Based in North London, iNKOGNiiTO (they/them) is an experimental/electronic artist who blurs reality and fiction through what they call Alternative Futuristic music — a fluid blend of alien pop, ambient electronic, experimental, and alternative soundscapes. Building an immersive universe from the ground up, they channel surreal storytelling, disillusionment, and mundane absurdism into a sonic experience unlike any other.
Their new EP, iNKOMPLETE TERRiTORY, is a conceptual journey through individuality, alienation, and the search for a neutral state amongst chaos. Born from the dark, magenta-tinted world of their single “Satellites ??,” the EP evolved as they realized the themes they were writing about—strandedness, displacement, and perpetual drift—were interconnected fragments of a bigger story. “The further we drift, the more we gain ground,” they say, capturing the project’s core paradox. Inspired by a spiral portal and cosmic dread, their music structures are intentionally non-linear, evoking an ongoing, unresolved experience of spirals upon spirals.
Sonically, iNKOGNiiTO has drawn from a kaleidoscope of influences: space age sound design, 80s drums, retro and sci-fi cinema, 90s/2000s TV culture (Goosebumps, Courage the Cowardly Dog), Afro-Surrealism, and artists like New Order, Blood Orange, 070 Shake, and James Blake. Their cinematic storytelling owes a debt to Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Annihilation, Attack the Block, I Saw the TV Glow and cult classics like the 1997 PC game The Space Bar.
Working with producers ANN, Jericho, Dynasty! and Zylyny, they constructed a layered soundscape that feels simultaneously alien and familiar. Standout track “Chemical X” exemplifies their approach — a three-part exploration of mortality, futility, and obliteration, blending minimalism, 80s drum influences, and machine-like synth textures into an emotional odyssey. The artist shares, “The perfect ingredients for a disaster: Chemical X. A tune that redirects a futile path towards an unknown conclusion. I think about dying every day and how it doesn’t scare me — I wanted to write a song about that.”
iNKOGNiiTO is a concept based around a character who has lost all of their memory and in a connection to this, they can uncontrollably glitch into different timelines, every time they get a flashback. Through this fictional lens on the EP, iNKOGNiiTO inhabits a futuristic nomad-spy character: a being misunderstood by human perception, lost across multitudinous timelines after losing all memory. Each glitch, each displacement becomes an opportunity to intuitively reconstruct a future from non-existent pasts — a metaphor for personal transformation and survival.
Their work is steeped in the idea of mundane absurdism — the surreal feeling that occurs in daily life when existence itself feels disjointed or illogical. It’s a theme that permeates not only their lyrics but the structure of their songs and the visuals they meticulously craft themself, alongside their sister and creative collaborator, IAlwaysAlien.
Self-managed, self-released, and self-styled, iNKOGNiiTO has steadily built their world from scratch. They have performed across some of London’s key alternative venues, including The Lower Third, Notting Hill Arts Club & The Star in Shoreditch, and was invited to perform at HMV Vault—Europe’s largest entertainment store—in 2023. Their single “Space Tellz” recently surpassed 10,000 streams, a testament to the growing orbit of their unique vision.
You can connect with iNKOGNiiTO on Instagram @ink0gniit0 and website www.inkogniito.com
