Where The No Names came from
The No Names is an old name. I came up with it while studying music in high school: if I ever had a band, that's what it would be called. The band took years to show up; the name waited.
First came Hyperfixate Neural Feral, the first project. I wrote the songs, put them into Suno and they came out fine. It wasn't frustration: I just didn't feel I was really saying what I had to say. The voice didn't feel natural, especially when I wanted to sing in both Spanish and English.
When Suno released custom voices, I could finally sing with my own voice. That is when the high-school name found its band.
From Mozart to Nirvana
At home, in Escuinapa, there were classical-music cassettes that came with Reader's Digest. My mother played them. Mozart was my first way into music; the Turkish March is the one I remember most.
Then came electronic music: Scatman and whatever was playing. I didn't pay attention to the artists, I just liked it. Rhythm has always pulled me in.
Around middle school, at 13 or 14, a friend showed me Incesticide. With "Sliver" Kurt Cobain walked in and never left. No need to explain Nirvana.
Escuinapa never left: it even has its own song on the record.
Why grunge
The screams, the energy, the expressiveness. Grunge says things raw, without wrapping them in pretty paper.
A saturated head doesn't speak in tidy sentences: sometimes it whispers and sometimes it explodes. Grunge can do both in the same song.
May 2025
My autism diagnosis came in May 2025. I already suspected it.
I needed to know why I sometimes felt a held-in fury, why I carried so much stress, why there were so many questions without answers.
Since then I try to go back to my roots. To relax. To learn to live without masking and to understand myself little by little. I try, I try to see life differently, from understanding.
If you want to hear what that fury sounds like, start with Tu Bullying me la pela: it is my favorite on the record.
How a song gets made here
I work in hyperfocus, here and there, and best in the early hours. First I hold an idea in my head of how I want it to sound; then I pick a theme and write about it as a song.
Writing the record took about two weeks. Perfecting it took months. You have no idea how many times I iterated until I found the sound I wanted.
I play guitar and a bit of drums, and the production uses what I know about music. I'm also a programmer, and it shows: the project runs almost like scrum, with short loops of idea, test, review and again. Programming is a core part of the instrument.