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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Tonight Tonight in Music: Deadmau5

Posted by on Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM



Deadmau5, DJ Colby B
(Showbox at the Market) There's always been something borderline cringeworthy about Toronto electronic producer Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse," duh). It's not just that great, gimmicky light-up mouse head he wears for the first few minutes of his shows (and, seriously, just the first few minutes?); it's that this mouse has a taste for cheese, specifically that of the progressive-house and embarrassing vocal-collab' varieties.

On new album For Lack of a Better Name, Deadmau5 (born Joel Zimmerman) uses big, fat kick drums (and filter-flattened hand claps and sonar-pinging percussive synths) to lay solid foundational grooves and persuade the appropriate kinetic response, but the tracks occasionally drift into trancey tedium (sounding sweet enough but unmemorable). The album is painfully hampered by its back-to-back sequenced pair of vocal tracks "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" and "Hi Friend!" ERIC GRANDY

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