Deadmau5 Dub5tepthingie
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There’s been a bunch of buzz around the web for the last week over some stuff that Deadmau5 released on a soundcloud channel. Â One of the tracks actually climbed up the hypem chart too, though the poster speculated that the tracks might be fakes – they’re not.
He’s posted up in djforums in response to some silly criticism about the merits of his making dubstep in the first place, and comments ranging from “omg I just came” to “omg if deadmau5 popularizes the genre all the shitty hipsters will ruin it for us cool kids”. Â His response? Â ”I’m just fucking around and practising guys.. you gotta switch it up every once and a while to keep sharp.”
Good on you man.
Deadmau5 has some wicked ideas in these tracks, and you can tell he’s on to something. Â Joker is making some sick dubstep right now that has a that big room bass in it like this stuff, and I think it’s a wicked sound. Â I hope that Deadmau5 continues to experiment making dubstep, and releases something proper! Â You can check out a couple other incomplete, but interesting, mixes on his soundcloud channel. Link is below.
When the Levee Breaks, anyone?
Check out the rest of the tracks here: fuckmylife
since i first started listening to dubstep, i always wondered what it would be like if deadmau5 made some…i gotta say…it’s pretty tight. his production is just so crisp. and that dirty funk kit that comes in at 1:30…perfect. fuck any haters who think any producer should sit inside a box and never get out, good music is made by good musicians. any good musician can carry their skill over to different styles
I wouldn’t compare this to Joker, the synths are much darker, Joker’s purple syths remind me a G-Funk where as this is a lot more similar to Rusko on a track like Mr Muscle. Furthermore I’d argue that Mr Mau5 got a little grittier than what I would have expected, something that I am certainly not hating on, just kind of surprised by. It sounds like a lot of earlier dubstep that the big guns like caspa and rusko were playing with a while ago.
dope post. if i ever heard Deadman5 drop this live i dunn even know….i is a fan of this bigtime
@TheMonarch sorry.. you’re absolutely right – I meant kicks, not bass. I was reminded of Joker’s remix of The Heavy – How You Like Me Now, while I was writing the post and listening to this song. http://salacioussound.com/2009/12/themonarchs-top-10-dubstep-remixes-of-2009/
That said, I’m listening to the Joker track again right now, and the kicks don’t have shit on Deadmau5.. he is the fuckin reverb MASTER!!!!11one
To easy. Internet hype. I wish I had never been here… enough to write this.