Who could have imagined that a person would get the inspiration for his stage name from an dead mouse? But this is exactly what DJ Deadmau5 did. He even wears the famous mouse head costume at his shows. Well, that doesn’t take anything away from his versatility and creativity. Give him a turntable or put him in a recording studio and he’ll blow everyone away.
Joel Thomas Zimmerman, known as Deadmau5, is a renowned record producer, musician, electronic DJ and composer from Canada. He has numerous studio albums and has been nominated for more than five Grammys. His tracks have also been included in some compilation albums, such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza in 2007.
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Deadman5, whose real name is Joel Thomas Zimmerman, was born as the second of three children. He was born on January 5, 1981, in Ontario, Canada, the son of Nancy, a visual artist, and Rodney, a General Motors plant worker. His siblings include an older sister, Jennifer, and a younger brother, Chris.
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Zimmerman attended Westlane Secondary School in Niagara Falls and then got a job as a programmer at online music licensing company. The name “deadmau5” comes from a time in his early years when he found a dead mouse on the back of his computer. This event earned him the name “the dead mouse-type”, which he later stylized to “deadmau5”.
Zimmerman’s debut project was called Get Scraped and was released in July 2005. It contained some revised and original tracks from some of his individually released compilations. These included the projects from 2006, deadmau5 Circa 1998-2002, A Little Oblique, and Project 56, the latter of which was released in 2008.
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Vexillology, his second album, was released in November 2006 under his new label Play Records. Zimmerman released his third album Random Album Title in 2008 under his record label “mau5trap”. He worked with Ultra Records and Ministry of Sound to digitally release the album in the US and Europe and the UK respectively. The album included a collaboration with Chicago-based producer Kaskade on two tracks, I Remember and Move For Me. Together with a third single, Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff, from his next album, these two collaborations reached number one on Billboard’s dance/mix show airplay charts. He was the only Canadian to achieve this feat, and only the sixth Canadian to top these charts.
His fourth album Lack of a Better Name was released in September 2009. He also recorded his tour performances for the album and made them available for purchase in the form of a USB wristwatch.
He was the in-house DJ for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, sharing the stage with Jason Derulo and Travie McCoy during the ceremony. His hit single Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff was used as the soundtrack for Jersey Shore, the MTV reality series.
In December 2010, he released his fifth album entitled 4×4=12 in the USA and Great Britain, one day apart. His single Some Chords from the album was used in an episode of the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He also made a short appearance in the series, while an instrumental version of his single Sofi Needs a Ladder was used in The Hangover Part II.
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His sixth project, Album Title Goes Here, was released in August 2012. One of the singles Professional Griefers was named one of the “Top 40 Songs of 2012” by FUSE TV. In 2013, he left Ultra Records and signed with Astralwerks, a label that included the Chemical Brothers and David Guetta, among others. Under this label, he released his seventh album while(1
