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Mirrorz		2012-08-08 03:20:32 PM

I always read that name as "Dead Mow Five."

The My Little Pony Killer		2012-08-08 03:23:36 PM

Mirrorz: I always read that name as "Dead Mow Five."

Same.

So he'll be retiring from trolling 4chan then?

Earguy		2012-08-08 03:38:04 PM

"I'm just gunna (sic) slam on the breaks for a bit"

What, you give "gunna" a (sic), but you don't for "breaks"? StarPulse, this suggests that you don't know that it's an error.

DeltaPunch		2012-08-08 03:39:25 PM

You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

Shostie		2012-08-08 03:40:52 PM

I like his helmet... thing.

MaxxLarge		2012-08-08 03:50:16 PM

beantowndog		2012-08-08 03:52:22 PM

Good thing they said something, I was worried about them.

DamnYankees		2012-08-08 04:52:23 PM

Am I supposed to know who this is?

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 04:58:17 PM

DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 05:00:18 PM

in response to the image posted above, take this for what it's worth

thomps		2012-08-08 05:00:42 PM

WaltzingMathilda: DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 05:03:29 PM

thomps: WaltzingMathilda: DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

thomps		2012-08-08 05:07:02 PM

WaltzingMathilda: thomps: WaltzingMathilda: DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 05:14:02 PM

thomps: WaltzingMathilda: thomps: WaltzingMathilda: DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

thomps		2012-08-08 05:18:29 PM

WaltzingMathilda: right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

has there been a dubstep-themed CSI show yet? like "the dubstep killer" or something? that's when you know the term has lost all meaning.

downstairs		2012-08-08 05:21:18 PM

WaltzingMathilda: right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

I have zero knowledge of pretty much any dance/electronic genre. What does he do, then? Just curious.

I've had Dubstep explained to me, and couldn't follow said explaination.

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 05:25:52 PM

downstairs: WaltzingMathilda: right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

I have zero knowledge of pretty much any dance/electronic genre. What does he do, then? Just curious.

I've had Dubstep explained to me, and couldn't follow said explaination.

i mean he's still an house/electro-house/progressive house artist. he has worked with dub-steppers, but he certainly hasn't released a dubstep album.

thomps		2012-08-08 05:29:14 PM

WaltzingMathilda: downstairs: WaltzingMathilda: right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

I have zero knowledge of pretty much any dance/electronic genre. What does he do, then? Just curious.

I've had Dubstep explained to me, and couldn't follow said explaination.

i mean he's still an house/electro-house/progressive house artist. he has worked with dub-steppers, but he certainly hasn't released a dubstep album.

then explain his use of the wub wub.

DeltaPunch		2012-08-08 05:30:21 PM

WaltzingMathilda: do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

Do I think his old stuff is dubstep? No.
Do I think his new stuff is dubstep? Some.

He's definitely not a nobody, but he's been collaborating with dubstep artists, and playing a lot of it in his mixes, and I think it's watered down his original electro-house style that originally made him stand out. There are a couple good tracks from 12 that are true to his form, but a lot of his stuff is schlock these days, imho.

downstairs		2012-08-08 05:32:44 PM

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 05:39:10 PM

DeltaPunch: WaltzingMathilda: do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

Do I think his old stuff is dubstep? No.
Do I think his new stuff is dubstep? Some.

He's definitely not a nobody, but he's been collaborating with dubstep artists, and playing a lot of it in his mixes, and I think it's watered down his original electro-house style that originally made him stand out. There are a couple good tracks from 12 that are true to his form, but a lot of his stuff is schlock these days, imho.

i don't think making a dub song is really a change of his genre, but i guess it's fair to point out. and, jesus, it's really bad so i hope he doesn't try to master it. holy f*ck he's bad at it. and a 4-minute lead in? jesus.

that said i don't think it'll ruin his career. he has an unbelievable number of fans, so as long as his light show continues to melt faces, he can lean on moar ghosts for as long as EDM fans live.

truthfully, i don't get off much from him anymore because he leans on moar ghosts way too much and he also complains all the time on twitter (i should have never followed him, the person is not as cool as the producer)

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener		2012-08-08 05:42:37 PM

Saying he is "miserable," deadmau5 is taking a hiatus from whatever the hell it is he does

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DeltaPunch		2012-08-08 06:04:31 PM

WaltzingMathilda: truthfully, i don't get off much from him anymore because he leans on moar ghosts way too much and he also complains all the time on twitter (i should have never followed him, the person is not as cool as the producer)

I've seen some videos where he's at home making music, and he comes across as an asshole. I dunno, maybe he's not...

