Although Aoki can’t spill too much on the forthcoming mission, he’s focused on gratitude and living life to the fullest, in space or on Earth. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa comprised the mission with all expenses paid for. He was selected among eight others to join a commercial space flight around the moon on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship spacecraft, set to take off later this year. There is such a healthy community that supports it, and I love watching them blossom and do their thing.”Īs an explorer, Aoki plans to travel to the moon, too. I knew if we did it through Dim Mak, we wouldn’t have the same impact if we just started another label. I knew I wanted to make this differently to scale their music to a global audience. That was really the seed of how I grew Dim Make En Fuego. “When I discovered some of these artists, I realized it’s not about having them as features on my songs, but rather that they needed their own platform. “When you start to work with a certain sound or movement, you realize how much is out there, and that’s what exactly happened when I began to work in the Latin space,” Aoki said. Instead of the standard Dim Mak routine where new records are pumped out almost every week, Aoki’s more concerned about the overall progression of the artists themselves, he said. Since 2020, Aoki has enlisted Latin acts like AQUIHAYAQUIHAY, Andrekza Andreina, 2DEEP and La Favi to come on board. More than ever, Aoki ensures that the next round of upcoming artists are cared for with Latin imprint of the record label, Dim Mak En Fuego. Dim Mak Tuesdays were also part of the early scene, where up-and-coming acts like Lady Gaga and friends Kid Cudi and Kanye West, would take the stage during these intimate events with a house party vibe. The label first took flight by releasing records from alternative acts like Bloc Party, The Kills and MSTRKRFT. Working on the album just brought me back to being in a band again.”īefore Aoki became one of the highest-grossing EDM artists in the world, he was part of the hardcore and punk scenes in Orange County, which ultimately lead to the birth of his Los Angeles-based Dim Mak Records in 1996. So I was looking not only for the veterans, but the new generation that was doing something different. “I’m an A&R man at heart and an explorer by nature, so anything that will make me stop in my tracks is what I like to create with. Even better! With him telling me what the concept and direction he wanted for the poster being about how African gangsters and warlords have hyenas as pets, he wanted to incorporate those aspects with it and a faceless police officer holding it.“The affinity to find rock singers aligned when I started to go on that path and the highway started filling up with artists,” he continued. He proposed that I should design the event poster for their Los Angeles show at The Shrine/Expo Hall. The simple and straight to the point design was what he dug about it. What’s the worst that can happen? He says no? Fuck it! To much of my surprise and honor, he replied back saying that he liked my style. I had a feeling that he wouldn’t see it or read it because he doesn’t know me and just some random fan. Seeing that they were coming out with a new album and were touring again, I decided to slide in his DM, and see if he was down for me to create a design for a shirt. Fast forward to 2017, I had been following Cedric, lead singer of At the Drive In, on Instagram.
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