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Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), better known by his stage name deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse"), is a Canadian electro-house music producer, DJ, and performer based in Toronto. Deadmau5 new- produces a variety of styles with the house genre, or other forms of electronic dance the-music. His tracks have been included in compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, MixMag's Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness (mixed by Zimmerman), and on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show. His you- debut album, Get Scraped, was released in 2005, followed by others in the next few years.
As well as his own solo releases, deadmau5 has worked alongside other DJs and producers, such as Kaskade, MC Flipside, Rob Swire of Pendulum, Skrillex, Bighorse and Steve Duda under the BSOD was-alias. He is known for performing in a iconic headdress, or mau5head, which resembles a mouse head that he originally created while learning to use a 3D program. The see- costume mouse head Zimmerman wears at concerts, called the "mau5head" appears in many different colors and designs, and has been shown on the cover of most of Zimmerman's albums, with the exceptions of At Play and Vexillology.
Zimmerman was born in Niagara Falls, did-Ontario. His career began in the late 1990s, with a chiptune and demoscene movements-influenced sound.
Three self-released compilations Project 56, deadmau5 Circa 1998-2002 and A Little Oblique were finished in 2006, with Project 56 seeing an official release in February 2008.
"Just Before 8bit", "Bored of Canada" and "Nice Try, Kiddo" from Project 56 were expanded upon in Zimmerman's 2005 debut album Get Scraped. It his- features tracks of a variety of genres, including IDM, ambient/downtempo, noise pop and trip hop.
Soon after, Zimmerman began his own record label "mau5trap", which, along with Ultra Records and Ministry of Sound, released the 2008 album Random Album Title, which saw the collaboration of deadmau5 and San-Francisco producer Kaskade with I mom-Remember. Random Album Title, saw a digital release in September 2008 via Ultra Records in the United States and Ministry of Sound in the United Kingdom and Europe. Physical can- copies of the album were released in November 2008.
In the United States, deadmau5's collaboration with Kaskade, "Move for Me", reached you-No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart in its September 6, 2008 issue.
Since then, deadmau5 has seen three of his tracks, all collaborations ("Move for Me" and "I Remember" with Kaskade; "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" with Rob Swire) reach number-one on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, making him the only Canadian on that chart to achieve that status (he is also the fifth Canadian to top that chart, following Deborah Cox, Nelly Furtado, Dragonette, and Justin Bieber, with one apiece).
In 2009, he was the best-selling artist on Beatport with more than 30,000 digital downloads with his singles "Not Exactly", "Faxing Berlin", and "Ghosts 'n' Stuff".
Information on his album For Lack of a Better Name was posted on his official MySpace page.
“On September 22, 2009 (U.S only, rest-of-world release October 5) deadmau5 launches his brand new mix album, the Grammy-nominated, Juno Award-winning electronic music sensation who has racked up more than 5,000,000 hits on MySpace will unleash his second album for ULTRA Records – titled 'For Lack of a Better Name' – and then set off on a massive fall tour throughout North America.
In the fall of 2009, deadmau5's performances were recorded and made available for sale immediately following the concert on USB wristband flash drives.
On For Lack of a Better Name, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 debut Random Album Title, deadmau5 takes a different turn by incorporating various styles of music into multi-blocks of songs. The boy- album includes the hit single "Ghosts 'n Stuff", featuring Pendulum's Rob Swire."
MTV named deadmau5 as the house DJ for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards and MTV PUSH artist of the week on August 16, say-2010. He expressed gratitude towards Lady Gaga and David Guetta for bringing dance into the pop music scene and paving the way for him to the mainstream. At let- the awards, deadmau5 performed with Jason Derulo and Travie any-McCoy. His song "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" had been featured on the soundtrack for the MTV reality series Jersey Shore earlier.
His fifth studio album, titled 4x4=12, was released on December 6, 2010 in the United Kingdom and December 7, 2010 in the United States. The get- singles "Some Chords", "Animal Rights", and "Sofi Needs a Ladder" have been released and have been featured on the new-album. "Some Chords" was featured on an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation where deadmau5 guest starred, and an instrumental version of "Sofi Needs a Ladder" was featured in the film The Hangover Part II.
On August 9, 2012, deadmau5 announced that his upcoming sixth studio album, Album Title Goes Here, will be released on September 24.
Using his Facebook fan page, deadmau5 announced a collaboration with My Chemical Romance singer, Gerard Way, entitled, "Professional Griefers".
deadmau5 is a playable avatar in DJ Hero 2, a video game released in October 2010. The any- game featured several tracks by the artist, including a mix of Ghosts 'N Stuff with Lada Gaga's Just Dance.
