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

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.
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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!

"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*