Steve Aoki has vowed to return with a brand new title and ”totally different sound”.
The EDM DJ-and-producer has revealed he is been busy creating a brand new id for his upcoming mission, following within the footsteps of rival Calvin Harris – who not too long ago returned to his rave roots below the alias Love Regenerator.
Aoki advised the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column: ”I’ve been taking place to my lab, my studio, and it is fascinating, I’ve been considering otherwise about my course of as I’ve had a whole lot of time.
”And I’ve been creating a brand new alter ego, a brand new artist title, and I’m making an entire totally different sound.
”I’m so excited to share that with the world when it is time.”
The US star not too long ago launched his star-studded LP, ‘Neon Future IV’, which options Will.i.am on the observe ‘Love You More’, and he has hailed the Black Eyed Peas star as his personal Yoda (the Jedi Master in ‘Star Wars’).
He mentioned: ”Will was on my first single in 2008 and has actually helped me out as an artist.
”He actually trusted me and has been my guru – he’s like my Yoda.
”I look as much as him in music, manufacturing and life.”
‘Neon Future IV’ additionally options the likes of actress Zooey Deschanel on ‘1 four U’, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on ‘Last One To Know’, Backstreet Boys on ‘Let It Be Me’ and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker on ‘Halfway Dead’.
In a press release for the document – the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Neon Future III’ – Aoki mentioned: ”The central drive of ‘Neon Future’ is extra concerning the narrative of the evolution of ‘Neon Future I, II, III and IV’. If you pay attention to every album again to again, you may hear this musical evolution and that’s most essential for my followers to remove.
”Each quantity within the sequence goes hand in hand with the songs that should inform our future story.”
The ‘Neon Future’ sequence launched again in 2014.