Clearing up the deadmau5 DJ thing
Clearing up the deadmau5 DJ thing Posted on: 23.06.2012 by Linda Chavda http://deadmau5.tumblr.com/post/2569...e-all-hit-playThere 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. | |
| Romelia Stankard 24.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by DigitalDevil
http://trainspottr.com/djproducer-de...cking-cts/1452 |
| May Artman 24.06.2012 | 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.
Originally Posted by rdale
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| Lauretta Ehrhorn 24.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by mostapha
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| Freida Leash 24.06.2012 | 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 believe 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. |
| Rosenda Gossage 24.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by mostapha
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| Dorie Scelzo 24.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by ellgieff
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. |
| Rosenda Gossage 23.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by MiL0
Music: it's not experienced through the eyes unless it's so loud that it's reducing you to a gelatinous pulp. |
| Margie Pavell 23.06.2012 | just reinforces what i believe about him... |
| Alfred Takala 23.06.2012 | 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 believe that producing...and doing it well to a high standard then yes. preach joel. |
| Noriko Lebowitz 23.06.2012 | he's a malnourished hypocrite... |
| Romelia Stankard 23.06.2012 | I believe 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 believes he's doing that that's not DJing. And here is a video of deamau5 DJing in the studio, DJing other people's tracks. |
| Birgit Gondal 23.06.2012 | 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. |
| Arcelia Siebeneck 23.06.2012 | 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 believe 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. |
| Dorie Scelzo 23.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by 3heads
Also, cheers.
Originally Posted by loverocket
Originally Posted by deadmaofive
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. |
| Jerica Salava 23.06.2012 | it's interesting that he believes 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." |
| Celestine Porebski 23.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by rotebass
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| Lela Umanskaya 23.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by loverocket
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| Jerica Salava 23.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by TommyQuiet
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| Francis Leckliter 23.06.2012 | 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. |
| Celestine Porebski 23.06.2012 |
But to stand up and say youre doing something special outside of a studio environment, when youre not, just plain fuckin annoys me.
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| Kandy Ahdoot 23.06.2012 | this pretty much sums up the whole "beat matching thing"
“beatmatching” isnt even a fucking skill as far as im concered anyway. so what, you can count to 4. cool. i had that skill down when i was 3
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| Salvatore Husley 23.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by cyberphox
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| Era Roka 23.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by Shane Says
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| Johnna Callery 23.06.2012 | 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.. |
| Salvatore Husley 23.06.2012 | Not interesting at all. To be a great DJ it takes a lot of talent. Anyone who believes 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 believe about him. |
| Xiomara Woolworth 23.06.2012 | thats awesome. stickittodaman. |
| Era Roka 23.06.2012 | intresting |
| Linda Chavda 23.06.2012 | Hopefully you don't try and read a book anytime soon then. Fourty nine shades of lazy? |
| Johnna Callery 23.06.2012 | got bored reading midway thru the 3rd paragraph... |
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