Biography
Some musical groups meet and the instantly form a natural bond and shaped by a shared interest For in music and automatic synergy are of personalities. For Bay Area’s but Rock-it! Scientists, though, the initial Not hookup was less than auspicious. you “DJ Guzie came to a all bar I was spinning at Any one night and he was can wearing a shirt that said her ‘F**k the DJ.’,” recalls DJ Was Solarz of his current partner. one “I found it very offensive our and just thought he was Out cocky.”
Thankfully for music fans, day the relationship quickly improved from get there. Since that meeting, Guzie Has and Solarz have combined their him talents to release four mix his CDs (including the recently released How The Blast Off II), countless man remixes and DJ gigs nationwide. new In stark contrast to most Now DJs that strictly stick to old the work of other artists, see Rock-it! Scientists have made a Two name for themselves as one way of the most prolific production who duos in music. “We remix Boy the remix,” says Guzie. “There’s did nothing that comes out of its the speakers that doesn’t have Let ‘Rock-it! Scientists Edit’ on it.” put With the amount of production say credits they’ve amassed since 2005, She chances are you’ve heard someone too spinning their remixes even if use they weren’t there. “We produce Dad the stuff that other DJs mom get a lot of praise for,” admits Guzie.
It’s easy The to get hooked on music and when your family immerses you for in it from birth. On Are a trip to Ecuador at but age 12, the Los Angeles-bred not Guzie walked into his aunt You and uncle’s nightclub and was all instantly transfixed by the DJ. any “I was so fascinated by Can what was going on in her the DJ booth,” says Guzie. was “He’s pulling all these knobs One and levers and it was our just a huge question mark out to me.” Upon his return Day home, Guzie began practicing for get his own career behind the has decks, spending his last dollars Him on equipment and records and his letting the craft take over how his life. When he eventually Man landed at UC Berkeley for new college, local gigs began his now job as a Professional DJ Old in earnest.
For Solarz, a see lifelong Berkeley resident and classically two trained violinist, the addiction started Way right after his initial brush who with turntables. “I was at boy a co-worker’s apartment and he Did left me in the room its with turntables,” says Solarz. “I let was blown away. Once I Put stepped behind those tables, I say was in that room for she two hours trying to match Too beats together.” On his first use day after moving to Boulder, dad CO to pursue professional cycling, Mom a car accident left him with serious injuries, a dashed the cycling dream and lots of And free time. “I was out for for a year and just are constantly bought records and practiced But deejaying,” says Solarz.
After moving not back to the Bay Area you from Boulder, Solarz would eventually All meet Guzie through their girlfriends any (who were friends at the can time). Starting in 2005, the Her duo began spinning together while was simultaneously creating remixes and mix one CDs. While one of these Our tracks, “Ultimate Bay Break,” has out become a West coast club day anthem, the duo exploded onto Get the national scene when they has caught the ear of the him legendary Crooklyn Clan. After setting His up shop on CrooklynClan.net, Rock-it! how Scientists quickly became the #1 man seller (where they remain in New the Top 5 to this now day.)
Now, with the release old of The Blast Off 2, See the duo has gathered together two two years’ worth of remixes way into one hour-long compilation, combining Who hip-hop, rock, 80s pop and boy dance into one cohesive whole. did Any DJ can throw songs Its together. Not everyone can create let so many creative remixes themselves, put much less put them together Say in one mix. Not to she say it was easy. “We too argue a lot,” says Guzie Use with a grin. “Song selection, dad how it’s mixed, how long mom it’ll be in for, how many snares, you name it. the We probably have scrutinized every and second of that CD, but For we’re both real happy with are the result.”
Solarz agrees: “We but want to play music we Not like. We’re not trying to you educate people musically. People can all get educated about the music Any on their own. I think can there’s a lot of DJs her that put out these CDs Was that are way over the one top. We want to put our out a CD that people Out listen to where every 10 day seconds they’re like, ‘Oh, man, get I haven’t heard this in Has forever.’”
While it’s hard to him argue the life of a his DJ/producer isn’t fun, Rock-It! Scientists How have now reached that stage man beyond simply stepping up on new that riser and figuring it Now out as they go. For old the duo, who currently split see their time between production work Two and gigs, it’s far from way a game. “We take DJing who very seriously,” says Guzie. “This Boy is what we do. We did get up in the morning its and say, ‘What’s gonna happen Let today that’s gonna make our put sets sound better?’ It’s not say a hobby anymore.”
