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daoko is a rapper from Tokyo, Japan under LOW HIGH WHO? Productions. Born in March 1997, she released her first album "HYPER GIRL – 向こう側の女の子 -" in December 2012 at the age of 15. Her debut studio album, titled "DAOKO," was released 25 March 2015 through TOY'S FACTORY.
After gaining attention on Niconico Douga from the rap remix of 「戯言スピーカー」she posted (「tawagoto 戯言スピーカー Rap ver.」), as well as featuring on labelmate 不可思議/wonderboy's second album in the song 「世界征服やめた」, she began to receive attention as the "15 year old high school girl rapper." In September 2013 she collaborated with m-flo for...
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...
1. "AOK arrives on the Indie scene with an amalgam of Electronic, Pop, Blues and Rock, with a Hip Hop influence. Sure to keep your heads bobbin, these two get it in." -From their Reverb Nation Page
"You realize, the first time you watch AOK, that they really mean it: they mean every note. Kyle, cool and reserved in leather jacket and sunglasses, plays hot, aggressive guitar; Angela, probably in heart-shaped earrings, dances for her life and sings with a fierceness equaled and anchored by her solid technique. This sincerity would be laudable but depressing if they weren't good, but...
Karaoke (Japanese: カラオケ, from 空 kara, "empty" or "void", and オーケストラ ōkesutora, "orchestra") is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. The music is typically of a well-known song in which the voice of the original singer is absent or reduced in volume. Lyrics are usually also displayed, sometimes including color changes synchronized with the music, on music video to guide the sing-along.
Karaoke has been a popular form of entertainment beginning first in Japan, then the rest of East Asia, since at least the 1980s, and has since...
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...