And I just found this, made me laugh.... he's basically admitting that he sold out to make a dubstep song, and then complains that other pop music acts are watering down his genre.

Yuri Futanari		2012-08-08 06:08:56 PM

downstairs: WaltzingMathilda: downstairs: WaltzingMathilda: right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

I have zero knowledge of pretty much any dance/electronic genre. What does he do, then? Just curious.

I've had Dubstep explained to me, and couldn't follow said explaination.

i mean he's still an house/electro-house/progressive house artist. he has worked with dub-steppers, but he certainly hasn't released a dubstep album.

Cool. Next question: what the hell is a skrillex?

i.imgur.com

doglover		2012-08-08 06:16:43 PM

downstairs: I've had Dubstep explained to me, and couldn't follow said explaination.

It's simple.

Take any track, slow it down, add bass. Speed it back up and it's drum step.

Counter_Intelligent		2012-08-08 06:25:27 PM

Speaking of cold, featureless music, can anyone recommend any retro-futuristic electronica like the stuff from the Mass Effect 1 soundtrack? I've really been wanting to find more.

/ No dance music.

23FPB23		2012-08-08 06:27:04 PM

I know quite little of this giant scene called EDM...BUT, in a previous discussion on this site, I found this link helpful, and interesting.

Ishkur's Guide

Thanks for the Meme-ries		2012-08-08 06:29:15 PM

Mirrorz: I always read that name as "Dead Mow Five."

i291.photobucket.com

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 06:31:11 PM

Counter_Intelligent: Speaking of cold, featureless music, can anyone recommend any retro-futuristic electronica like the stuff from the Mass Effect 1 soundtrack? I've really been wanting to find more.

/ No dance music.

it's not exactly what you're looking for but i would try some "down-tempo" artists like kid loco or trance artists or something. i mean, i just listened to the mass effect theme from mass effect 1 and i would say that could be dance music.

anyway, try starting a kid loco pandora station or finding some other way of sampling a lot of down-tempo or trance artists. it's my favorite kind of EDM.

rickythepenguin		2012-08-08 06:31:44 PM

WaltzingMathilda: well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

i only listen to trance, downtempo, new york trance, west coast house, gabber, old school gabber, dubstep, new school dubstep, west coast ambient, snowcore, east coast snowcore, New Wave, New Romantic, west coast gangsta, Dirty South gangsta, Houston skrew, Miami trance, reggaeton, NWOBHM, Straightedge, Salt Lake City straightedge, Spoken Word, DC Punk, college rock, qawwali (but only old school Nusrat Fatah ali-El Khan, before he sold out to Pearl Jam), slamcore, bluegrass, slamgrass, jam band, No Wave, singer/songwriter, coontcore, Riot Grrl, grunge, sludge rock, prog rock, cock rock, shock jock, jock jams, slow jams, Low Rider Oldies, new school low rider oldies, techno, Acid Jazz, math rock, nerdcore, rockabilly, EDM, blues, Chicago blues, Delta Blues, Merseybeat, death metal, Emo, post-Emo, Screamo, Goth, New SChool Goth but not country.

Bag of Hammers		2012-08-08 06:32:13 PM

downstairs		2012-08-08 06:33:16 PM

rickythepenguin: WaltzingMathilda: well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

i only listen to trance, downtempo, new york trance, west coast house, gabber, old school gabber, dubstep, new school dubstep, west coast ambient, snowcore, east coast snowcore, New Wave, New Romantic, west coast gangsta, Dirty South gangsta, Houston skrew, Miami trance, reggaeton, NWOBHM, Straightedge, Salt Lake City straightedge, Spoken Word, DC Punk, college rock, qawwali (but only old school Nusrat Fatah ali-El Khan, before he sold out to Pearl Jam), slamcore, bluegrass, slamgrass, jam band, No Wave, singer/songwriter, coontcore, Riot Grrl, grunge, sludge rock, prog rock, cock rock, shock jock, jock jams, slow jams, Low Rider Oldies, new school low rider oldies, techno, Acid Jazz, math rock, nerdcore, rockabilly, EDM, blues, Chicago blues, Delta Blues, Merseybeat, death metal, Emo, post-Emo, Screamo, Goth, New SChool Goth but not country.

