Deadmau5 - Someone explain this guy's huge popularity (general C/D, RFI thread i guess)

So I've been seeing his name and stupid mouse logo more and more frequently over the last few years, but I've always written him off as a relatively lame dance act that was safe to ignore. Well this week a lot of people have been raving about his headlining set at Lollapalooza last weekend, apparently he played opposite Foo Fighters and drew a much larger crowd. Many of these same people are claiming that his set blew away the infamous Daft Punk Lolla set from a few years ago.

Anyway, explain this guy to me. I had no idea he was so huge. Is any of it justified?

have no idea. my teenage cousin is into him and was excited to see the set. haven't heard what he thought tho

he's nothing special, but he's competent as fuck and prolific.

the kids these days are apparently way into poppy dance music with heavy dubstep-inspired synths, a la deadmaus, skrillex, beats antique, and a bunch of other artists who are pretty much ignored critically (at least as far as my radar goes - obviously the high school and college kids are getting their info from somewhere).

see this thread - frat rap

Yeah, I guess thats why I was surprised to see him headlining Lollapalooze, I'd seen his name here and there but none of the outlets I really pay attention to have given him coverage to the point where I'd know how huge he was.

oh yeah there seems be a big crossover with the jam scene, i think lfo wobbles are the new guitar solo? but i am old.

it is pretty impressive that these dudes are selling out arenas based on (i guess?) word of mouth between high school and college kids. really wonder what exactly the process was there.

poppy dance music

i haven't actually listened to him beyond a youtube or two. honestly i'm just a little fascinated by the whole scene, and the separation between critical acclaim/coverage and fanbase numbers/money.

I almost started a thread on this guy to find out what his deal is. Haven't heard anything but doesn't he have like 1000 albums? And he's done techno as well as electrohouse and idm? It all sounds frightening to me, like bottomless pit dorm room slsk vibes.

Seems like he's huge on the festival circuit.

lol ahh Jordan otm

This is still his finest moment IMO, more or less his signature song (tho somewhat diminished by the numerous clones of it that followed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEUfeiSKt0

yeah some populist dubstep guy played philly last year (i want to say rusko?) at a mid-size club (the kinda a lot of reuniting indie type bands play at) and i wasn't surprised it was sold out, but i was kinda surprised that the line snaking around the block was made up almost entirely of high school kids, and young ones.

Not that big of a fan of the guy in general but that's right up there with Xpander, Universal Nation, Greece 2000, Papua New Guinea, etc.
(xpost)

he has albums called random album title and for lack of a better name

i didn't even realize deadmau5 had songs tbh -- thought he kinda just played shit

i did too but i am learning things today - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmau5#Comment_about_DJs

is deadmau5 a jew????

would potentially explain a lot for me tbh

specifically why i know so many jewish deadmau5heads

first time i heard about him was in the DJ Hero games, i know a lot game ppl that got turned onto him through those games

well he is a zimmerman

he's nothing special, but he's competent as fuck and prolific.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this so perfectly sums up so many popular acts in 2011

right place/right time

He has a mouse head with LED lights in it.

i feel bad for that other dj who used to dress up in a mouse costume. it's a shame he never really did anything.

*which he should always keep on because he resembles every skinny, pockmarked, cap wearing dude I ever bought e from.

He's done quite a few pop/rock crossover attempts over the years, in the vein of Planet Funk's "Who Said (Stuck in the UK)".

Jewish connection --> Israelis be liking their trance?

Psy only, brah!

last year I ran Dr Pepper's FB page for a few months. during that time the page rolled over 1 million fans, and to celebrate we ran this contest where fans could upload photos and the one who got the most votes would win a trip to Coachella w/ VIP access, resort accommodations, a limo ride from LAX to Palm Springs, all kinds of shit. the winner (by a HUGE margin) was this diehard Dead Mau Five fan whose entry picture showed him DJing in a replica mouse head. when I got in touch with him to let him know that he'd won and what we needed from him to get all the prizing sorted out, we spent a few minutes bullshitting about music; I remember urging him to catch 2 Many DJs' set but he was like FUCK NO, THAT'S WHEN DEADMAU5 GOES ON. in that instant I became old.

/coolstorybro

He has a mouse head with LED lights in it.

― errant flynn, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:30 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

Actual real talk.

Note: Deadmau5 avatar has been reserved for the actual deadmau5. So instead, may we present our awesome monkey couple.

^^^^ turntable.fm

i've only heard a few of his own tracks and thought they were ok-ish but the people i know who are into this guy are WAYYYYYY into this guy

totally "competent as fuck" progtrance. destroy, save for "sometimes things get, whatever"

He has a song called "bored of canada".

Yeah I dled one of his albums to see what the fuss was about and it mostly washed over me; didn't remind me of a banging club, rather being back at someone's house after a banging club when reality is seeping back in and the light is coming in through the curtains and you realise you should probably try and go to sleep soon. Soporific. It's not bad music by any means, but it doesn't have its desired effect on me at all.

