Indio is : 1. ...the name of a side project of Detroit techno artist John Beltran. A self-titled album was released by the Transmat label of Derrick May in 1999, followed by two EPs. 2. the stage name used by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Peterson. He originally formed a band in his early musical career, but split up the band because he felt as if he had to restrict his music and make it conform to the limits and abilities of those specific band members. He would rather choose his own set of band members for each individual track.