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Alien Skin
Biography
Alien Skin is George Pappas -- formerly of classic '80s Aussie new wavers Real Life -- in a one-man solo project. The music very much mines the territory of turn of the century Real Life -- combination of synth pop and darkwave, only with the emphasis on ominous. Pappas joined Real Life through a mutual girlfriend with band drummer Danny Simcic and replaced Steve Williams (who replaced founder Richard Zatorski) as Real Life's keyboardist. For a band as electronically grounded as Real Life, these were huge shoes to fill. Yet David Sterry encouraged Pappas to be as innovative as he could be and to add his own touch to Real Life's signature sound. The result was a much darker, scarier band -- still based on synth hooks and singalong choruses, but now based much more in industrial-themed rhythms and goth overtones.

Pappas was instrumental in the construction of Real Life's reinvention on the Happy album in 1997, and was then given the daunting task of programming all of Real Life's music for their sensational 1998 world tour. Again, Sterry gave him complete creative freedom and encouraged Pappas to add his own sensibilities as the co-founder of the "new" Real Life.
Selected Discography