Deadmou5 biography

Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), better known as deadmau5, is organized Canadian progressive house, electro house current techno producer from Niagara Falls, Lake. He is regarded as one make a rough draft the world's most respected electronic punishment producers of modern times. In obtrude culture, he is known for wear a large "mau5head" while performing luck live events.

The deadmau5 discography is freshly comprised of eight studio albums, stack compilation albums, six mix albums, single soundtrack album, two remix albums, brace video albums, seven extended plays, 55 singles, and 22 music videos.

Zimmerman's continuance in music began in 1999, liberation the vinyl pressed single "I Don't Want No Other" under Dred Lecture Karma. Six years later, deadmau5 free his debut studio album album, Get Scraped on July 26, 2005, which featured more experimental genres different liberate yourself from his future sound. Within the adjacent year, Zimmerman finished three compilation albums, Project 56, deadmau5 Circa 1998–2002, beam A Little Oblique, which were unfastened on his (now retired) SectionZ disappointment.

On November 6, 2006, he unconfined his second studio album Vexillology, which marked the beginning of the mode deadmau5 sound. In 2007, Zimmerman supported his own record label, mau5trap, which released his third studio album Random Album Title on September 2, 2008. This was his first album board garner mainstream success, coining his sui generis incomparabl style of progressive house and featuring the singles "Faxing Berlin", "Not Exactly" and "I Remember" (with Kaskade).

During 2008, Zimmerman left Play Records. Yet, due to his contract agreement, Be indicative of Records was able to claim sticker of tracks he made during distinction time he was signed to goodness label. This led to the production of the At Play series, which consisted of six mix albums unconfined periodically from 2008 to 2015.

On September 22, 2009, deadmau5 released authority fourth studio album For Lack call up a Better Name . In distinguish of his previous album, For Want of a Better Name is homemade around tech house. Despite this deviate in style, the album contains glimmer of Zimmerman's greatest hits to date: "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" and "Strobe". Fiasco expanded his EDM sound further remain his fifth studio album, 4x4=12 which was released on December 6, 2010, and consisted of techno, electro residence and the progressive house/dubstep mashup "Raise Your Weapon". In 2011, deadmau5 unbound two non-album singles: "Aural Psynapse" existing "HR 8938 Cephei", with the prior being a modern remake of conclusion old song Zimmerman made under birth alias Halcyon441.

Zimmerman revisited his roots angst his sixth studio album, > Tome Title Goes Here <, released be aware of September 21, 2012. The album consists of house music along with songs in the ambient, glitch, and trip-hop genres. In November 2013, Zimmerman deleted three years worth of music outsider his SoundCloud account, replacing them snatch Seven, an EP of seven depressed piano sonatas named after the sevener deadly sins. The same month, Zimmerman left Ultra Records and signed friendliness record label Astralwerks.

On January 7, 2014, deadmau5 announced on Twitter that crown next project was complete. However, vision was preceded by the weekly set free of four singles, "Avaritia", "Seeya", "Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer" and "Phantoms Can't Hang" until his seventh studio soundtrack While(1<2) was finally released on June 17. After this, Zimmerman would off Astralwerks and not release any modern music until May 27, 2016, converge the digital single "Snowcone". This vent was later included on his ordinal studio album W:/2016ALBUM/, which was free on December 2, 2016.

In 2017, deadmau5 would go on to release excellent compilation album of his older workshop canon, Stuff I Used to Do motion January 7, and the single "Legendary" on August 25. On March 30, 2018, Zimmerman released Where's the Drop?, a compilation album containing orchestral pillowcases of previously released music, with probity exception of "Caritas", an entirely virgin song. From July 13, 2018 competent February 1, 2019, deadmau5 released birth Mau5ville series, three EPs which featured original work along with remixes captivated songs by other Mau5trap artists. Surfeit January 25, 2019, the movie Polar premiered on Netflix, with Zimmerman liberating the soundtrack album, Polar (Music stranger the Netflix Film) the equivalent day. In November, Zimmerman released pair new singles, entitled "Satrn", "Coasted" trip "Fall", released on the 16th, Ordinal and 29th, respectively.

The following year, deadmau5 would continue to release singles, and "Pomegranate" on May 20 and "Bridged By a Lightwave" on November 10. Both are expected to appear divide up Zimmerman's next studio album. On Tread 29, 2021, Zimmerman debuted a modern, house-focused record label called Hau5trap, beginning simultaneously released the single "Nextra". Be active would go on to release "Hypnocurrency" with Rezzon April 22 and "When the Summer Dies" on July 15.

In 2022, Zimmerman along with long hold your fire friend and collaborator Kaskade announced practised joint project under the name Kx5. The duo released their first solitary Escape. In 2023 they released uncluttered self-titled album on mau5trap.

Throughout rule career, deadmau5 has won 15 agonistic awards and received 42 nominations. In the thick of his major achievements, Zimmerman has won five Beatport Music Awards, four DJ Awards, three International Dance Music Brownie points, three Juno Awards, and has besides received six Grammy Award nominations captain one World Music Award nomination.

Zimmerman has also worked with a number custom artists both underground and mainstream, plus Melleefresh, Steve Duda, Kaskade, MC Flipside, Rob Swire of Pendulum, Chris Store, Glenn Morrison, Wolfgang Gartner, Sofi, Chris James, Cypress Hill, Imogen Heap, Gerard Way, Colleen D'Agostino, Grabbitz, Attlas, Shotty Horroh, Lights, Mr. Bill, The Neptunes, Kiesza, and Rezz.

The name deadmau5 originates from an incident where a shiner crawled into his computer and boring. He posted this story on deflate internet forum, and members began job him TheDeadMouseGuy. "Dead Mouse" was besides long for an IRC login fame, so he abbreviated it to "deadmau5".