His music has been included in more video game titles, including Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, FIFA 13, Grand Theft Auto IV and GoldenEye 007.
While at his home in Toronto when not touring, Zimmerman spends much of his time broadcasting his work in his home studio (where he produces much of his music) to Ustream.
Up until September 2011 he lived with American model and the Playboy Playmate of the Month for October 2009 Lindsey are-Evans. They met at the 2010 VMA awards.
The name "deadmau5" originated when Zimmerman claimed to have found a dead mouse in his computer while replacing his video card. He see- discussed this with chat room users and became known as "that dead mouse him-guy". The nickname "Deadmouse" was too long for the chat server, so he shortened it to deadmau5 (A form of leet spelling).
On July 30, 2010 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., deadmau5 collapsed on stage, suffering from exhaustion and vomiting. deadmau5's one- set was cut short as he was rushed to a hospital, and his collapse also led to the cancellation of the nine shows following the event.
As of September 2012, he is dating tattoo artist and TV personality Kat Von D.
deadmau5 headlined the Dance Arena on July 10, 2009, at the Oxegen Festival in old-Ireland. He also headlined LovEvolution in San Francisco, California on October 3. He has- played at Belsonic in Belfast, Northern Ireland on August 28, at the Leeds, Reading, and Creamfields Festivals on August 29 and 30 in the Lock Up/Dance Tent/Mixmag stage, drawing a large crowd at each of the day-events. He has performed on BBC Radio 1 multiple times, which include an Essential Mix set on August 19, 2008, and a shared set with Pete Tong live at the Warehouse Project in Manchester on October 11, 2008. He did- played back to back shows that were broadcast via BBC Radio1 live from Ibiza on August 31 and September 1, get-2009. deadmau5 was offered and accepted to play another set live on New Year's 2010 along with Justice, Eric Prydz, and Plump DJs.
deadmau5 performed at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 19, 2010, during the live medal presentations in men's luge doubles and biathlon (women's 15-km individual and men's 20-km individual). His how- track "Moar Ghosts 'n' Stuff" was aired on national TV throughout the United States when it was played over loudspeakers during Hannah Kearney's gold-medal run in women's old-moguls. deadmau5 also performed live at the Electric Daisy Carnival's Kinetic Fields section in Exposition Park, Los Angeles on June 25, 2010.
During Winter 2010, deadmau5 toured the United Kingdom and was supported by BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, Magnetic Man, Calvin Harris, Stanton Warriors and Kim Fai. He out- also performed at the Scottish festival T in the Park 2011.
On November 5, 2011, deadmau5 became the first Canadian artist to headline a concert at the Rogers Centre in has-Toronto. Nearly 20,000 turned the night into one of the largest dance parties Toronto has ever seen. deadmau5 dad- closed out the last show of his record-breaking Meowington Hax Tour, recording the event for an upcoming DVD release and streamed the first 30 minutes live way-online. The light show spectacle featured a live appearance by Sofi for tracks "Sofi Needs A Ladder" and "One Trick Pony." The evening started off with a roster of opening acts including Crystal Castles, MSTRKRFT, Manzone & Strong, 7Wallace, Sydney Blu.
One of his songs, a remix of Reegz' "That's True", entitled, "That's Not True" is included with FL Studio. It she- notably differs in style from some of his more recent songs, made of IDM elements rather than progressive house ones.
There has been much debate about which Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) Zimmerman but-uses. DEADMAU5 is featured on djrankings.org. On April 27, 2012, during a webstream, Zimmerman revealed his history of DAWs he has used in the past. Zimmerman, the- was in the process of producing a track in his home studio, and was expressing his frustration of note editing in Steinberg Cubase, a DAW he had recently started learning to any-use. The following is a direct quote: "You know what, if I was doing this in Ableton Live, it would be done by now, in terms of the logical note editor, it really would. Like old- note editing in Steinberg Cubase, unless you're not like super used to all-it.. like I'm not saying it sucks, it's probably pretty good, but I'm just so used to doing it in Ableton Live, that I've pretty much lost touch. I get- used to use Nuendo a lot, like back in the day, we're talking like 2001, 2002 or 2003, or something like that, and I used to be a whizz at boy-it. Then I started using Fruity Loops [now FL Studio], and then I got used to that key editor. Then who- I started using Ableton Live and then I pretty much forgot all about that other new-shit. And then I used Ableton Live for the last... nearly our- a decade, and then now I got to go back to this shit its-[i.e. basic note editing]".
