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Anyone can be a DJ.



Or that’s how it might seem these days, given the proliferation of fist pumping knob-turners. But people who know music... who feel music... can easily distinguish between a laptop amateur and an electronic auteur. There’s a magic that happens in the space between, and that’s why people who know and feel and love music, love Solomon.



Solomon isn’t your everyday magician. He doesn’t know how to pull a white rabbit out of a hat, or your six of Clubs from the deck. But what the Bay Area-based DJ can do is ELEVATE you on the dance floor. This was clear from the time of his first gig in ’89, when he used nothing more than a tape deck and cd player to transform a middle school prom into a raging pre-adolescent night club that terrified the chaperones. Ever since, he’s spread his innovative sound in clubs from here to China.



Solomon’s specialty is something he always called “Pop Turntablism.” It’s a niche of music that fuses scratching, beat juggling, word play, and live remixing with an eclectic mix of funk, soul, hip hop, house and rock tracks. It’s a genre now popularly known as the mashup, and within this community, Solomon shines. He’s known to mix musical styles not only within their relative tempos, but also within their relative keys, allowing songs and genres to flow seamlessly from one to the next. And his stage presence is equally impressive. After so many years of performing live, he rocks the turntables with enough energy to spark a solar flare, blurring the lines between a DJ set and an epic rock show.



His musical stylings and live performances have captured the imagination of some of today’s brightest music stars, and he’s performed with Stevie Wonder, The Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, Jam Master Jay, Jurassic 5, Ozomotli, Groove Collective, Lyrics Born, Patti Labelle, Kool & the Gang and Z-Trip. And before his tragic passing, DJ AM invited Solomon to join his Deckstar Management company along with the likes of Jazzy Jeff, Steve Aoki and Grand Master Flash. After a year and a half Solomon parted ways with Deckstar, but keeps his calendar jam-packed solid with key club residencies all over the States, as well as the occasional overseas tour.



Corporate party planners have also taken note, booking him to play for some of the world’s biggest influencers. Think Apple, Facebook, Google, Genentech, GQ and Nike – just to name a few. While his corporate resume is striking, what really excites him is winding up tens of thousands of stark raving mad sports fans at basketball arenas and baseball stadiums. Solomon, you see, has been the resident DJ for the Golden State Warriors for over a decade. And for the past few seasons, one of only three in-stadium DJs for the World Champion San Francisco Giants. He is, in a word, versatile. For whether he’s hyping up Oracle Arena for the NBA Playoffs, rocking a former palace in Biarritz, France, or playing for a packed mega-club in Vegas, there’s no crowd this DJ can’t move.

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