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Removed "minimal trance". My god, there is no such thing as minimal trance. Ugly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.110.208.26 (talk) 01:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mispronounced?

"and often mispronounced "Dead-Mau-Five"" I've removed this once but it keeps reappearing. Whilst it is useful to say how it should be pronounced for clarity I don't think there is any need to list potential mispronounciations. Gavint0 (talk) 10:55, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - completely not needed, why does the average reader have to know how some people mis-pronounce something? - eo (talk) 11:51, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GTA IV Soundtrack

I Thought Inside Out (with Chris Lake) and his remix of One + One's No Pressure are both in GTA IV, and are credited, but I'm pretty sure his track, Arguru, is also in there, though uncredited. Can anybody confirm? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.255.124 (talk) 01:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC) No, I'm pretty sure Arguru isn't in GTA IV.[reply]

Origin of Name

Deadmau5's name originates from the computer internet chat client Internet Relay Chat. His original name was Dead Mouse and is an anecdote of a mouse that has crawled in through the exhaust fan of a tower computer and died, this too is where deadmau5's image of a dead mouse with crossed out eyes. The crossed eyes is synonymous with an object or person that is dead. Dead Mouse is abbreviated due to the Internet Relay Chat server network he was using at the time only allowing 8 characters in length and therefore dead mouse being 9-10 depending if a space is included. Thus the nick is shortened to 8 by having deadmau5. Youtube Deadmau5 Channel reference
--Gbirley (talk) 00:10, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discog?

Why remove? Most other artists have one. The Ronin (talk) 14:08, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2008 DJMag poll

Results have not been released yet. You know he's #11 how? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.159.237 (talk) 18:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They were leaked two days early. DJ Mag sent out the magazine early and subscribers received them before the official unveiling of the results. A State Of Trance (talk) 01:38, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Lake

Why is Chris Lake listed as an associated act? It is not apparent from this article. Wickethewok (talk) 20:46, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

is their an online source for this?

Copyright Issue with DeadMau5 and IL

I think it should be noted that Deadmau5 and Image-line had a legal battle involving 2 samples copyrighted —Preceding unsigned comment added by FuzzyDan (talk • contribs) 23:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

From what I understand, the battle wasn't between Image-Line and Deadmau5.

FL Studio 8 came with two loop samples from Faxing Berlin. An FL Studio user created a song with these samples. Deadmau5 had a sissy fit. Then Image- Line came out and called the user a thief.

But what are those loops doing in FL Studio? They're under the Packs folder, which is where one finds free samples for use in your own songs (Image-Line's ads explicitely state that the samples that come with FL Studio are royalty-free). Image-Line dishonestly stated that the loops were EXAMPLES, not free samples, but something tells me that Faxing Berlin was not produced with FL Studio, and why would they be perfect 8/16 beat loops with the BPM indicated (128) if they were not intended for use in your own tracks?

Tebello TheWHAT!!?? 18:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Future Music Article Regards, FM [ talk to me | show contributions ] 15:13, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually there is a lot of his tracks are in FL Studio, its just samples like Hey Baby, Lai, Lollercoaster, Bounce, two samples of Faxing Berlin the drum loop and a sample of the real song.

Trivia

I recently found some trivia about Phil Zimmermann and his tattoo. I would really appreciate if someone could insert it into the article.

Beatportal released a small article about deadmau5' tattoo on his neck: Beatportal: The curious case of Deadmau5' neck tattoo It is a small Space Invader, Joachim Garraud's logo of his podcast, tour etc. Deadmau5 did not know about the reference to Joachim Garraud. He's always wearing scarfs because he's embarassed about this.

In his new video (Ghosts'n stuff, see official deadmau5 Youtube channel) he satirizes his own mistake. Phil falls into coma and wakes up with this green tattoo on his neck.

Greetings, --212.64.228.100 (talk) 11:40, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deadmau5 has a tattoo on his neck, he is not upset with it, on his Facebook, he was talking about getting more tattoos of the similar thing on his arm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.147.20.252 (talk) 15:30, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does anybody know where deadmau5 graduated from, if he did graduate

On soundcloud.org he goes by the user name "fuckmylife" and has a track called FML on "for lack of a better name" can anyone expand on this?

Biography

deadmau5's 'Biography' reads like it was lifted from a PR press bio. Certainly not neutral, with lines like, "It's electrifying stuff." And has the informal, hyping feel with sentences such as, "Hard to believe that three years ago, Zimmerman was all but unknown." Or look at the final paragraph:

"No Grammy just yet, then, but you wouldn’t bet against him winning one in the future. Deadmau5 is on a dizzying upward trajectory. Dance music just got very exciting again." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.200.241.75 (talk) 15:12, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. -216.165.16.94 (talk) 23:01, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization

Is it "deadmau5" or "Deadmau5"? Velorium (talk) 19:47, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]