Deadmau5

Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse"; born Joel Zimmerman on January 5 1981) is a progressive house and electro house producer from Toronto, Canada. His extensive discography includes tracks such as "Arguru" and "Not Exactly", which 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 album, Random Album Title, was released electronically in September 2008 via Ultra Records in the U.S. and Ministry of Sound in the UK and Europe. Physical copies of the album were released in November 2008.^[1]

History

Joel Zimmerman was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario on January 5, 1981. In 2008, 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"^[2]

'Deadmau5', Zimmermans' DJ name comes from an incident where a mouse crawled into his computer. 'Dead Mouse' was too long for an IRC login name, so he abbreviated it to be the "leet speak" spelling "Deadmau5"^[3]

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".^[4] He was also named "Producer of 2007" by DJ magazine's 2007 Top 100 winner Armin van Buuren,^[5] and by runner up Tiësto. ^[6] In 2008, he placed number 11 in the DJ Mag Top 100 poll, tying Infected Mushroom (2006) for the highest new entry in the poll's history, showing Zimmerman's fast rise to prominence. On May 1, 2008, Deadmau5 became the most awarded DJ/producer of the Beatport Music Awards. He was named "Best Progressive House Artist" by Beatport.^[7] In 2009 he also received the most awards, and won 1st place in both nominations, as well as becoming the "Greatest house DJ ever" two years in a row.

In the United States, Deadmau5's collaboration with Kaskade, "Move for Me", reached number one on Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Airplay chart in its September 6, 2008 issue.^[8]. In 2009, he was nominated for Grammy Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical ("The Longest Road" (Deadmau5 Remix) by Morgan Page featuring Lissie).

His scene handle was used for a radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Deadmau5 was recently confirmed by Festival Republic to be playing the Reading and Leeds festivals, in England this year. He will be headlining the Dance Arena.

Deadmau5 also headlined the Dance Arena on Friday July 10th at Oxegen festival in Ireland.

New information on his upcoming album For Lack of a Better Name has come from his official Myspace page. ^[9]

“On September 22 2009 (U.S Only, Rest Of World release October 5th) 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 LACK OF A BETTER NAME--and then set off on a massive fall tour throughout North America.

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 album will include “Ghosts ‘N’ Stuff” featuring Pendulum’s Rob Swire”.

Discography

Albums

2006 - Get Scraped
2006 - Vexillology
2007 - Full Circle
2008 - Random Album Title
2008 - At Play (Re-Released as digital)
2009 - It Sounds Like (Compilation Album)
2009 - For Lack of a Better Name

Recognitions

Awards

Juno Awards

2008 Dance Recording of the Year for "All U Ever Want" with Billy Newton-Davis.
2009 Dance Recording of the Year for "Random Album Title"

Beatport Music Awards

2008 Best Electro House Artist.
2008 Best Progressive House Artist.
2008 Best single for "Not Exactly".
2008 Best remix, 3rd place for Burufunk vs. Carbon Community - "Community Funk" (Deadmau5 Remix).
2009 Best Electro House Artist.
2009 Best Progressive House Artist.

DJmag.com Top 100 DJs Poll

2008 Highest new entry, voted 11th best DJ.

Nominations

2008 Dance Recording of the Year for "After Hours" with Melleefresh
2008 Beatport Music Awards Best Remix of 2007, won as Third Best Remics 2007 for Burufunk and Carbon Community's "Community Funk" (Deadmau5 Remix).
2009 Grammy Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical ("The Longest Road" (Deadmau5 Remix) by Morgan Page featuring Lissie)
2009 Juno Dance Recording of the Year for "Move For Me" with Kaskade
2009 Juno Dance Recording of the Year for "Random Album Title"

References

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[1] "Deadmau5 news page".

[2] "Deadmau5 Biography, Media, and Awards".

[3] ttp://www.discogs.com/artist/Deadmau5

[4] "Juno Awards 2008".

[5] "Top 100 DJs 2007 - #1: Armin van Buuren".

[6] "Top 100 DJs 2007 - #2: Tiësto".

[7] "Beatport Music Awards 2008".

[8] "Billboard.com - Current Hot Dance Airplay".

[9] ttp://www.myspace.com/deadmau5

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