Clearing up the deadmau5 DJ thing
http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/25690507284/we-all-hit-play
There was a discussion on this in the him on pauly d thread a week or two back and people were complaining, this clears it up for me and I can’t help but agree.
got bored reading midway thru the 3rd paragraph…
Hopefully you don’t try and read a book anytime soon then. Fourty nine shades of lazy? 
intresting
thats awesome. stickittodaman.
Not interesting at all. To be a great DJ it takes a lot of talent. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to go see a great DJ play with the croud’s emotions. Also how much does he make a year? He definitely needs to stop caring what we think about him.
certainly would never read a book written in that style…or maybe definitely not by a guy in a “big silly mouse head”
EDM ain’t my thing anyways..
Totally agree, but i never heard a DJ talking about his self that way, so still intresting to me.
It really wasn’t an easy read due to his awful writing skills.
this pretty much sums up the whole “beat matching thing”
Maybe he should start with doing something special in the studio before even thinking about the rest…
To some extent I agree. Honestly to be at a competent level of just keeping the music going and rocking a crowd a lot of skill is not needed. And there is MUCH living proof out there of people who are earning money from simply pressing buttons, judging waveforms and following formulas. The entrance bar has really dropped. and like everything it has it’s pros and cons. As now people with no real vision can competently just push some buttons randomly and produce something interesting.
However I do like to believe and have seen also proof of just amazing mixing coming together that is improvised, yet obviously has a clear vision with specific goals that are meant to be accomplished with that mix. Where it makes sense and is a bit more intelligent and human and not intentful.
But honestly my car audio has automatic crossfader, and my friends have said many times it sounds awesome how one song went into another, and to be honest sometimes I definitely agree and a simple pre-programmed crossfade sounds amazing mixing two things I would of never thought would transition that simply. I’m appreciating the music not a skill.
If I could listen from an unbiased perspective of JUST the music, I’m not sure how many artsts including myself could really hear the difference soul and emotion makes versus products from intelligent algorithms simulating that.
I think he’s referring to phrasing. Counting to 4 is not beat matching. Counting to 4 is phrasing. In other words, deciphering where the 4th bar ends and the next one begins.
4th beat. 4th bar would be 16 counts, I don’t think Deadmau5 can count that high 
And even if he could, with all those 8bar phrases he’d still be out of luck…
it’s interesting that he thinks people care about his studio productions. 90% of the people at ULTRA MUSIC festival will never buy a single Deadmua5 track. They are there to do drugs, have fun, try to have sex and brag that “I was at ULTRA and Deadmau5 killed it.”
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Maybe he should start with doing something special in the studio before even thinking about the rest…
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Also, cheers.
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it’s interesting that he thinks people care about his studio productions.
[/quote]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.
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.
what a real, proper knob-end. i will ram two 1210’s so far up his ass he’ll be throat-fucked by a tonearm. anyone who spontaneously picks their next track, or beatmatches, or MC’s, or scratches, is playing more live than Deadmau5 just admitted to. He successfully managed to piss off not only the DJ’s that hate him but the DJ’s that love him. that poorly-written paragraph of shame just alienated a huge group of his fan base. I, at the pain of sounding hipster, loved deadmau5 about 4 years ago. realised soon after that all his tracks sound the same, he doesnt do ANYTHING inventive and he’s just all round a bit of a twat. this just re-confirms it, to anyone who didn’t know yet.
I think the funniest part about the whole thing is that deadmau5 will refuse to call himself a DJ despite the fact that his unplugged shows are DJ sets and no different from what all the DJs at festivals he makes fun of do.
He shows up with a DB4 and two x1s and plays tracks, I don’t know what else it is he thinks he’s doing that that’s not DJing.
And here is a video of deamau5 DJing in the studio, DJing other people’s tracks.