Deadmau5 mainly produces progressive house and electro house music, though he produces and DJs other genres of electronic music, including techno under the alias Testpilot.
19 Facts About Deadmau5
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Deadmau5 has worked with other DJs and producers, such as Kaskade, Wolfgang Gartner, Rob Swire, and Chris Lake.
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Deadmau5 is currently one of the highest paid electronic music producers in the world, and is a masked music artist similar to Marshmello and Daft Punk.
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Deadmau5's works have been included in compilation albums such as Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza and presented on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show.
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Deadmau5's mother, Nancy, is a visual artist, and his father, Rodney Thomas "Rod" Zimmerman, is a General Motors plant worker.
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Deadmau5 received his first keyboard for Christmas when he was a teenager.
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Deadmau5 then worked with an online music licensing company and as a programmer.
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Deadmau5 adopted the name Deadmau5, which referred to a dead mouse he found in his computer; the unique spelling was a result of a maximum character limitation.
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Deadmau5 is the sixth Canadian to top that chart, following Deborah Cox, Nelly Furtado, Dragonette, Justin Bieber, and The Weeknd, each with one apiece.
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Deadmau5 expressed gratitude towards Lady Gaga and David Guetta for bringing dance into the pop music scene and paving the way for him to the mainstream.
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On July 23,2015, Valve announced that Deadmau5 was creating a series of sound clips to be featured in their video game Dota 2.
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On October 7,2015, Deadmau5 officially announced that he was leaving his then label Astralwerks and going entirely independent with his own label Mau5trap.
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In 2021, REZZ and Deadmau5 collaborated to release a single named "Hypnocurrency" on Mau5trap.
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Deadmau5 is featured as a secret unlockable character in the 2014 video game Goat Simulator as "deadgoa7".
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Deadmau5's music has been included in other video game titles, including a custom soundtrack for Dota 2.
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Deadmau5 tried to change his name to "Deadmouse" in an online chat room, but it was too long, so he shortened it to "Deadmau5".
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Fans often attend Deadmau5 concerts sporting their own copy or alteration of the mau5head.
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Deadmau5 created his website and began uploading songs to SectionZ and producing under the alias "Deadmau5" in 2002.
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On May 15,2017, Deadmau5 filed a countersuit against Bassiri with the intention of seeking forfeiture of Bassiri's website and domain name.