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  • SpookG
    (For Great Justice!)
    FFR Music Producer
    • Dec 2002
    • 829
    #1

    Artist Names..

    Since I am asked a lot what the hell SpookG means, I'm going to settle it here once and for all, and open up a topic for all the artists to let everyone find out why they chose the particular name for themselves.

    I think this is kind of important, because it gives you a lot of insight into the person behind the music, which I believe is like poetry, in that if you don't know the background behind the pieces you only get half the message of the piece.

    Of course, I might get inspiration differently than most maybe..who knows.. moving on..


    SpookG is short for SpookGoblin, in case no one figured that out. It has no spaces because I am lazy, that's the official way, but I really don't care.

    It started as a screenname I used to have , about 7 years ago, when I played a lot of text based RPGs online. Spook was a goblin shaman, hence goblin, who would meddle a lot with the undead, hence the Spook part. So when I started making music I couldn't think up a name, so I just used the one I already had thinking "what the hell?" and it sticked ever since.

    Yeah, the story behind it is really lame, I'll be the first to admit it, but ever since my close friends started calling me Spook I'm somewhat stuck with the name forever now.

    Royal For Great Justice! Electronic Music est. 1999
    .
    kerBLAM



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    • squarebear
      FFR Music Producers
      FFR Simfile Author
      FFR Music Producer
      • Sep 2003
      • 118
      #2
      When I first started making music I couldn't think of a name for myself so I came up with DJ Stevoid as everyone at the time had DJ in his or her name and my real name is Steve. A friend later told me that the name sounded a little stupid so I shortened it to DJ Void. I stuck with that for a year or two then one of my friends suggested that I drop the DJ part. I didn't fancy just being called Void as it sounded empty and black, so I tried to think of a new name.

      I was sat in my local bar one night, trying to think of a new name and I was struggling so I asked my friend for advice. We thought it would be funny if the DJ turned up to play his set with an anorak, big thick glasses and his records in a plastic carrier bag, totally different from the usual DJ characters. That's where the square part came from, I just added bear to make it rhyme. My friends liked it, as did I, so I kept that name.

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        • JustJono
          FFR Player
          • Nov 2003
          • 283
          #3
          Right now, I'm debating a starter name. Right now, I have all my mp3's labelled Jono. I'm choosing between Just Jono and Jono.

          I got the name Jono because my classmates all shortened my name from Jonathan to Jono, so I started calling myself that, and then my family started calling me Jono. I made the name Just Jono when I was looking for a cool way to label my nickname. Just Jono sounded quite nice.

          I want to pick Jono because, it's me. It's just a short nickname, nothing complicated or hard to remember. I don't want to pick it, because I'll sound like Bono.
          Just Jono sounds nice too but.. I don't know.

          What do you guys think?
          Jonathan Cruz

          http://www.mp3unsigned.com/Jono.asp

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            • eyespewgreekfire
              FFR Player
              • Sep 2003
              • 372
              #4
              i just kinda sat down and thought "im gonna be DJ Ascent." Not really anything special, and its rather chiche with the DJ part. Ill probably change it in a year or two.

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                • jewpinthethird
                  (The Fat's Sabobah)
                  FFR Music Producer
                  • Nov 2002
                  • 11711
                  #5
                  Patt.22 is short for Pattern Twenty-Two. On my little Yamaha DJX box, my favorite pattern was 22. That's how that came about. Originally, Patt.22 was going to be a group project, so I also came up with the name djJ33k.F (pronounced DeejayJeekef) which many found extremly hard to pronounce for some reason. But my friends dropped out, so I became djJ33k.F and Patt.22.

                  A few months later, there was a new artist on FFR going by the name SpookGoblin. I really enjoyed his song "Dendrite" and I wanted to know what program he used. So I PMed him. He told me he used Buzzmachines. After about another month of working on buzz, I finally made my first song. Because the sound and style was so different from my djJ33k.F works, I decided a need a new name. I remember my stoner friend talking about the Fatso Soboba....so I adapted that to The Fat's Sabobah.

                  I later just came up with a bunch of other aliases just to confuse people for fun (Europa, The Twenty-Two Tap, You are the Space Cadet and many others)

                  -----
                  JustJono sort of sounds like a coffee shop in my opinion. I think Jono sounds fine. But you need more random letters to confuse people.

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                    • JustJono
                      FFR Player
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 283
                      #6
                      Jewpin, Europa sounds nice actually.

