Steve Aoki’s stock has risen once again over the past 12 months as he continues to perform the biggest, most audacious EDM sets across the globe and pump out his stomping, strutting electro house productions. Yes, he throws cake at the crowd and sometimes rides a rubber dinghy over their heads, but he’s also played to hundreds of thousands of people in 2013, not a feat many other DJs can say they’ve achieved.
Steven Aoki was born in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Newport Beach, California. He graduated from Newport Harbor High School in 1995, wher he was a star player on the varsity badminton team. He is the third child of Rocky Aoki and Chizuru Kobayashi.His father was a former Japanese wrestler who also founded the restaurant chain Benihana. He has two older siblings, sister Kana (who is sometimes called by her middle name "Grace"), and brother Kevin (owner of Doraku Sushi restaurant). He also has three half-siblings, all of whom are younger: half-brother Kyle and half-sisters Echo, and Devon, a model and actress. As a child, Steve lived with his grandfather and grandmother, his mother, and his two older siblings.
Aoki attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with 2 BAs; one in Feminist Studies and the other in Sociology. In college, he produced do-it-yourself records and ran underground concerts out of his Biko roos in the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative,which was located in Isla Vista, a section of residential land adjacent to UCSB. As a concert venue, the apartment became known as The Pickle Patch.By his early 20s, Aoki had built his own record label, which he named Dim Mak - a reference to his childhood hero, Bruce Lee.
Steve Aoki AT LIVE IN VAC
10月17日世界知名DJ Steve Aoki将在LIVE IN VAC现场演出。
On October 17th LIVE IN VAC will be hosting world-renowned DJ Steve Aoki.
Who's Steve Aoki
Steve Aoki，世界级的潮流电音大师，唱片制作人、Dim Mak 厂牌开创者。Steve Aoki以动感四射的现场表演闻名全球，2012年他发行专辑Wonderland，并于2013年获格莱美最佳舞蹈/电音专辑奖提名。过去一年Steve Aoki的行情一再飙升，他在全球各地持续演奏最全最大胆的电音曲目，昂首阔步制作electro house作品。是的，他会有一些看似怪异的行为——将蛋糕扔向人群，甚至骑着橡皮艇越过观众头顶上方。尽管如此，2013年Steve Aoki的演出现场观众达数十万人，没有任何一个DJ自信可与之比肩。
SteveAoki和他的妹妹娃娃脸超模DevonAoki可是时装圈的明星兄妹，有他们出现的派对就有数不清的话题可以被发掘出来。SteveAoki个人融合“摇滚与电音潮流”的音乐口味，则造红了伦敦到洛杉矶连线都在流行的Electro舞曲风格。而DimMak创造的时尚潮流更是在圈内圈外不断掀起追星高潮。Party旺季已经到来，SteveAoki适时开进，北京已经能听到高潮的声音了。
关于 steve aoki steve aoki的音乐在pitchfork网站上被评论为 “听起来就像牙膏和橙汁的混合，” 这种从未出现的组合掀起来一阵猛烈的跟风，这种跟风不仅仅出现在音乐博客圈，同样还出现在电子怪人的世界中。 在无数场演出后，steve aoki 帝国不仅包括他的服装品牌，还包括他自己的唱片公司dim mak, 名单中有 bloc party、mstrkrft、the klaxons、boyz noise以及fake blood这些响当当的名字。
潮流对整个电子音乐文化的影响究竟有多少？不要不承认，在每个电音派对里面，每个人都会忍不住彼此打量对方的穿着和配饰，每个人有欲望了解这些潮流的制造者。随着派对文化的深入，加上高级时装的侵略性，有越来越多人开始在意那些在背后打造时尚风潮的艺术家了。而SteveAoki所创造的DimMak帝国正好完整了这一概念。DimMak拥有自己独特的音乐与时装文化，在全球各地的潮流电音派对上，经常会看到众多追随者身着DimMak的潮流Tee与鞋款出现，人们认为SteveAoki与他的DimMak是这个时代最重要的时尚Icon之一。而DimMak所制造的音乐则带动了这一趋势，人们最爱的BlocParty与Klaxons正是DimMak旗下的摇滚明星，而厂牌老板SteveAoki融合“摇滚与电子舞曲”的音乐口味更造红了从伦敦到洛杉矶都在流行的Electro舞曲风格。DimMak的光临，会让每个城市在瞬间掀起一阵时尚舞曲的浪潮。
