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I may not like some of his tracks, but I can definitely respect his relentlessness when it comes to writing music after all these years. The "deadmau5 sound" might have lost its luster to a lot of members on the board, but he's created a fairly recognizable sonic palette for the brand. I'm sure he would like to release something other than the typical electro house track people expect from him. But at the end of the day, though, deadmau5 is what pays the bills. Who knows what he writes in his free time.

I also enjoy what he does with his UStream/stickcam account (just watching him work in his studio). I can't think of many major artists these days who turn on a camera and allow a bunch of anonymous users to witness their flubs and breakthroughs. I spend most of my free time with synthesizers, so its nice to see other gear heads work with synths I know I won't be able to afford in my lifetime.

I like Some Chords and Animal Rights.

Remember when this was a thread about 4x4=12?

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Originally posted by Seandroid Joel jumps genres like crazy

You're embarrassing yourself by posting things like this. It shows your ignorance of the range of electronic music available, and thus your inexperience as a whole. Joel does not 'jump genres like crazy'. In fact, he does the complete opposite. He produces a very narrow-minded selection of music.

If you'd ever produced anything yourself, you'd understand why other producers (such as Mr. Mystery) don't see deadmau5 as talented. I've only fiddled with a bit of software and one hardware synth that I bought, and even I can understand.

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Originally posted by JEO And how isn't the poop farty bassline not a reason for "hating" him? You stating that his poop fart bassline is awesome is the exact same. Some people here have listened to edm longer than you've lived, and know when a fart just doesn't cut it as a bassline. You're calling him by his real name, does that mean you can't think of him as an artist, that you're attached to the person, instead? You liking him generally really proves you're biased. I hate him in person, I hate his voice, his attitude in general, he's pompous, and hangs out with Tommy Lee. I guess I'm kind of biased too.

Way to put words in my mouth. I called him Joel because that's his name, it has nothing to do with me being some sort of obsessive fan with no opinion.

And I never said anyone had to like the 'fart' basslines, I just said they were solidly designed, and considering this is a trance forum, a lot of the people on this website only seem to like 8th note with an upward ramp LFO filtered bass lines with a sidechain.

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Originally posted by Domesticated You're embarrassing yourself by posting things like this. It shows your ignorance of the range of electronic music available, and thus your inexperience as a whole. Joel does not 'jump genres like crazy'. In fact, he does the complete opposite. He produces a very narrow-minded selection of music. If you'd ever produced anything yourself, you'd understand why other producers (such as Mr. Mystery) don't see deadmau5 as talented. I've only fiddled with a bit of software and one hardware synth that I bought, and even I can understand.

Been producing for more than a year now good sir. Click the link in my signature.

And it does not show my ignorance of anything, I said he jumps genres like crazy, in that his albums are never JUST progressive house or JUST electro house. He jumps between what he feels like producing all the time, sometimes progressive, sometimes electro, and sometimes dubstep, not that he's done a million genres.

the true test of mr mau5's talent is if he can produce nice sounding glitch music.

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Originally posted by Domesticated You're embarrassing yourself by posting things like this. It shows your ignorance of the range of electronic music available, and thus your inexperience as a whole. Joel does not 'jump genres like crazy'. In fact, he does the complete opposite. He produces a very narrow-minded selection of music.

Completely false. Regardless of how good you think his stuff is, it still doesn't change the fact that he's made electro-house, tech-house, his version of prog-house, ambient, IDM, dubstep, and some glitch in his early days. He might produce a lot of the same stuff now, but to say he produces a small range of music is simply not factual (and it's not like the talent debate, this is something completely objective).

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Originally posted by Scrittah Completely false. Regardless of how good you think his stuff is, it still doesn't change the fact that he's made electro-house, tech-house, his version of prog-house, ambient, IDM, dubstep, and some glitch in his early days. He might produce a lot of the same stuff now, but to say he produces a small range of music is simply not factual (and it's not like the talent debate, this is something completely objective).

Agreed, he may not release it but Deadmau5 has ambient tracks like Creep, and all the "Songs for Meowingtons" stuff on YouTube, his first album Get Scraped was all IDM and ambient, his early stuff was tech house for the most part and that eventually developed into his progressive tracks like Arguru, then came along his tracks like The Reward is More Cheese which is electro house, and now he's doing dubstep like One Trick Pony/Raise Your Weapon

Faxing Berlin is debatably trance too.

Even though that's not what I meant by genre hopping Deadmau5 has tracks in tonnes of genres as well.

