Reasons for name choices

One of the first names that we decided would be shortlisted for for our final name choice is Detour. We originally decided that we would like our DJ to have some sort of meaning in his name and we thought the idea of going on tour or moving around alot would be a good idea. The reason that we decided tour would be a good idea is that it gives the impression that our DJ tours alot and is moving around all the time. The back story that we thought about was that from a young age our DJ was touring around the world. The De part of the name was just an idea to make it look more like a name of  DJ as TOUR would just look like a word.

The next name that we thought of followed the same idea as Detour, the next artist name that we thought about was Exile. Once again we were set on the idea of having one word as the DJ name such as Avicii rather than DJ something such as DJ fresh. The reasons that we decided on Exile was similar to the reason we decided on Detour. We want our DJ to have a rough back story and come from a hard life. We thought that our artist should have left home at an early age so we decided on Exile as this would represent the life our artist had at a young age.

The last and final name that we decide on to actually use as a permanent name for our artist. The final name that we decided on is Existence. The previous names that we shortlisted were Detour and Exile and in our group we both liked these two names but we still thought something was missing and needed to think more of the backstory. We liked the backstory of the last two names but we wanted to add something else to the name to make it more unique and to give it more of an impact. We wanted the name to represent the DJ moving around the world to go on tours as well as representing his rough upbringing. We thought that the name Existence would represent that when he was younger he wasn't noticed and only got the attention from touring and producing music. Therefore we decided on Existence as it represents all of this. The final existence name will look like this (eXistence) this is due to branding and the fact that the X will be such a huge part of the artist and will be used as his logo so that he will be instantly recognisable.