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Deadmau5 - Take Care of the Proper Paperwork

I thought this was an interesting track. Almost like taking a piss on what people expect in an EDM track. What do you guys think?

People seem to either love it or hate it.

thought the album as a whole was great.

track is weird to say the least, i was expecting a beat to come and nope it started to build again. I've been listening to old deadmau5 tracks and he used to do very good tracks in all genres, breaks, ambient... it's a bit sad that now he makes top 40 electro.

You really haven't heard the album have you?

that looks exactly like my cat



cool track, sounds kinda chemical brotherish, I'll have to check out the record

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney You really haven't heard the album have you?

No i was listening to deadmau5 tracks randomly on spotify not a full album, last album i listened from him was 2x2=5

you do realize he started making electro. Then moved to other stuff, The electro he does is quite consistent to what he has always done. I wouldn't call it commercial either despite his commercial success.

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos track is weird to say the least, i was expecting a beat to come and nope it started to build again. I've been listening to old deadmau5 tracks and he used to do very good tracks in all genres, breaks, ambient... it's a bit sad that now he makes top 40 electro.

I'm pretty sure that's the point of the track. Do you feel duped?

i have listened to the album this evening , there are a couple good tracks but i only knew "Maths" (don't like it at all) and "Professional Griefers", rather commercial one but i went too far clasyfing him as "top 40 electro" . I don't know how he does to keep himself alive in the top 10, it's probably the less commercial and the one who makes less spam about dj mag...

Most elaborated track is the OP track , it has a craftmanship but it's not really my cup of tea.

I love october. If i was good, that track could have been made by me.
It's so integer, also the tinnitus kind fades in the background, so awesome. Very soft, but floating around. LOVELY track, best one on the album for me.

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Originally posted by J.L. I thought this was an interesting track. Almost like taking a piss on what people expect in an EDM track. What do you guys think? People seem to either love it or hate it.

Really good moody ecletic track. Edm evolved.

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Originally posted by Richard Butler Really good moody ecletic track. Edm evolved.

I feel the same way. Lots to admire about this and, if this track is an indication of the album's overall quality, I'm due to purchase it, shortly.

Just when you thought EDM was going down the shit hole, in comes Deadmau5 with a SOLID track! Love the track. Very Chemical Brothers, Prodigy type of feel. LOVE IT.

I looove this track! I wish the ending was less sudden though.

This one is pretty good too.

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Originally posted by Raphie I love october. If i was good, that track could have been made by me. It's so integer, also the tinnitus kind fades in the background, so awesome. Very soft, but floating around. LOVELY track, best one on the album for me.

my fav too, it is the stuff that made me get into him 3-4 years ago.

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Originally posted by J.L. I thought this was an interesting track. Almost like taking a piss on what people expect in an EDM track. What do you guys think? People seem to either love it or hate it.

amazing if used as soundtrack in a hitman game
reminds me of some of jezper kyds electric tracks, lvoe it

the soundtrack to Hanna was great.



Chemical Brothers.

I was quite surprised by the stuff mau5 put in this album. I'm glad he's just doing whatever he wants to hear, and not falling into the bait of putting out what he wants to hear.

just got around to listen to this track
I love it
Chemical bothers , Okenfold's Bunkka (ready steady go..)

its like f**ck you I will not explode, have better things to do

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney the soundtrack to Hanna was great. Chemical Brothers.

for me track 19 is massive, I'm a sucker for strings

This guy should start making techno, some cool ideas in this track.

Personally, I loved the album (sans the last 2 tracks - with Cypress Hill and Imogen Heap).

This review, though, really riled me up - and I'm no Mau5head by any stretch of imagination...