I can't help but wonder if we're over-analyzing what is ultimately designed to be fun big-room dance music. Personally, I like about half of the new album, but really who cares? When you strip away all the hype, marketing, and arenas, Deadmau5 is just another guy putting out some solid shit. He embraced a theatrical, showman element with the mouse-head, backed it up with some bangin tunes, caught lightning in a bottle, and now finds himself at the top of the game. There will always be guys crossing over into the mainstream who annoy some of us, so what's the big deal?

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Originally posted by TheInvisibleKid I can't help but wonder if we're over-analyzing what is ultimately designed to be fun big-room dance music. Personally, I like about half of the new album, but really who cares? When you strip away all the hype, marketing, and arenas, Deadmau5 is just another guy putting out some solid shit. He embraced a theatrical, showman element with the mouse-head, backed it up with some bangin tunes, caught lightning in a bottle, and now finds himself at the top of the game. There will always be guys crossing over into the mainstream who annoy some of us, so what's the big deal?

Yeah, that's pretty much true. His stuff isn't mindblowing (most of the time), but it's certainly not shite either.

I like the tracks 'YIUYDHHAGS^%' and 'shft+capslokk88'

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Originally posted by stealthman Seandroid... What makes a person an idiot for not liking deadmau5. Really, he's just another zitfaced pasty bedroom geek who happened to discover some unique fart bass sounds (which anyone can do these days) in fl studio and decided to market it all off with endless boredom in front of a few virtual synths and a ridiculous red helmet. Quit blowing smoke up his ass. "It's called preemptively wanting to hate" What?

First off I think mau5 is utter shit, but he is doing something right, look at how much music he sells...talented or not, you have to give him credit for the amount of success he's obtained. I'm sure at this point music is pure business to him. Look at all the cash waiting to be made!

I was really surprised this weekend to find out this kid, who's basically a part of the family now, is actually into Deadmau5 big time. The kid's probably 16 or 17 I believe, he even drew pictures of the 'mouse ears' thing on his wall. What makes it even more notable is that he lives on a small ass blip on the map ffs!

Then it hit me. Deadmau5 really is big right now on the scene. I never paid too much attention to him, but now I have to acknowledge it. This doesn't mean I like him that much though.

The thing is, while this kid liked Deadmau5, I was almost pleased that he knew and recognized each track on a disc he made (ID3 tags were missing on most songs). He even noted the Deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner collab "Animal Rights", never though I'd hear anyone name that song out loud in real life! It was also cool to hear him name off Daft Punk & play some classic trance from the early '00s and some newer Dash Berlin (lmao).

So, I don't think today's youth is too messed up or cheesy. For instance, they'll eventually come across trance at its finest years -- they'll dig up old Tiesto records and albums and see how great music was in the past. I have hope!

It's too easy for people to bitch about new music they don't like, when we should really be trying to share good stuff (not piracy) without looking like douchebags. I have hope whenever I tell someone techno=/=electronic music and they actually seem to care.

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Originally posted by LiQuiD_FuSioN I was really surprised this weekend to find out this kid, who's basically a part of the family now, is actually into Deadmau5 big time. The kid's probably 16 or 17 I believe, he even drew pictures of the 'mouse ears' thing on his wall. What makes it even more notable is that he lives on a small ass blip on the map ffs! Then it hit me. Deadmau5 really is big right now on the scene. I never paid too much attention to him, but now I have to acknowledge it. This doesn't mean I like him that much though. The thing is, while this kid liked Deadmau5, I was almost pleased that he knew and recognized each track on a disc he made (ID3 tags were missing on most songs). He even noted the Deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner collab "Animal Rights", never though I'd hear anyone name that song out loud in real life! It was also cool to hear him name off Daft Punk & play some classic trance from the early '00s and some newer Dash Berlin (lmao). So, I don't think today's youth is too messed up or cheesy. For instance, they'll eventually come across trance at its finest years -- they'll dig up old Tiesto records and albums and see how great music was in the past. I have hope!

no...today's youth lives in the moment of what is popular. If next month country music became the new thing I'm sure he would drop all his deadmau5 CDs for country ones.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced no...today's youth lives in the moment of what is popular. If next month country music became the new thing I'm sure he would drop all his deadmau5 CDs for country ones.

You realize people have to like things for them to be popular, correct?

And while Deadmau5 is popular it's not like he's Lady GaGa. Every single person I know who likes Deadmau5 likes electronic music in general, even though most of them are misinformed about EDM. I mean most of them call it techno and think dubstep is 'hardcore techno' but that doesn't mean they're not fans of the music itself, they just might not be a part of the scene.

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