I make my project names off of random bits of words in my head. I just cycle through a bunch of nonsensical but cool sounding names and Groesk was the one that I chose.
Kinda do the same for naming tracks in the project. Really wish it was deeper, but it kind of comes from Zhuel bands doing the same thing; using lyrics and track names from a made up language that the band came up with. I’ve always respected that weird linguistic expermentation, so i do a more primitive version of the same.
Who knows, maybe ill get into it enough to make some type of system with sense.
It’s a silly trope from sci fi movies, and at one point someone shouts it in Charlie The Unicorn. I might make a supercut one day of all the times you randomly hear people shout ‘evasive maneuvers!’ in movies and use it for something
One of my first aliases was actually just a crappy reference to Pokemon and a strange portmanteau of my name, but I really got interested in robotics after a while and that’s where the “Mecha” part came from. “Twitchy” was a username that I really liked, mostly because I have a really bad habit of twitching my fingers or my legs, especially when I’m anxious. I had a lot of other modifications, a lot of them glued together with German or Dutch words, but Mecha_Twitchy stuck, because I can interchange “Mecha” and “Twitchy” a lot. I often use “Mecha” as the whole username, just because I feel it fits my style of music and my interests a lot.
As for HYPERGON, (Which WILL be released one day!!!) I had to push through a lot of “edge” to come up with it. Basically:
Depression. It’s something that we understand as a whole, like a shape (gon, as in octagon, or hexagon.) Nobody knows any specifics though, and for those who have depression, it’s often a really deep and ever-changing condition that’s really hard to cope with. (Hyper, as in, super-extended or massive, also fitting in with the speed and intensity of the breakbeats.) HYPERGON is an ambient DnB track focused on poor mental health, so the name fits.
I just enjoy penguins and the color blue, i think it was a bath toy i used to have… little rubber thing. When i had to make a username it just came to mind and nobody else snapped it up (for good reason)
MystaFx - very random and how my head throws ideas at me - links to my IRL name/initials - that’s it. Play on spelling/words and nothing more, nothing less pretty boring really.
I want to be named after a painkiller…panadol, parecetomal, morphine, fatboyslim, skrillex
there’s a difference between humility and self deprecation
i always see either egomania or people self deprecating themselves for attention, so try not to be that person who looks like their fishing for complements.
i take some pride in my work but i don’t talk about it that much, and that’s how i practice humility in a healthier way (i think)
Way back in the day, we used to have a convenience store name “Mac’s”. In my neighbourhood, there were 2 of them, close Mac’s and far Mac’s. Far Mac’s way way better so we used to call it a pilgrimage to “Pharmax”. We made up a religion about it called Boxitarianism (the worship of great bargains on Boxing Day). I thought it was a good name until I realized that a bunch of pharmaceutical companies have already taken it.
This is the best origin story I’ve ever heard for an artist name. If you ever have to change it for any reason, I hope you only have to amend the spelling because it’s pretty priceless!
I keep getting people going “how’d everything with your sub squire?”
I’m like… yeah i get it. you want to see me being a squire. " YES M’LORD WOULD YOU PREFER ME TO PUSH YOUR SUB TO 2400W HMMMM? PERHAPS A DRINK OF WINE FROM THE GOAT SKIN TO CALM YOUR NERVES BEFORE THE SYNTH JOUST"
pretty boring really.