Topic: Interesting young artist

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deadmau5

Saw this guy live on Much last night. Wow. 20, Canadian and serious about his art (Too much so? To the point of exhaustion and puking... that is hard core.) Genuine sonic explorations. Awesome toys.

Kids today have it good. I dreamed of playing with this stuff as a youth. The Roland 8010 was the peak then... stuff like SoundForge, AcidLabs, and several software synths I can't recall... (edit: Cubase and ReBirth were the ones I was playing with) were just coming into maturity I was on track for producing this kind of material but output on a $15 dollar amp I got at the pawn shop... (through an awesome set of bose bookshelfs though)

I bet even Peter Gabriel would be impressed with this guy.

deadmau5 Live at Much

(Kindly ignore the Evil Overlord advertisements from Rogers - kinda put a bad taste on the whole thing... sponsoring awesome artists will not change my opinion of their criminal behaviour - but this is about deadmau5...)

It was interesting to note the whole show was run on windows(?). I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but a crash and shutdown complete with the stock windows sound scheme ended the show.

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The attached z-zipped mp3 that I produced in 1999, one of my own simple "sonic explorations", should give you some idea why I can appreciate this guy so much. He has the gear and inspiration and youth. (I have some better mixes of it - click free but this is the one small enough to attach - caution - some speaker/mind ripping sound levels in places... ) I was playing with the visualisations too. I love the idea of the avatarish visualisations projected from the performer. Pete would have loved it.