how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

[skahound]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

totally random

but sometimes a direct initial feeling or emotion that comes to mind when making/hearing it...

nonetheless i suck ass at making names for tracks

C'mon 'Project 3' is a great title...very original. Actually where did you come up with 'Log Chopper' for the name of your remix of 'Ground Down'?

[joshuacollins]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

totally random

but sometimes a direct initial feeling or emotion that comes to mind when making/hearing it...

nonetheless i suck ass at making names for tracks

[picklemonkey]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

if I were Deep Dish I'd be naming all my tracks shit like "Pepperoni," "Sausage," "Anchovies," etc.

[MJ]

^^ and i give you my permission to use this as your next track title sir, only one catch though, any money you make from it has to go to this great site. :wink:

[markystar]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

did you ever get an Email from BT or his management about the title? I always wondered this.

no, i haven't heard anything directly from him or anyone associated with him. and for a while i was a little anxious thinking he might be annoyed about it...

but somebody told me that they were talking about it with him and he just laughed at it and said something to the effect of "why is everyone so obsessed with my hair?"

i imagine he'd take it well. i mean, it's not a vicious name or anything.
and i don't mean any disrespect by it. it's all in good fun.

some of my favorite track titles:

Mr. Barcode "I am a Robot - I am Afraid of Spoons"
OMNI A.M. "Smurfette's Big Night"
Marky Star "Takin' Out Your Mom" (Daddy Don't Know Mix)
Marky Star "Takin' Out Your Mom" (Your Sister's Down Too Mix)

Musical Journey, i like this one:
"Suck It"

[thrualoooop]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

i guess the titles to the tracks are based on what the producer feels when he plays it, or what he wants people to feel, to express sadness,joy or any other moods

exactly

[qwerty2222]

Steve Porter - Vodka Cranberry

very creative....

it could be if you ever drunk vodka cranberry, maybe steve porter decided to name this track like that because of the taste of it and wanted to express it , i personaly thought its a verry good call

[TomTom]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

@Markystar: did you ever get an Email from BT or his management about the title? I always wondered this.

[MJ]

Being a bit of a n00b producer myself i find it difficult to name some of my attempts at tracks. I find myself naming them by the first thing that pops into my head at the time. I have quite a few stupid ones too.

Suck it

Not bad ya know

Newy

But the one i have going now which i like is called Mercurynights.

[remoh]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

for sure......

[nietzsche]

Steve Porter - Vodka Cranberry

very creative....

[refine]

@ markystar

anyone taking electronic tracknames overly seriously should be shot.

in terms of inspiration for track names sometimes all it takes is a cat spitting up a furball

the operators - furball

[Jibgolly]

here's a good one to know:

digital witchcraft - kaylee's blanket --> is named after my god daughter kaylee. :wink:

[palmer]

^^

[markystar]

Re: how do djs/producers choose their song titles?

most of my titles are meaningless or just plain silly...

i mean, on one level, it's mostly instrumental music.
there isn't any "deep meaning" involved in most dance music, after all, tracks are primarily dj tools (as opposed to 'songs').

so, they don't even really NEED titles...

but in the end, you DO have to call it something, otherwise people woudn't know how to discuss it -- or even finding it in your record bag could be tricky. imagine doing a chart or tracklisting without a title!

i've always been struck by many titles of works of visual art at the art museum:
Studies in Blue
Magenta #5
and the like...
i thought these were cool, because what's the purpose of titling an abstract work of art? it doesn't *have* to have a name. the work is what the work is.
but museums, collectors, galleries all want a name so they can inventory, catalog, discuss, sell, whatever... it's easier than saying "oh i love that painting with the black background and the red dot in the middle of it."

my titles are *usually* just random designations, or a gradual evolution of a random working title. in the end they mostly end up as private jokes between me and my friends or (more often than not) private jokes with myself (yes, it IS pathetic).

as for BT's Hair...
well... we've all seen his hair. it's too perfect.
in pictures i always notice his hair...
EVERYONE always notices his hair...
so i had this whole idea that i was stuck on for weeks that BT's Hair could have it's own band and do stuff separate from BT.
I mean, it's possible. right??