How your favourite DJ got their name

Mala and Coki

Their friends used to call them Malibu and Coke growing up, so their DJ names are a variation on that. Malibu was Mark Lawrence's favourite drink, "I don't drink it now!" he insisted to The Independent.

Midland

Like label Hessle Audio and one of its founding members Pearson Sound, Harry Agius took inspiration from a street in Leeds' Hyde Park area. Now if we can just find out what he called his first pet then we'll know his porn star name too.

Mano Le Tough

Mano is an abbreviation of the Irishman's surname; Le Tough is taken from a band he was in with school friends called Hang Tough. Scandalously, he admitted to Dazed Digital: "I am not really that tough".

Modeselektor

Modeselektor is a function on the Roland RE-201 space echo analogue delay effects unit.

Monki

Miss Monkman was one of four girls called Lucy in her school year, so people began to call her Monki. She told Inverted-Audio: "Monki would get put on the register and I would be referred to as Monki in assemblies by the teachers and stuff, was quite funny."

Motor City Drum Ensemble

Danilo Plessow hails from Germany's motor city Stuttgart and passionately collects Roland drum machines.

Mount Kimbie

Mount Kimbie found their name when they saw it tattooed on the left collarbone of a druid they bumped into down Glastonbury way. Mysteriously, Dominc Maker revealed to Beat magazine that "the common pronunciation of the name is wrong." Although, he also said in that interview that "If you write Mount Kimbie on your left hand and look at it in a spherical mirror through white 'Kanye West' sunglasses, you will see the hidden secrets within the name." Think he might be having us on.

mssingNo

Incomplete coding in Pokémon Red and Blue means you sometimes encounter glitch Pokémon called Missing Number, stylised as Missingno. due to the 10 character limit. "A wild DJ name appeared!"

Nguzunguzu

The name is taken from a type of prow that is placed on the head of canoes in the Solomon Islands.

Peverelist

Tom Ford told Fact that he started out DJing jungle in Hatfield Peverel, calling himself Hatfield Peverel Junglist Massive. A self-proclaimed "ridiculous name, so I shortened it to Peverelist."

Prosumer

Prosumer references a phrase in Alvin Toffler's techno sci-fi bible 'The Third Wave', meaning to produce and be a consumer at the same time.

Recondite

The German live set master told The DJ List that he wanted his alias to be an "adjective with a clear origin in Latin, describing something which is precious to me." Recondite was perfect because he liked "the sound and the look of the word."

Romare

Studying African American Visual Culture at University, Archie Fairhurst became deeply interested in the work of Romare Bearden and his cut'n'paste artworks. He decided to apply the same method to his music, chopping up samples and piecing them together.

SBTRKT

Aaron Jerome wanted to remove himself as a person from this project and let the music to do the talking. SBTRKT refers to his personal subtraction from the process.

Scuba

Paul Rose had been sending music to Hatcha, but one day in the studio shifted his style to be more stripped back and dubby. He told In The Mix: "Because it was quite different to my other stuff I thought, let's just see what he thinks of it cold. I had to think of something to write on the CD and just picked out the first thing that came to my head! He gave me a call as soon as he got the CD and I said, you know it's me, and he said, 'well, fuck!'"

Shed

Rene Pawlowitz titled his first album 'Shedding The Past' as a mantra to leave the past behind him, and he took his DJ name (well, one of them) from that.

Skepta

Skepta is a misspelling of the word Sceptre. Joseph Adenuga liked the word, but wanted a unique spelling so he could type it into YouTube and only he would come up.