Meet Steve Aoki. In the documentary I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, viewers are thrust into the whirlwind lifestyle of a Grammy-nominated electronic dance music superstar who stands as one of pop music’s most tireless multi-hyphenates: founder of the taste-making record label Dim Mak and a chart-topping producer-remixer-DJ with his finger pressed firmly to the pulse of cutting-edge youth culture.

Ranked Best DJ in America by DJ Times in 2015, Aoki is renowned for his pandemonium-inducing sets and whiplash-inspiring travel schedule, averaging more than 250 tour dates per year including headliner slots at summer music festivals throughout the world as well as prestigious residencies at mega-clubs in Las Vegas and Ibiza. As a recording artist, Aoki’s 2014 studio album Neon Future I—which soared to No. 1 on the Dance/Electronic Album chart—features the Gold-certified single “Delirious (Boneless)” with Chris Lake and Tujamo featuring Kid Ink.

But I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead reveals a lesser known dimension of the entertainer: Aoki’s self-made success. His father Rocky Aoki—the flamboyant founder of the dining-as-entertainment Benihana restaurant chain—remained a remote presence in his family’s life until his dying day and refused to support Steve financially save for paying half his college tuition. “My dad worked his way up from nothing and wanted to teach his kids the value of money,” he explains. Forced to fend for himself, the younger Aoki launched Dim Mak Records out of his college dorm room in 1996, eventually breaking bands such bands as Bloc Party, The Gossip, The Kills and Klaxons through street-smart underground marketing (the label boasts more than 500 releases to date). “Growing up, it was always, ‘How do I impress my father?’” Aoki says in the film. “‘How can I show him I’m going to be successful?’”

The answer: a nose-to-the-grindstone DIY work ethic that has propelled Aoki as an entrepreneur and performer, ultimately placing him in the top five on Forbes’ Top DJ Money Earner list for three years running, and winning the respect of his superstar DJ peers who favor terms such as “force of nature” and “machine” to describe Aoki’s relentless drive.

Los Padres consist of 2 multifaceted producers: Carlos “Kameo” Perez, and Gino “Gnote” Souto.

Kameo most commonly produces electronic dance music of all genres and categories. He just reached another level with his most recent collaborative release “Temperatura” alongside Henry Fong featuring Latin heavy hitter, Franco el Gorilla. Kameo calls Therapist music group his base camp and with that he had some outstanding placements such as Nick Cannon’s movie, “King Of The Dancehall” on YouTube RED, Devolve ft. Red Rat “Higher” (Kameo remix) which the original record has streamed over 20 million times on Spotify! Kameo has gotten fantastic exposure and support on BBC1 Radio’s “Diplo and Friends” with CRESPO, Henry Fong, Devolve, and on SirusXM’s “Diplo;s Revolution”. His Sia “The Greatest” has hit over 1.3 Million views on Youtube, all thanks to his trap style and latin influences. This milestone has expanded his production palette and is now developing an new sound along side fellow partner Gnote. He was once someone behind the scenes, but now Kameo is taking his “Los Padres” brand to the stage, pulling out all the tricks for this Future / Bass / G House production package with some nostalgic sauce in the soup.

Gino “Gnote” Souto is a seasoned vet of the EDM market. With gigs all over the country from EDC Orlando 2016 & 2018, Life in Color 2017, Das Energi Festival 2015 (Utah) , Create Nightclub (LA), Space (Miami), Bassmnt (San Diego) Gino brings experience to the stage. To think he started back as part of the Nappyboy team with T-Pain, he has also performed and taught overseas in Amsterdam at Pioneer DJ School in 2015. “Gnote” has also gotten amazing support from Above & Beyond, Armin Van Buuren and Paul Oakenfold on trance productions in the past.

Two polished sounds from different ends of the market spectrum, collaborating to make nothing less than quality bangers!

Los Padres promises to take you back to the old school, as they rebirth an era of electronic dance music while paying homage to those who are deeply rooted in the duo. With professional experience in a wide spectrum of production, they break out the break beats, reggae vibes, latin culture and craft them into one solid entity that they can claim as their own. New for the young, and Fresh for the throwback. Recently the duo has opened for Brohug and with Miami Music Week 2019 right around the corner, we can expect to see them all over South Florida.