The double album while(1<2) (2014) featured 25 songs and was nearly two and a half hours in length. In 2013 Zimmerman and mau5trap partnered with Astralwerks, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Album Title Goes Here topped the Billboard dance/electronic albums chart and earned Deadmau5 his second Grammy nomination. Later albums included For Lack of a Better Name (2009), the Grammy-nominated 4x4=12 (2010), and >album title goes here< (2012). Random Album Title featured the singles “Faxing Berlin” and “I Remember,” both of which performed well on Billboard’s dance charts, and the album won dance recording of the year at the 2009 Juno Awards. That year, Deadmau5 broke into the mainstream with Random Album Title, a collection that helped establish his signature dance floor-friendly sound. In 2007 Zimmerman started his own record label, mau5trap records, and in 2008 he won his first Juno Award for dance recording of the year for “All U Ever Want,” a collaboration with Billy Newton-Davis. His second album, Vexillology (2006), featured a glitchy sound inspired by 8-bit video games and an approach reminiscent of 1990s electronica.
He released his debut full-length album, Get Scraped, under the name Deadmau5 through the San Francisco-based ZOOLOOK records in 2005. In 2002 Zimmerman became known as the “dead mouse guy” after telling people in an Internet chat room that he had found a dead mouse in his computer he then began using the shortened name Deadmau5 as his chat room username. He then became a composer for a stock music company. As a teenager he started making music with old computer chips, and he co-produced a dance music program at a Niagara Falls radio station.
Zimmerman took piano lessons as a child and grew up with a keen interest in video games and computers.
Deadmau5, original name Joel Thomas Zimmerman, (born January 5, 1981, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada), Canadian electronic dance music (EDM) producer and performer who was at the forefront of the revitalization of that genre in the late 2000s.
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