Hey you may have noticed my not so creative username.
I joined the forum when I had no DJ name whatsoever in mind but yesterday I got a brainwave after months of brainstorming I decided to go with the name “Element”
I was doing my homework and thinking about elements and I just thought that element could totally be a name on the posters of parties I like to go to. I also like that it’s very neutral. Since I like to produce and mix deep (and older) dubstep, filth, more artistic dubstep, jump up dnb, older dnb, a little liquid dnb and also a lot of 100 bpm I figured it would not seem out of place with almost everything. A name such as Point.Blank would be out of place with less agressive music IMO.
As a large logo I would like to incorporate the periodic table of elements and as a smaller logo I would like to do something with element 105 called dubnium. (If you someone that does cheap and pro logo’s, please share)
My real name is Jeffrey Roekens and I’ve also seriously considered other names such as Epik, Xstatic (too hardstyle sounding IMO) and quite a while ago Salt & Pepper when there were plans to make an interracial duo, I figured people would remember us for sure then. I’m not racist. Just sayin’
Do you like Element or do you have a better idea ?
Thanks for your input.
wow dude, thanks a lot ! But maybe wait with a logo till I choose a name and untill it’s really set in stone.
And @the rest of you, using my own name or something similar doesn’t really sound that good. There were some cool ideas but like I said they sound a bit funny to me. Keep in mind that we speak dutch here and what may sound great and awesome in English may sound pretty odd or just lame in Dutch.
And being named… I’d like to be in full control since a name is not something to take lightly.
Highly doubt he 's gonna get gigs on the other side of the Atlantic so I’m safe. And why the hell do people think I have a cool name that has cool spin offs ? Boggles my mind.
They may fit a DJ but a producer ? That wants to be taken seriously ?
Go with Jeff Rook and you’ll be safe in house, deep house, tech house, techno, progressive, trance. (All the other genres I cannot tell you to be honest, these go into the ‘cool’ destructive monikers.)
I don’t want to hate on what you love but another DJ offered me a paid residency BUT I would only be allowed to play those genres so I turned it down. I 'd rather mix the dubstep & dnb in my bed room then play other music for a crowd (did it a couple of times and did not like it)
It’s about the passion not money.
I just wanted to say I have no intent playing these other genres of beautiful music that just don’t really appeal me.
So it seems to me that it’s best that my name doesn’t sound like a trance or house or whatever DJ and most of all like a dnb or dubstep DJ
Because you a lot of times you can tell the genre if you read the name. Noise Controllers and Headhunterz being hardstyle
and digitalism being electro.
I don’t know of anything made sense I’m posting this after eating special cake and I might regret posting it later. Toodles.
Sorry guys, this is in dutch, just to make sure the message isn’t misinterpreted.
Ik denk dat je mijn post niet helemaal begreep, Jeff.
Ik raadde Jeff Rook aan indien je die genres zou draaien. In de andere genres zijn de aliassen wat meer destructief, zoals je zelf al aangeeft met aliassen als Headhunterz.
At the end of the day, you could be called DJ Spanner or even DJ Tool Face. Who cares other than you? It’s about what you play and how you play that will attract people to you, not your name
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