Deadmau5
Joel Zimmerman, the Canadian producer behind the mau5head, Mau5trap and Strobe.
Deadmau5 is the stage name of Joel Thomas Zimmerman, a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ born on January 5, 1981, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He works mainly in progressive house and electro house, also makes techno under the alias Testpilot, and usually performs in a custom helmet called the mau5head. He has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards and has won four Juno Awards.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Joel Thomas Zimmerman
- Also known as
- Halcyon441
- Karma K
- Testpilot
- Born
- 5 January 1981
- Birthplace
- Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- Genre
- Progressive house
- electro house
- electronic
- Occupation
- Record producer
- DJ
- Live streamer
- Developer
- Instrument
- Synthesizer, Digital audio workstation
- Years active
- 1998–present
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Background
His breakthrough was the 2008 album Random Album Title, certified gold in Canada and silver in the UK, with 'Faxing Berlin' and the Kaskade collaboration 'I Remember'. For Lack of a Better Name (2009) followed with 'Ghosts 'n' Stuff' (with Rob Swire of Pendulum), 'Hi Friend!' (with MC Flipside) and 'Strobe', and 4×4=12 (2010) with 'Some Chords', 'Animal Rights', 'Sofi Needs a Ladder' and 'Raise Your Weapon'. Album Title Goes Here (2012) carried 'The Veldt' and 'Professional Griefers' with Gerard Way; after leaving Ultra Records he released While(1<2) in 2014 and W:/2016Album/ in 2016, and he scored the film Polar (2019).
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