Concert Reports

Steve Aoki invades the Madonna Inn Expo Center! Aoki is a force of nature who has helped turn underground house, electro and harder-edged EDM with rap and rock leanings into the phenomena it is today. He regularly pulls in 150,000+ fans at events such as Las Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival and the debut of the IDentity national electronic touring festival. To support his debut studio album WONDERLAND, due out January 17, 2012 via New York-based Ultra Music in conjunction with his own label Dim Mak Records, the DJ/producer and electronic dance music entrepreneur will launch his biggest tour ever: DEADMEAT, presented by Dim Mak

 All Photos: Peter Dawson www.facebook.com/sweetzionproductions

Very Special Thanks: John Ochoa

Please Visit: www.SteveAoki.com

For the DEADMEAT Tour, AOKI will partner with dubstep’s hottest new producer and Dim Mak label mate Datsik. The pair will travel across North America throughout winter 2012 and perform at some of the most renowned theaters and concert arenas, including the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, the Fillmore in Denver, Boston’s House of Blues, Montreal’s Metropolis and New York City’s legendary Roseland Ballroom.  

The DEADMEAT Tour will showcase the debut of new live visual productions from both AOKI and Datsik alongside an all-star supporting lineup of some of the most sought-after, up-and-coming producers in electronic music today, including Alvin Risk, Mustard Pimp, Autoerotique, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Terravita, who will perform throughout the trek on alternating dates. More supporting acts and dates will be announced soon. Tickets for the DEADMEAT Tour went on sale Saturday, December 3 at 10 a.m. at www.deadmeattour.com.

About STEVE AOKI:  

STEVE AOKI broke bands such as Bloc Party, The Bloody Beetroots, Klaxons and The Gossip through deftly marketed single and full-length releases on his Dim Mak label, which he began in 1996 and now has over 250 releases. Those releases often dovetailed into performances at his weekly Dim Mak nights including Dim Mak studios (still going strong every Tuesday night in the heart of Hollywood). As a label owner and shrewd curator of talent from around the world, those club nights have hosted the debut U.S. performances of hundreds of acts over the last decade from Lady Gaga to Ed Banger Records & Justice, Ke$ha, Skrillex, Kid Cudi, Kaiser Chiefs, No Age to Boys Noize. AOKI’s become a force of nature who has helped turn underground house, electro and harder-edged EDM with rap and rock leanings into the phenomena it is today: regularly pulling in 150,000+ fans at events such as Las Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival and the debut of the IDentity national electronic touring festival. AOKI’s punk roots go back to the art of the house party, when he was just a student at UCSB and was already booking bands such as The Rapture, !!!, Jimmy Eat World, Hot Water Music and At the Drive-In at his Pickle Patch bash and forging relationships with big names that would end up serving him well in the future (he met Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo at a secret show in college). Now, AOKI is readying the next stage of his incredible music career with his first proper full-length release with WONDERLAND, bringing a lifetime’s worth of passion for bands, DJs and artists of all stripes he has met and/or worked with over the past two decades to the forefront.

About DATSIK:  

If you don’t know Datsik by now, you best be learning. Datsik has been taking the dubstep scene by storm, blowing up dance floors around the globe with his original style of hip-hop future-tech bangers. In 2009 alone Datsik had over seven #1 releases on Beatport and vinyl sales through the roof on many other sites such as Chemical Records, Red-Eye and Juno. Aside from that, he has also done remixes for some of the biggest names in the scene such as the Crystal Method, Freestylers, Bassnectar, Noisia, Diplo, the Wu-tang Clan and Apex from the critically acclaimed Lifted Music label, not to mention countless collaborations with some of the hottest producers in the scene. With multiple anthems under his belt, countless plays from some of the biggest DJs and an endless perseverance to reach that next step, it is safe to say that Datsik has proven himself to be one of the best dubstep artists around. This April 2012 will see the release of Datsik’s debut artist album on Los Angeles-based Dim Mak Records.  

For more information, please visit:

www.steveaoki.com

www.facebook.com/djaoki

www.twitter.com/steveaoki

www.myspace.com/steveaoki

www.youtube.com/steveaoki

www.dimmakrecs.com

www.deadmeattour.com

www.ultrarecords.com  

« Back to Concert Reports