The "Project Name" v. "Birth Name" Problem (i.e. Pole v. Stefan Betke)

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When discussing Farben or Deadbeat or Soul Center -- Do you talk about Farben like its the name of a person, or a band, or do you just use Jelinek's name... What's the strategy? Sometimes it seems like a pain in the ass. What do you like to see when you're reading about music?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i think one man bands who have 'band names' are lame

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

buh-but, nine inch nails IS Trent Reznor!

― sexyDancer, Friday, 13 August 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps I overstate this problem.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i see it more of a problem for the artist.

the project name sucks because sometimes you're over with the project, yet you're stuck in some sort of ex-blah hell. can a person ever move on?

the birth name is starting to suck because of the ludicrous nature of trademark in the US at least. i was reading the other day that jerry falwell, the christian conservative jerk, was suing someone else for falwell.com because "jerry falwell" is his trademark, which is moronic. he can own his name? those of us with fairly common names are essentially fucked to use our names in creative endeavors.

(sorry for not really answering the question above.)
m.

― msp, Friday, 13 August 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I usually use (and prefer to see) the birth name. I think it's easier to use that throughout. You don't have to alternate terms if you switch between performance, biography, etc. ("Fourtet was born in...").

On the other hand, some artists who use a project name do so to create a discrete persona, and probably that should be respected?

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

POLE

https://youtu.be/VGlPCAE3_uM

live takes on Walgeschichten.... i believe he mistitled Wurzel (live).... it's Wipfel en actuelment (unfortunate)

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 19:04 (ten years ago)

WalDgeschichten.. love the cover. wish i knew German

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 19:05 (ten years ago)

Myzel (track 4) is neat-0. Missing Wurzel though

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 19:07 (ten years ago)

anybody dig those Waldgeschichten eps? can't beat the 90s trilogy, but the recent stuff is real crisp and clean.. reminds me of some of the latter day Christ. stuff, like Blue Shift Emissions. super crisp

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 24 September 2015 02:06 (ten years ago)

put down the new OPN leak, and the Laurel Halo, and recognize the masterful craft of Betke. c'MON

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 September 2015 15:48 (ten years ago)

I didn't know there was some new material out, thanks for the heads-up! But I think we should discuss it in the proper Pole thread, this one is a bit confusing because it isn't really about him.

Pole/~Scape records-dub pioneers-or-?

― Tuomas, Sunday, 27 September 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

apologies, i couldn't find the thread.. thanks for the link

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 September 2015 17:39 (ten years ago)

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