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

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)