My favourite tune connected to him is a remix of I Remember by Kaspar, of all people.

Note: Deadmau5 avatar has been reserved for the actual deadmau5. So instead, may we present our awesome monkey couple.

^^^^ turntable.fm

― dmr, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i have no idea what any of this means but it's fucking awesome.

he's a huge modular synth nerd, which makes sense in light of him being an excellent sound engineer rather than an excellent producer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26U26fFojw

Quite like his stuff (esp. the "I Remember" remix ref'd by chap). Regarding his huge popularity, I think "competent as fuck" progtrance is important and he's got a way with the melancholy nature of this that's a level up from most of his contemporaries. The mousehead image and related stuff is also a very strong visual hook and I've no doubt that this def. has helped to connect him with that young fanbase. Watching the trailer for his Earl's Court show on the homepage of his YT channel it does look like the gigs are a shitload of fun.

i saw some kid walking around downtown princeton in a one of these mouse heads the other day.

He has a mouse head with LED lights in it.

This is basically why he's impossible to dislike. It's an awesome gimmick. NB - never really listened to his music, I kind of assume it's like less objectionable Guettahouse?

http://www.livelovebrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/200Deadmau5mask-1.jpg

Will probably kill him one day, but it looks cool.

No it's just progtrance.

Progtrance is one of those things that, read literally, seems like it should be absolutely amazing. Bitterly disappointed to hear what it actually involves.

That said, that mask, in action, is propertly amazing and you hate fun if you disagree.

also many bonus points for having a variety of maus heads with different fex, afaik

Nothing gives you a profile in dance music like obscuring a face or identity that no one would care about otherwise.

Redshape and Deadmau5 - they almost sound the same?!?! COULD IT BE?

He's Rex The Dog. And Burial.

The Dog And Burial sounds like an English pub.

it's not just dance music though. Australian band TISM formed in 1981 and performed for 25 years under a variety of comical masks as a) a general satirical comment on / genuine disinterest in rock stardom, and b) most of them had respectable dayjobs like civil servants or high school teachers, wherein being known for hit singles like Defecate On My Face or All Homeboys Are Dickheads or "I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix" might impact their career prospects.

They were thus enthusiastically speculated, in successive schoolyards and tabloids, to secretly be other acts of those successive eras who had no reason to conceal their identities in order to perform snarky or off-colour songs. "They're really Painters & Dockers!" "They're really the Doug Anthony Allstars!" At least by the late 90s, this had become the internally logical "They're really the Wiggles!"

not that they didn't end up dancier tbh - here's Dumb 'n' Base (including possibly the greatest internal rhyme ever)

Yeah, I guess thats why I was surprised to see him headlining Lollapalooze, I'd seen his name here and there but none of the outlets I really pay attention to have given him coverage to the point where I'd know how huge he was.
--jon /via/ chi 2.0

There was like a 4 page feature in Rolling Stone

Though it does remind me of like freshman year of lollege when everyone was going bonkers for sasha and dickweed and I wad like "wtf where do u ppl even hear this?!?"

sasha and dickweed

always going to be funny

glad someone started this thread because lately i have just been walking around feeling old and out of touch whenever i see that sticker

not sure this means anything but i'm currently in central illinois for a few weeks and this dude's business was all over some store in the mall here (presumably some local low-rent hot topic)

huge among teens in san diego too

theres a big jam band crossover, same thing with disco buscuits, all those n.e. prep school crunchies discovering ecstasy i guess. my brother & his friends love this bro

yeah this doesn't really strike me as any different from s&d and oakenfold and tiesto getting huge here in america for a half-second around 1999/2000. he's just got a good and very 2011 visual branding gimmick. the big difference, i guess, is that as usual it's just got to be a lot easier for kids to hear this stuff and pass it around with youtube and whatever than it was back then, when not even MTV was really touching this stuff. (see: whiney's "where are you even hearing this?")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAYjiwCkWE

There was like a 4 page feature in Rolling Stone

Oh gosh, sorry I don't keep up with the always finger on the pulse Rolling Stone!

Just found out that he has a scissors tattoo on his arm, which kinda sucks because I have a scissors tattoo on my arm and apparently his has a very emo significance ("cut here" lol). I hope that the checkout ladies at target always ask him if he's a barber they way they do with me.

