Deadmau5 watches LTT

[foist]

He is a pretty cool guy IRL, had a series of streams where he basically chatted with everyone and talked about music industry stuff - among other topics.

[LapX]

18 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Well, that's cool I guess? I don't really know deadmau5, I know the name, but not the man behind it, I'm not even sure what he does exactly... I think he's a DJ or something?

He produces electronic music, he isn't really attached to a genre, his music sounds like his music.

 

He is not a DJ in the conventional sense because when he plays his song for an event, he uses samples from his producing software and basically makes an hour long song live on stage.

[ButtNuttz]

>not watching LTT religiously

lol

[steezemageeze]

9 hours ago, MrGoose0 said:

A small part died inside of me when I saw your Laptop specs sorry.. but... Damn man. You need a serious upgrade.

Totally off topic, but if you think his laptop is bad, you should see mine. Core 2 Duo T9300, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Intel GMA 4500... Damn thing weighs 5lbs.

 

On topic, I really like Deadmau5 so this is really cool. I always knew he was a bit of a techie so it doesn't come as a surprise, but it's cool nonetheless. Think I'm gonna go listen to Ghosts N' Stuff...

[kirashi]

Having watched every Coffee Run video he's made, including ones with his lawyer Dina LaPolt and Rob Ford, I admit I may be an addict to Joel's antics.

All his coffee run videos are down-to-earth and show that Joel lives day-to-day life like anyone else on this earth, albeit with some rather funny moments.

Joel's song "The Veldt" originally didn't have a vocal track until someone sent him a link to a demo recording by Chris James over Twitter.

You can see in the live stream recording below Joel absolutely loves it and makes Chris' voice the official vocal track.

Joel and one of his good friends, Tory Belleci from MythBusters, drove the 2014 Gumball 3000 car race in his Nyan Cat wrapped Ferrari 458 Italia Spider.

Fully wrapped in Nyan Cat cyan blue and rainbow poptart cats, they trolled the world during the race with Nyan Cat music and good times.

 

Nope, definitely don't have a problem or addiction here. Move right along. Nothing to see here.

That's not 4x4=12 you hear playing in the background. More specifically, it's not the continuous mix either.

[Master Disaster]

On 08/04/2016 at 0:42 AM, Newenthusiast said:

Who is Deadmau5? >.< 

He makes aweful music that's insulting to anybody who is actually into real electronic music.

[Guest]

On 4/9/2016 at 5:05 PM, Newenthusiast said:

Dead moose? Kids these days, makes me feel old and out of touch lol 

No don't be, their music is shit and their movies are garbage, be glad your out of touch lol

[Security]

On 9-4-2016 at 5:30 PM, XzzDSA said:

Oh, and a McLaren P1 in the garage. 

That doesn't sound like the right car to go drive in the woods...

21 hours ago, kirashi said:

[Gumball 3000 video's]

I loved the video's by the Dudesons taken during that same Gumball.

[kirashi]

6 hours ago, Security said:

That doesn't sound like the right car to go drive in the woods...

I loved the video's by the Dudesons taken during that same Gumball.

Oh yes! I remember them and their ridiculous Elephant Vehicle.

[Stuff_]

21 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

He makes aweful music that's insulting to anybody who is actually into real electronic music.

Not true at all. He takes much more time to actually create his music, and he loves doing it. 

Just the other day he did a live set on twitch, and it was really fun.

 

 

But yeah, he's a really nice guy. He does troll, but who doesnt.

[Master Disaster]

2 hours ago, Stuff_ said:

Not true at all. He takes much more time to actually create his music, and he loves doing it. 

Just the other day he did a live set on twitch, and it was really fun.

 

 

But yeah, he's a really nice guy. He does troll, but who doesnt.

Well EDM as a concept goes against everything electronic music used to stand for. The second you take an underground scene, commercialise it and start to care more about how much you make instead of how good your music is you instantly ruin it.

 

It wasn't a direct stab at Deadmau5, more just a general stab at the direction these commercial DJs seem to be happy to take electronic music. Its a shame because raving and ravers used to actually mean something, we were a family who worked all week so we could spend our weekends in dark and dank nightclubs listening to music that most people would describe as noise in a group that was diverse and generally didn't give a fuck who you were or where you were from as long as you enjoyed the music.

