TAG: steve aoki

Mar09

Exclusive: The Electro Wars Trailer (Video)

Steve Aoki, A-Trak, DJ Premier and more appear in upcoming documentary 

People taking the initiative is always welcome in a time where being bland leads to being cool. So, when someone puts out a product on a culture that’s in a creative limbo, we get to see its ups, downs, and all-arounds. With The Electro Wars, director and creatvor Stephen Vasquez wanted to capture the essence that is electro culture–from the skimpy skirts to the tightest jeans and the most distorted sounds humanly possible to manipulate. With an upcoming screening during the 2010 Winter Music Conference in Miami, Stephen took time to elaborate on his film and his origins of being a electro “warrior.”

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Feb03

CONTROL Satiating Hollywood’s Dance Cravings

Party featuring Amanda Blank, Bird Peterson, Dances w/White Girls 

Last week it was Steve Aoki, Plump DJs, Alan Braxe and this week CONTROL is delivering the goods with Bird Peterson, Amanda Blank and Dances With White Girls. Everyone knows Amanda Blank, Dances With White Girls will burn your ears with grimy electro, and Bird Peterson guarantees a bass-heavy set. Promises to be a bad-ass night.

Bird Peterson, Amanda Blank, Dances with White Girls
Feb 5th
Avalon Hollywood
Hours: 9pm-3am
Tix: Presale 10$/ Walk-up 20$
Age: 18+

Next week features The Crystal Method making a very rare live performance in LA.

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Dec17

Kid Sister vs. Moving Units “Don’t You Want Me” Red Bull Soundclash (Video)

A couple years ago, Heineken presented Amsterjam, a day long live mash-up festival in NYC that featured huge acts like Snoop Dogg, Garbage and 311 performing together in various configurations. The event was widely panned, but apparently it was simply before it’s time. Red Bull has taken the concept and run with it, adding the twist of an old school Jamaican soundclash where the artists actually perform on opposing stages, with the audience pulling 180s mid-song. Last night brough Moving Units and Kid Sister together. They went back and forth on several MU and KS cuts, before finally joining for a version of the Human League classic “Don’t You Want Me” (thank STS for the vid).

Kid Sister vs. Moving Units “Don’t You Want Me

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Dec09

Steve Aoki x Kid Cudi ft. MGMT + Ratatat x “Pursuit of Happiness” (MP3)

Check out the Steve Aoki Remix of Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” featuring MGMT and Ratatat. Kid Cudi’s latest single was produced by Brooklyn buddies MGMT and electronic duo Ratatat for his latest album, Man on the Moon: End of the Day, released in September. Enjoy the video for the original track here and download away:

Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki Remix) – Kid Cudi ft. MGMT, Ratatat (Mediafire)

You’re welcome.

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Nov16

Fort Knox Five – A Good Things Come In 5’s Mix (Podcast)

Fort Knox Five

All Good Things Come In 5's


Tomorrow, D.C.-based party rockers Fort Knox Five are releasing the second compilation off their Fort Knox Recordings label, titled New Gold Standard 2. To celebrate, the group mixed up this selection of highly funky dance floor killers for URB.com, featuring some …

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Nov07

Moving Units & Steve Aoki: Scratch Punks

DJ and rock star Blake Miller interviews rockstar DJ Steve Aoki about dance musics new punk breed. 

By Lauren Mooney

Steve Aoki is for sale: in the form of parties, sneakers, headphones and now a mix-CD on Thrive, Pillowface and his Airplane Chronicles. But what makes the selection from this hipster dance pioneer stand out from the scores of hot nu-rave mixes filling the blogosphere is the help Aoki has enlisted from friends: Kid Sister, Har Mar Superstar, Uffie and half-a-dozen more who contribute “drops’ to the mix. So whether it’s Pase Rock rapping over Erol Alkan’s remix of Justice’s “Waters of Nazareth” or Todd Fink of The Faint inventing an extra verse over Goose’s “Bring It On,” Pillowface is something a little different from what you’ve heard before.

Blake Miller is the lead singer of LA-based band Moving Units, who just put out the best album of their career, Hexes for Exes. Miller also DJs (of course) …

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