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Steve Aoki, the DJ/Producer, grew up in Newport Beach, CA, and went to college at UCSB. In his early 20s, he founded his own label, Dim Mak Records, in 1996. The label has released music by other electro house artists such as Datsik, Infected Mushroom, Dada Life, Zeds Dead, his own collaboration with Tiësto, MSTRKRFT, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Cartal and Mustard Pimp, as well as by Bloc Party, Battles, The Kills, The Gossip, Klaxons, Scanners, Whitey, and Mystery Jets to name a few. The label has released over 250 records so far. Aoki's debut mix album, Pillowface and His...

AOKI takamasa (青木孝允) was born in 1976 in Osaka. He currently resides in Berlin, Germany. Since the first album, SILICOM, released at the beginning of 2001, Aoki has been reviewing his personal methodology whilst actively creating sounds based mainly on computer/software. Aoki is an energetic artist vigorously expanding the limits of original musical expression. Of late, Aoki has used his own voicings in his work, released an album in collaboration with Tujiko Noriko of Fat Cat Records, challenges for minimal track that uses 4/4 rhythms with op.disc, has recorded a cover of The Beatles song “i will” for the BBC...

Naoki Maeda is a man of many talents, and making fine trance is but one of them. Premiering in Dance Dance Revolution, the NAOKI underground alias quickly became synonymous with quality trance amongst Bemani fans. Be it TEARS, Prelude, Poseidon, or something else entirely, there's definitely something for you here. .

Naoki Kodaka (小高直樹) is a Japanese composer who wrote many of the soundtracks to classic NES games, along with a few other systems. He worked for Sunsoft and is famous for utilizing the NES sound chip in unique ways (such as the PCM "Sunsoft bass", designed by Naohisa Morota). He is most known for writing the soundtracks for Journey to Silius, Batman (NES and Mega Drive), Blaster Master, Gremlins 2, the Albert Odyssey series, Super Fantasy Zone, and a few other titles. He was almost always assisted on his NES projects by sound programmers Nobuyuki Hara & Shinichi Seya, and...