The final night of competition for this season's So You Think You Can Dance aired last night. It has been a good season, but last night's show was disappointing; the final four dancers were overworked, and a lot of the choreography was uninspired. Still, one of the highlights was a number choreographed by Sonya Tayeh to an aggressive, dubsteppy Deadmau5 track, "Raise Your Weapon".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ1hj29bW2I

this guy seems p cool, like hes just about the party or w/e, making cool beats and shit

http://www.pillreports.com/index.php?page=display_pill&id=16293

Your own disco biscuit = legitimacy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/DiscoBiscuitsSenorBoombox.jpg

impossible to dislike?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3S9MIGeO-yM/TSWF_Y0acAI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/T4xDhCw3z34/s1600/696_2e2a7da6252f6de472e6010fff9ff73e_original.jpg

that mask looks dumb as hell idgi

Did you see the part where the mask is outfitted with crazy led lights?

also many bonus points for having a variety of maus heads with different fex, afaik

― generous loller at dollies (sic), Thursday, August 11, 2011 6:22 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

http://www.talenthouse.com/deadmau5-design-the-next-mau5head

"This project reached 15,623,889 people..."

Dead Mau Five

lol

He's actually Frank Sidebottom with a shaped neon light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26jKtELitQE

Based on a Deadmau5 sample, an almost-great pop song ruined by a charisma-free singer.

s: "Not Exactly", "I Remember" (prefer the instrumental though maybe it's just because i fell in love with it months before hearing the vocal version), this gorgeous remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQOguDV0YKg

d: just about everything else, his more banging stuff indeed is competent in a very dull way

rate him more for his legacy than his actual output, which is:

- ushering in a new era of super melodic Anjunadeep-style progressive house

- kicking off this new dayglo cut-up dubstep-enhanced electrohouse thing that i'm so into right now

t/s deadmau5 vs MOOMBAHTON

the logo creeps me out tbh

^^^

I don't mind this guy's music tho. As has been said, competent as fuck. I know a few people who are super-into him.

How does he see out of the mask with all these LEDs in his face to dj?

Let's ask the important questions here.

Nothing gives you a profile in dance music like obscuring a face or identity that no one would care about otherwise.

― Matt DC, Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:28 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

truth bomb

this guy seems p cool, like hes just about the party or w/e, making cool beats and shit

― buttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbutt (Lamp), Thursday, August 11, 2011 2:45 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

how does this not describe every guy in dance music ever

uh ... well ... there's this thing called prog ...

anyway it's harder for me to figure out the appeal of uk funky to hipsters than deadmau5 to norms

Non tim f / ilm hipsters like uk funky??

afaict

uk funky to uk hipsters than deadmau5 to US norms

US norms not us norms mind you

uh ... well ... there's this thing called prog ...

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i guess this is sarcastic but i honestly don't know what the word "prog" means in relation to dance music. is that on some idm bedroom techno tip? i meant like actual dance music that people dance to.

oh i dunno, maybe compared to a conceptual artist like moby?

you're certainly right though, some actual dance music is on the cool beat tips.

oops, i meant cool beats tip

maybe i should break it down for you. a lot of "hip kids" in certain high schools (maybe the sort where kids can afford to go to coachella), and when i say hip kids, i mean the sort of kids who are into screamo and go to shows are really into "dubstep". and i put it in quotes because it's a particularly abrasive variant of the sound. this is a bit of history repeating, as i can recall post-college, lots of kids who were into metal or industrial or post-hardcore were also into really tough, angry "drum and bass". on the other hand, a lot of kids in high school, and these might be your more "popular" kids, they are just into whatever mershy dance music is on the billboard chart. in a lot of ways, deadmau5 meets the two in the middle.

cool beats tips: don't be danceable

so like, hip kids like deadmau5 because it sounds like their hip dubstep music, and popular kids like deadmau5 because it sounds like the popular music of the billboard charts, and everyone wants to be hip and/or popular, so everyone listens to deadmau5.

Otm, but i have no idea what you were on about previously.

one day im going to grow up and get to watch goldie perform all of timeless at a new mexico city atp

xp Before your last two posts, I mean.

there are also "trendy" "hipster" kids now who listen to things like MGMT and daft punk and justice, and they like deadmau5 too, because at times it sounds like that, too

prog means that dudes are always going to try to make some sort of "serious statement" collaborative music

same way you might call kanye "prog-rap", ig uess

Crossover with unhip tiesto prof and jam bands, tho

prof = prog

lamp was talking about the deadmau5 guy's personality/vibe, so i was comparing to other dance music artists. i feel like you're talking about dance music fans?

I guess it's an electronica thing.

no, i'm not

fair enough, it's pretty clear i'm never going to have an idea of what you're talking about so i'll stop pretending i can figure it out

t/s deadmau5 vs MOOMBAHTON

though it distresses me to take diplo's side on anything, the latter most definitely.

Was curious about this outfit too, given his/their placement on the Lollapalooza poster.
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/uploads/f7/42/f742572d02112c8fe47c02b811841876/lolla1.jpg

lamp was talking about the deadmau5 guy's personality/vibe, so i was comparing to other dance music artists. i feel like you're talking about dance music fans?

― some dude, Friday, August 12, 2011 3:42 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

seems like they're saying 'his vibe is x and you can tell because of the people he attracts'

Deadmau5 and Foster the People feat Pitbull

next year we're going to be having this same thread for Pretty Lights instead. all my burner friends loooooooooooooooooooooooooove him.

http://www.starthrillerbrandonlee.com/images/myca.jpg

So does she!

