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Deadmau5

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 5, 1981

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

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It would be cool to custom-write music for some kind of story. That'd be cool.

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'I Remember' was produced before the vocal. It's just another body of work in the long list of bodies of work.

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I really had no aspirations for becoming a DJ, and now I find myself having to campaign to be in the DJ Top 100.

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I love watching professionals play more than I love sitting there 20 hours a day trying be a pro myself.

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When I'm working on something and need to take a little break, I'll go down and play some video games.

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God bless Skrillex. I love the kid, but he puts out a new video, what, every four weeks? I'm like the Dos Equis guy. I don't normally do music videos, but when I do, I go big.

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I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

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Usually, companies, when they approach other people to do VR, they're like, 'We're gonna offer a virtual reality experience' - to me, that usually means they're gonna put a bunch of 360° cameras in a room, film something, and wrap the video in a sphere so you can head-track and look around. To me, that's not virtual reality. That's 360° video.

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I do this sort of thing where, even for my own shows, I like to supply my own fingerprint of creativity. Not just ideas, technical things: offering model data, creating visuals for my stage show myself, babysitting renders, learning that technology as I go. That's what makes me feel like an artist.

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Virtual reality, to me, seems to have a number of different tiers. Entry-level-tier VR is this experience: on a phone, some simple head-tracking, and some quick and dirty, game-engine-quality stuff.

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I'm exploring this world of game development and GPU and getting involved in any capacity that I can to meet talented artists and programmers and developers. That's what you're gonna need to get a high-end experience done.

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The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

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EDM is, like... Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops... Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They're just kinda like, 'Now, now, now - do it, do it.'

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The label does what's good for the label. Always.

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I am very strict on what products I want to associate myself with, and I felt that some things were just to make a buck.

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I don't think anyone's career is so big that they can't know where their major synchs are or where their publishing is going.

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I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

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Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

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Creamfields is, without doubt, 1 of the highlights of year for me. I really can't wait to come back.

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