Deadmau5

Deadmau5

Deadmau5 (pronounced "Dead mouse") is a Progressive house and Electro house musician and DJ from Toronto, Canada. His extensive discography includes tracks such as "Arguru" and "Not Exactly". These have been included in compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, MixMag's "Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness" (mixed by Deadmau5 himself), and on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show. He works alongside numerous other DJs and producers, such as Steve Duda under the BSOD alias. His debut album, Random Album Title was released electronically in September 2008, via Ultra Records in the USA and Ministry of Sound in the UK and Europe. Physical copies of the album will be available from November, 2008.

Name

His pseudonym Deadmau5 was created in 2005 after said animal crawled into his computer, died a month later, and smelled to the point that it led him to find it. He then took the name Dead Mouse. When creating a nickname for IRC, he realized Dead Mouse had too many characters, so he reduced it to Deadmau5. The use of "5" instead of "S" was a form of Leetspeak

History

Joel Zimmerman was born in 1981. In 2008 he became Producer of the Year, he also became the most selling artist on Beatport with more than 30,000 on just Beatport alone with his singles "Not Exactly" and "Faxing Berlin".

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 did not win an award for Melleefresh's "After Hours" song, but he won the award for Newton-Davis' "All U Ever Want". On May 1, 2008, Deadmau5 became the most awarded deejay/producer/remixer of the Beatport Music Awards. He was named "Most influential, forward-thinking and relevant person" by Beatport. He was also named "Producer of 2007" by DJ Mag's 2007 Top 100 winner Armin van Buuren, and by runner up Tiësto. In 2008, he placed number 11 in the DJ Mag Top 100 poll, the highest new entry in the polls history, showing Zimmerman's rise to prominence in such a short period of time.

In the United States, Deadmau5's collaboration with Kaskade, "Move for Me," reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart in its September 6, 2008 issue.

Discography

Main article: Deadmau5 discography

Albums

• 2005: Get Scraped
• 2006: Vexillology
• 2007: Full Circle
• 2008: Random Album Title

Recognitions

Awards

Juno Awards

• 2008 Dance Recording of the Year - for "All U Ever Want" with Billy Newton-Davis

Beatport Music Awards

• 2006 Producer of the Year
• 2008 Best Electro House Artist
• 2008 Best Progressive House Artist
• Best Single of 2008 - for "Not Exactly"
• Third Best Remix of 2008 - for "Burufunk and Carbon Community - Community Funk (Deadmau5 Remix)"

Nominations

• 2008 Dance Recording of the Year - for "After Hours" with Melleefresh
• Best Remix of 2008, won as Third Best Remix of 2008 - for "Burufunk and Carbon Community - Community Funk (Deadmau5 Remix)"

External links

• Official website
• Template:MySpace
• Deadmau5 at AllMusic
• Template:Last.fm
• Deadmau5 discography at Discogs
• Deadmau5 discography at MusicBrainz
• Bebo Profile
• Deadmau5at Fan Club
• Deadmau5at Fabulous Festival

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