DJ Solar Stanze

I started Djing at age 14. At the beginning, I was mainly what you would call a “Bedroom” DJ. When some friends from the neighborhood came by and heard the mixes I was doing, they convinced me to get out into the scene, so I started to do house parties and make mix tapes around the way. At that time I was known as DJ Hollywood. When I reached my senior year in High School, I hooked up with the crew “In The Groove Productions”. I teamed up with one of the greatest DJs I've known personally, Brian “Polo The Kid” Bell who was known as Scratchmaster at the time and another DJ by the name of K-Lo and we became the first DJ’s to do live mixing on the radio in Indianapolis. This was on the North Central Radio station WJEL. I went on to do several College parties including Little Five and several Fraternity and Sorority events. Along the way, I have done several Black Expo and Circle City Classic events and also a great number of after parties for some of the biggest names in Hip Hop. In 1995 I got with a new click known as “The Flex Squad”. Teamed up with the Ice Man from New York, we did several hot venues including Catch Wreck 95', hosted by BET, and several big after parties for the likes of: Lords of the Underground, X-Clan, Prince and Outkast. Along the way I had the privilege of Djing with Mix Master Ice, Tat Money and many others. During my time with Flex Squad, I changed my DJ name to Johnny Kwest. Now that I am with Hypnocinema, I believe this to be a new era in my life and changed my name to DJ Solar Stanze to represent the vastness and endless possibilities in the realm of musical creativity and expression. I hopes to bring the elements of Hip Hop and Turntablism to an Alternative Rock sound and blend it into a very unique sound that music lovers will enjoy.Forever Scratching,DJ Solar Stanze

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