 

Nowadays its about lining the pockets of the promoters and DJs by pushing out as much stuff as quickly as possible in order to generate revenue from sales and drive ticket sales to overpriced and undermanned events in glitzy nightclubs filled with celebrities who go there because its the fashionable place to be seen and not because they enjoy the music.

 

I mean Kim fucking Kardashian thinking she is a DJ? I've seen videos of EDM DJs playing fucking CDs and pretending to use the decks/mixer and only 2 weeks ago I saw a pic of a rugby player in an EDM club stood behind CDJs with fucking vinyls on top of them pretending to mix. The entire thing is an insult to its roots.

 

Fuck EDM and fuck everyone who is a part of EDM.

[ShadowCaptain]

NEWS JUST IN

 

FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE REAL PEOPLE

[DebatED Nothing]

On 4/10/2016 at 9:38 AM, Master Disaster said:

He makes aweful music that's insulting to anybody who is actually into real electronic music.

lol. Not like music is a creative and subjective field or anything.

6 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Its a shame because raving and ravers used to actually mean something, we were a family who worked all week so we could spend our weekends in dark and dank nightclubs listening to music that most people would describe as noise in a group that was diverse and generally didn't give a fuck who you were or where you were from as long as you enjoyed the music.

 

Nowadays its about lining the pockets of the promoters and DJs by pushing out as much stuff as quickly as possible in order to generate revenue from sales and drive ticket sales to overpriced and undermanned events in glitzy nightclubs filled with celebrities who go there because its the fashionable place to be seen and not because they enjoy the music.

 

Fuck EDM and fuck everyone who is a part of EDM.

Wow. "Fuck everyone else for enjoying *My music* the way they want to" You don't own EDM. No one owns a genre or style of music, and no one has any right to tell anyone else how they have to enjoy a certain type of music. Elitist.

[Heesleemer]

He does stuff with MKBHD as well as watch his videos. He's a tech head 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

On 10/04/2016 at 4:38 PM, Master Disaster said:

He makes aweful music that's insulting to anybody who is actually into real electronic music.

 

This statement really doesn't make you look good...

 

8 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Well EDM as a concept goes against everything electronic music used to stand for. The second you take an underground scene, commercialise it and start to care more about how much you make instead of how good your music is you instantly ruin it.

 

It wasn't a direct stab at Deadmau5, more just a general stab at the direction these commercial DJs seem to be happy to take electronic music. Its a shame because raving and ravers used to actually mean something, we were a family who worked all week so we could spend our weekends in dark and dank nightclubs listening to music that most people would describe as noise in a group that was diverse and generally didn't give a fuck who you were or where you were from as long as you enjoyed the music.

 

Nowadays its about lining the pockets of the promoters and DJs by pushing out as much stuff as quickly as possible in order to generate revenue from sales and drive ticket sales to overpriced and undermanned events in glitzy nightclubs filled with celebrities who go there because its the fashionable place to be seen and not because they enjoy the music.

 

I mean Kim fucking Kardashian thinking she is a DJ? I've seen videos of EDM DJs playing fucking CDs and pretending to use the decks/mixer and only 2 weeks ago I saw a pic of a rugby player in an EDM club stood behind CDJs with fucking vinyls on top of them pretending to mix. The entire thing is an insult to its roots.

 

Fuck EDM and fuck everyone who is a part of EDM.

 

Holyshit, this is worse. 

 

I can see "fake" DJs being a problem. But EDM itself evolved from electronic music. There are so many sub genres. Like hardstyle, then from hardstyle birth so many more. These days Hardstyle sounds so different from what it used to be. But we can't keep clinging on to the past. 

 

There's no such thing as "real" electronic music. There's only electronic music. It either is or is not. 

[Stuff_]

9 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Well EDM as a concept goes against everything electronic music used to stand for. The second you take an underground scene, commercialise it and start to care more about how much you make instead of how good your music is you instantly ruin it.

 

It wasn't a direct stab at Deadmau5, more just a general stab at the direction these commercial DJs seem to be happy to take electronic music. Its a shame because raving and ravers used to actually mean something, we were a family who worked all week so we could spend our weekends in dark and dank nightclubs listening to music that most people would describe as noise in a group that was diverse and generally didn't give a fuck who you were or where you were from as long as you enjoyed the music.

