Celebrating 20 years “in the mix” in 2004 and the hits keep coming!

Johnny Rocks rose from working the door at a nightclub and spinning at local parties with a stop over on college radio to one of the most innovative DJ talents in the game, with Mix Master status on WKTU 103.5 FM (The Beat Of New York); and holds the record for the longest running mix show in the country on Florida’s WAPE 95.1 FM (Jacksonville’s #1 Hit Music Station). Johnny Rocks works his mastery on and off the dance floor and he holds a Master’s Degree.

Johnny Rocks celebrates over 20 years in the business in 2004 and he currently rocks the Base Cabinets to frenzied dance floors as a celebrity club DJ with over 75,000 vinyl records in his personal collection. And it doesn’t stop there; Johnny Rocks continues to penetrate the airwaves as a Mix Master, and an in-demand studio Remixer/Producer to top selling artists.

WKTU 103.5 FM - The Beat of New York – New York, NY
• KTU Mix Master -Present Mix Show “WKTU FEELGOOD SUMMER MIX” – Saturday – 2 PM
• Various guest spots, various times to include The Legendary “Studio 54 ClubHouse” with Joe Causi
• Holiday Weekends “KTU MIXMASTER”
• Mixes along side other Mix Masters: Paul Okenfold, David Morales, Danny Tennaglia, Skribble,
Johnny Vicious, Junior Vasquez, Jellybean, Mike Rizzo, Riddler, Louie DeVito and other talents.

WAPE 95.1 FM – Jacksonville’s #1 Hit Music Station – Jacksonville, FL
• Longest Running Mix Show in the Country
• Top Arbitron Rated Show: Produced, Mixed & Hosted by Johnny Rocks
Saturday: 10pm - 2am (latest in cutting edge Club / Dance Remixes, Trance, Tribal & Female Vocal House)
• “Saturday Night Dance Factory”: 10 PM – 1 AM (Club Music)
“Happy Traxx”: 1 AM – 2 AM (Late Night Underground)

WSIA 88.9 FM (Staten Island) Hosted by: Radio Diva Raven
• The Late Night Underground Show
• Mix show & Entertainment Coordinator
• Guest Remixer (Tribal & Trance, Vocal House)

Began professional DJ career in 1984 and his wingspan includes
• Celebrity Club // Guest DJ
• Concert & Club Event’s Promoter
• Mix Master // Radio Mix show
• Mix Show Producer
• Assistant Entertainment Coordinator “The Twelve Inch” WLIR 92.7 FM - LI, NY
• Entertainment Coordinator
• Remixer // Producer to top selling International Dance Artists

In Demand - Top Dance/Club Remixes (Club and Radio). Artists include:
• Cher - "Different Kind Of Love Song" (#1 in Billboard for 2 consecutive weeks)
• Madonna - "GHV2 Megamix"
• Celine Dion - "I’m Alive"
• Mariah Carey - "The One"
• B2K - "Girlfriend"

Johnny Rocks, born in Queens, New York resides in Manhattan and is a celebrity club DJ, radio Mix Master, and an in-demand Remixer. Also, a musician (trumpet, drum and piano), Johnny comes from a musical family… his father was a musician in a big band and his mother was a vocalist. Johnny Rocks worked his way up in nightclubs, beginning first as a door man, then a light man for a DJ before he got his shot in the DJ booth stopping along the way as a VJ, (during the infancy of the New York Video in-club play as a pre-show), at Fudgies in Westchester. Johnny started as a DJ spinning parties in the late 70’s in New York and soon landed a job on college radio in Lynchburg, Virginia; but it was in 1984 that Johnny Rocks began his professional career when he got his first shot to mix vinyl records to hundreds of hustle and freestyle dancers in nightclubs having gone into Guest spots at notable mainstays such as New York’s Palladium, The Limelight, Moonshadow, to name a few.

In 1986 Johnny left New York to go back to school to get his masters degree at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. It was here that the innovator, Johnny Rocks had an idea for a mix show in which Jacksonville, Top 40 radio at the time couldn’t imagine would work! Always persistent with a undying trait of patience… it was in 1988 when then program director of WAPE Power 95 Jeff McCartney (now of H I T S Magazine) gave Johnny a shot and the stage was set for the first mix show, it was called, “The Saturday Night Power Mix”. Johnny’s career in radio mix show was now underway. Johnny Rocks currently programs two of the highest rated radio mix-shows in Jacksonville on WAPE 95.1 FM, (Jacksonville’s #1 Hit Music Station) on Saturday nights from 10 pm –2am during his #1 Arbitron rated show,” The Saturday Night Dance Factory” and “Happy Traxx” which features the very best of today’s dance music, yesterday’s classics and underground domestic and import House releases.

Concurrently in New York, in the #1 market…in 1997 Johnny Rocks won a spot mixing for WKTU 103.5 FM (The Beat of New York) when then Program Director Frankie Blue and current KTU Program Director Jeff Z tagged him for the 20 year reunion of the movie Saturday Night Fever, after which he was given a slot on Sunday’s programming as he mixed during “The Sunday Morning Brunch Mix”. Johnny went onto programming the ”Midday at Work Classic Mix”, and The KTU Funhouse (Level 1) of the “Saturday Night Dance Factory”, with Jellybean Benitez. Currently Johnny Rocks can be heard mixing KTU Recurrents & Freshbeats on Saturdays at 2 pm (tagged, KTU’s Feelgood Summer Mix). Furthermore, the Johnny Rocks signature can be found during various times such as KTU MIXMASTER Holiday weekend shows and during his guest spots on the legendary, “Studio 54 Clubhouse” with Joe Causi, to name a few.

Johnny’s credits include critically acclaimed and fan favorites as he has remixed for major label and worldwide top selling artists such as Madonna, Cher, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and has added his flavor to teen R&B heartthrobs B2K as well as the dance communities top selling artists. Johnny Rocks’ love for the art of spinning keeps him in high demand in chic nightspots, on the radio in the #1 market in the country on WKTU 103.5 FM and the status of having the longest running mix show alive on WAPE 95.1 FM in Jacksonville, as well as in high demand remixing what industry critics are calling “definitive remixes”.

Johnny Rocks doesn’t consider himself the hotshot Mix Master, whom could claim this title by any standard and remains humble and grounded as he does what he loves to do, but most of all…Johnny Rocks is the first to share his knowledge and experience with up and coming DJ’s…one popular DJ who spins in New York City said it best recently…”I met Johnny Rocks once, and I was talking about why I didn’t like this remixer, or that remixer and Johnny Rocks said to me, “that’s the wrong attitude, because… you can always learn something from everyone. Everyone has something positive to offer, instead you should identify the one thing that makes the other guy great and learn from him!”…the young DJ learned his lesson and has since gone on to enter into residence at some of the most popular hotspots in New York City. Johnny Rocks, the Celebrity Club DJ, Mix Master, Remixer to the hits and Producer describes himself simply as …DJ / Remixer & Music Enthusiast. Now this is why he has survived the test of time and is still rockin’ the Base Cabinets as he inks his place in dance music history!

Visit his website at www.johnnyrocks.com!