Koji Aiken
5 Absurd But True Stories That Captivated the EDM World In 2022
2022 was another banner year for electronic dance music history as festivals returned en masse, the scene’s biggest artists released albums and live music records were broken. But then there were times when things got… weird. From head-scratching revelations on social media to dance music veterans taking the genre where it hasn’t gone before, read on to discover just a handful of the stories that had us doing double-takes in 2022. Bizarre Reddit sex confession spikes Hudson Mohawke’s “Cbat” on the charts There’s no manual to achieving a chart topping hit—but having your music be the subject of an embarrassing sex confession may be one of the most absurd paths possible. On the “Today I Fucked Up” subreddit, a Redditor confessed to the wo...
Vibrate to the Beat of This Drum & Bass Track Sampling the Sounds of a Dildo
If a sex toy company slid into your DMs and asked if you wanted to sample one of their products, what would you do? What any logical music producer would do: make a beat with it, of course. That’s exactly what Koji Aiken, an electronic music producer and DJ out of Vancouver, did when he ironically agreed to promote a product offered by a local sex toy company, who offered to send “the loudest vibrator” they had available. Harnessing the mighty power of the “Bendie Power Stud Curvy Vibe,” Aiken hit the studio and recorded the dildo’s various vibration sounds. He then sampled them to produce a song, the end result of which is a hysterical drum & bass record. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles “I wanted to push the boundaries of sound design ...