Don't think the burner/jam crowd really go for Deadmau5. They love that Bassnectar asshat.

thought i mentioned pretty lights upthread, i guess not. a friend of mine teaches high school drumline and all of the kids (who also go to jam band shows etc) freak out over them. listened to a track on youtube and it was corny as hell, but i guess it's about the eponymous live show.

it seems like the one artist who crosses over between the kiddie dubstep scene and the beat scene/critics/pitchfork etc is Eskmo.

was that bassnectar dig insinuating that he's somehow sooo below deadmau5 cuz that's lol

Yeah, totally!

pretty lights >>> deadmau5 > bassnectar

deadmau5 has like one memorable jam and a ton of LCD shit. bassnectar is all LCD.

I think Deadmau5 is exactly where I draw the line. If you are better than Deadmau5, I fuck with you. If you are worse than Deadmau5, fuck outta here.

bassnectar is all LCD.

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, August 12, 2011 7:27 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

waht

lowest common denom

checked w/my 15 year old music geek friend abt this thread and he thinks Deadmau5 is "OK" but really what he digs is Skrillex.

Skrillex is p much the worst shit ever.

Skrillex really is entirely bewildering to me.

Bassnectar? moar liek Assnectar amirite

and yes, Skrillex is the worst (QED)

i can see bassnectar being "all lcd" if you never regularly listened because you think he's all brostep and whatnot (and maybe he is all that now) but pre-that he was great funk + breakbeat party along the lines of the bassbin twins.

"all lcd" is flat out nah

wherein i've seen absolutely nothing redeeming of deadmau5. i don't know the grown up frat-bros at the porn company i used to work at in south beach would not stop talking about him.

...i actually kind of want to be proven wrong and want a good deadmau5 track or mix and i browsed through thread and if that generic "faxing berlin" is really his finest moment i'm totally at a loss as to how anyone is deadmau5 before anyone

AND THAT IS WHAT I FEEL ABOUT DEADMAU5

Q.E.D.

fauxmarc, are you talking about Underground Communication-era Bassnectar? listening to that on Spotify now

the opening to DeadMau5's "Some Chords" is nice but I'm expecting it to be ruined any second

"Some Chords" got predictable but I am definitely enjoying it

would never buy this tho

dunno, i wasn't really buying stuff back then just going out to parties, he was playing out a lot. i remember more than few good times at buzz nation in dc - by sheer timing he also happened to be the main act of their last night before being shutdown to make way for the stadium.

...which was in 2006, so, yeah i'm sure times have changed. whatev back to costume head guy

Kinda love this Skrillex tune tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYYyMu3pzL4

so wait fauxmarc you're comparing him to bassbin twins but he's not lowest common denominator music?

i am probably ilm's biggest bassbin twins apologist to date but party breaks is pretty unambitious music IMO

Do they still call it "nu-skool" breaks?

I bet Freq Nasty has frequent nightmares about Bassnectar.

every old is nu again

when done right and it's not like baby anne or someone party breaks are hardly lcd - though i recall bassnectar having a bit more of a nu-skool (!) sound than bassbin - he participated alot in the breaks forums on tribe.net when that was popular.

a good breaks track party or otherwise can be "unambitious" maybe (especially considering most classic genres can be thought of as such now in comparison to what's going on) but it'll still have hits and syncopation and whatnot that your average citizen can't really mess with from a dancing perspective, while bboys/girls and house freestylers alike will thrown down quality footwork on it.

i know approaching dance music criticism from a live dance context is weird and all (not being snarky) but there it is. i'd say breaks are actually the furthest thing from lcd just because there's nothing for most people to easily steadily fist pump, head bang, or shuffle back and forth to. in which i reveal my crackpot theory i wax over every day - i think full-on breaks parties died out (in the midatlantic at least) because technical dancing died out as things get less underground and the "i'm just out to drink and be part of this cool event" demographic explodes over he decades.

wait, what, wah

breaks are actually the furthest thing from lcd because there's nothing for most people to easily steadily fist pump, head bang, or shuffle back and forth to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z88XiGWYFbk

i have a huge overbite right now and my white girlfriend is shuffling around the kitchen to this

lol nice chinstrap

http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-7217-1224556451.jpeg

he probably has that chinstrap else his hair would fly off while bopping at the midi controller

gf shuffling because that track is sweet

wait is that unambitious?

this is the bassbin twins first release, from 1992, "back 2 house", in which they go back approximately ... three years? to produce a smoother, more streamlined, more easily digestible classic chicago mash-up for people who missed the boat by two years or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKiuEIXDpVg

no doubt a huge influence on jess & crabbe

^^ this is a bomb track and dude as i said i am a bassbin twins SUPERSTAN (if you use search function you will see me stanning for them back in 04)

but it is pretty clear to me that the working technique of bassbin twins is not too different from the working techniques of pretty lights (really any frankendance producer), deadmau5, skrillex, etc

it is hard to exactly quantify what i am saying but maybe it is best summed up as:

