New York City Got Gore Stepped, Wakad all Over, Williams Wasted and Dim Smaked!

Everyone must, at some point in their lives, ask themselves four essential questions: Do I like people rafting? Do I like getting caked? Do I like Champagne showers? And finally, do I like dancing so hard that my legs will beg to be broken off to spare them the hours of pain and suffering I’ll be putting them through? If you’ve answered yes to all these questions, then, my friends, it’s high time you get Aokified.
Pier 94, a lesser used venue of New York, was transformed from a ghost town of a pier in to The Pier Of Fear by the RPM marketing and management group for Halloween weekend. Krewella, Gareth Emery, Seven Lions and Candyland kicked it off Thursday night and The Aokify America Tour closed it out Friday and Saturday nights,  totaling three epic nights of dance your heart out goodness.

Borgore opened the Saturday night show with what can only be described as one of the hardest hitting opening sets I have ever witnessed. He hails all the way from the Holy Land, Tel Aviv, Israel home of the Torah, Jesus, the Matzo Ball, hummus and now Gorestep. What is Gorestep you ask? It’s a fusion of Heavy Metal Rock, Dubstep and Rap. The term, coined by none other than Boregore himself. He masterfully played and remixed many of his crowd favorites: ‘Decisions’, Awolnation’s ‘Sail’ (Boregore remix) which made the crowd wile out, ‘Incredible’, Samples of ‘Ice Cream’ and many more. Had Martin Garrix been in the crowd he would have cried: Boregore played by far the best remix of ‘Animals’ I and, judging by their response, the crowd have ever heard. I especially liked his rendition of Nympho rapping to it live while mixing; now that takes talent. I know there are other acts that have live vocals and a DJ but to have one DJ mixing and singing at the same time is a whole other level of awesomeness.

Next Came Waka Flocka and his Brick Squad from the ATL. This performance was the wild card in the group, for it’s not every day that us EDMaholics get to see a rapper perform live. His set started off with Waka walking through the crowd to “Wild Boy”, getting the twerk fest on and popping. A few songs and some Champagne showers later Waka called up Boregore to the stage to beat on the drums, which, after all, are his forte. Before becoming Boregore, Asaf Borger was the drummer for the death metal band Shabira. Boregore beat the beat while Waka spit some flames, ending the set.

With the anticipation rising in the building, the New York natives cheered for special guest Pharrell Williams to the bass line from The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army,” which has become a staple at larger New York events. Pharell, a true wolf in sheep’s clothing, brought a brief but impactful set, the highlight of which was his collaboration with the French DJ duo legend, Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.”

After a brief lull between sets, the man of the night entered the DJ booth. All mayhem broke loose. There were two, story high robots dancing on stage, cakes being thrown every which way, champagne raining down from the heavens and boats being set a sail through the crowd. The set was nothing short of epic. Steve remixed “y’all ready for this” like only he can, getting the crowd to jump around in the air and explode like they just didn’t care. His epic remix of “Pursuit of Happiness,” featured in Project X, was a climax of the show, clearly another crowd pleaser. I don’t know what the future holds for Steve Aoki, but I know that whatever he does next will push the limits of live entertainment via fun lunacy!