A Canadian Electronic Music producer and icon, deadmau5 pronounced "dead mouse" is easily one of the most popular electronic artists today. Getting his professional start in when he released his first full album, Get Scraped , he is best known for the songs "Faxing Berlin", "I Remember", "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", "Strobe", "Sofi Needs a Ladder", and "Raise Your Weapon", as well as for wearing his epony mau5 mau5head during live performances.
His stage name comes from an incident in which he found a dead mouse in his computer while replacing his video card - on the IRC channel he frequented, he became known as "that dead mouse guy" after recounting the incident, and decided to change his username to "deadmau5" as a joke.
The name is spelled as it is because of the character limit for names on certain IRC servers you can only fit eight and "deadmouse" is nine , with the "5" as the "s" on the end because it's cool. Real name Joel Thomas Zimmerman, he was born on January 5, , and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario though he considers his current city of residence, Toronto , his hometown.
As a child, he had a hobby of tearing apart household electronics to figure out how they worked, which carried over to his later fascination with electronic music production - as opposed to solely using plugins and software to make his sounds which he derisively calls "laptop music" , he uses huge racks of analog modular CV equipment to produce them. After dropping out of high school, doing many odd jobs over the years including being contracted for an IT job for two years using only his own self-taught computer programming skills , and starting a design business on the side, all while producing music in his free time as a hobby, he found himself being paid to do music for advertising until he got discovered by DJ Chris Lake.
This and the appearance of his first hit as deadmau5, "Faxing Berlin", on Pete Tong's radio show led to him being signed onto Ultra Records, later creating his own label, mau5trap, and thus becoming a hit electronic artist doing music full-time.
While known for his music and his mau5head image, he is also known for being one of the nerdiest musicians to ever exist, being extremely open with his fans, and causing controversy, usually by speaking what is exactly on his mind, PR and sugarcoating be damned. These, combined with his constant cursing , his sense of humor , his personal problems , and the tendency for people to take anything he says out of context, result in a rather interesting individual. In November of , Zimmerman deleted three years worth of music from his SoundCloud account, replacing them with the 7 EP.
The album consists of tracks produced with a de'deluxe, and includes tracks he had been working on since He began touring in North America for two months and then toured the rest of the world until October 31st. In , Zimmerman adopted a cat he named Meowingtons. Since then, Meowingtons has become a trademark to a lot of deadmau5 related work. Zimmerman named his world tour "Meowingtons Hax Tour" after his cat, and even put his face on the cover of his sixth studio album.
Zimmerman then collaborated with Sol Republic to create a brand of headphones inspired by Meowingtons. Evans eventually moved to Toronto to live with him for a while. However, one year later Zimmerman announced that the two had broken up. After breaking up in November , they shortly rekindled their relationship. On December 15, , Zimmerman proposed to Von D on Twitter, and they announced that they would marry in August of with an aquatic-themed wedding.
They both have gotten several matching tattoos, including the numbers "m3d22h" on both of their arms, as well as two black stars underneath their eyes. Debuting in the late s, he made his first international statement with 's For Lack of a Better Name. From there, he remained a Top Ten fixture on the U. Known for his live shows and highly produced stage setups, he is also an avid video gamer, contributing to soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, and more.
Deadmau5 soon became an important figure in the world of progressive house music. He released his work through his own label, Mau5trap Recordings, and scored a number of awards in , including a Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year. He released Random Album Title that same year, along with the first volume of the remix-collecting At Play series.
Named in reference to the programming language used to loop indefinitely, the double album contained the singles "Avaritia" and "Seeya," featuring guest vocals from Colleen D'Agostino , as well as remixes of How to Destroy Angels ' "Ice Age" and Nine Inch Nails ' "Survivalism. After a brief period when the future of his Deadmau5 persona remained uncertain due to personal challenges, Zimmerman returned to his music in the spring of with the single "Snowcone.
Deadmau5 , electronic and progressive house music producer, performer, composer born 5 January in Niagara Falls , ON. The son of Rod Zimmerman, a General Motors plant employee, and Nancy, a visual artist, Joel Zimmerman took piano lessons as a child, and grew up with a keen interest in video games and computers.
Inspired by video game music, he started making chiptune music from old computer chips at age He furthered his command of the latest digital audio tools while working at a local radio show in his native Niagara Falls. He then became a composer for a stock music company. In , he released his second album, Vexillology , through the Toronto label Play Digital. His first hit was a collaboration with electronic producer Steve Duda under the group name B. The popularity of the song encouraged Zimmerman to take a career in music more seriously.
That year, Deadmau5 was ranked No. The album reached No. He also played at numerous music festivals, including headlining spots at Coachella and the Electric Daisy Carnival. Also in , he became the first Canadian act ever to sell out the Rogers Centre in Toronto , and the first electronic artist to sell out the historic 19,seat Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, England.
Also that year, Deadmau5 became the first electronic artist to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and was nominated for the Juno Fan Choice Award.
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