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deadmau5 may be one of the rising stars in the electronic dance music phenomenon sweeping the United States — but don’t call him a DJ. And while the Canadian is currently enjoying his biggest commercial success so far, he’s not happy about finding himself high up on music rich lists. Zimmerman, 31, also known as the mouse-headed Deadmau5 (pronounced ‘dead mouse’), has fast become one of the leading names in electronic dance music (EDM), recognisable for his mouse-head headdress, known as the mau5head, that he wears during live sets. In 2012 alone, Deadmau5 landed three Grammy nominations, performed alongside Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl in a Grammy tribute to electronic dance music, toured Europe, became the first EDM artist to make the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, and released his sixth studio album, “Album Title Goes Here.” “What a larger percentage of my audience doesn’t know is that I’m really actually an engineer producer. I love to make music and I love to engineer it, and it’s not limited to dance music,” Zimmerman said. Tracks such as the bittersweet “Telemiscommunications,” featuring folk-electronica singer Imogen Heap; club-rock anthem “Professional Griefers,” featuring My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, and hip-hop inspired “Failbait,” featuring Cypress Hill, are directed at his loyal following. — Reuters
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Yawalapiti men dance during the celebration of this year’s ‘quarup,’ a ritual held over several days to honour in death a person of great importance to them, in the Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State. This year, the Yawalapiti tribe honoured two people — a Yawalapiti Indian, who they consider a great leader, and Darcy Ribeiro, a well-known author, anthropologist and politician known for focussing on the relationship between native people and education in Brazil. Photos: Reuters
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“I’m a producer, I produce music, I’d be pretty hard pressed to find a line-up of... DJs that have played exclusively their own produced music,” Deadmau5, real name Joel Zimmerman, said in an interview.
The record, which follows Deadmau5’s breakthrough 2010 album “4x4=12,” has proven to be the DJ’s most successful US album to date, entering the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 6 after its release last month. Zimmerman said he hoped the album would cater to both his loyal following and his newer fans.