Party: TOMMY LEE + DJ AERO with Nick Thayer [MÖTLEY CRÜE AFTER PARTY]

Party: TOMMY LEE + DJ AERO with Nick Thayer [MÖTLEY CRÜE AFTER PARTY]

On the heels of Motley Crue’s enormous Perth arena show, the one and only TOMMY LEE hits 133 Aberdeen Street for an exclusive showcase with DJ AERO.

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The air feels different. The room feels different. With TOMMY LEE & DJ AERO up into the DJ booth the audience is bathed in sweat as AERO continues dropping annihilating beats and searing riffs for LEE to tweak and warp until every last pair of hands is in-the-air. TOMMY LEE is no stranger to moving an audience to exaltation, but when joined with AERO as electronic dance music DJs, few others are as entertaining.

To party with TOMMY LEE is to have so much $%&*@ fun, it hurts. As DJs and producers, TOMMY LEE & DJ AERO’s sound is dirty, filthy, nasty electro-house; and since their musical tastes are not constrained to one genre, the duo often veers into techno, progressive, breakbeat and even hip-hop territory. It is one thing to play the same set list of rock songs to stadiums filled with adoring, expectant fans; it’s entirely another to walk into a swarming nightclub crammed with judgmental trainspotters, read the crowd correctly, and make people dance. Ask any professional DJ and he will tell you that the art of reading a room is anything but easy to master.

Although legions of MÖTLEY CRÜE fans may not realize it, LEE has always been a “closet dance music fan.” It’s the feeling you get from electronic music that’s night and day from rock music,” according to LEE. It’s what he finds so irresistible and the reason he deejays.

DJ AERO (real name: CHESTER DEITZ) rose from the ashes of Los Angeles’ early-‘90′s rave scene as a hip-hop turntablist. Growing up in Victorville (approximately 80 miles north of L.A.), California, the young DEITZ wholeheartedly embraced L.A.’s then-thriving underground rave culture and threw himself into the music of DJs BARRY WEAVER, DOC MARTIN, STEVE LORIA and DJ JAZZY JEFF. DEITZ was a member of the West Coast turntablist crew, THE HEAVYWEIGHTS, a collective featuring DJs for SNOOP DOGG, EVERLAST, KORN and DILATED PEOPLES. DEITZ even dabbled in graffiti, enough to get chased by police on a few occasions. Turntablists who still inspire him today include MIX MASTER MIKE and QBERT, and DEITZ maintains a warm friendship with SIMPLY JEFF.

TOMMY LEE & DJ AERO started deejaying together immediately, and by 2004, they were known to show up to clubs after their MOM sets and throw down a few records at their own afterparties. Said LEE, “It got to the point where we were playing all these Methods [Of Mayhem] shows, and then after those, we’d go somewhere and DJ the entire afterparty without stopping! There were some crazy times at those afterparties, and we ended up having so much fun deejaying…that we knew we wanted to take it further, and take the DJ act out on-the-road.” It was at Ultra Music Festival in Miami during WMC (Winter Music Conference) 2004 when TOMMY LEE & DJ AERO took the mainstage that the hyper-critical, insular club crowd began to really take notice. Playing a blistering afternoon set at Bayfront Park under the scorching Miami sun, the pair was determined to win over the skeptics. By the time TOMMY LEE strapped on a giant bass drum and dove into the crowd, inviting fans to join in, their set had proved joyfully chaotic. LEE thought to himself, “I’ve found my people!” Indeed, they had.

As a joint effort with DEADMAU5 and NINE INCH NAILS producer, STEVE DUDA, TOMMY LEE & DJ AERO produce electronic music under the pseudonym, WTF? Original productions released as WTF? include the tracks, “Chicken,” “Ceaba55555,” “Redic,” and “You Can’t Afford This,” all flag-bearers of the crunchy, big-room, epic, electro-house sound.

Deejaying is no passing fad for TOMMY LEE. As he told The Miami New Times, “This DJ project will never be over. This isn’t like a quick little, ‘I’m gonna play techno music with my buddy Aero for a minute.’ It’s tattooed in. It’s not going away.”

Nick Thayer
Perth dance music enthusiasts are no strangers to Melbournian Nick Thayer, neither are OWSLA, Skrillex, the entire US electronic scene… – his ‘Just Let It Go’ album caught the attention of a certain Sonny Moore and doors have been opening ever since. He drank out of the bass and dubstep cup and he’s poppin’ tunes bigger than Popeye’s guns! Nick’s ‘Like Boom’ EP is his most successful output to date.

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