 

Nowadays its about lining the pockets of the promoters and DJs by pushing out as much stuff as quickly as possible in order to generate revenue from sales and drive ticket sales to overpriced and undermanned events in glitzy nightclubs filled with celebrities who go there because its the fashionable place to be seen and not because they enjoy the music.

 

I mean Kim fucking Kardashian thinking she is a DJ? I've seen videos of EDM DJs playing fucking CDs and pretending to use the decks/mixer and only 2 weeks ago I saw a pic of a rugby player in an EDM club stood behind CDJs with fucking vinyls on top of them pretending to mix. The entire thing is an insult to its roots.

 

Fuck EDM and fuck everyone who is a part of EDM.

Joel (deadmau5) produces exactly what he always has (if you ignore his halcyon441 (pre-deadmau5 era, but of course everything was different in 80's)). I don't see anything that Joel has done as commercialized. If you look at David Guetta, absolutely. This is likely why he hates most EDM artists (Zedd, Calvin Harris, Avicii, etc). They've done precisely what you said.

 

Further, times change. Things change. Electronic music has, not only grown, but become more defined as a whole. You can specifically find what you like. 

 

You're acting like that hipster that got upset because his favorite underground artist now has 10 views on YouTube.

 

 

 

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, Pohernori said:

 

This statement really doesn't make you look good...

 

 

Holyshit, this is worse. 

 

I can see "fake" DJs being a problem. But EDM itself evolved from electronic music. There are so many sub genres. Like hardstyle, then from hardstyle birth so many more. These days Hardstyle sounds so different from what it used to be. But we can't keep clinging on to the past. 

 

There's no such thing as "real" electronic music. There's only electronic music. It either is or is not. 

Meh, I stand by every word. I've been a raver for 20 years, I went to my first rave in 1996 aged just 15 and continued to go to raves until a few years ago.

 

If you went to a rave and asked for opinions on EDM I guarantee you the large majority of the people there would agree with every word I said/typed.

 

Its hard for people to understand because its a fairly unique situation but trust me, what the likes of Tiesto, Hardwell, Avicii and Deadmau5 have done to our scene is a really sore point amongst the raving community.

 

I mean raves these days are much more commercialised than they used to be but as ravers we understand that this was done because in 99 the scene almost died entirely. Many of the DJs started making tracks which were totally different to what the music used to be and totally different to each other, it was like everyone split apart and had different ideas for what rave music (technically it was Happy Hardcore/UK hardcore that suffered, techno, hardcore and gabba remained huge during this period) should be and it totally killed the scene for 2 whole years. The largest rave in england on the millennium new years eve had to close an entire arena and cancel half the bookings because no one bought tickets, and this was supposed to be the biggest event in UK history on what was the biggest party night in 1000 years and it was the events last ever night.

 

If one particular promoter hadn't changed the way the events were run (by pushing DJs and Record Label's) and brought everyone back together in 2002 I honestly believe a large chunk of the UK rave scene would have died off completely, there was no large events held in England for 2 entire years. None, and remember Holland and the UK were entirely responsible for spawning the genre in the first place.

 

There's an ethos which is held by most people in the raving community, including the big guns who perform every weekend for the fans, and that ethos is the music comes first, no egos, no hierarchy, you go to a rave and everyone is the same. Its crazy as your having a dance, you turn around and there's the biggest DJ in the business raving next to you in the middle of the crowd cheering for the DJ who is currently performing (that's a true story BTW) and (apart from a few performers) its about the music, the performance and the crowd enjoyment, the money is just a side effect of the scenario.

 

These EDM "DJs" are only there to make money as quickly as possible, most of them can't actually DJ (although I will admit Hardwell is good on the decks), there's no passion or respect for the music at all, its just about getting tracks on as many IPods as possible, nothing more. Like I said, its about filling glitzy nightclubs with rich celebrities.

 

Its a joke and really pisses off anybody who is into actual electronic music, they're using our scene to line their own pockets by producing generic music that's designed to make it into the pop charts.

 

And now I'll stop my rant, sorry for the wall.

