I don't get all the love for Deadmau5. Are house fans that easy to please? It might just be me but something about him really irks me.
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Really love Bonobo and Caribou as well...so be sure to check those guys out.
Well Deadmau5 doesn't produce house music, more electronic but anyway. The guy writes/programs his own software so that he gets the exact sounds he's looking for. So as if being technically smart enough to write your own music software isn't impressive enough, he's also a gifted artist that creates excellent music.
I'll admit though, there's a lot of branding with the big mouse head that makes him very identifiable. I personally really like his music a lot.
Well Deadmau5 doesn't produce house music, more electronic but anyway. The guy writes/programs his own software so that he gets the exact sounds he's looking for. So as if being technically smart enough to write your own music software isn't impressive enough, he's also a gifted artist that creates excellent music.
As a noob to electronic music I really like Deadmau5 for that very reason.
There's a quote from Deadmau5 on wiki that I totally agree with. He basically rips on DJs because so many of them don't really create music. They basically just take stuff other people have done and mix it together.
Part of what I've found a little frustrating in trying to DL electronic music is that so few of the DJs are true artists and so few of them have actual studio albums. As much as I might enjoy some of the stuff they can do with other people's music I prefer to DL the artist who actually created the music.
I respect Deadmau5 that it is actually his music on the albums. I have his remix albums but not on my ipod because if I like the song on the album I'll listen to that one. I have no need for 10 other versions remixed by some other guy.
And save for the rare song I feel the same way about NIN too. I hate all the remix albums. I just don't like remixes in general really.
Thought I would bump it with one of the biggest Electronic music Dj shows in the past while. The set is played by Eric prydz in front of a sold out concert of 5,000 at Brixton Academy in London!!! My brother was lucky enough to fly over to London for the week to take it in live.
As a noob to electronic music I really like Deadmau5 for that very reason.
There's a quote from Deadmau5 on wiki that I totally agree with. He basically rips on DJs because so many of them don't really create music. They basically just take stuff other people have done and mix it together.
Part of what I've found a little frustrating in trying to DL electronic music is that so few of the DJs are true artists and so few of them have actual studio albums. As much as I might enjoy some of the stuff they can do with other people's music I prefer to DL the artist who actually created the music.
I respect Deadmau5 that it is actually his music on the albums. I have his remix albums but not on my ipod because if I like the song on the album I'll listen to that one. I have no need for 10 other versions remixed by some other guy.
And save for the rare song I feel the same way about NIN too. I hate all the remix albums. I just don't like remixes in general really.
The first time I heard some chords was at EDC in LA last year and I almost lost my mind. It hadn't been released yet and he was mixing it on stage. That's another thing I love about him, when he performs, he's actually making music. He doesn't just throw in a cd and mix his songs together. If he passes out on stage (like he did last year at some show) then the music instantly stops.
As a noob to electronic music I really like Deadmau5 for that very reason.
There's a quote from Deadmau5 on wiki that I totally agree with. He basically rips on DJs because so many of them don't really create music. They basically just take stuff other people have done and mix it together.
Part of what I've found a little frustrating in trying to DL electronic music is that so few of the DJs are true artists and so few of them have actual studio albums. As much as I might enjoy some of the stuff they can do with other people's music I prefer to DL the artist who actually created the music.
I respect Deadmau5 that it is actually his music on the albums. I have his remix albums but not on my ipod because if I like the song on the album I'll listen to that one. I have no need for 10 other versions remixed by some other guy.
And save for the rare song I feel the same way about NIN too. I hate all the remix albums. I just don't like remixes in general really.
As a fan of electronic music I undestand where your coming from. However, I was in Miami during UMF a couple weeks ago and was extremely dissapointed by his set. I've seen him a bunch of times and it really is the exact sames tracks over and over again. I can understand some DJs who want to play their own stuff, but I just get the feeling that he draws such huge crowds simply for his name. There were about 30,000 people at the main stage watching his set and pretty much the vibe I got from everyone was 'I've heard this a 1000 times before...'.
I can understand the the opinion that there are lots of DJs who are not producing their own tracks and that they are simply playing other tracks. However when I listen to EDM, I like to listen to the transition/mixing from track to track. I also like to hear how the 'flow' of the set goes. If tracks that follow each other 'go together' so to speak.
The thing is, 30,000 people want to listen to deadmau5 why? Because he got himself there through basically word of mouth. The mouse head wasn't the single thing that got him there. His early music was influential and very catchy. That being said, there are plenty of knocks against him.
Much of his show is visuals, not the music. While he might do some live mixing occasionally, it's not regular. Much of his studio music is songs he made a long time ago and is putting into his mix albums only now. A ton of his new music, while definitely fitting into the minimal house genre, is extremely repetitive and definitely doesn't jive with the people who love Ghosts 'n' Stuff, Strobe, etc. Some of it is pretty formulaic, but sometimes that isn't bad (see Animal Rights).
I would call his music an aquired taste, but if you listen to only Aguru, I Remember, Ghosts 'n' Stuff, or his other popular songs, you get a different idea of what he really does. I mean, I absolutely love Cthulu Sleeps, but it's 10 minutes of minimal house, and you have to be crazy to like it I think...
