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Something wrong?The man in the LED mouse helmet turned bedroom laptop loops into stadium techno - and refused to pretend the DJ was doing anything more than pressing play. Joel Zimmerman built Deadmau5 on progressive house precision and a troll's honesty about what electronic performance actually is.
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Deadmau5 at Coachella 2008
Deadmau5 performing with the Cube at the Austin Music Hall, 2011
Deadmau5 performing at Rock in Rio with the Cube in Madrid, 2012
Zimmerman's customized Ferrari 458 at the 2014 Gumball 3000
Deadmau5 performing at Facebook F8 2015 in San Francisco, California
Deadmau5 performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with the Cube in 2017
Zimmerman performing at The Crofoot in Pontiac, Michigan in 2021Listen
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Joel Thomas Zimmerman was born January 5, 1981, and started making electronic music under the name Deadmau5, performing in a custom LED mouse helmet he called the "mau5head". His 2008 album Random Album Title - featuring "Faxing Berlin" and the Kaskade collaboration "I Remember" - went gold in Canada and silver in the UK, earning him his first Juno Award. For Lack of a Better Name followed in 2009 with "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" and the slow-burn masterpiece "Strobe", winning another Juno. He kept the run going with 4×4=12 (2010), Album Title Goes Here (2012) with Gerard Way on "Professional Griefers", and While(1<2) (2014) after leaving Ultra Records. He founded his own label Mau5trap in 2007, formed supergroups Kx5 with Kaskade and Rezzmau5 with Rezz, scored the 2019 film Polar, and has seven Grammy nominations with four Juno wins. His next album is slated for 2026.
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