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deadmau5 Essential Mix (pg. 4)
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| gummybear |
| quote: | Originally posted by MarkT
meh...big deal. It's his mix, he did with it what he wanted.
typical TA hating to bash the guy instead of "holy , you got an EM slot, congrats!!!"
that he DID get an EM slot is proof enough that he doesn't need career advice from anyone here ;) |
ditto all that... |
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| kaniz |
Who Let The Dogs out also topped the charts at one point. Just sayin' is all ;)
Deadmau5 does get quite a bit of hate-on on TA which I find odd - his productions just dont do anything for me. Well produced, just not cup of tea. But yes, the fact he has an EM mix, headlines big festivals and all that is great - nice to see Canadian peeps getting some recognition, especially from when they are from around these parts.
Congrats Deadmau5 on getting an EM mix. |
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| PurpleHaze |
Deadmau5 is an excellent producer who is trying to be a DJ as well.
There aren't too many great producers who are also great DJs and vice versa. Majority are either one or the other.
His productions have impressed me throughout his newly-found career and I'm excited to see what his new tracks sound like.
He's still a promo-whore though. |
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| gummybear |
| you can never have enough promo..therefore..being a whore of it can only be a good thing...:) |
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| 8Wonders |
The one obvious benefit of having an entire set of your own music on an Essential Mix is clearly ... publishing royalties!
If I were asked to do a guestmix, I'd obviously play as much of my own stuff as well :) |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by NuERA
but you're all talking about, and you're all going to listen, so i guess we know who wins. |
I probably won't cause I'm lazy |
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| Halycon |
i gaver a listen, i enjoyed, kudos to you joel for gettin a em slot and giving me something to listen to at work tonight.
and on that note also heard not exactly on z103.5 top 9 @ 9 tonite. forget what it ranked |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halycon
i gaver a listen, i enjoyed, kudos to you joel for gettin a em slot and giving me something to listen to at work tonight.
and on that note also heard not exactly on z103.5 top 9 @ 9 tonite. forget what it ranked |
I heard it too... It was # 6!!! |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halycon
i gaver a listen, i enjoyed, kudos to you joel for gettin a em slot and giving me something to listen to at work tonight. |
has it been out for a year already? lol |
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| Owen M |
| quote: | Originally posted by kaniz
You know what I love about electronic music and DJs? Being exposed to a wide range of music that I would have never heard before. I love digging through track listings and finding tracks / artists / labels that I never knew existed before and being blown away.
I love hearing tracks that I may have ignored otherwise, be played/mixed in such a way that it makes me stop and go 'wow' and get a new appreciation for the track.
I love being taken on a musical trip / journey, and I think limiting a DJ mix to 100% of your own productions is not doing the art form of crafting a captivating set justice.
When doing a DJ set of your own productions, you are limiting yourself to a very small catalog of tracks. But, when you dont - you're opening up an endless sea of sonic possibilities to tickle the ears, engage the brain and move the feet.
The exception to this would be LivePAs when they are done REALLY well. Examples of this for me would be artists like Sleeparchive, Seph, etc. I like Live PAs that seem to organically morph/evolve and not so much 'track 1 stops now, track 2 starts now' like a few PA's I've seen (Jake Fairley reminded me of this when I saw him at The Mod club a year or two back)
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I enjoy all of those elements of a dj set aswell, but from an aristic standpoint, it's much harder to put together a full set thats quaility with your own music than going through a record bag and playing other peoples tunes.
My rant was directed at everyone who were complaining about the lack of "variety" in this essential mix.
I was saying it took more creativity than selecting a tracklist of someone elses music, because he had to take the time and create all those songs in the first place. And I respect that much more than any dj set that has "taken on a musical trip / journey," filled with other peoples tunes. |
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| TheVrk |
| quote: | Originally posted by MarkT
typical TA hating to bash the guy instead of "holy , you got an EM slot, congrats!!!"
that he DID get an EM slot is proof enough that he doesn't need career advice from anyone here ;) |
Right on, totally agree.
I loved this mix...
This falls into the category of "wanna get ppl who dont like electronic music to like it? then listen to this..."
Got 4-5 ppl LOVIN Deadmau5 in the last 3 days just from this mix:D |
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| kaniz |
Skimming through this mix now. There are elements of his production that I really like, but also elements of it that I find really annoying. Could see myself enjoying a few of his tracks in the club, but not for 2 hours on end.
Nice bit of chuggyness here and there, a few nice blippy bits. The electro-ish overtones just sound abrasive to my ears and make me go 'ack!' and flip forward quicker than I should. Vocals tend to annoy me, same with really floaty-hands-in-the air type moments.
Generally speaking, dislike it as it's 'not my thing', not jumpping on the TA-hateon of deadmau5 - props to the guy. "Objectively" speaking - its not bad. From a personal-taste point of view, it makes me cringe more than a few times. |
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