Blog: Uh Oh Disco!

Hervé performs and releases music under so many different names it's hard to keep up: The Count, Voodoo Chilli, Action Man, Dead Soul Brothers, Speaker Junk and Young Lovers. Pen names are relatively common in the literary world. But it's unusual for a musician. Why would an artist perform under so many different names? Maybe Hervé wants to avoid overexposure. This seems unlikely, since he explicitly lists each alias on his myspace. He certainly isn't hiding anything or trying to fool anyone. Maybe he doesn't want to get pigeonholed to one genre. But he releases similar sounding club/electro/dance music under each different moniker, so [...]

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