Deadmau5 - Album Title Goes Here

Tracklist

01. Superliminal (6:15)

02. Channel 42 (with Wolfgang Gartner) (4:49)

03. The Veldt (feat. Chris James) (8:26)

04. Fn Pig (8:43)

05. Professional Griefers (feat. Gerard Way) (4:05)

06. Maths (6:38)

07. There Might Be Coffee (7:01)

08. Take Care of the Proper Paperwork (6:52)

09. Closer (6:59)

10. October (7:11)

11. Sleepless (4:07)

12. Failbait (feat. Cypress Hill) (4:49)

13. Telemiscommunications (feat. Imogen Heap) (4:01)

> Extra < CD

01. Professional Griefers (Instrumental Mix) (6:27)

02. Professional Griefers (feat. Gerard Way) [Radio Edit] (3:03)

03. The Veldt (feat. Chris James) [Tommy Trash Remix] (6:50)

04. The Veldt (feat. Chris James) [Freeform Five Remix] (3:12)

05. Strobe (Live Version) (4:57)

Album Title Goes Here (stylized as > album title goes here <) is the upcoming sixth studio album by Canadian electronic artist deadmau5. It will be released on 25 September 2012 to the US and Canada through Ultra Records, and 24 September 2012 through Virgin elsewhere. The album cover features Zimmerman's pet cat "Professor Meowingtons" wearing a broken "mau5head". It was previously used on the cover of Meowingtons Hax Tour Trax.

I have to say, as an album, it is pretty good... his past work had a handful of songs per release that were enjoyable to listen to (the rest being shit), but as a whole, this release works.

Thoughts?

Don't really care but cheers on getting Cypress Hill and Imogen Heap on the same album, Joel.

Why are there links to torrent sites in some of those track titles?

Album art is witty.

"Nothing feels careless: a lot of time and effort has clearly been expended on making it as generic and unfunky as possible. It's the sound of a man who knows his market"

-Some review I read somewhere.

Braf.

  On 9/24/2012 at 12:30 AM, asymmetrical head said:

"Nothing feels careless: a lot of time and effort has clearly been expended on making it as generic and unfunky as possible. It's the sound of a man who knows his market"

 

-Some review I read somewhere.

lol

It's almost as though the title of this one is a clever play on another album title of his, Random Album Title.

  On 9/24/2012 at 9:50 AM, vproc said:

It's almost as though the title of this one is a clever play on another album title of his, Random Album Title.

Except ATGH isn't anything whereas the other was at least "RAT". Get it, Deadmau5->RAT? Hurr...

Yes, I am aware "Hangable Autobulb" is an anagram of "Analogue Bubblebath".

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Dynamic but derivative … Deadmau5

 

The first single taken from Deadmau5's sixth album was called

. It features Chris James, a vocalist the Canadian producer discovered via the internet, beatifically cooing about a "happy life with the machines … the world the children made … look at us now, so in love with the way we are".

 

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The lyrics are based on a Ray Bradbury short story, but sound a lot like a celebration of the American electronic dance music (EDM) scene. It's hard to think of a more unexpected turn of musical events than EDM's commercial triumph. For decades, the US remained impervious to the charms of the house music and techno that had been invented under their noses in the 80s. Then suddenly, nearly a quarter of a century after the rest of the world cottoned on, dance music has become very big business indeed.

From the outside, it's inexplicable. Perhaps examining the work of Joel Zimmerman can shed some light. As Deadmau5, he is not only arguably EDM's biggest star – as evidenced bya recent Rolling Stone cover – but also the scene's self-appointed spokesman. He took Madonna to task for the scarcely imaginable crime of mentioning drugs at a rave, suggesting it was akin to "mentioning slavery at a blues concert". It was redolent, he said, of the days when "a dark veil" hung over dance music, before he and others had "taken EDM so goddamn far". By this "dark veil" period, he presumably meant the 35 years when dance music had to content itself with merely providing a glorious, euphoric voice for disenfranchised minorities, being a genuine countercultural phenomenon, repeatedly revolutionising music and changing the face of popular culture. This, of course, was before it found its true, noble calling: soundtracking Las Vegas pool parties and providing music for

to mosh to.

Deadmau5's pronouncements do tend towards the odd. In a certain light, they can give the impression that EDM's top dog loathes dance music. DJs are "fucking cunts … I don't see the technical merit in playing two songs at the same speed together … it bores me to fucking tears". Live dance music, including his own, is essentially a con: "It's not about talent … I just roll up with a laptop and … hit a spacebar." Dance music itself is "just 120bpm with a fucking kick drum on every quarter note". "Fuck dance music, you know?" he told Rolling Stone.

