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How'd you get your professional name?
Just curious how all you DJ's out there got your professional names. Did someone give it to you, did you choose it yourself? Did you suddenly have some great awakening where this perfect name just popped into your head?
I havent chosen one yet, so for now i guess its just DJ KevinT.
But i think thats kind of boring, so i have been beating my head against the wall trying to think of something just right, but i got no ideas. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Kev
just sit down with some friends, make a list of 20-40 names and start kickin out those that obviously suck
When you got three or so left, pick one.
And don't think about it too much, there are some REALLY successful DJs with names that suck A**. Especially in Germany
Hope this helps...
I got my dj name from my teacher from school.. A wicked guy who always gave nicks to people. Mine was Cripsen, cuz my real name is crispen. Now im Dj Cripsen
good luck with the name
i got mine from the tv one day...
i was watching this rocket truck race, and it was called the "Shockwave" and i thought, wow, that's a cool name...
so to make it sort of individual, i dropped off the E and the end and now i'm Shockwav
well..mine came to me during a drunken stuppor...a friend said whats up j_spot and it stuck..I dont use it often tho...my shows are usually for underage crowds. so a name like j_spot(and my boss Deez Nuts) arent really appropriate. WE just used em @ college shows
The Mixmag Guide to making your own DJ name:
TRANCE.
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1) Are you French?
YES - Go to 2.
NO - Go to 3.
2) Forget the idea right now - it's never going to work.
3) Are you Dutch or German?
YES - Go to 4.
NO - Go to 5.
4) What's your name? - That's your DJ Name.
5) Add 'berg' to your last name. Put 'van' between your first and last name. Change any single a to aa and put an umlaut on all the vowels (i.e. �, �, �, � and �.) Pronounce avery w as a v and change any -ing endings to -en.
Happycustomers who have already used this system:
Sander Kleinenberg, Timo Maas, DJ Ti�sto, Roland Klinkenberg, Paul Van Dyk, Piet Van Hoos.
UK GARAGE.
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1) Do you like capital letters?
YES - Go to 2.
NO - Go to 3.
2) Drop your pen onto the list below two or three times. Whichever letters it falls on are your DJ name.
A B C D E F G H
I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V X X
Y Z
Happy customers who have already used this system:
EZ, GQ, PSK, Mikee B.
3) Do you want to keep your first name?
YES - Go to 4.
NO - Go to 5.
4) Go into the kitchen, close your eyes and spin around three times. the first thing you see when you open them will become your new last name. Then change every s into a z and every c into a k.
Happy customers who have already used this system:
Master Stepz, Matt 'Jam' Lamont, Spoony, Shanks, John Spice Rack. (OK, made that one up!)
5) Pick an adjective that describes you. Then add either DJ, MC or Crew to it. That's your DJ name.
Happy customers who have already used this system:
DJ Luck, MC Neat, So Solid Crew, Bigfoot.
PROGRESSIVE.
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1) What's your name? - That's your DJ name.
Happy customers who have already used this system:
Lee Burridge, John Digweed, Steve Lawler, Danny Howells, Danny Tenaglia.
Try it out on yourself. My name would be T�m v�n Sh��pc�ttberg.
LOL, thanks, i needed that. I had no idea there was a prooven formula for creating your professional name! but hey, it makes sense!
Kev
That is really good DJTJ...but how did you get your name then? LOL
DJTJ, that's a wierd formula!!!!!
so my DJ Name should be Oren Van Kostoberg?? 
lol man that doesn't really make sense.........
oh well....
I use to go by "IceMan"...........but ive changed over times....
ive "evovled" I was watching TV and there was this club (i furgot where at) but it was called "Liquid" and i was like......damn......
im a totally different DJ from when i started........
LIQUID sounds like a DOpE dj name.......so i changed over.....u can say it was an evolution.......from Ice to LIQUID 
Although I'd like to take the credit for it, that formula was in an issue of Mixmag!
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| Originally posted by DJTJ Although I'd like to take the credit for it, that formula was in an issue of Mixmag! |
if i ever became world famous dj.i'll chose the name dj phukdup.i think it's pretty cool name
mine is
554
what does it mean? its the number of letters in each of my names. how did i get it? pretty much what DJ Dawn said to do. I didn't want to run with just "DJ" because i wanted to produce as well and the prefix "DJ" i thought sounded too Playskool-ish... I wanted something that could be anything, something mysterious that no one knew what it was.... so voila!
Cheers!
-ABT-
My producing alias is Cloud Land
(Click the name to see the definition 
)
I got my Dj name from a friend...
I got my Dj name (Dj Dol-B) from a friend od mine..
Somehow it slipped from his mouth when he called me "Hey dolby, what`s up..." (after Dolby multisystem) and I liked it...
eversince i`m Dj Dol-b
If you want a piece of my work click here
hey dolby!!!!
I'm from Israel too.... and I live 15 minutes by car from you. contact me if you want.
ICQ: 2430525
my dj name came from the quote in my sig. it's printed on the inside cover of The Sun Also Rises by hemingway above his excerpt from Ecclesiastes. hemingway expounded on this in his book A Movable Feast and he talks about how everyone is lost in their own generation and such. and i kind of feel like when i go to parties and stuff it's just a bunch of lost people all coming together and becoming one and that's why i've been going as lost in the party scene for a few years and so when i tried my hand at djing it just kind of carried with me. i still can't beatmatch though so i'm not much of a dj!
lost
lol sounds a lot like me. LOST (i even did a song about it, haha)
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| Originally posted by HyPeRSoNiC hey dolby!!!! I'm from Israel too.... and I live 15 minutes by car from you. contact me if you want. ICQ: 2430525 |
cool!!! I can see here lots of Israeli people..... but I can't remember their nicknames..... anywayz, shalom! ma nishma? lol
contact me if you want. we can talk about trance or anything else....
you hae my ICQ number....
I was born with it!
lol =)
mine is a skate shoes brand... i did skate when i was young when you fuck the authority and you listen to metal & trash
and ....
i want to add that i think that a scene name must be sounds very good, but also when you see it. example, i think that DJ Pure is a fucking good trance dj name, Pure is a word that sounds good and it's a beautiful word. Pure is also like trance music... and the other example is the german dj Tillman Uhrmacher, blaaa, that suck a**. it's ugly !
dj name? look no further!
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