Steve Aoki, Showtek, Upsilone, und Shlømo

Born in 1977, he was the son of a famous Japanese wrestler and restaurant-chain owner Rocky Aoki eventually going on to graduate from the University of Carolina. While still in his twenties he found the time to form a record label named Dim Mak in homage to his childhood hero Bruce Lee.

In its infancy, Dim Mak was known for working with a diverse range of artists from all genres and has been instrumental in launching the careers of artists like Bloc Party and The Gossip. The label soon began to focus more on Steve’s specialty, electronic music, and is now recognised as one of most influential establishments in the dance music world.

The label’s profile was further boosted with the release of Aoki’s first album ‘Wonderland’. Featuring artists as diverse as Weezer’s River Cuomo to Kid Cudi it was a huge success with every song on the album being released as a single with its own remixes.

To support his music Steve tours constantly and has become known for unpredictable and exciting live shows. Even while performing an average of 250 shows a year he still finds the energy to be crowd surfing and dancing with his crowds all of which helped him to achieve 6th place in DJ Times magazine’s ‘America’s best DJ competition’ in 2013.

With the release of the first part of his new double-album, ‘Neon Future’ on Dim Mak, Steve looks set to continue to be one of the most popular electronic artists in the world.

The duo are mainly known for creating techno and hard style music yet include many EDM styles including progressive and house. They have been known to work with some of the most prolific and celebrated artists on the dance music circuit such as Tiesto and Angger Dimas through their 2012 project entitled Crazy Collabs. In December 2013 they founded their own label Skink Records which a sub-label of Spinnin' Records.

There were rumours in 2014 that the band would be following their 2009 album 'Analogue Players In A Digital World' with a new release, returning to hardstyle yet the duo rubbished the claims started by a rave news publisher. They did however achieve chart success in 2014 with a number of non-album singles including a collaboration with David Guetta entitled 'Bad' which charted at #22 in the UK charts and within the top ten in France and Belgium. 'Cannonball' which featured both Justin Prime and Matthew Koma managed to chart within the top 30 of the UK singles chart.

They have produced music for artists including Chris Brown and have built a solid reputation for themselves in a relatively short space of time. They have gained a large fan base who continue to sell out the duo's live shows and tours.