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

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/

^ LOL just came here to post this. Is this guy entirely unfamiliar with the concept of pop music and professional singers in general?

http://i.imgur.com/OIIezHv.png

http://i.imgur.com/iyKJqMw.png

http://i.imgur.com/GWblSr4.jpg

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

i still say dead mow 5 in my head

Insulting the guy by feminizing him.

So Kanye is butthurt after these tweets?

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/02/entertainment/kanye-west-pirate-bay-feat/index.html

fuck deadmau5, fuck kanye

https://j.gifs.com/2RJ40A.gif

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.

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*