We were in a smoky room several stories above the Broadway American Apparel on the Ave. At 2:30 on a Friday afternoon, nearby downtown looked hazy. Though filled with musicians in their late teens or very early 20s, CD players and a TV tuned to Martha Stewart, the studio apartment had a surprisingly adult bohemian feel. A few minutes after introductions, everyone was smoking rolled cigarettes and talking music.

I recently had a chance to sit down with Ryan Auburn and Mack Fisher, two young Seattle DJs with an increasing presence in the Capitol Hill club scene.

Their project has been called Gasworx for a while, but the name is being changed — and the image tweaked — to fit a new direction for the music.

“We wanted the music to be broader,” Fisher said. “Gasworx sounds like ‘80s hair metal.”

In the dimly lit room, everyone agrees that French pop-electro-grind novelty act Justice probably will lose the disco spotlight in the next few months to a smoother-sounding band.

When I first heard of Gasworx, I got the impression the music was about raw banging club anthems. The two have DJ residency at Club Pop’s bi monthly night at Chop Suey, meaning they show up with the other regulars at every Club Pop show. Club Pop is Seattle’s frenetic 18 and older rock and dance music club. I have seen them spin the heaviest, most aggressive jams to a less-than-enthusiastic early-evening dance floor.

The Gaxworx songs on their old MySpace page were minimalist cut-and-paste collages of distortion and beat. The peak of the duo as a DJ project was probably its set at The Teenagers’ last visit to Neumos.

The new band name is Reflex’s, which goes along with new photos on its Web site featuring surreal landscapes and a film still from Knight Rider. Auburn and Fisher told me that the new tunes are more influenced by ambient music like Boards of Canada and M83’s album Before the Dawn Heals Us.

The Reflex retains the elements of aggression and the collage but sustains more possibility for experimentation.

In Fisher’s apartment I asked more questions about the band’s formation, musical influences and how they got the gig with Club Pop. As we talked, the two DJs took turns spinning records and lounging on two long, low couches.

“Right place at the right time,” Auburn said. He explained how getting residency was just a question of being noticed by Michael Yuasa, the owner and manager of Club Pop. With bleary-eyed optimism, Auburn said something about the American dream before Fisher, incredulous, turned away from the CD players, putting a stop to the sentimentality. The duo then refocused on the interview.

Fisher told me a story about an encounter with Toronto’s MSTRKRFT. A phone call woke him up one drunken morning at 4 a.m., and the two world-famous DJs promptly showed up at his doorstep. As Fisher smiled, there was no doubt in my mind that he and MSTRKRFT got along famously.

This anecdote speaks for Reflex’ unabashed taste for dance party glory. Already these two are carving out a place for themselves in Seattle’s emerging progressive dance scene.