Hello fellow bloggers and readers, I’m fairly new to blogging but have been an adamant fan of Edm for over 3 years now, right around the time this new trio called Swedish House Mafia came out with their first song called “One.” For my first Throwback Thursday I want to share with you some classic yet relatively unknown tracks from the very polarizing figure named Deadmau5 (pronounced deadmouse). I give Deadmau5 the credit of getting me more into the Edm scene and pushing me away from hip/hop and rap with his track “Ghosts N’ Stuff.” The three tracks I’ll be sharing with you is ”Not Exactly”, “You Need a Ladder,” and “Falling in Love with Brazil.”
If you’ve ever heard Deadmau5’s music then you have heard his musical style, which are beautiful beats coupled together to create a harmonic melody; before you even know it, you’ll be tapping your feet along to the songs. Nothing I can say hear will truly describe the power his music has; after all you don’t become the number four DJ in the world without being great. I recommend you go out and start listening to the tracks I listed, because after you get a taste you’ll surely be crawling back for more.
Not Exactly
This song was released way back in 2008 on Deadmau‘5 first studio album named “Random Album Title.” I was originally going to post a song named “October” which was unreleased for a couple of years but funnily enough Deadmau5 just released that song on his latest album called “>Album Title Goes Here<“ which was just released a couple of weeks ago.”Not Exactly” is a classic old-school Deadmau5 track that does a great job of portraying his artistic abilities. This song can be classified as a progressive song which has a beautiful buildup and an even more beautiful yet mellow drop.
You Need a Ladder (Zelda Theme)
Everyone has heard the song called “Sofi Needs A Ladder,” well this is in fact the first version of that song and in my opinion the better version. Even though there are no vocals, this song undeniably will have you jumping up and down. This song has not been officially released by Deadmau5 but is just as good as any of his music released on his studio albums. I also personally love how he incorporates the Zelda theme song in this.
Falling in Love with Brazil (Kaskade Mashup)
In later articles we will delve into the art of mashups, which I believe Kaskade is the best at, but for now I’m just going to let you listen to the beautiful vocals given by Haley over this classic Deadmau5 beat.
In this article, I decided to pick two songs that do not have any vocals which some people may not find as appealing, but I wanted to show you less “mainstream bangers” and for you to delve deeper into the roots of one of the best producers in the game. The last song I shared with you does have vocals but is not an original Deadmau5 song but was a song that I thought you might enjoy. Some dj’s which I will post about in future articles will have vocals in every song, but Deadmau5’s real speciality is telling a story through harmonic beats. Some of these dj’s that will be featured in upcoming “Throwback Thursday’s” will include Nero, Kaskade, Calvin Harris, Boys Noize, and many others. Next week’s article will be about a band who are no longer together named Pendulum: they are no longer together because two members decided to start a side project which turned into a raging success named KNIFE PARTY, so we will be exploring their origins.