Who is Steve Aoki?

DJ Kid Millionaire aka Steve Aoki DJs and promotes clubs in and around Hollywood and NYC in addition to various fashion and celebrity events. Otherwise known as the head honcho at DIM MAK Records Steve DJs dance party hits that encompass a wide variety of Hip Hop to Pop to Rock and back again.
Q. What are some of your favorite movies and or movie quotes?
A. Sin City, 2 Fast 2 Furius, D.E.B.S.
Q. What is your favorite (current) song or artist?
A. Bloc Party, The Rakes, Moving Units
Q. What's the last thing you do before going to sleep?
A. Work on Dim Mak business
Q. What's the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
A. Work on Dim Mak business
Q. Who's your favorite artist?
A. Mark the Cobra Snake (www.thecobrasnake.com)
Q. Whats your favorite T.V. show?
A. 24
Q. What's your favorite thing about San Francisco?
A. From MonumentTo Masses
Q. What's your favorite slang word or expression?
A. Buddy
Q. What are some of your favorite clothing brands?
A. Well of course, the Dim Mak collection... I love Gravis, WE Clothing, Bathing Ape, RVCA, Supra, Krew, Hysteric Glamour, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Adidas, Puma, Nike, Lamb/Royal Elastics
Q. Who's the funniest person you know?
A. My brother
Q. What was the most embarrassing moment you had while DJing?
A. Last night at the Troubadour opening for Hard Fi. No monitors, speakers were 200 feet in front of me, serious echo effect, computer was skipping on internal mode of Serato for some reason, and I couldn't hear a damn thing and was stuck solo on the stage with bright lights. It was fucking awful like I was on acid but worse
Q. What was the strangest request you've received while DJing?
A. I've had too many common pop requests but no strange request yet. I have a huge pallette of music from electro to hip hop to pop to oldies, Im all over the place. The stranger the request, as long as its dancy and I like the song, the better
Q. Who would you most like to meet (alive or dead)?
A. Bruce Lee and Malcolm X. Two life changing hero's of mine.
Q. Any last shout outs?
A. Shane Smith-revolutionary comrade from the bay, from monument to masses-one of the most underrated bands of our time only because they don't tour anywhere out of the bay, Jefrodisiac-running the dance party shit up in the bay, John Isaacson-zine maker and screen printer extraordinare, Jennie Romer from Rasputin's-old roomie, Alexa Dye-always fighting the good fight, Alex Pasternak-old hippie in a 25 year old body, Jenny Hoyston-singer in erase errata and solo project paradise island-veteran in the Dim Mak world, and of course my agent Matt Colon-the only one thats not from the Bay.
Catch Steve aka Kid Millionaire Saturday February 18th 2006 at The MILK Bar

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