how did you come up with your name ?

[marsstu]

exactly what it says on the tin

ive been doing my head in recently about the fact i cant think of / find any inspiration for a name to produce under ( marsstu has been my school computer username and has been for pretty much everything i sign up for ever ) i havent jumped at anything for fear of being overly cheesy, but i dont want to be too different as i think it comes across as thinking im something im not , but im getting to the stage now where im looking to be playing out and getting a few tracks finished and i cant keep putting them out as marsstu ( which is a mash up of my first and last name lol ) had a situation the other day when a promoter was asking what name he should put on the flyer for me , i nearly told him to put benny blanco for the crack but in the end just went with stu marshall.
im a believer that if your music's any good then your name dont matter , but sayin that i dont i dont think iid have the bottle to have a name like trolley snatcha, for fear of not bein taken seriously .

im sure some of you have got some good storys with how you came up with your name ? or maybe you just put your name into prostitute name generator

do you think i should pick a name and just stick with it ? or wait till something hits me ?

sorry for the long essay :p

(btw if you think this is a shit thread then just dont read it , dont bother posting how crap it is, as your only bumpin it up )

[dubloke]

I was an idiot an thought "how can I put dub in a name"

[spire]

Qbert actually turned me in the direction of my current dj name. had the chance to meet him a couple times and chat, dj names came up, i didnt really have one, he just started usin the letters in my real name and after a bit i was "Dj Enspire", shortly after it changed to just "Spire".

[marsstu]

Qbert actually turned me in the direction of my current dj name. had the chance to meet him a couple times and chat, dj names came up, i didnt really have one, he just started usin the letters in my real name and after a bit i was "Dj Enspire", shortly after it changed to just "Spire"

thats pretty sick

[Neurotik]

I produce under Introspectionist, also what it says on the tin really. I spend alot of time thinking, i tend to over think...everything...too much. Kind of relates to the name i post under here too tbh lol.
I've changed name a few times in the past, as it's nice to have something that you feel reflects your current self if i'm making sense.

[marsstu]

i tend to over think...everything...too much

haha me too , hence this topic lol , it should just be simple but if i think of a name , i can think of a million reasons why its shite

[Dalen]

It's my name.

Our production name, Morikami, is actually a Japanese garden in our town.

[marsstu]

your lucky, u got a cool name !

[fassyman]

exactly what it says on the tin

ive been doing my head in recently about the fact i cant think of / find any inspiration for a name to produce under ( marsstu has been my school computer username and has been for pretty much everything i sign up for ever ) i havent jumped at anything for fear of being overly cheesy, but i dont want to be too different as i think it comes across as thinking im something im not , but im getting to the stage now where im looking to be playing out and getting a few tracks finished and i cant keep putting them out as marsstu ( which is a mash up of my first and last name lol ) had a situation the other day when a promoter was asking what name he should put on the flyer for me , i nearly told him to put benny blanco for the crack but in the end just went with stu marshall.
im a believer that if your music's any good then your name dont matter , but sayin that i dont i dont think iid have the bottle to have a name like trolley snatcha, for fear of not bein taken seriously .

im sure some of you have got some good storys with how you came up with your name ? or maybe you just put your name into prostitute name generator

do you think i should pick a name and just stick with it ? or wait till something hits me ?

sorry for the long essay :p

(btw if you think this is a shit thread then just dont read it , dont bother posting how crap it is, as your only bumpin it up )

my name was inspired by you actually

[dantini]

well growing up, croc legend of the gobbos was my childhood game on the ps1 & end of 2009 i was struggling for a name to produce under. i'm a gamer at heart & most of my candidates were video game references. dantinis were the enemy creatures in croc, little lizard devil things. i decided to pick dantini & tbh i think i made the right choice cos everyone's loved the name & now i get called dantini instead of derek. but like a dickhead i decided to stylise it in lowercase & with a fullstop at the end, wish i hadn't done that now but a bit late now. it still looks nice but yeah i suppose its a bit long.

but a name is just a name i suppose. but i do agree that if you pick a dumb name people are more likely to be deterred by it. the bigger you go the less importance it has but for someone trying to break through having a name like STINKNUGGET ain't gonna help a great deal.

[twentyOneDummies]

Cannabis probably. I remember sitting around saying "Sun Ra" in a bunch of ways (Sizun Rah, Sun Rizah) and then thought "Son is Raw" which I figured, is what I'd like people to think of my DJing

So yeah, I ended up going with "Son Raw" as a tribute to the jazz legend and my unfortunate love of word play.

[marsstu]

my name was inspired by you actually

thanks mate

well growing up, croc legend of the gobbos was my childhood game on the ps1 & end of 2009 i was struggling for a name to produce under. i'm a gamer at heart & most of my candidates were video game references. dantinis were the enemy creatures in croc, little lizard devil things. i decided to pick dantini & tbh i think i made the right choice cos everyone's loved the name & now i get called dantini instead of derek. but like a dickhead i decided to stylise it in lowercase & with a fullstop at the end, wish i hadn't done that now but a bit late now. it still looks nice but yeah i suppose its a bit long.

but a name is just a name i suppose. but i do agree that if you pick a dumb name people are more likely to be deterred by it. the bigger you go the less importance it has but for someone trying to break through having a name like STINKNUGGET ain't gonna help a great deal.

funny you postin actually mate , i was havin a look at the whole dubfreaks thing you got goin on yesterday ( big up for that btw) and was wonderin how you came up with dantini , thought it was a sick name , but ill be honest i thought ure name was dan haha

Cannabis probably/and my unfortunate love of word play.

haha works for me

[sofa_king]

Splut = the name we used at my college for the bit of index card that you cut up and use as a filter/crutch/whatever at the end of spliffs. No idea how the term originated. No one outside my school has ever encountered this term, so I thought it would be cool since it has an obscure meaning although to most people it's just a random name.

[dj 2e]

my big brother was called ratty, wen i used to link his friends they would call me ratty2e coz we look pretty similar.... sacked of the ratty bit and became dj 2e.... easy as that

[kingduppy]

i wanted kingduppy or Dyuke but i was neither cool enough nor hench enough nor rasta enough.... settled for ballen

[jolly wailer]

Son Raw is a goodie

[djake]

i put a meaning less "d" in front of jake

which i have come to find out can be rather confussing....as alot of people asume its dj ake....

[sashwat]

yeah man, i just used the name my mum gave me... hope that helps... lol. Good luck!

[dantini]

i put a meaning less "d" in front of jake

which i have come to find out can be rather confussing....as alot of people asume its dj ake....

[pkay]

When the internet was run by dinosaurs and prodigy chat rooms, my net handle was Pumpkin Kid. People called me PK. When I turned 18 or 19 'Pumpkin Kid' didn't really fit so switched to Pkay.