(overstuffed grab bag / kitchen sink of currently trendy dance techniques - the disorientation you feel when basement jaxx (or other artists that writers might call "maximal house") do the kitchen sink thing + a dose of fatboy-esque antisocial humor for the punters) x streamlining of rough edges so that it is easy for aspiring DJs to mix and so that particular genres touches don't really ever get offensive to anybody (ie it's not as cut + scratchy as quite a lot of stuff on wall of sound, it's not as "gay" as todd terry, it's not as linear as junior vasquez, it's not as threatening as hip-hop, etc)

bassbin twins not really aping classic chicago on that track though, so much as ... a particular strain of acidic hip-house i'm thinking of ... not sure what to call it but makes me flash back to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvB4_T_GDNs

compare / contrast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebitylZrVik&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtcMZGFgos

fuck yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnlRJq_q25M

"Set You Free" is one of my all-time jams

holy shit, Planet Soul

brb, reliving college

To me, he fits squarely into the Sasha/Digweed continuum of very repetitive, uberpolished progtrance.

Okay, my opinion is still out on deadmau5. Like HOOSteen says, he's competant. Browsing around on youtube, I found a few tracks I liked alright and a few who-the-fuck cares generic tracks. But I saw this post the other day and it struck me as being not quite right. So I dug out my Sasha & Digeweed comps from 1997 and they're anything but repetitive! Probably 4 or 5 times less repetitive than any youtubes posted on the techno/house bobbins thread anyway. Maybe you were thinking of someone else?

yeah i'm generally biased against trance and s+d got some of their sets forced on me back in the day that would occasionally get all deep-acid-breaky and whatnot and i couldn't really hate on it. northern exposure: expeditions comes to mind. oakenfold's usually my baseline for terrible but his global underground: live in oslo from '97 is along the same lines, i'd listen to that before d5.

i guess my new baseline for wack can be keoki or something

Digweed circa 2000-2005 got extremely repetitive. In 97 it was still pretty varied yes. Once the Global Underground series got to 20, all the fun had fallen through. Those were the heydays of Steve Lawler, Sander Kleinenberg, Satoshi Tomiie, etc.

new baseline for wack = steve angello

eh he'd have to rock-paper-scissors for it with aoki

aoki, yes, the keoki of the 00s

i wonder if someday he and carles will murder their roommate and cut up the body

maybe he will murder cobrasnake and carles will write a book about it

Gimme Airdrawndagger anyday over a dude in a mouse hat.

feel compelled to link this excellent old aoki burn:

http://www.riffmarket.com/2006/12/year-in-riffs-danny-chun.html

RIP

http://www.hardfest.com/images/2010/Jan/aoki-dive486.jpg

he was a dj

really needs to be a sylvester book already

i have been forcing people to listen to set u free lately. with positive results.

aoki, yes, the keoki of the 00s

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i wonder if someday he and carles will murder their roommate and cut up the body

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, August 13, 2011 1:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

maybe he will murder cobrasnake and carles will write a book about it

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a+ vahid-ery. very depressing that anyone itt is trying to justify this shit tho, bring the hate people, come on (in this vein TIM HOLY GOD THAT IS AWFUL. I TRUSTED YOU.)

Waaay xpost here...I didn't think this thread was worth reading cause I've been over Deadmau5 for a long time but I'm bored and here I am.

i can see bassnectar being "all lcd" if you never regularly listened because you think he's all brostep and whatnot (and maybe he is all that now) but pre-that he was great funk + breakbeat party along the lines of the bassbin twins.

I can remember trying to point this out here a long time ago, before I was fully aware of Bassnectar's recent crappiness, and being hated for saying it. I don't know about his mixes or anything but the Yoga Tai Chi Parties at Cellspace were quite alright. Scoff if you must, but I'm pretty sure there was Chai tea there as well.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2011/08/rave-or-die-4evr-evr-middle-american-commercialization-rave.html

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/mis/2540297891.html

lol

a real moment, indeed

^^explains huge popularity

"ghosts n' stuff (knuckle-deep remix)"

Yeah, I suppose we can lock thread. If I knew it was all about being knuckle deep, I needn't have asked in the first place.

Now available in shoe form.

Scandal!

https://twitter.com/#!/7EIeven/status/113376193922859010

ATTN @Borgore fans- A good lot of you have been harassing our female employees; please refrain from this or you too will be banned

Had to look up what a hell a Borgore was and thus I laugh:

Borgore stated in an interview that his stage-name is a mixture of both his birth surname Borger, and the word "gore". Thus making Borgore.

i really really really wanna know what compelled whoever runs the 7-11 account to tweet abt deadmau5

As markers revealed on Facebook, though, turns out it isn't:

https://twitter.com/#!/7eleven

vs.

https://twitter.com/#!/7EIeven

holy hell

e-(i as in "eye")-e-v-e-n, not e-(l as in luft balloons)-e-v-e-n

i thought they were both 7eleven and 7Eleven and it was case-sensitive and about to rage against bad software development practices

no joke

it's the old paypal vs paypaI trick

theres an appIebees acct too

Do you say this "Deadmouse" or some other way?

yeah.

