Linkin Park to appear on Steve Aoki's "Neon Future, Part 2"

As previously mentioned before, an upcoming album from Steve Aoki, Neon Future, Part 2 will feature Linkin Park. Billboard had a chance to spend the day with Steve Aoki and in the article they mentioned the song that Linkin Park worked on with Steve and also briefly mentioned Mike Shinoda. The song is called Horizons (not yet confirmed as the final title), Aoki said it’s been a work in progress since 2012. He mentioned Mike Shinoda rewrote the lyrics because it sounded to happy and he wanted to make it darker. Quotes below:

Aoki is in the lab. He’s downstairs at WM Studios — a Las Vegas studio just 20 minutes from the Strip, and a short drive from his home. Aoki plays a song with the (as yet unconfirmed) title “Horizons,” a collaboration with Linkin Park for his upcoming album. It has been a work in progress since 2012, which he admits is obsessive even for him. He pulls up the original mix on his laptop and plays it over the house speakers. They might as well be different songs.

“I threw out the drop because it didn’t fit,” he says. “And [Linkin Park rapper] Mike [Shinoda] rewrote the lyrics because he was like, ‘They’re too happy.’ He wanted to make it darker.”

Asked if the two versions have anything in common, Aoki thinks for a moment and then says, “They’re both in the same key.”

Here’s another quote of the song that I don’t believe we had mentioned previously:

“’Horizons’ definitely has the definitive ‘Neon Future’ sound,” teases AOKI of his forthcoming single with Linkin Park that will appear on Part 2 of NEON FUTURE. “It’s not quite done yet, but it’s the track I have worked on the most of all the songs on the album and I can’t wait for people to hear it,” he says.

Source: Billboard

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