NASHVILLE |DT: MARCH 22, 2012
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/JOHN OCHOA
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STEVE AOKI
CONCLUDES SUCCESSFUL NORTH AMERICAN
‘DEADMEAT’ TOUR WITH DATSIK
FREE DOWNLOAD OF ‘HEARTBREAKER’ FEAT. LOVEFOXXX (NADASTROM REMIX)
AVAILABLE TODAY, MARCH 22 AS A THANK YOU TO FANS FOR ALL THEIR SUPPORT
TOUR-SUPPORTED DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM
‘WONDERLAND’
OUT NOW VIA ULTRA MUSIC
To support his debut studio album WONDERLAND, out now via New York-based Ultra Music, DJ/producer and electronic dance music entrepreneur STEVE AOKI just concluded his biggest tour ever: Rockstar Energy Drink Presents Dim Mak’s DEADMEAT Tour, powered by Sol Republic.
As a thank you to the over 100,000 fans who attended the shows, AOKI is offering a free download of the“Heartbreaker” Nadastrom Remix (available for 24 hours from 12pm PST 3/22 to 12pm PST 3/23 throughMagnetic Magazine).
Fresh off his amazing closing set at Insomniac’s Beyond Wonderland (March 17 in Southern California), AOKIstated, “The DEADMEAT Tour was the largest undertaking of my entire life. Two buses, a 50 foot truck, a 16 foot trailer and months of preparation were needed to pull off 57 shows in 58 days. I’m eternally grateful to our hardworking crew, Rockstar Energy Drink and Sol Republic, and the amazing support acts including Alvin Risk, Angger Dimas, Autoerotique, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Dirty Phonics, Mustard Pimp and Terravita. Most importantly, I can’t thank Datsik enough for joining me on this massive journey and all of the promoters that made it happen.”
For the DEADMEAT Tour, AOKI partnered with dubstep’s hottest new producer and Dim Mak label mate Datsik. The pair traveled across North America throughout winter 2012 including stops at some of the most renowned theaters and concert arenas across North America.
The DEADMEAT Tour showcased the debut of eye-popping live visual productions from both AOKI and Datsikthat amazed fans lucky enough to be in attendance. Perry LaVoisne (Live Nation – SVP North American Touring) states that “Steve Aoki and Datsik are an incredible force in Live Electronic Dance Music and we are glad to be part of this tour. They both delivered a great show to fans from the east through the west with sell-outs at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Fillmore Silver Spring in Washington DC, House of Blues in Boston, Roseland Ballroom in New York City, Kool Haus in Toronto and more…”
There is no such thing as a day off for AOKI; he even managed to hop off the DEADMEAT Tour for one night to perform his fan favorite “Turbulence” with Lil’ John at the MTV Woodie Awards during Austin’s SXSW festival. AOKI will continue to tour all over the world in 2012 in support of WONDERLAND. His next single “Cudi The Kid,”a collaboration with good friends Travis Barker & Kid Cudi, will be released April 10 through Ultra Music.
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 hisPickle 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
For more information on STEVE AOKI, contact:
MSO PR 818-380-0400
Alexandra Greenberg x223, agreenberg@msopr.com
John Ochoa x230 (Tour), jochoa@msopr.com