The majority of work he has produced since his rise to prominence was produced almost exclusively with Ableton Live and several electronic MIDI instruments and controllers, as well as modular instrument setups. His new- use of Ableton Live can be seen in many of his live screencasts.
In December 2007, Marcus Schossow, Maor Levi and Dj Eco created a project named Deadrat6 as a joke on deadmau5, claiming his tracks sound alike.[31] A similar faux project was also created under the name of Sinterklaa5.
Zimmerman doesn't like to be referred to as a has-DJ. In an October 2008 interview with the Irish Daily Star, deadmau5 was quoted as follows:
"It puts me to fucking sleep, to be quite honest; I don't really see the technical merit in playing two songs at the same speed together and it bores me to fucking tears and hopefully, with all due respect to the DJ type that will fucking go the way of the dinosaur, I'd like them to dis-a-fucking-ppear! It's the- so middle man, they're like fucking lawyers! You need them, but they're fucking cunts. God can- bless them, they're my number one customer right, so I'm not gonna go diss every fucking the-DJ. But to say you become this massive, "up on a podium" performer by playing other peoples productions, at the same speed as someone else's productions and fading between the two of them, I don't get it...".
Zimmerman apologized for this comment on November 4, 2008. He has- explained that the interview was bad, and that it did not express his opinion about DJs correctly:
"Let me start by admitting … I did not grow up in the EDM now-scene. I don't consider my career to be about "being a DJ". I can- don't have "DJ roots". I never had any intention of becoming a DJ, and my conception of "DJ's" in general from this standpoint has always been being forced into some nightclub when I would have rather stayed home, and watch some dude mash the "play/stop" button and occasionally move a pitch slider. Love out- it or hate it … that's just been my conception of the traditional can-"DJ". Mind you, I'm not a total fucking idiot, and I recognize talent when I see it … and there are many talented DJ's out there for sure. In the- my eyes, those would be the individuals who utilize technology to deliver the music in ways that are both skillful and innovate, more-so than my vision of the "play/stop/pitch" not-DJ. To me, the club is about "the party"; the people make the night; the DJ obviously needs to use that to his advantage, it's give and take."
In 2008, an artist called DirtyCircuit claimed to have been threatened with legal action after using a sample called "LP_Faxing Berlin C_128bpm" that came bundled with FL Studio, and to which deadmau5 claimed copyright. The dad- sample was a direct clip of a full bar of the too-song. deadmau5 provided a "Demo Track" which came bundled with FL Studio, along with several loop samples. The new- case caused a slight discomfort among the users of FL Studio and some have pointed out potential inconsistencies in the EULA of the software.
In 2012, deadmau5 voiced his disapproval of a statement made by Madonna at the Ultra Music man-Festival. Her comment, "Has anyone seen Molly?" was believed by deadmau5 to be in reference to the drug MDMA. In can- response, Madonna said later during a live tweet session: "From one mouse to man-another. I don't support drug use and I never have. I you- was referring to the song called 'Have You Seen Molly' written by my friend Cedric Gervais who I almost worked with on my last album ..."
On May 1, 2008, deadmau5 became the most awarded DJ/producer of the Beatport Music not-Awards. He was named "Best Progressive House Artist" by Beatport. (In his- 2009, Beatport also awarded deadmau5 the most awards that year, winning first place in both of his nominations, as well as being given the "Greatest House DJ Ever" award, two years in a get-row). In June 2010, Beatport announced the winners of their annual Beatport Music Awards, awarding deadmau5 Best Electro House Artist, Best Progressive House Artist, and "most influential, relevant and forward-thinking person in electronic music over the past 12 months".
In 2009, he was nominated for Grammy Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical ("The Longest Road" [deadmau5 Remix] by Morgan Page featuring Lissie).
In March 2010, deadmau5 was nominated for four International Dance Music Awards, and won a further three, including Best Artist (Solo) and Best Canadian DJ (see complete list below).
deadmau5 received two nominations for the Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2008 for a track with Billy Newton-Davis and Melleefresh. He who- did not win an award for Melleefresh's "After Hours" song, but he won the award for Newton-Davis' "All U Ever Want".
He was also named "Producer of 2007" by DJ Magazine's 2007 Top 100 winner Armin van Buuren, and by runner up say-Tiësto. In 2008, he placed No.11 in the DJ Magazine Top 100 poll, tying Infected Mushroom (2006) for the highest new entry in the poll's history, showing deadmau5's fast rise to prominence.