                      ACTUALLY, I have more. Someone on these breakdancing forums called me Juno instead of Jono. I don't know if it was from misreading or a constant typo, but it sounded pretty nice too. I tried to be DJ Juno, but then became awake of the J that was already in "Juno". So I took the J out of "DJ" and became DJ Uno. I'm not sure if I wanna go back to those names or not. But as you can see, I have more than just Jono (no pun intended.)
                      Jonathan Cruz

                      http://www.mp3unsigned.com/Jono.asp

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                        • SpookG
                          (For Great Justice!)
                          FFR Music Producer
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 829
                          #7
                          I hate to sound like an asshole, but it pisses me off that people who don't spin at all consider themselves DJs, so how about you drop the BS and leave the DJ part out of all your names.

                          Royal For Great Justice! Electronic Music est. 1999
                          .
                          kerBLAM



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                            • deathspnay
                              FFR Player
                              • Sep 2003
                              • 52
                              #8
                              Originally posted by SpookG
                              I hate to sound like an asshole, but it pisses me off that people who don't spin at all consider themselves DJs, so how about you drop the BS and leave the DJ part out of all your names.
                              So in other words you don't like posers. Well.. neither do I. :/
                              Originally posted by Moogy
                              Originally posted by eVILPeeR
                              Also, Arch, you\'re the ugliest twat I\'ve ever seen. Seriously. My 400+ lbs. friend looks pretty because of you.
                              :O BLASPHEMY

                              ARCH IS A SEXAY BEAST

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                                • squarebear
                                  FFR Music Producers
                                  FFR Simfile Author
                                  FFR Music Producer
                                  • Sep 2003
                                  • 118
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by SpookG
                                  I hate to sound like an asshole, but it pisses me off that people who don't spin at all consider themselves DJs, so how about you drop the BS and leave the DJ part out of all your names.
                                  I totally agree. I'm on a music forum where most of the members are called DJ whatever and only a small percentage of them have ever spun. I wouldn't call myself a hairdresser if I wasn't one so why call yourself a DJ? (not aimed at anyone in particular, just a general comment)

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                                    • eyespewgreekfire
                                      FFR Player
                                      • Sep 2003
                                      • 372
                                      #10
                                      Ill change my name in a bit. Sorry if I offended anyone. When I named myself, I was so ignorant not to know the difference between artists and DJs.

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                                        • jewpinthethird
                                          (The Fat's Sabobah)
                                          FFR Music Producer
                                          • Nov 2002
                                          • 11711
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by SpookG
                                          I hate to sound like an asshole, but it pisses me off that people who don't spin at all consider themselves DJs, so how about you drop the BS and leave the DJ part out of all your names.
                                          I feel the same way. That is why I dropped that djJ33k.F. After all, it was supposed to be a joke.

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                                            • SuperGreenX
                                              Tangy music sauce maker
                                              FFR Music Producer
                                              • Mar 2003
                                              • 354
                                              #12
                                              One of my favorite movies is The Fifth Element. In this SciFi future movie, people like to say 'green' instead of 'cool' or 'good'. So, I'm "Super-COOL!!!!!". Also, green can mean new or inexperienced. I was very green when I started making those crappy loop songs, so it fit. Why the X? Well, I actually had the X for a while in an AIM screen name (plain old SuperGreen was taken!! Bastard!). X is much cooler than a bunch of random numbers after a name. SuperGreen10929428? I think not. When I needed a new singular name after my group Planet3 split, I decided to keep the X since abbrevieating SuperGreenX is "SGX" which is...hardcore or something? And no, my name doesn't have anything to do with the Xbox (green and X? hehe). I made this name like 4 years ago.

                                              Wonderful Bite - New SGX Album! You can get it for free, yo!

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                                                • eyespewgreekfire
                                                  FFR Player
                                                  • Sep 2003
                                                  • 372
                                                  #13
                                                  you just copied that from your website SGX....
                                                  whatever, i dont care.

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                                                    • Moogy
                                                      嗚呼
                                                      FFR Simfile Author
                                                      • Aug 2003
                                                      • 10303
                                                      #14
                                                      Laziness > Eyespewgreekfire
                                                      Plz visit my blog

                                                      ^^^ vintage signature from like 2006 preserved

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                                                        • jewpinthethird
                                                          (The Fat's Sabobah)
                                                          FFR Music Producer
                                                          • Nov 2002
                                                          • 11711
                                                          #15
                                                          The Fifth element was an awesome movie.

                                                          Before I knew what SpookGoblin came from, I thought SpookG might have been racist.

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