusters like I Want That Man for Deborah Harry.
The Future Sound of London the duo of Gary Cobain and Bryan Dougans had a bunch of hits in the ’90s and have released massive amounts of music as FSOL, but they’ve also had success as Amorphous Androgynous , plus they’ve put out tunes under a plethora of alternative identities including Yage, Aircut, Art Science Technology, Candese, Deep Field, Dope Module, EMS:Piano, Filter and Pulses, Heads Of Agreement, Homeboy, Humanoid, Indo Tribe, Intelligent Communication, Mental Cube, Metropolis, Part-Sub-Merged, Polemical, Q, Sand Sound Folly, Semtex, Semi Real, Six Oscillators in Remittance, Smart Systems, Suburban Domestic, Synthi-A, T.Rec, The Far-out Son Of Lung, The Jazz Mags, The Orgone Accumulator, Unit 2449, Yunie, and Zeebox… and that’s just the one’s we know about.
OIP Staff