Not into sissy bounce?

Yuri Futanari		2012-08-08 06:33:32 PM

Counter_Intelligent: Speaking of cold, featureless music, can anyone recommend any retro-futuristic electronica like the stuff from the Mass Effect 1 soundtrack? I've really been wanting to find more.

/ No dance music.

They said that the Mass Effect soundtrack was inspired by the music from Blade Runner so...Vangelis might be something to look into.

platedlizard		2012-08-08 06:34:47 PM

You know, my life improved considerably when I stopped reading 4chan. Maybe that's the direction he needs to go in.

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 06:35:45 PM

thecpt		2012-08-08 06:37:41 PM

Counter_Intelligent: Speaking of cold, featureless music, can anyone recommend any retro-futuristic electronica like the stuff from the Mass Effect 1 soundtrack? I've really been wanting to find more.

/ No dance music.

Strobe by Deadmau5
Futuristic and calming. Reminds me of save screens from RE4. Also my favorite by D5, Listening to it while I work.

Cargo		2012-08-08 06:39:29 PM

Huh. So wearing a stupid Mickey Mouse hat can only take one so far?

Who'da thunk?

Anyway, this will probably be the last we hear of this "artist," even though I'm sure he has plenty of really great music ideas left

R.I.P.

RoxtarRyan		2012-08-08 06:39:49 PM

thomps: WaltzingMathilda: thomps: WaltzingMathilda: DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

If you have to explain so hard what the music is, it probably isn't worth listening to.

rickythepenguin		2012-08-08 06:43:12 PM

rickythepenguin: math rock

RoxtarRyan: If you have to explain so hard what the music is, it probably isn't worth listening to.

i don't care that this song is written in the time signature of Fibonacci Sequence / pi.

it sucks!

WaltzingMathilda		2012-08-08 06:46:56 PM

RoxtarRyan: thomps: WaltzingMathilda: thomps: WaltzingMathilda: DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

If you have to explain so hard what the music is, it probably isn't worth listening to.

do you believe that? what kind of music do you listen to? i bet it has a lot of subgenres.

i would venture to make the opposite claim, that if you don't care to understand that broader genres of music have many distinct subgenres worth discussing, then you don't really care much about music beyond a superficial "i knows what i likes" level

Serial		2012-08-08 06:47:02 PM

This is what he looked like back when he was buying tapes from me at a Toronto shop.

i.imgur.com

divgradcurl		2012-08-08 06:50:07 PM

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Saying he is "miserable," deadmau5 is taking a hiatus from whatever the hell it is he does

[img576.imageshack.us image 500x496]

"For more information on Grand Funk, consult your school library!"

jst3p		2012-08-08 06:50:59 PM

downstairs: WaltzingMathilda: right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

I have zero knowledge of pretty much any dance/electronic genre. What does he do, then? Just curious.

I've had Dubstep explained to me, and couldn't follow said explaination.

Have you heard that one dubstep song that goes:

WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB *kzzt* WUB WUB WUB

MethylTryp		2012-08-08 06:52:26 PM

^^^ haha oh man takes me back to high school. Thanks.

Rustybumperjack		2012-08-08 06:52:41 PM

Good.

CSM101		2012-08-08 06:53:17 PM

Serial: This is what he looked like back when he was buying tapes from me at a Toronto shop.

[i.imgur.com image 500x291]

uhh... wow.

my brain can't quite comprehend that. it was the early 2000's, right?

rickythepenguin		2012-08-08 06:56:17 PM

jst3p: Have you heard that one dubstep song that goes:

WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB *kzzt* WUB WUB WUB

that one is ok but I really like the one that goes:

WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB _{dun dun dun} dun dun dun DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ

consider this		2012-08-08 06:59:19 PM

Mirrorz: I always read that name as "Dead Mow Five."

Ha, I was just coming here to say the same thing. I only recently learned that I was wrong.

RoyHobbs22		2012-08-08 07:00:13 PM

RIP

you talentless fark knuckle.

Unauthorized Bratwurst		2012-08-08 07:03:47 PM

thomps: WaltzingMathilda: DeltaPunch: You'll be missed, whoever-you-are-and-whatever-you-do.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon
//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre
///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

Electrical Discharge Machining is a musical genre now?

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