Perhaps this is the righteous iconoclasm of a nonpareil artist, so far ahead of his peers that he can splatter his scorn with impunity. Or perhaps not. Anyone who remembers the glut of electronic albums released in the late 90s might find something familiar about Album Title Goes Here. It keeps doing the things lesser talents signed in the wake ofthe Chemical Brothers and Leftfield's success seemed contractually obliged to do. There is an awful hip-hop track, featuring rappers some way past their peak: Failbait, with Cypress Hill. There is a bit of waffy ambience with vocals by a female singer-songwriter (Imogen Heap on Telemiscommunications). There is an attempt to meld electronics and hard rock,

, featuring Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. If it featured a track described as "the soundtrack for a film that hasn't been made yet", he'd have the full house. It doesn't, but it does feature

, a track based on the five-note pattern scientists use to communicate with aliens in

, which is the kind of idea The Two Ronnies would have come up with had they been called upon to parody rave culture in 1989.

Perhaps Deadmau5 appeals to a middle-American audience traditionally resistant to dance music because he seems to have taken a genre born out of a largely black, largely gay club scene and ruthlessly expunged any lasting sonic evidence of its birthplace. You can hear his style's roots in the big stars of 90s electronica, their respective sounds adjusted to cut them adrift from the music that inspired them. It's the Chemical Brothers without their love for hip-hop and Detroit techno; Daft Punk without their deep understanding of Chicago house; the Prodigy without their roots in breakbeat hardcore. What's left is bizarrely unfunky, unambiguous, unsexy and unreconstructedly macho: Maths or Fn Pig offer a noisy euphoria that makes you think not of the communal transcendence of the dancefloor, but a bloke from sales with his tie wrapped round his head, waving a can of Relentless in the air and roaring. It's house music that Frankie Knuckles wouldn't understand, but

would get straight away.

For all his dismissal of pop's co-opting of EDM, Deadmau5 deals in an amalgam of sounds indistinguishable from those you'd find on a pop R&B single – the distorted bass wobble of dubstep, Auto-Tuned vocals, 80s synths (including, on Channel 42, the kind of piercing electronic wail that preceded Ray Parker Jr's insistence that he wasn't 'fraid of no ghost), epic breakdowns. All this is set to beats that steadfastly decline to swing, a lock-stepped quick march across the dancefloor. It's The Triumph of the Will.i.am.

Deadmau5's album titles – Album Title Goes Here follows Random Album Title and For Lack of a Better Name – suggest a man whose motto is "This'll do", casually knocking out any old cobblers because he holds his audience in contempt. The really weird thing about Album Title Goes Here is that nothing could be further from the truth. It's derivative, cliched and gives the impression of having been made by someone who's never danced in their life, but in a purely technical sense, it's extremely well produced, punchy, powerful, with a strong grasp of dynamics and occasional flashes of a deft melodic touch. Nothing feels careless: a lot of time and effort has clearly been expended on making it as generic and unfunky as possible. It's the sound of a man who knows his marke

Came here to post above review. It's good.

So, he called security on Rusko for smoking a blunt in backstage and now he has Cypress Hill on his album?

  On 9/26/2012 at 2:06 PM, mokz said:

So, he called security on Rusko for smoking a blunt in backstage and now he has Cypress Hill on his album?

he just hates Rusko

I can't get over the hurdles that are:

a) The number 5 in his name (I had the same with the otherwise ace film Se7en - so how's it pronounced: Se Seven en ?)

b) The [bloody] mouse iconography everywhere

c) The album title '> album title goes here

  On 9/27/2012 at 3:21 PM, mcbpete said:

I can't get over the hurdles that are:

 

a) The number 5 in his name (I had the same with the otherwise ace film Se7en - so how's it pronounced: Se Seven en ?)

b) The [bloody] mouse iconography everywhere

c) The album title '> album title goes here <'

a) sesevenen.. five-ive.. deadmaufive?

b)

c) .. yeah, I got nothin'. Filter did it with 'Title of Record', and I guess PiL with 'album' (and before that even, Flipper with 'generic album').. but 'album title goes here'? groooaaaan.

sarcastic post goes here

deadmaus is a piece of shit

I might be buying the album just for that review alone. Awesome.

The presentation entirely is just insulting, almost. I have no interest in even hearing anything of it now that I've seen the forced internet assembled wittiness with a cover art that makes no fucking sense.

My next album will be called "I made this music" and the cover will be a badminton racket with a massive pubic hair on the handle

  On 9/27/2012 at 10:28 PM, Fahz0r said:

My next album will be called "I made this music" and the cover will be a badminton racket with a massive pubic hair on the handle

the cover of the album is a picture of his cat with a stupid fucking name i hate cats and i hate people who think cats give a shit about anything but themselves

fuck off

  On 9/27/2012 at 4:24 PM, RichieBees said:

deadmaus is a piece of shit

lol