Few DJs wave the flag for the blockbuster sounds that finally brought rave culture to the US mainstream. But as the racket-making Steve Aoki tells it: ‘If people want to put me on the main stage, I’m going to do my thing on the main stage’
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Steve Aoki used to be underground. No, really.
Before he was a DJ taking to festival main stages, sending out shockwaves of high-energy, crunchy electro with a frothy head of trance through DayGlo-decorated, munted punters. Before he was doing 300 shows a year, from Los Angeles to São Paulo. And long before he was making $23m a year (according to Forbes). Steve Aoki was in a band.
We created this really cool, small, unique hipster scene where it wasn't about the DJing because these DJs couldn't DJ
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