This is still his finest moment IMO, more or less his signature song (tho somewhat diminished by the numerous clones of it that followed):
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
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)
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
he has albums called random album title and for lack of a better name
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
i didn't even realize deadmau5 had songs tbh -- thought he kinda just played shit
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i did too but i am learning things today - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmau5#Comment_about_DJs
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
is deadmau5 a jew????
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
well he is a zimmerman
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― dogps (some dude), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
right place/right time
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
He has a mouse head with LED lights in it.
― errant flynn, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
*which he should always keep on because he resembles every skinny, pockmarked, cap wearing dude I ever bought e from.
― errant flynn, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
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?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Psy only, brah!
― errant flynn, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/dubstep-believe-it (jamescobo), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
He has a mouse head with LED lights in it.― errant flynn, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:30 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
― errant flynn, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:30 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
Actual real talk.
― Death To False Camp (Doran), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Note: Deadmau5 avatar has been reserved for the actual deadmau5. So instead, may we present our awesome monkey couple.
^^^^ turntable.fm
― dmr, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― rameau: first blood (donna rouge), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
totally "competent as fuck" progtrance. destroy, save for "sometimes things get, whatever"
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
He has a song called "bored of canada".
― lol is not enough (blank), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
My favourite tune connected to him is a remix of I Remember by Kaspar, of all people.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― dmr, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i have no idea what any of this means but it's fucking awesome.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's a huge modular synth nerd, which makes sense in light of him being an excellent sound engineer rather than an excellent producer
― I DIED, Thursday, 11 August 2011 06:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 11 August 2011 07:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
i saw some kid walking around downtown princeton in a one of these mouse heads the other day.
― based grandpa (noz), Thursday, 11 August 2011 08:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
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?
Will probably kill him one day, but it looks cool.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
No it's just progtrance.
― Tim F, Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
also many bonus points for having a variety of maus heads with different fex, afaik
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nothing gives you a profile in dance music like obscuring a face or identity that no one would care about otherwise.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Redshape and Deadmau5 - they almost sound the same?!?! COULD IT BE?
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
He's Rex The Dog. And Burial.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
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!"
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
not that they didn't end up dancier tbh - here's Dumb 'n' Base (including possibly the greatest internal rhyme ever)
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
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?!?"
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
sasha and dickweed
always going to be funny
― Johnmau5 (history mayne), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
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)
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
huge among teens in san diego too
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― max, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
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?")
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
― errant flynn, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh gosh, sorry I don't keep up with the always finger on the pulse Rolling Stone!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
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".
― Megadeth Monk (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
after spending 5 minutes googling 'deadmau5 zionist' and 'deadmau5 israel' i have say no
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 28 June 2012 17:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
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?
― mh, Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
well, just this one jew. maybe he knows something we dont
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
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
― coal, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
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!"
― mh, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
Sure but I thought that's what DJs were for
― coal, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
Apparently two different things can do a similar job!
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
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
― coal, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
just don't do drugs to enhance the live set, that is totally horrible and not what you do at dance music events
― mh, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2012 19:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
omg gerald wtf
― the late great, Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
last time i encountered AGCG was at one of the red bull lectures and he did ramble on interminably and aimlessly
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
"EDM" kmt though, it's madonna who needs to come out and squish deadmau5 LIKE WE KNOW SHE CAN
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 28 June 2012 23:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
That hotwaterinc article seemed to go on for as long as Danny Tenaglia's famed 26 hour set
― badg, Friday, 29 June 2012 00:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
A Goy Called Gerald
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 29 June 2012 00:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
Gerald also had giant Reason stickers on his two laptops and some sections sounded suspiciously like demo mode
― mh, Friday, 29 June 2012 01:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
the program or the magazine
― goole, Friday, 29 June 2012 01:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
Hahah I was wondering the same.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2012 01:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
the progrom
― max, Friday, 29 June 2012 02:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 June 2012 06:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
Mr C has also chipped in on deadmau5
http://pulseradio.net/articles/2012/06/mr-c-on-deadmau5-complete-wanker
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 June 2012 08:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
wake me up when mc tunes chimes in
― beater drummer (electricsound), Friday, 29 June 2012 08:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 June 2012 08:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
grim lol. if you're talking about his RA mix, i thought the same thing :/
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 June 2012 08:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 29 June 2012 08:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― mh, Friday, 29 June 2012 13:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Josiah Alan, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
wcc why are you such a sexist
― the late great, Friday, 29 June 2012 19:13 (10 months ago) Permalink
imo Mr. 5 is hoping that people to notice he's got modulars onstage
― manditory fun. day (Ówen P.), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 05:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
i wish they sold cartoon head masks at target
― panther modems (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 05:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 ..
― mark e, Thursday, 22 November 2012 19:25 (6 months ago) Permalink
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
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:23 (5 months ago) Permalink
"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?
― mh, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:31 (5 months ago) Permalink