MYSTERY DISGUISE

Biography

Mystery Disguise originally formed in 1988 - our music influenced by synth-pop. Many artists from the '80s fashioned our sound from Talking Heads, The Human League, Thomas Dolby and Depeche Mode.

Our music evolved in 1991 and we went to the Club Studios opposite the Barbican Centre, London, to record our first studio based song ‘Maybe Times’, mixed and engineered by Roland Radelli; he had worked with the producer that created the Black Box single ‘Ride on Time’, a major hit in Europe.

After a break in 1993 I changed my style of music, it was less synth-based and incorporated electric guitars and live drumming.The track that gave me the greatest pleasure during them sessions was a ballard titled Empty Show’ with Roland Radelli on bass guitar and Sharon Wilson on backing vocals.

My sister left Mystery Disguise in 1995, but  I continued on though as a solo act and in 1996 recorded the songs ‘The Ghost in the Tape Machine’ and ‘I'm Tired’ at Novasonic Studios, Stoke Newington, London.

I remember getting the train back to Nottingham that night, the place where I was living at the time dead on 12.00a.m.   

In 1998 I purchased a Yamaha DJX, which is a magnificent piece of equipment and a Roland Juno Keyboard essential for punchy-bass sounds. 

A lot of my new material is put together with those retro-synths, recorded directly into my computer -

I also use Mixcraft DAW software for mixing and mastering, so you can say I've embraced the digital age totally.