Thank you.

dead mau five or gtfo

^^^^^^ this

the name was so bad he had to change half of it to german and put numbers all up in the thing.

does anyone else think of 2 Bad Mice ?

i hope not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQMkzjcLEA&ob=av2n

I saw Deadmau5 in Victoria Park this summer.

my condolences

He had a tune called Faxing Berlin a few years back which I really liked. It's not like he's that unknown - been all over Mixmag and things for months and months.

no one said he's unknown. i mean, read the thread title.

It's not like he's that unknown

Apparently he's catching on with a very youthful crowd!

h8 that 9-year-old

On a related note, where were the sweet electro-rave dance parties when we were that young?

http://i.qkme.me/35aofg.jpg

^_^

http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/19950981116/responsibility

deadmau5 is really mad at madonna for naming her new album MDNA

https://www.facebook.com/deadmau5

seriously, i giveth not a fucking single FUCK for slating on madonna for reaching an entirely NEW level of idiocy ... i can appriciate her meteoric career, and all good deeds done, but WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? That's your big contribution to EDM? Thats your big message to ultra attendies? hipsterspeak for looking for drugs? fuck off you fucking IDIOT. fuck.

yeah, i really kinda leeeeeeeeroy jenkins'd that shit huh... MDNA / Molly / MDMA / whatever .. something about a track? still seems the same to me, coz its still, in my opinion, unecciscary promotion of the shit that really held EDM down for years.

Now, weve taken EDM so far in the past decade, so goddamned far. It really hurts me to see rampant ADVOCATION of extreme bullshit lifestyles to a genre that spans pretty much any age gap these days. Of course, ill always have my opinions about this or that… and yeah, its my personal choice not to do drugs, but im not on a fucking crusade to stamp out other peoples personal choices by no means. fuck being a crusader. Im not pro, or anti drug… but… ill easily let you know that im pro-responsibility.

Why is everyone calling it EDM all I a sudden?

Of a sudden...

who put sand in his blou5

this guy sucks shit

it is quite a challop to claim that ecstasy has been an obstacle to the popularity of electronic dance music

i could say a lot of shitty things about Madonna, but one thing she's never done is walk around with a big mouse head on her head.

it used to be that DJs got mad at madonna for stealing voguing

'Eezer Good! Eezer Good!' vs 'Im not pro, or anti drug… but… ill easily let you know that im pro-responsibility.'

no wonder it's taking so long for the US to embrace dance music.

fwiw, fuck club drugs

haha what

sorry that was my irrational distaste for dance clubs speaking, I'm sure the drugs are fine

it is quite a challop to claim that ecstasy has been an obstacle to the popularity of electronic dance music

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, March 26, 2012 12:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lolllll

• He's still angry at Madonna for her appearance at the Ultra Music Festival in March, where she asked the audience, "How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?” – a barely coded reference to Ecstasy. "You want to be 'hip' and 'cool' and 'funky grandma'?," says Zimmerman. "Fine. It's not my place to say you're irrelevant. If you're gonna come into my world, at least do it with a little more dignity. I understand she has millions more fans, and is way more successful than I'll ever be. But it's like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert. It's inappropriate."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/on-the-cover-the-rise-of-deadmau5-20120620

Again he's somehow mistaking something being 'inappropriate' with it being 'one of, if not the main thing that made the genre happen'

I think Madonna looks plenty dignified these days. She's a dancer, she has a dancer's figure. I've had dance teachers and known dancers over 50 and that is how they present themselves. It's disappointing to see alleged "dance" music people ignorant about dance culture and history.

dude is kind of aggro, he should try some mdma

But it's like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert. It's inappropriate.

speaking of inappropriate?

"If you're gonna come into my world, at least do it with a little more dignity"

surely madonna was fucking with 909s and house music while he was was a hairless little mau5 pup.

'slavery at a fucking blues concert' is a bit much no?

That said, ecstasy is pretty overrated as a drug. Why you need it to dance, I don't know. But lots of dance people have tried it so they understand what it does.

