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

But seriously, who cares what this cunt thinks? He seems to have quite a few defenders but I haven't heard any production of his that even rises close to the level of a decent Digweed production ("For What You Dream Of"?)

there's a hard sliver of conservatism running through all these "controversial" pronouncements that paired with his out-there image feels really familiar somehow

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, June 25, 2012 9:54 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the united states of america ca. 2012

guy called gerald aint happy with the mouse man :

http://www.guycalledgerald.com/blog/message-to-rat-head/

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also

http://hotwaterinc.tumblr.com/post/25938207447/hitstart

linked to elsewhere in relation to this story. these guys must be raking it in

http://edmsnob.com/leaked-contracts-performance-perks-favorite-edm-artists/

the guy called gerald thing is kinda disturbing. what's with the line about "the only button you want to push is a nuke for the Palestinians"? is that some sort of anti-semitic attack?

yeah .. there's been some reaction to that particular wording on facecrook as well.

is there any particular evidence that deadmauf is a likudnik or something

after spending 5 minutes googling 'deadmau5 zionist' and 'deadmau5 israel' i have say no

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?

well, just this one jew. maybe he knows something we dont

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.

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

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!"

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.

Sure but I thought that's what DJs were for

Apparently two different things can do a similar job!

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

just don't do drugs to enhance the live set, that is totally horrible and not what you do at dance music events

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.

omg gerald wtf

last time i encountered AGCG was at one of the red bull lectures and he did ramble on interminably and aimlessly

"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/