ROCKIT Biography
Language: EnglishDj Rockit (A.K.A. Rudy German) discovered the sounds of techno in 1990 when first hearing the song “The Spice Must Flow” by Eon. This led to Rudy’s passionate journey into the underground rave scene, club culture and music. Groups such as Eon, Sun scream, GTO, Joey Beltram and Alpha Team had him hooked on the electronic sounds of the future. It wasn?t till 94? when Dj Rockit had his first true encounter with a rave type of environment. This occurred in three different club nights called “Ooga Booga”, “Pure” and “FREEDOM” all located in Sacramento, CA.. He also attended his first rave type party called “GENERATION” in the SF Bay area.
With his love for underground dance music, Dj Rockit formed a houser / stepper dance crew with his best friend Tony back in ‘94. Together they traveled to parties all over Northern California to display their dance moves and skills. While traveling, Dj Rockit fell in love with the idea of dj’ing and the concept of making people dance along with him, getting them hyped and in to the music too. He dreamed of the day when he would be spinning records, while the dj’s he admired and watched on a weekly basis would be on the dance floor, dancing to his every rhythm.
On January 1st 1995, Dj Rockit took up the art of dj’ing. Stepping behind the decks, he set out with one mission – to make people feel the groove. Dj Rockit from there on developed his own unique style of Progressive House, Breaks and Trance. Since then he has played at parties ranging from small intimate one’s to some of the biggest Massive’s in Northern California, Idaho and Utah. Dj Rockit has played along side some of the best known and most talented dj’s in the world. The list includes: Dj Dan, Madame Mercury, Dyloot, Ariel Cybana, John Debo, Stryke, Influence, Donald Glaude, Rick V, Christopher Lawrence, Micro, Dj Dennis, Berry Weaver, Robert Oleysyck, Mistress Barbara, Kid Ire, Swing kid, Karizma and Grand Master flash, and many more.
Becoming a father in 2000, Dj Rockit’s schedule became even more busy. Besides taking care of the father role, Dj Rockit held a two-year Thursday night residency at “LIFT” in Sacramento. It was here where he would bring the Progressive Trance and Breaks sound to the Sacramento masses. He also held a four year past residency for SUBSONIC UNDERGROUND, one of the leading rave promoters in Northen California in the late 90’s. He now also holds a residency for one of the most well known production companies in Sacramento to date – STATIC PRODUCTIONS.
Not content on being solely a DJ, Dj Rockit has also started producing in his home studio along side his vocalist and fiancéà âLADY LOVE". They are together creating their own personal style of Progressive Breaks and Trance.
And now as of Sept 5th of 2004, Dj Rockit is the current winner of the USA “Heineken, Club Ice” Dj challenge. And he made several appearances on the reality show that aired on Spike Tv called “THE CLUB” premiering back Nov 10th. The show was filmed at one of Las Vegas most popular clubs, ’ICE". Where he had pleasure to open for Paul Oakenfold and Sandra Collins at ICE.
“THE PHUNKY PEOPLE PROJECT” is his production company which has been throwing small low cost events over the past few years. The goal of these parties are to create a more intimate atmosphere, to give the chance for up and coming dj?s to be heard in the local scene and to give back that old skool vibe.
Dj Rockit currently holds a bi-monthly residency, Saturday nights on Eccentric Beats.com with his on line show called “ADDICTIVE”, enabling him to bring his style of Progressive Breaks, Trance and House to a global level along with his monthly guest.