Still a joke about ecstasy is harmless. I don't think Madonna uses large quantities of drugs.

yeah madonna was working with dance music pioneers before he was born. the whole 'welcome to my world grandma' is the worst part of that quote by far.

like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert
like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert

thought this revive was going to be about the "we all press play" thing:

http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/25690507284/we-all-hit-play

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/06/deadmau5-honest-about-his-own-press-play-sets-misses-out-on-scene/

"we all press play" -> "I don't actually find out what any of my peers or more established musicians have been doing"

agreed, but he does make some valid points, like a whole mess of electronic musicians do some variation of ableton + beat repeat for their live show, the real work is done in the studio, and most people in the audience have no idea what's happening up on stage. of course there are a shitload of exceptions.

not really a novel thing to say in 2012, that has kind of been the case for over a decade now and some artists do different things, some have more complex live setups, and others just make really bad dancing and knob turning motions in the hopes of looking like they're really engaged

he really says EDM a lot

I just realized I hardly ever read about electronic musicians, I'm just not interested, unless they are talking about influences or something. But this quote from Wikipedia is amusing.

"It puts me to fucking sleep, to be quite honest; I don't really see the technical merit in playing two songs at the same speed together and it bores me to fucking tears and hopefully, with all due respect to the DJ type that will fucking go the way of the dinosaur, I'd like them to dis-a-fucking-ppear! It's so middle man, they're like fucking lawyers!

"beatmatching” isnt even a fucking skill as far as im concered anyway

i think this is all i ever need to know about him

there's a hard sliver of conservatism running through all these "controversial" pronouncements that paired with his out-there image feels really familiar somehow

Morrissey ?

But seriously, who cares what this cunt thinks? He seems to have quite a few defenders but I haven't heard any production of his that even rises close to the level of a decent Digweed production ("For What You Dream Of"?)

there's a hard sliver of conservatism running through all these "controversial" pronouncements that paired with his out-there image feels really familiar somehow

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, June 25, 2012 9:54 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the united states of america ca. 2012

guy called gerald aint happy with the mouse man :

http://www.guycalledgerald.com/blog/message-to-rat-head/

!

also

http://hotwaterinc.tumblr.com/post/25938207447/hitstart

linked to elsewhere in relation to this story. these guys must be raking it in

http://edmsnob.com/leaked-contracts-performance-perks-favorite-edm-artists/

the guy called gerald thing is kinda disturbing. what's with the line about "the only button you want to push is a nuke for the Palestinians"? is that some sort of anti-semitic attack?

yeah .. there's been some reaction to that particular wording on facecrook as well.

is there any particular evidence that deadmauf is a likudnik or something

after spending 5 minutes googling 'deadmau5 zionist' and 'deadmau5 israel' i have say no

uh, wtf Gerald

btw Gerald's live show was definitely him doing stuff live, but it was also kind of like "how to make funky beats with Reason" and he seemed a little like your dad trying to tell you how to party. now he seems more like the weird uncle with funny ideas about jews?

well, just this one jew. maybe he knows something we dont

The one time I saw A Guy Called Gerald live was last year at Glastonbury and we were all high fiving each other for having wandered past just in time for Voodoo Ray and then like 20mins later he was still playing Voodoo Ray. For all I know he could have been playing it for the previous 20mins as well.

It was kinda cool though.

Saw gerald do his live set at fabric last year, feel bad saying this but it was pretty turgid, just wanted him to get it over with

Don't really see the point in live sets esp if its just joints already released...tho i thought Magic Mountain High were really good the couple times seen them, tho it's diff each time as its a live analog jam lols etc

Did he walk in front of his setup with a microphone and yell "Who wants to hear some breakbeats!?! Who wants some four on the floor?! I can't hear you!"

Don't really see the point in live sets esp if its just joints already released

I believe the point is that people can dance to stuff already released.

I still don't think I've knowingly heard any Deadmau5. He's probably the most famous current musician I've never actually heard.

Sure but I thought that's what DJs were for

Apparently two different things can do a similar job!

I mean, on a personal level... I get that this stuff is suited to 'livesets' or w/e ...festivals, lights etc, 1-2 hour slot, seamlessly tight preprogrammed dunno what diff it makes if live or not

just don't do drugs to enhance the live set, that is totally horrible and not what you do at dance music events

I think familiar stuff can often sound better live if done well (and obviously boring or identical to the record if done badly) but I don't really think it makes that much difference, it's still all about the spectacle and sound. Not actually that bothered how 'live' what they're actually doing onstage is. Only real difference is you know you're going to get however long of one artist, which you just don't get with DJs unless they're Funkystepz or whoever.

Back on topic this feud is highly amusing and Deadmau5 is a pompous prick.

omg gerald wtf

last time i encountered AGCG was at one of the red bull lectures and he did ramble on interminably and aimlessly

"EDM" kmt though, it's madonna who needs to come out and squish deadmau5 LIKE WE KNOW SHE CAN

Just listened to a recent AGCG DJ mix and it was pretty bad. He used the exact same gate effect on every mix and botched quite a few. Must be something else to it than just pressing play.

That hotwaterinc article seemed to go on for as long as Danny Tenaglia's famed 26 hour set

A Goy Called Gerald

Gerald also had giant Reason stickers on his two laptops and some sections sounded suspiciously like demo mode

the program or the magazine

Hahah I was wondering the same.

the progrom

From the site that had the collection of riders...

