DJ NAMES: How did you choose yours? Ever wish you'd chosen a different one?

i Choose Ishvaas , i dont use ( Dj ) much , it’s an Indian word been stuck in my head since my childhood Means Trustfulness , it’s 100% Original no onein the World have it , ( googled ) i used lotta stupid names before but never was sure , but now i feel like , this is it 😀
What’s ur opinion on my Name !?

When I was younger, folks always remarked about my off-the-wall comments. “Did you hear what he said? He’s crazy.” Thus was born Stone Crazy. I used that name on MySpace. When I first started out, I didn’t have a DJ name. Then when the bar owner asked my name for advertisement purposes, I put DJ in front of Stone Crazy.

Great topic!

I don’t like the prefix “DJ” in DJ names, it sounds ordinary and too 90’s techno for me. If I look at house music albums from, for example, Hed Kandi and Defected in the House, I see names like Ghosts of Venice, Tensnake, Treasure Fingers, etc. Realy cool dj names.

Further, there are some realy cool dj’s and producers out there who just use their own name: Russ Chimes, Carl Hanaghan, Patrick Wagenaar, Gregor Salto and Fred Falke to name just a few. I would recomend anyone who has a cool name of their own to just use that.

My real first name is Caspar. But I used my second name “José ” in my dj name. José is cool latin like and it is realy something of myself as it is my second name. “Reach” came from “reach to the stars”, from a pose I take with friends when partying (with one knee on the ground and stretched arms and face pointing to stars, as a joke) , and as a sign of my ambition. => José Reach.

Maybe I’ll change it later in a new name. Maybe I just go back to Caspar. But that I will see in the future.

Girlfriend introduced me to an online game, called second life. You create a character, like an alter ego, and play. She had her own property with a club and got me to stream on her site. Thought it was cool. The characters have names. My characters name was Killa Saintlouis. So I figured Dj’ing is an alter ego (have a real job in the real world, lol) so why not use the same alter ego name. Some friends states they didn’t get it, and recommended I keep looking. What do you think?

Also, I didn’t bother with the DJ title because the title stands for disc jockey. I don’t use discs anymore (who does?). I use only controllers.

I like the phrase “Data Juggler”.

dj izn!! izn is my first name 😀 pronounced like “isn’t” but without the t. i think it serves well as a dj name, although a lot of people who don’t know me personally think that the letters are pronounced individually.
peeps who’ve only listened to my mixes online and come out to my gigs sometimes come up to me saying “hey your dj “eye-zed-en” right?!” which is the only downside of my name :p

Mine came from an old London Acid Techno label from the 90s. At the time I went under a different name but used SmiTTTen as an IRC alias(among other things). Since getting back into things I decided that SmiTTTen was a name that I had used consistently for 15+ years so decided to make it my name.

I don’t feel like truly a DJ, so I dont need a name or call myself one. Just cause you have gear and you can mix doesn’t make you a DJ. When I am really good, maybe ill choose it then.