Steve Aoki Discovers Radical New DJing Technique Called “Live Mixing”

American EDM performer Steve Aoki has today claimed to be responsible for ushering in a new era in EDM after inventing a whole new approach to DJing performance which he has tentatively titled “live mixing” based on the fact that the DJ “mixes” the “tracks”, “live”.

Mr. Aoki is taking full ownership of this new style having filed a patent on the technique which he says, in contrast to traditional press play EDM DJing, makes performing “more difficult but feels more personal and authentic”.

“I discovered it entirely by accident,” explained Steve through a generous mouthful of a Mr. Kipling’s Bramley Apple & Custard cake treat. “I let a track play thinking it was one of my hour long mixes when in fact it was only a five minute track. Thinking on my feet I decided to try to play the actual mix I had intended to play initially before the track ended by disguising to the audience that the CD had changed at all.”

Steve claims that through “genius-like clever manipulation” of the sound levels he was able to perform a feat he named “beat matching” and play the original mix just as the five minute track ended unbeknownst to anyone in the crowd.

“You basically use the headphones provided with the equipment to listen to the beats on one track and your monitor speakers to listen to the beats of the track playing to the audience and then, I know this sounds impossible, you try to match the two beats so that they’re in sync,” explained Steve through the use of crude diagrams and a laser pointer presumably borrowed from one of his teenage fans. “Once you do that then you can move seamlessly from one track to another to another and then even another. I know it sounds crazy but believe me, it works.”

Steve says he was shocked that no-one had thought of doing it sooner as it seemed “almost as if the equipment was designed for that purpose” but that he insists that every DJ in the world will be live mixing “within the next five years” and that then “they’ll be adjusting levels for a reason and not just to look busy”.

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“I quickly phoned Carl Cox to give him the news of how I had changed the face of dance music and his hushed, almost reverential silence before hanging up the phone seemed to suggest that he was too speechless with awe to justifiably thank me for having saved dance music,” continued Steve modestly.

“I’ve broken the mould of DJing,” humbly continued Steve, seen her showing some-time actress, most-time Hollywood tragic case Lindsay Lohan his new DJing technique. “No longer will DJs be performing inside ever bigger lightboxes to a pre-arranged set of musical queues, or tossing hot cream and sponge projectiles into the panting mouths of people covered head to toe in the clothing equivalent of a packet of neon Skittles. No, from now on they’ll be doing mixing….Steve Aoki’s mixing.”