Pioneer DJM-800 Mixer, used by Steve Aoki
date: label: date made
content: 2008
name: label: user
content: Aoki, Steve
label: maker
content: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Steve Aoki’s dj equipment, consisting of Pioneer CDJ-2000 multiplayer decks, a Pioneer DJM – 8000 mixer, and a RANE SL3 computer interface, creates a world of sound that melds many musical genres and styles together. Designed to recreate an analog dj set from the 1970’s and 80’s, these components use computers to manipulate and make digital music. In the case of Steve Aoki, the master of EDM or electric dance music, he uses his mixers, faders, and speed dials to produce electronic dance music to create rising beats, synthetic sounds, and hypnotic rhythms that spark conversations as much as spark dancing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Steve Aoki grew up in California in the 1970’s and 80’s to parents that migrated from Japan in the 1960’s. His father started the chain of Benihana Japanese restaurants where Steve learned a little about hard work, showmanship, and business. Steve Aoki went to college in California and majored in gender studies and sociology, played in punk band, and to make some extra money, started a music label, Dim Mak, and started to dj’s. The 1990’s Aoki’s high school and college days were set in an America that was in the midst of change. Asian American and Latino/a voices and performers were getting more and more exposure in the entertainment world. This diversity influenced Aoki’s music and came to believe in the potential music has to connect with people. He works with a varied set of collaborators who create a wild diverse set of music styles.
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Tōkyō, Tokyo
topic: label: general subject association
content: EDM
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Electronic Musical Instruments
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Steve Aoki
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0125.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0125
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0125.01
label: serial number
content: HKMPO1117OUC
label: model number
content: DJM-800
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 12 1/2 in x 15 in; 10.16 cm x 31.75 cm x 38.1 cm