The Bangerz

The Bangerz are a six-member production and DJ group originating in San Jose, California, and now based in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area.

They have released three studio albums, two of which are the official scores for live stage shows by the group Jabbawockeez, who were named MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew Champions in 2008.

All the members, including Goldenchyld, Replay, Nick Ngo, Cutso, Squareweezy, and G-Wrex,[2][4] had attended Silver Creek High School together.

[1] DJ Cutso, for example, had started mixing after learning from his uncle at eight years old, and based a lot of his early music on Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, OMD, and Pet Shop Boys.

[6] According to Cutso, "Growing up in San Jose, there was a strong presence of mobile DJs, dance groups and mix-shows on the radio.

[1] After releasing several mixtapes and winning various DJ battles, they started "producing our own brand of scratch-infused experimental music.

[6][8] The Jabbawockeez commissioned the Bangerz to create all their original music, and after winning ABDC, they began collaborating on a Vegas dance show.

[12] The Bangerz held a collaborative show at the Montgomery Theater on June 15, 2013 with the Japanese-American drumming group San Jose Taiko, after first performing with them at the 2010 SubZERO festival.

[14] Kumi daiko, a new style that evolved to include American and Japanese drumming techniques and genres, originated in San Francisco in 1968.

When DJing, we play hip-hop classics, pop favorites, RnB electro, trap, and all sorts of stuff but we keep it fresh and surprising.” About their method, "It's a lot of experimenting," says Bello, "We record everything, and then if something cool comes from it, we'll expand on it and make it a song.

Squareweezy is an experimentalist and a showman, heavy into where hip-hop and electronica meet and takes notes from genre figureheads like J Dilla and FlyLo.

G-Wrex makes sure the music has depth, his love of RnB and soul automatically serves him in grounding the group.

Backstage picture of the Bangerz with members of Jabbawockeez . Both groups collaborated in the San Jose party scene as early as 2003.
The Jabbawockeez performing to Bangerz music in 2008
DJ Squareweezy of The Bangerz DJing live in 2010