Clearing up the deadmau5 DJ thing

[DJKyleHughes]

he's a malnourished hypocrite...

[MyMotto]

Its funny cause for the longest time i though his anti dj campaign was directed at SHM and David Guetta but apparently he's friends/gets along with them? Maybe he just hates pauly D. Realistically his live set isnt that good. your pretty much paying around 60$ to hear your Deadmau5 playlist in itunes. But i do agree partially i think that producing...and doing it well to a high standard then yes. preach joel.

[keithace]

just reinforces what i think about him...

[ellgieff]

I would suggest anyone who's berating Deadmau5 check out the live DVD he released awhile back. It's one of my favourite live EDM DVD's since I picked up The Prodigy - Electronic Punks VHS tape.

I think the point he's making is that he knows how to put on a damn fine live show. I couldn't give a shit if he's just pressing the space bar (which he's not). I pays my money and I wanna be blown away by his set and the inevitably amazing visuals. I've seen The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Underworld and Orbital countless times and they're no different... it's no more 'live' than Deadmau5. Orbital used to trigger loops via a bunch of Alesis MMT8's when they played live(!)... Deadmau5 is going WAY beyond that and Orbital are/were generally considered to one of the top live EDM shows.

If you've gone to a Deadmau5 'live' show and expect to see a dj who 'reads the crowd', you've clearly gone to the wrong show. Watching Deadmau5 live is about something different... if you don't like how he performs 'live' then you're not the intended market he's aiming at. And the market/punters he's aiming at will keep on dancing to his live shows whilst all the keyboard warriors on DJTT keep on bitching.

Bigups to Deadmau5... if only for being honest.

If you go to any music show in order to see the performance, I feel sorry for you.

Music: it's not experienced through the eyes unless it's so loud that it's reducing you to a gelatinous pulp.

[mostapha]

Music: it's not experienced through the eyes unless it's so loud that it's reducing you to a gelatinous pulp.

It's a mixture of things. But the sad thing is that people have been doing stuff with sync'd visuals, fireworks, etc. since the '70s……with real instruments.

He hasn't done anything that Kiss and Metallica didn't do when he was a baby except replace a lot of people's talent and hard work with the work of coders that get even less effort than pyrotechs.

[ellgieff]

It's a mixture of things. But the sad thing is that people have been doing stuff with sync'd visuals, fireworks, etc. since the '70s……with real instruments.

He hasn't done anything that Kiss and Metallica didn't do when he was a baby except replace a lot of people's talent and hard work with the work of coders that get even less effort than pyrotechs.

These things are true. And I hated KISS, and stopped liking Metallica after it became about "the show".

The sad thing is that people have been going to hear music because of how it looks pretty much since it got commoditised in the 50's. *shrugs*

[rdale]

There is really a balance between the show and the sound. My ideal "rig" is a show with installed in a venue with two performances a week. Would love to make a true visual and aural experience that goes beyond what has been seen. Nobody has really done that with dance music in a fair while and no one has ever done it where the performance is integrated in the proper way of enhancing the experience.
My first "rave" was warehouse style in the early 90's, the lights where at best poor, the sound ok, the music midwest style "house". It was great! It was about the people and not the music, I think todays culture has changed it about something else, more like watching instead of being apart of the experience. There has to be a way to redirect that energy where it belongs, but it is going to to take effort at making the whole show more inclusive of the audience. Maybe this isn't the time and everything must die and regrow to have that vibe again.
About the article the guy has no idea what he is really talking about, there is so much more to DJing than pushing play, even when I use sync. I'm frequently remixing tracks in real time, building new sounds and controlling the vibe with out ever writing a note. I guess it is lazy to figure out sweet mixes.

[D-Kem]

Zing.

Also, cheers.

Back during the "all DJs are cunts" fiasco, it came out that he honestly thought real people bought his shit, not the DJs he constantly insulted.



Prodigy
KLF
Shamen
Orbital
Underworld
about a billion other people from the acid house & rave scenes.

No, they're not playing all of the instruments. Some part of all of their shows was pressing play on something like a sequencer or drum machine. But they all do more live than deadmaofive.

He's a worthless piece of scum, and there's no reason any self-respecting DJ should ever play his music or give his opinions any reverence.

Great list of early Uk rave artists and many many more doing original stuff back then

[DigitalDevil]

I'll never understand the extreme hate toward deadmau5 for what he does as a producer/performer. I get it that a lot of people dislike him for his attitude, and obviously (as with anything else) not everyone will like his music, but all the foaming at the mouth levels of hate about his shows is ridiculous. Some of you make it sound like he's an international terrorist for putting on a helmet and pressing a spacebar just because tons of people pay to see it.

Realistically his live set isnt that good. your pretty much paying around 60$ to hear your Deadmau5 playlist in itunes.

If you really want to dumb it down to that, you could say the same thing about almost every big name in the industry.

About the article the guy has no idea what he is really talking about, there is so much more to DJing than pushing play, even when I use sync. I'm frequently remixing tracks in real time, building new sounds and controlling the vibe with out ever writing a note. I guess it is lazy to figure out sweet mixes.

With the term "DJ" he's not really referring to the local resident DJ doing different things every night, he's referring to all the big headliners that play the same set for an entire tour.

[Xonetacular]

With the term "DJ" he's not really referring to the local resident DJ doing different things every night, he's referring to all the big headliners that play the same set for an entire tour.

No, he hates all DJs and has even more distaste for local DJs who don't produce. He was referring to the latter back when he called all DJs cunts and if you listen to any of his rants he bashes regular djs more as worthless record players and thinks the working DJ needs to die and is no longer relevant.

http://trainspottr.com/djproducer-de...cking-cts/1452