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 (twelve years ago) link
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
^^^^ 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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― I DIED, Thursday, 11 August 2011 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
No it's just progtrance.
― Tim F, Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Redshape and Deadmau5 - they almost sound the same?!?! COULD IT BE?
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
He's Rex The Dog. And Burial.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
sasha and dickweed
always going to be funny
― Johnmau5 (history mayne), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
huge among teens in san diego too
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAYjiwCkWE
― errant flynn, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Megadeth Monk (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
this guy seems p cool, like hes just about the party or w/e, making cool beats and shit
― buttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbutt (Lamp), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.pillreports.com/index.php?page=display_pill&id=16293
Your own disco biscuit = legitimacy
― errant flynn, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/DiscoBiscuitsSenorBoombox.jpg
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
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
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Did you see the part where the mask is outfitted with crazy led lights?
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
― 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..."
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Dead Mau Five
lol
― dmr, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
He's actually Frank Sidebottom with a shaped neon light
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26jKtELitQE
Based on a Deadmau5 sample, an almost-great pop song ruined by a charisma-free singer.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
t/s deadmau5 vs MOOMBAHTON
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 11 August 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
the logo creeps me out tbh
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― The Reverend, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
How does he see out of the mask with all these LEDs in his face to dj?
― The Reverend, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
Let's ask the important questions here.
― The Reverend, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
― Matt DC, Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:28 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
truth bomb
― some dude, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
― buttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbuttbutt (Lamp), Thursday, August 11, 2011 2:45 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
how does this not describe every guy in dance music ever
― some dude, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
uh ... well ... there's this thing called prog ...
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 12 August 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
anyway it's harder for me to figure out the appeal of uk funky to hipsters than deadmau5 to norms
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 12 August 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
Non tim f / ilm hipsters like uk funky??
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Friday, 12 August 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
afaict
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
uk funky to uk hipsters than deadmau5 to US norms
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
US norms not us norms mind you
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― some dude, Friday, 12 August 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
DEADMAU5 EXPLAINS WHY HE ABHORS JUSTIN BIEBER & HIS FIGHTS ON TWITTER WITH SKRILLEX
http://weraveyou.com/2015/12/13/deadmau5-clears-bieber/
― Adam J Duncan, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
^ LOL just came here to post this. Is this guy entirely unfamiliar with the concept of pop music and professional singers in general?
― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OIIezHv.png
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iyKJqMw.png
http://i.imgur.com/GWblSr4.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
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
― Dominique, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
i still say dead mow 5 in my head
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
Insulting the guy by feminizing him.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
So Kanye is butthurt after these tweets?
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/02/entertainment/kanye-west-pirate-bay-feat/index.html
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
fuck deadmau5, fuck kanye
― the late great, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link
https://j.gifs.com/2RJ40A.gif
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:48 (seven years ago) link
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.
― how's life, Monday, 26 December 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
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*
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Monday, 26 December 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link