Deadmau5, for all you who don’t know, is a famous house music artist. House has electronic roots and is made in a similar fashion as electronic. House is in the same family as Dubstep and Trance.
Deadmau5 recently released a brand new album called “>Album Title Goes Here<” on Tuesday, September 25. This included 15 brand new tracks, including the much anticipated rerelease of “Maths,”one of his oldest and famous tunes. This album also includes two brand new music videos.
The first track on the album is called “Superliminal.” I believe he hit the nail on the head with this song. An amazing intro song to get us exited for the rest of the album. Being a DJ, I see the potential this song has of being in many mixes of mine, and other DJs across the world.
The second track is the much anticipated collaboration with Wolfgang Gardner called “Channel 42.” This song, again, was beautifully made and a great job to Wolfgang and Deadmau5 on this one. The third track is the eight minute edit of “The Veldt.” The original song was released earlier this year. I was very afraid that this song would get really repetitive really fast, but he did a very good job adding and mixing the song into itself.
The fourth track is name “Fn Pig.” I have no idea where he comes up with the names for these songs, but I do have to say that this one was very good as well. I absolutely love how he phases in a light synth pad into leads and then into more light pads and leads. Now, we reach the 5th release called “Professional Griefers” featuring Gerard Way. I think Deadmau5 is at his best when he works with a singer and this is no exception. This song, put simply, is perfection.
The sixth track named “Maths,” as I said earlier, was a remake to his previous song also named “Maths.” I’m not too much of a fan to the synths that he included in this song, but again, this is all opinion based. I also think this song is a little too repetitive. The seventh track on the list is “There Might Be Coffee.” This track is not his best, but also is not his worst. This is a mediocre song by his high standards that he himself has created, but very well produced I will say.
The eighth track is called “Take Care of the Proper Paperwork.”I would say that there are hits and misses in every album, and this is one of the misses. Not sure what he was aiming for in this song but, whatever. The ninth track is the much anticipated club hit, “closer.” Closer is one of those “perfect” songs that you could see he put a lot of work into.
“October” is the tenth track of the album and all I need to say about this one is that it is my favorite one of all time by him, and that’s saying a lot coming from a die-hard deadmau5 fan who has hear all of his songs multiple times through.
The 11th song is “sleepless.” This song was a total miss. The song seems like he was in a rush to get it finished and released on time. My review of this song, Very bad.
Speaking of total misses, “failbait” featuring Cypress Hill, is our 12th track. This singer/rapper/poser is the reason I hate rap. He is very descriptive with his wording, if you know what I mean. This song also shows why deadmau5 should stick to making house and not beats. Number thirteen is “telemisscommunications” featuring Imogene Heap who has a great voice. This song is one of those ones that you have to be in a sad mood for. For me, I’m either angry or happy, not nessiarily sad like this song is, so this song isn’t really the right song for my emotions. This one is a step off the path from the upbeat music he usually makes, but very well done other than that.
Now, onto number 14. This song is another slowish song, a little more upbeat, but still slower. This is the live version of the 3rd top selling deadmau5 song, “Strobe,” originally released in 2008 with the album “for lack of a better name.” It’s song started out as his second longest song (10 minutes and 32 seconds) and was an “Album only” release. Since then he has released a club mix version which cuts off 5 minutes of the extremely long build up intro. What he did differently is the song is a slight bit longer than the club mix and has an alternate intro that is about 30 seconds give or take. Number 15 is the Tommy Trash remix of “The Veldt” also released earlier this year. Tommy Trash had a very upbeat mood when creating this rave-themed song. Very well produced and created.
This takes us to our final song of this album. This song isn’t really anything new, but more of a shorter more condensed version of “Professional Griefers.” This is the radio edit, so it leaves a lot of the song out, but still very good. I just don’t like the idea of having the same song twice in the same album.
Now on to the music videos. The Veldt and Professional Griefers were the two videos. Professional Griefers is a UFC based video where deadmau5 is fighting Gerard way with remote controlled giant Mouse fighter things. Just look it up and watch it yourself. The final product of the video was great, but its just one of those things where you ask yourself “what did I just watch?” Next is The Veldt music video. I really don’t know how to explain what happens, but I’m sure it has some special meaning to deadmau5 that it doesn’t have to anyone else, because at the end of the video it says “Ray Bradbury 1920-2012” as a dedication to him.
It’s is my unprofessional opinion of this album and all of its songs. Out of ten, I’d give this song an 8 or a 7.5. The album is only $12 on iTunes, beatport, and amazon MP3. I hope I’ve helped you make a decision to buy or to reject this album.