firky wrote:I have literally thousands of names in my heads for bands, artists, pseudo-names, characters in books etc. They all sort of just pop into my head, I like plays on words and odd juxtapositions. For example, I used to run (woo!) one of the biggest Raidohead websites on tinternet called liquidcat.com - the website went to sleep a few years ago when I got myself a FT job, woman, house etc (no time), but I came by the name in the same manner I do with other names... sort of like this:
Sitting in the bath and look at pet cat on the bathroom chair. Cat does not like water. Imagine a cat that did. Water cat. Or liquid cat. Oohhh I like that, the two words flow together.... sorted
"Piccadilly Commando" is a name I am going to use for a character in book I plan to write at some point but probably never will.
It's perhaps my only talent, thinking of good names and shizzle.
thats very cool. if you believe you got a talent, you probably have that talent.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 5:34 pm
by Gewze
When i used to bmx regularly i had a squeeky brake that i was told sounded like a goose or whatever it got messed around with, et voila gewze
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 2:33 am
by anadin_xtra
stolen a popular brand of drugs...but mainly because my initial of my first name and my surname is a.nadin
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 2:41 am
by jsaxton
true fully i was pissed when i thought of mine.
i go by Viers now which was on a becks bottle, kinda depressing im probably stuck with this...
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 3:01 am
by zerbaman
Mine was my old graffiti tag.
I wanted to change it. But when I started out, I was always making tunes, not really caring about putting them anywhere, on the day I did start uploading to places, I couldn't think of anything else. So it just stuck.
I picked the tag because "Zerba" contains letters I could draw&bomb well.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 4:14 am
by kingGhost
king, because i'm large and in charge
ghost, because i'm pale
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:52 am
by InternetSlaveMaster
I was walking by the TV one day (TruTV was on), and they said something about "Internet Slave Master", and I laughed for what was probably 2 minutes straight. I just thought it sounded ridiculous.
I always wanted to start an electro-metal band and call it Internet Slave Master, but eventually started producing music myself under ISM because, well.... it's just too funny. And abbreviates well.
My favorite part about it is that it can be taken either seriously or humorously, which is pretty much how I want people to take my music.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:02 am
by knell
i just used one of my friends middle names and the first word that came to mind when i thought about it... Baron Rogue.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:54 am
by jrisreal
@knell my middle name is Khayati...which, when translated to spanish, means "shut up" ... maybe that explains why people get mad at me on here maybe I should shut up now.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 11:32 am
by Naan_Bread
When the time is right the name will choose you.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 11:34 am
by zerbaman
jrisreal wrote:@knell my middle name is Khayati...which, when translated to spanish, means "shut up" ... maybe that explains why people get mad at me on here maybe I should shut up now.
I sense no form of relevance to spanish, or anything for that matter
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 1:17 pm
by GV1
When we started a pirate station I had the name MC JJ. But one of the DJ's were JJ. I decided to change and someone said "Govener". I write it as "Guvna" and it stuck.
Due to my past I decided I didn't want to be known under that name. So I refactored it to GV ... added the 1 to mean "The origional. The only 1. The first etc.". So now it's GV1.
I have other names that I use for various genres I rap under. I spit some demonic stuff, that some would say is twisted. So I don't publicly announce that side of things :p I also produce a lot of experimental stuff under other names too.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:33 pm
by kidshuffle
kingGhost wrote:king, because i'm large and in charge
ghost, because i'm pale
If you were black, would you be The HNIC?
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:36 pm
by kidshuffle
zerbaman wrote:
jrisreal wrote:@knell my middle name is Khayati...which, when translated to spanish, means "shut up" ... maybe that explains why people get mad at me on here maybe I should shut up now.
I sense no form of relevance to spanish, or anything for that matter
Looks/sounds middle eastern to me. The Moops did conquer Iberia and all though
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:07 pm
by kingGhost
kidshuffle wrote:
kingGhost wrote:king, because i'm large and in charge
ghost, because i'm pale
If you were black, would you be The HNIC?
no, only Joe Clark can be the HNIC
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 1:24 am
by jrisreal
kidshuffle wrote:
zerbaman wrote:
jrisreal wrote:@knell my middle name is Khayati...which, when translated to spanish, means "shut up" ... maybe that explains why people get mad at me on here maybe I should shut up now.
I sense no form of relevance to spanish, or anything for that matter
Looks/sounds middle eastern to me. The Moops did conquer Iberia and all though
it is middle eastern but the pronunciation is the same as spanish for "shut up"...atleast that's what Ive heard
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 1:35 am
by noam
got my dj name from the film Total Recall...
pretty much all the justification i need. Douglas Quaid is too gang for thee. SUCKERS.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 1:44 am
by collige
College Hill was one of the cadences my drumline played back in high school.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:23 am
by firky
jrisreal wrote:@knell my middle name is Khayati...which, when translated to spanish, means "shut up" ... maybe that explains why people get mad at me on here maybe I should shut up now.
My first name in Spanish roughly translates 'give it to me'
Or so I am told, anyway.
Re: How does one choose an artist name?
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:50 am
by flyingointment
I got mine from a Big L lyric. I threw the V in as tribute to my last big obsession before 2step, black metal. lawl
maybe I should shut up now.
