Skazi

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**Skazi is an Israeli DJ (Skazi Asher) .**

**Skazi is the stage name of Asher Suissa, an Israeli electronic music creator.**

#### **Who is he?**

Skazi was formed in 1998 by Asher Swissa and Assaf Bivas, producing Soft Psy-Trance Electro Punk music.

Swissa began his musical career as a punk rocker in 1990, when he formed a group called Sartan Hashad (en. Breast Cancer) together with three friends.

The band played in small venues in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and enjoyed limited success in the Israeli punk scene.

In 1996 Asher left the band to develop his career and to write and perform music which would appeal to larger audiences.

He started making trance music, but still kept a hard rock sound, playing electric guitar riffs in many of his tracks.

In 1998 he adopted the stage name DJ Skazi.

##### **His Life**

Asher Suissa, known as "Skazi" was born in Jerusalem to a Keshet Yom family of Moroccan descent.

His parents married at the age of 16 and divorced in his youth, which he says is the reason he never married.

He began his musical career at the age of 15 in the Jerusalem punk band "Breast Cancer" of which he was a member until his enlistment.

During this period he received from his friends the nickname "Skazi", he says he does not know for sure what it means, but probably originated in a standard for data transmission called SCSI.

In his military service he was a sound technician in the military band, he was the sound and lighting man of the band "Rock in Green".

##### **Career**

After his release from the army, he began creating music together with his partner Assaf Bibbs, who goes by the name b-bass, and together they formed the trance band "Skazi", and in 2000 released their first album, "Animal" (animal). The album contains hardcore techno music.

In May 2002 they released their second album called "Storm" (Storm) which shows a change in their musical style, which has become more melodic. There are also effects from progressive trance, with a combination of electric guitars.

Between 2001 and 2004, they released four collections called "Zoo 1", "Zoo 2", "Zoo 3" and Most Wanted.

The collections included works by other members of the label "Chemical Crew", remixes by Skazi for other creators and also new tracks with a melodic style while incorporating a lot of guitars.

The most successful of these collections was Zoo 3, which Asaf and Assaf brought great success to Skazi, especially following the hit "Smell Like Humos Spirit", and the remix to the "I Wish" trek by the Israeli trance band Infected Mushroom.

In 2006 they released their third album called "Total Anarchy", which includes five trance full on tracks and five tracks of hardcore trance-rock, the album sold 8,000 copies and brought him a lot of publicity mainly following a track called "Hit & Run" in collaboration with the Israeli rapper Big Fishy. The single "Vampire" brought him great success and included many melodic pieces.

In 2006 Skazi was ranked 37th in the world, according to DJ Magazine. In 2011 and 2013 it was ranked 61st and 85th respectively.

In 2007 Bibbs and Skazi released a DVD that included documentation of their international tour. They were the first in the field of electronic music to do so and they brought him much publicity. That same year, they appeared in the final of Star Born 5 with Shlomi Barel in the song "Illusions".

Despite their success, criticism of the band is heard from some trance music listeners, who claim that Skazi has undergone a commercialization process.

In 2012 who participated, without Assaf, in the docu-reality show "Connected" and in 2016 he participated in the fourth season of the docu-reality "Golstar" which was filmed in Mexico. The technical among them, so which was the fisherman, decided to separate forces quietly. Assaf Bibbs, from the beginning, formed the band Skazi together with Asher Suissa.

In 2013, together with the Israeli DJ Mister Black, he released the trek "Warrior". That same year he released his album "My Way", which included international collaborations with renowned artists such as Arno Carstens and Matt Surom, drummer Guns N 'Roses. In the same year he also presented a program called "Skazi TV" on Channel 24, served as a presenter for Lee Cooper and a year later served as a presenter for the headphone company Myth Labs. In 2014, he appeared in the series "Noy and Hadar" in his own role.

In 2014 he appeared in the celebrations of the decade of Tomorrowland in Belgium, in 2015 he appeared in Tomorrowland Brazil and in July 2017 he appeared again in Tomorrowland Belgium.

## **Links**  & **Contact**

SongKick : https://www.songkick.com/artists/53413-skazi

AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0002065203?1624720418358

MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8d62a782-3c12-4067-9bce-80fd91ddd5c0

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3128456/

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