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I��m sorry to be predictable. And given that you��re a FACT reader it can be assumed that I��m preaching to the converted here. But some things are worth repeating. Because this isn��t just some harmless spate of Eurotrash singles in the mid-90s vein �C already half way returned to whatever sinkhole they crawled from, and leaving not so much as a scratch on the cultural landscape. Otherwise I wouldn��t bother. But EDM, the basic, lifeless kind; the tech/house version, not a genre but a vortex of mundane inanity; is here to stay. The money men will see to that. And it will perpetuate for many more years to come a facile electro sound that the entire world was sick of within a year of Vitalic��s debut, and from which, seven over-saturating years later, 50 million American teenagers are about to form their conception of dance music. And even if he is taking a leave of absence �C because he��s a multi millionaire and because he��s tired of his own music and tired of himself �C hundreds of likeminded clones are queuing up to take his place, because there��s untold sums of cash to be made, because this is America we��re talking about. So just to be sure it��s said, for the last time before the rush, for the sake of posterity, and I��m sorry to be predictable�_ but this record is truly awful. He, Joel Zimmerman, is awful �C one of music��s anti-Christs, to be filed with Fred Durst, Pendulum and whoever wrote the song about the dogs being let out. What strikes you first about Album Title Goes Here, apart from the moronic postmodernism-for-tweens title, is how resolutely un-danceable it is, considering that apologists champion techno-EDM as the ultimate shite-but-gets-you-movin�� music; the final perfecting of distilled functionalism. Opener ��Subliminal�� trounces ever onwards on a throbbing loop, not so much a rhythm as a repetition. Verging on incompetence, white elephant metrics in the shape of random drum rolls or glitched grinds knock the signature a fraction off swinging, so that in the end you can just about synchronise a stamping foot with its sea-sick rigidity. Then, following a arbitrary midpoint break of ambient snyths, the Canadian goes and repeats the whole depressing first section, almost verbatim. And that title, ��Subliminal���_ as if the track��s so deft that with a drug-mystical mysteriousness it infiltrates the listener through their subconscious. It doesn��t. It enters at the crappy top soil of your bone-hard mind, lodges there, and becomes numbingly obvious within the space of a half-minute. Then, emptying its infected bowels on Daft Punk��s legacy �C as more and more albums will do in the coming years �C ��Maths�� re-contextualises Homework��s beautiful wump-bass within a square schematic of accordant synth progressions and unaccented counter beats. This is what��s called ��totally missing the fucking point��. It was ��Da Funk��, not da crypto-totalitarian Quaalude-fucked gabba, as concocted by a rheumatic Middle England vicar. ��Channel 42�� repeats the format (the album does that a lot) but adds shite trance builds and one-finger versions of the proggy space synths from Discovery��s 5555 suite. That Zimmerman has in so many words denounced dance music��s entire European history as some kind of dark ages, while plagiarising with the utmost cynicism and zero craftsmanship the music, is pretty much unforgivable. Elsewhere we have the distorted textures of dance-rocker ��Take Care of the Proper Paperwork��, where again the dance programming is slightly off, the ��beat�� switching between barely rhythmic variations on the sound of an electronic alarm clock, alongside shades of Fuck Buttons�� undanceable first album. And the atrocities just keep on coming. There��s a dance song constructed entirely from the five-note sequence in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and a sterile hip-hop track, ��Failbait�� featuring Cypress Hill, with Zimmermann petrifying the genre��s essence as ruthlessly as he does when it comes to dance music. There��s the Gerard Way-featuring ��Professional Griefers��, a transparent attempt to court the massive ex-Emo diaspora that, quite logically, makes up a lot of EDM��s new audience. ����Telemiscommunications�� follows: touchy-feely synth indie from the Owl City stable, starring the precious Imogen Heap and destined for some self-satisfied American independent film about a 20-something man who��s really a boy, and his kooky love interest. It begins with ��Hey baby how��s your day been..No you first�_This is just so like us�_�� Ha, totally. Read up on the American majors and the rush to sign DJs like they��re grunge bands in 1991. This thing is massive. Worse, it��s to be the new ��alternative�� in America. Worse still, it��s to be both things at once: a culture where lonely kids can feel like they belong or are rebelling, and a culture to milk money from them. Now listen to ��The Veldt�� and its ��We are the children of the revolution�� lyrics, lifted from a thousand ��90s rave tracks, and tell me that��s not depressing. The youth utopia? The ��world that the children made��? 20 odd years ago, maybe. This time it��s made by c**ts, like Joel Zimmerman.

source: http://www.factmag.com/2012/10/02/a...itle-goes-here/

I commented with Robert Heinlein quote in the article comments. The quote was:

"A 'critic' is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased - he hates all creative people equally."

but my comment was removed... *shrug*

some critics are able to do it objectively but they are almost always good at the task that is being critiqued. You can't rate something you don't understand.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney You can't rate something you don't understand.

agreed

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