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

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

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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 ?