Artist description The man behind the band Misnomer (300,000+ MP3 downloads) presents a range of his solo material.

Music Style Ambient, trance, industrial, darkwave, synth-pop

Musical Influences Joy division, David Bowie, Underworld, Moby, Faithless, Massive Attack, Blur, Radiohead, Depeche mode, Duran Duran, Erasure, Prodigy

Similar Artists Moby, Underworld, Massive Attack, Faithless, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Prodigy, New Order, Sisters of Mercy, Misnomer

Artist History John Lacey has been writing and performing music since 1995. Renowned as a talented keyboard player and a competent drummer, John discovered that his real talent lay in writing. He formed the band, Misnomer (www.mp3.com/misnomer), in 1999 and has had notable success with them, achieving over 200,000 MP3 downloads on the internet and performing live in front of thousands on a number of occasions, most recently in supporting Mel B/Chesney Hawkes at the Oxford Revolution (www.oxfordrevolution.com). John's material has been used in film and TV by such companies as "ManDancing Productions" and "BeatLessons". He has received a number of awards for his music: His track "Take November" was voted "Best Chill-out track" on Garageband.com and his industrial number "It's all for you" has had over 50,000 MP3 downloads. In the future, John plans to keep working with Misnomer, whilst also writing and recording material for his forthcoming solo album.

Instruments Keyboards: Yamaha CS2x, Roland RS5 Software: Cakewalk Pro Audio, Re-birth, Mixman Studio Pro, DDDrummer

Press Reviews Melody Maker, Playstationmusic.com, Gothland.com Garageband.com awards: "Take November" - "Best Chill-out Track", "Best Sequencer/Effects Programming", "Best Production", "Most Original Track", "No.7 in the electronic charts", "in the veins of one of Moby's more majestic works"

Location Southend, Essex - United Kingdom

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).