[asim1999]

The first time i heard about him was when he leaked the Quadro M6000 last year 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Meh, I stand by every word. I've been a raver for 20 years, I went to my first rave in 1996 aged just 15 and continued to go to raves until a few years ago.

 

<I feel ya bro> 

 

And now I'll stop my rant, sorry for the wall.

 

Yea, my guess was right. You're more concerned about the EDM scene rather than the music itself. There no "actual"  electronic music. What they're already producing is electronic music. I will not deny that the scene has tons of problems. But disliking the scene does not make its music "fake". You have to understand that. 

 

Else we'd still be listening to stuff like this LOL

 

 

[kirashi]

13 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

---SNIP---

It wasn't a direct stab at Deadmau5, more just a general stab at the direction these commercial DJs seem to be happy to take electronic music. Its a shame because raving and ravers used to actually mean something, we were a family who worked all week so we could spend our weekends in dark and dank nightclubs listening to music that most people would describe as noise in a group that was diverse and generally didn't give a fuck who you were or where you were from as long as you enjoyed the music.

 

Nowadays its about lining the pockets of the promoters and DJs by pushing out as much stuff as quickly as possible in order to generate revenue from sales and drive ticket sales to overpriced and undermanned events in glitzy nightclubs filled with celebrities who go there because its the fashionable place to be seen and not because they enjoy the music.

 

I mean Kim fucking Kardashian thinking she is a DJ? I've seen videos of EDM DJs playing fucking CDs and pretending to use the decks/mixer and only 2 weeks ago I saw a pic of a rugby player in an EDM club stood behind CDJs with fucking vinyls on top of them pretending to mix. The entire thing is an insult to its roots.

---SNIP---

This is exactly what I was hoping you had meant - not all EDM artists are production sellouts, as I like to call them.

Even Joel has started to produce some more original content, similar to his pre-Ultra Records days of 2008 and prior.

You'd see it (or rather, hear it) if he hadn't wiped his soundcloud account. Prior to releasing While (1<2) he had pretty much written, recorded, arranged, and mixed all of the tracks via his live streaming. Joel took feedback from the users watching his livestream, and uploaded rough cuts to his sound cloud under the Avaritia moniker.

 

The problem is the music industry touting "artists" who are really just performers - they don't actually make the music they perform.

Some artists have come right out and stated they don't sing or make music - they just perform. Lady Gaga comes to mind in this regard. (love or hate her)

It's the "DJ's" like Paris Hilton and Pauly D or as you've stated Kim Kardashian, or some artists at music festivals, who just perform.

 

There's actual DJ's that never see the light of day, such as DJ Gammer, DJ Dougal, and Darren Styles of Styles and Breeze.

They mostly focus on Happy Hardcore tracks and DJ mixes, and get featured by DJ Ravine and DJ Cotts on YouTube a lot.

Arguably, DJing is still not creating music in the traditional sense, but there's a definite difference between pretending to push buttons, and mixing live.

 

[ShadowCaptain]

13 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

SNIP

Your argument is no different to literally any other genre, the commercialisation of hip hop springs to mind, what started as an "underground" movement and is now in the charts talking about money and hoes, all written by the producer, while the real artists, the real emcees are underground, failing to make a living while they pour their heart and soul in

The same could be said for metal and other genres, there are massively commercial bands, that take the "essense" of EDM, Hip Hop, Metal, and make it into some pop music to cater for the masses

That said, music is not something YOU own, its something that moves with the times, genres change, artists change, music distribution changes etc

Music belongs to everyone, even that person bumping some Justin Bieber out of their stereo

[Stuff_]

To further @ShadowCaptains point, you should be happy more peoole have discovered these styles of music. That has moved the entire electronic music genres as a whole. New ones popped up, etc. And independent labels like mau5trap and monstercat came about and allow people to keep their own music style while being able to get paid for their work.

[Stuff_]

Also I might be slightly biased towards Joel because he live streams his sets, production, and gameplay and actually replies and talks to you haha. 

[Energycore]

On 10/4/2016 at 3:38 AM, Master Disaster said:

He makes aweful music that's insulting to anybody who is actually into real electronic music.

I smell self righteousness.

[Jack02]

Deadmau5 killed a child via vehicular manslaughter in 2008.