Artists, such as the geeks on OCReMix, need a good name. My lawyer suggested I change my name to something easier for a jury to symphathize with, and I got the idea for a name contest. I’m well aware that nobody reads my blog. Yet. When the OCR community does find it, it’ll be all the more interesting for them to read. This could be amusing for them, not just judgemental.
The first category I will judge in is long names. The two longest I found was Children of the Monkey Machine and Cuddly Battleship Kattywampus. In order to avoid looking evolution-friendly in front of potential biblical fundamentalists, I have to choose CBK. This is good practice if I ever run for president of America. I have yet to be born in America, but considering I might yet be born again, it shouldn’t be a problem.
The second category is two-letter names. With a number of those (AE, JV, MC, mp, mv, OA, and po! (listed only because the third symbol isn’t a letter)), it shouldn’t be hard. We’ll disqualify the transliterated umlaut, the cheesy MC, the one alluding to magic/mana points, and the one with more than two symbols, leaving us with JV, mv, and OA. Lowercase names seem a little lazy, and most good names contain vowels, so I’m gonna go with OA.
For the third category, I will decide the best use of non-letter symbols. Replacing letters with numbers are overused, although the existance of both a Beej and a B33J make the latter worth mentioning. Adding numbers to the end of the name is a bit 90’s. Actually, using numbers is lame. There, I said it. po! deserves an honorary mention here for not using numbers. Despite being a bit 90’s, J:/Drive has to win this one.
There are two kinds of funny artist names: the cheesy stupid ones, and the amusing ones. The aforementioned Cuddly Battleship Kattywampus deserves an honrary mention here, as does A Scholar & A Physician (a real abbreviation, too), the former for being cheesy stupid to the point that it’s funny again, the latter for being an unorthodox name and depth. The win, however, goes to Jupiter Crayons for the obvious reason.
Finally, there’s the coolest name on OCR. I have a hard time deciding what the coolest name is. Back in the days, it might have been something with a double-X, something awesome just spelled out, something far off the beaten path, or some really cool ordinary name, but I think slightly longer names are the thing nowadays, and so are the two names I’m considering for this title, Another Soundscape and Symphonic Chronicles. DragonAvenger gets an honorary mention.
D’oh! They’re both losers. The winner is Sixto Sounds.
Perhaps I should recommend their music as well, but I have to admit there’s some whose remixes I wouldn’t. They’re worth exploring, to see how many were actually worth it, if not for actually listening. And that concludes the OCR artist name contest.
