r/deadmau5

A long while back r/deadmau5 had done a series of posts where the community would vote for the best track by deadmau5 that begins with each letter of the alphabet. At the time, deadmau5 had not written any songs beginning with Q and Joel himself made a comment suggesting it was time to produce a Q track. Thus we later on got the track Quetzalcoatl from the boss, and since Spotify has given us so much more control over mixing parameters, I felt like breathing some new life into this old playlist. I also felt like doing it because deadmau5 is my all time favorite artist to ever exist, and it's about time I start making more mau5 playlists. As far as I remember, the community did not vote for any tracks for the letters Y and Z.

Mods delete plz

SENT EM HOPEFYLL PEEPS WENT —— Dm me don’t care to sell em

Edit they sent love yall skobobuffs

This is just an excerpt from their interview, which I imagine the full length one will be released soon.

I was listening to this classic track when I suddenly heard a seagull get hit by a truck at 5:45. I was wondering did Joel use a real truck to hit a live seagull? I was hoping that it is a fake seagull. Or maybe it was a fake truck and a real seagull? I suppose that wouldn't be as bad, but still worse than a real truck and a fake seagull. Can anyone confirm that either the truck or the seagull was fake?

Hey guys. I’d posted a discussion about the origin of this particular sound, especially when it plays in 8th-notes to provide not just the groove but also the central atmosphere and melody of the track. u/Spartan_138 also posted on this on r/trance and r/deadmau5 6 years ago.

Thanks to the post I discovered what I (and quite a few others) thought was arguably the earliest example of the style: Probspot’s Foreplay, released in 2004.

However, I recently listened to James Holden’s remix of Opus III’s Fine Day, released in 2002, and I have to say that despite being older, it sounds way closer. And I think it’s fair to call this a forerunner, not to mention James Holden was a pretty pioneering artist in general.

The closest early deadmau5 track to this one I can think of his remix of Morgan Page’s The Longest Road released in 2008.

Anyhow, I think the tune is a bop and hope you like it too.

Edit: listen from the 2:00 minute mark.