I always figured I’d borrow one of the on-air names my dad’s friends used. My dad was a DJ for ages…starting in high school and on up until about 5 years ago. He has friends working in radio all over the country with some really spiffy on-air names they don’t use any more. Though at the moment, the only one I can remember is Ozzy and that’s definitely not an option. So it looks like…
I’m working as a Classical Show on WREK in Atlanta (The Georgia Tech station), and as the classical host I don’t use the DJ name but when I do another show which is more fitting I might go by my DJ name, we’ll see.
I think many of those DJ (whatever) names sound a bit generic and tired. I like many of those that dropped the DJ part and simply use one word [Sasha, Digweed, Beirhouz (sp?), etc.]. So Foxfire sounds cool, but DJ Foxfire sounds generic, IMHO.
DJ Dschems von Damaskus - after the co-founder of the first coffee house on European soil, Constantinople, 1554 (together with Hakim von Aleppo - my friend´s gonna use that if we ever do a double feature. If we ever get to be DJs, that is.)
Anyway, DJ Dschems von Damaskus has a cool ring to it. Might change it to Dschems from Damascus when I go international.
No, wait, for rocking the international house, it´s DJ universe.zip, definitely
…oh wait, I just googled the first one - it´s “Jems from Damascus” in English. Naaah, I´ll stick with the German writing, it´s so much neater.