We will need one security person dedicated to look after the mau5head from soundcheck up to showtime.

Mr C has also chipped in on deadmau5

http://pulseradio.net/articles/2012/06/mr-c-on-deadmau5-complete-wanker

wake me up when mc tunes chimes in

So apparently its only washed up types who are willing to come out fully against him then? It's like a Leveson Enquiry of rave.

Just listened to a recent AGCG DJ mix and it was pretty bad. He used the exact same gate effect on every mix and botched quite a few. Must be something else to it than just pressing play.

grim lol. if you're talking about his RA mix, i thought the same thing :/

This whole thing is just like every tedious argument on the Erol Alkan forum and every other DJ forum ad infinitum forever.

Like, yes, there are tedious bedroom DJs who think that beatmatching and various technical skills are the be-all and end-all of DJ-ing, kinda like the kind of boys who would have been in a guitar shop busting out guitar solos 30 or 40 years ago and yes that attitude is annoying and misses the point and it is fun to poke them with sticks like stirring a hornet's nest, saying "you can teach a monkey to beatmatch" and "all you do is just press play" because it winds them up SOOOOOO much in a way they should be wound up and shaken out of their little boy wankfests.

And it seems like if those were the people that Deadmau5 were trolling, that would be super-great.

But the other half of that troll routine is not just the challops, but observing that it takes things like the ability to read a crowd, a knowledge of how much flows together *beyond* just getting the beats at the same speed, mood, tone, build, release - mixing new stuff and old stuff to keep people's attention, which requires a knowledge of music beyond "this month's bangers" - and then you should link to that "how to be a good warm-up DJ" article on Resident Adviser or wherever.

So as much as I want to like his little rant, because it will wind up the kind of people that annoy me, I can't help that he misses the point as much as the people he's trolling.

I don't think he's trolling that crowd at all. It be kind of entertaining if he was, but really those online dudes have as much to do with actual having fun at live events as the guitar dudes did. At a crowded venue they're like a drop of water in the ocean.

As far as I'm concerned Deadmau5 is a script kiddie from 4chan who was shocked that people would buy his send up of dance music, and then kept doing it because it was lucrative. Every article I read about the guy seems to indicate that he's more into music from the pure technical side, down to writing his own performance software and building his gear than he is about the music. He just doesn't like dance music, he makes it because its profitable.

wcc why are you such a sexist

imo Mr. 5 is hoping that people to notice he's got modulars onstage

to

i was shopping at target today and i see that you can buy a deadmau5 hat at a target. he is one of a couple brands they sell, alongside angry birds hats + domo kun hat

http://www.target.com/p/men-s-deadmau5-hat-black/-/A-14192424#prodSlot=medium_1_1&term=Deadmau5

cool deadmau5 hat at target.

i wish they sold cartoon head masks at target

i guess deadmau5 wouldn't talk to radio1, so they supposedly stitched up calvin h re the whole 'just press play' scene.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/22/calvin-harris-bbc

oh, and as for suing .. behave.

its not that f*cking serious ..

deadmau5 trying to go at dj sneak is hilarious to me

http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/deadmau5-burn-all-electronic-music-down-i-dont-care

"The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure. Minimal work for maximum profit, right?"

can we run this guy over with a truck?

http://www.clubplanet.com/Articles/10444/The-Most-Costly-Song-Request-Ever

Haha, how embarrassing and shameful for everyone involved.

after years of being mostly "whatever" about this dude, I've found myself incessantly playing disc 1 of While (1<2)

DEADMAU5 EXPLAINS WHY HE ABHORS JUSTIN BIEBER & HIS FIGHTS ON TWITTER WITH SKRILLEX

http://weraveyou.com/2015/12/13/deadmau5-clears-bieber/

^ LOL just came here to post this. Is this guy entirely unfamiliar with the concept of pop music and professional singers in general?

http://i.imgur.com/OIIezHv.png

http://i.imgur.com/iyKJqMw.png

http://i.imgur.com/GWblSr4.jpg

I sat next to a jr high kid once on a plane, we got to talking music. she said she liked EDM, "stuff like Dead Mow 5", and I didn't have the heart to correct her

i still say dead mow 5 in my head

Insulting the guy by feminizing him.

So Kanye is butthurt after these tweets?

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/02/entertainment/kanye-west-pirate-bay-feat/index.html

fuck deadmau5, fuck kanye

https://j.gifs.com/2RJ40A.gif

I wasn't quite happy with this gif and just realized it's because most times I watch this, my cursor is hovering impatiently over 'Skip Ad' in the lower right-hand corner.

The funny thing about that whole Masterclass trailer is the continual contradiction between what he's saying and what he's doing. Example: "All this stuff can be done correctly on a laptop" *cut to shot of Deadmau5 messing around with a wall sized modular synth*