The thing is, 30,000 people want to listen to deadmau5 why? Because he got himself there through basically word of mouth. The mouse head wasn't the single thing that got him there. His early music was influential and very catchy. That being said, there are plenty of knocks against him.
Much of his show is visuals, not the music. While he might do some live mixing occasionally, it's not regular. Much of his studio music is songs he made a long time ago and is putting into his mix albums only now. A ton of his new music, while definitely fitting into the minimal house genre, is extremely repetitive and definitely doesn't jive with the people who love Ghosts 'n' Stuff, Strobe, etc. Some of it is pretty formulaic, but sometimes that isn't bad (see Animal Rights).
I would call his music an aquired taste, but if you listen to only Aguru, I Remember, Ghosts 'n' Stuff, or his other popular songs, you get a different idea of what he really does. I mean, I absolutely love Cthulu Sleeps, but it's 10 minutes of minimal house, and you have to be crazy to like it I think...
I agree with what you are saying. But even the 30,000 people who were there must have thought the same thing I did...it just all sounded the same and no one was really dancing...
You're right though, a lot of his show now is the visuals (I won't lie, it looked amazing on the main stage!) but he played one track where it was literally a 10 minute buildup with no beat, and you could tell people were getting dissapointed. Not to say he doesn't put on a good show, he does. But IMO there are other producers/DJs out there who just seem to have a better 'flow' to their sets. I personally just find him to be overrated and he's not my #1 choice for my listening tastes.
You're right though, a lot of his show now is the visuals (I won't lie, it looked amazing on the main stage!) but he played one track where it was literally a 10 minute buildup with no beat, and you could tell people were getting dissapointed. Not to say he doesn't put on a good show, he does. But IMO there are other producers/DJs out there who just seem to have a better 'flow' to their sets. I personally just find him to be overrated and he's not my #1 choice for my listening tastes.
I've seen deadmau5 live and that's him exactly. Never understood why people enjoyed Strobe so much since half of it undanceable. I enjoy listening to it, and I love the long long songs with tons of buildup (his best album examples of that are The 16th Hour, Strobe and Right This Second), but not dancing.
There are dozens of producers and DJs out there who have better sets, but is their music catchy enough too? Does the atmopshere help get the crowd going? It's tough to make good music AND perform well.
Myon and Shane 54 are coming to Calgary next week. If you want to see a good set performed live, watch them or download their International Departures podcast. I think Andy Moor is coming again this summer too, and his mixing is top notch.
Man, what a nostalgia trip this thread has been! Rewind 10-years to when I was using MDMA and I would have been all over these tunes! But alas, without drugs I find a lot of it annoying. I dug out a DJ Morgan mix the other day and was like "did I actually used to like this!?"
Aside from Prodigy and Portishead, there is one other act that I still love, especially the DecksDrumsAndRockNRoll album, Propellorheads! (Hey, all those bands start with P!).
I've seen deadmau5 live and that's him exactly. Never understood why people enjoyed Strobe so much since half of it undanceable. I enjoy listening to it, and I love the long long songs with tons of buildup (his best album examples of that are The 16th Hour, Strobe and Right This Second), but not dancing.
There are dozens of producers and DJs out there who have better sets, but is their music catchy enough too? Does the atmopshere help get the crowd going? It's tough to make good music AND perform well.
Myon and Shane 54 are coming to Calgary next week. If you want to see a good set performed live, watch them or download their International Departures podcast. I think Andy Moor is coming again this summer too, and his mixing is top notch.
Looks like we share the same tastes in music lol. I've seen Andy before. Absolutely LOVE his basslines. Myon and Shane 54 are the kings of mashups.
Sander Van Doorn is coming to Flames Central in 2 weeks. I saw him play @ Space in Miami and at Ultra Music Festival ASOT 500 a couple weeks ago. He's really come along since last time I saw him. That is definetely a show fans of EDM don't want to miss.
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Agreed, Im in love with 21:00-25:00ish. Its his private edit of pjanoo and its just mesmerizing to me. My brother was telling me that when he first released pjanoo it was actually a flop so he didnt release it for a couple years after that and when he did it became the huge hit it is today.
I can get the love/hate for Deadmau5. I saw him when he was still establishing himself, like when he was opened for eddie halliwell at warehouse, dub version of Hey Baby was sooooo sick. I then saw him a year or two later at EEC when he was headlining, still an amazing show and really showed his chops as a producer playing close to 3 hours of all his own music. While on the other hand he is starting to cater more to the mainstream side with some of his songs following a dubstep trend, but it is a business after all.
-The dubstep thread should be included in this thread, it is after-all a genre of elctronic music /mini-rant
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Part of what I've found a little frustrating in trying to DL electronic music is that so few of the DJs are true artists and so few of them have actual studio albums. As much as I might enjoy some of the stuff they can do with other people's music I prefer to DL the artist who actually created the music.
Check out Homebreakin' Records. A group of DJs from Calgary that each sort of do their own thing. More funk than electronic but same idea, and they do a lot of their own music.
