Steve Aoki: Building movements, creating community and throwing cakes

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

He’s a DJ, a record label boss, a producer and an entrepreneur, but Steve Aoki is really only interested in one thing: building a community. This insightful interview with James O’Brien takes us through Steve’s journey to superstardom, from his childhood struggles with otherness and racism, finding solace in music and the constructive rage of hardcore punk, sowing the seeds of what would become his empire, and finding his way back to the stage as one of the biggest EDM performers in the world.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien, brought to you by Joe.
0:04.3	Hello and welcome to Unfiltered with me James O'Brien featuring this week the DJ producer record label boss and fashion designer Steve Aoki he's got a new album out
0:20.4	Neon Future 3 coming soon but having done quite a lot of research into him, I have a feeling
0:26.7	we'll be talking about pretty much everything under the sun. I was born in Miami and then when I was one my mom moved to the other side of America and
0:41.2	she's like oh I'll pick me for a beach I don't know why she did it and she's like, oh I'll pick me for a beach. I don't know why she did it but she didn't pick Irvine which is
0:46.4	dominantly Asian. If she picked Irvine, she could have gone there and then...
0:50.3	Oh the Japanese community would be welcoming her in her arms but she picked
0:54.8	four beach but it's still I mean you go there if you ever travel there it's incredibly
1:00.4	beautiful a suburb right on the coast and it's just that the weather's always like
1:05.3	Bright and sunny you know warm This is where the OC was set for British viewers. This is where we'd get our kind of surf culture so it's very laid back
1:14.8	where were you into surf culture as a I think every kid was yeah you had no choice it's like you
1:20.1	grow up like writer passage yeah yeah it's like you're skating surfing you know all that
1:24.2	kind of stuff you've described it as a place where ignorance can breed and
1:27.4	not get checked that's because what happens is that there is since it's all, let's say it's all homogeneously one culture.
1:37.2	Any other culture that is in there, there's no education, there's no awareness on what that culture represents.
1:44.0	So for me, like, you know, growing up as a kid, as an Asian kid,
1:48.0	when you're a kid, that's when you really see unfiltered, unfiltered anything.
1:57.0	If there's a hate, if there's jealousy, if there's jealousy if there's ignorance it's unfiltered right
2:05.5	because they don't get checked like the kids are brutally racist or brutally
2:10.1	this they don't they wouldn't even recognize it as like oh yeah like
2:13.9	calling an Asian like a derogatory word it's not a big deal or you know those kinds of
2:20.0	things happened or eventually I was like I felt that it was okay even for me.
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