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

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January 23, 2012 at 7:23 pm #13214

Arthur Kokanov
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My name (and i’ve used it in many different places) is based on Dr.Manhattan from The Watchmen movie and comic. I absolutly love his character and what he is. Thus manhattan seemed propper for me.

January 23, 2012 at 11:33 pm #13224

DJ Max D.
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Well, Max is my nickname.. most people know me by that name but I thought it was too ordinary to go as “DJ Max”. So I was like: “Max A? no. Max B? hell no. Max C? nope. Max D? good enough”

I wouldn’t change it but it might come to that in the future simply because idiotic club owners forget the D all the time..

January 24, 2012 at 12:08 am #13226

Todd Oddity
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Mine came to be as a play on an insult kids used to throw at me in elementary school, “Odd Todd”. I didn’t want to use my name directly, so played around with it a little until I found something I was comfortable with – “Oddity”. It was the early 90’s so everyone automatically tacked a DJ on the front of that and away I went. After a number of years of working in clubs, some of the staff actually merged my name in there too and I got the nickname Toddity, although I’ve never used that in actual publicity – it just stuck as a nickname. For official purposes it remains “dj Oddity”, “dj ‘Todd’ Oddity”, or the one I use most these days, just plain “Oddity”.

January 24, 2012 at 12:13 am #13227

Paul Hill
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i used to be called vanhelsing from the dracula movies.but am now neurologic(all my mixes have a virus theme to them-hoping my mixes are infectious).toxic mix and biohazard are 2 to mention.

January 24, 2012 at 12:54 am #13229

DJ Crysix
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My name is Christian so I came up with an abstract name with no meaning to it which I thought was catchy and sounded unique 🙂

January 24, 2012 at 11:49 am #13248

Jacob Giossi
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I DJ part-time (2 nights weekly) for a small radio station. When I was given the gig, they told me to come up with a name, so I just jokingly threw out “Jam-Master Jake” and it stuck. I will likely change it eventually because I feel it’s too close to (and therefore a rip-off of) the late-great Jam Master Jay of Run D.M.C. and his son, Jam Master J’Son.

What I will change it to is another question…

January 25, 2012 at 5:05 pm #13315

DJ Johnny Fantastic
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I fooled around with a bunch a names at the start. My actual initials are DJU but that didn’t sound right. Thought about just using my last name but I share it with the r’n’b sensation so that also wasn’t going to work. I settled on my name as a joke more then anything. When I was in college for business we had to make up a fake company. Our group decided on a skate/snowboard shop with the one and only employee being Johnny Fantastic.

January 25, 2012 at 11:08 pm #13370

Leslie Jones
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D-Jam, post: 11258, member: 3 wrote: I liked how one guy Phil interviewed changed the acronym to “Digital Jockey”.

Well, that one was already in place with the first CDJ- release. 😉

I used my own firstname and the middlename of my first daughter.
Used to go by the name tekki, but nowadays Leslie Jones seems more appropriate. (And noooo, no DJ in front of it please.)

January 29, 2012 at 10:25 am #13563

Julian Gutierrez
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My name is Julian, but most people call me Jules. When I started out people would ask what my DJ name was and I’d say I didn’t have one, that it was just “Jules”. I gave people that response often enough so that eventually “Just Jules” just seemed to fit.

Edit: depending on the occasion, I also use “DJ Just Jules”.

January 29, 2012 at 11:09 am #1002750

Arbite
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Banquo. It was a nickname I picked up in high school do to an unfortunate haircut. It stuck.

January 29, 2012 at 11:22 am #13568

Chris Carruthers
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Caru – shortened version of my last name, Carruthers.

January 29, 2012 at 8:25 pm #13619

Sumir
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Around 1989 , when I was learning to spin, I had some sort of name aimed at being a hip hop dj, ‘kid..’ something or another lol. When I moved past that awful phase, and started with trance & techno. than initially I went with the name “Hava”. I was told around that time that my real name , Sumir means “good air”, like I’m supposed to bring a good feeling around (sure got that one wrong 😉 ) . So ‘hava’ in my family’s native tounge (hindi), means ‘air’ . Got hit with the idea playing a track from another artist, called ‘Havana’. I think I stuck with the Hava name until 98 or so, then switched to using my first name, Sumir.

January 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm #13672

djsubculture@gmail.com
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How I came up with my DJ name….Well most people I meet just assume that I took it from the song “Subculture” by New Order. And for the most part, I let them think that as it saves on a lot of explaining. Truth is, it came from my custom license plates (SUBCLTR) that I’ve had for the past 18 years. Now as to how I came up with that is another story on in itself.

February 27, 2014 at 3:57 am #2007104

Donavon Cavender
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It was easy to come up with a DJ because my full name is Donavon James Cavender (DJ Cavender). I know that if someone else with the same last name becomes a DJ, I could not take it to court. I know it is not creative but I like the sound of it.

February 28, 2014 at 2:58 pm #2007337

DJ 2-Easy
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2-Easy/2eazy/2eze is a name that i have used since 1985 when i started writing graffiti. Unfortunately there is already somebody using that DJ name (i have recently discovered). But seeing as i have photographic proof from back then that i used that name, i’m sticking with it and claiming OG status on that one Hahaaaa.

It seems ALL the decent names or anything clever that i have thought of is already used 🙁
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