In 2006, he released his second album, Vexillology, through the Toronto label Play Digital. He released his debut full-length album, Get Scraped, under the name Deadmau5 through the San Francisco-based ZOOLOOK records in 2005. In 2002, Zimmerman became known as the “dead mouse guy” after telling people in an Internet chat room that he had found a dead mouse in his computer he then began using the shortened name Deadmau5 as his chat room username. He then became a composer for a stock music company. He furthered his command of the latest digital audio tools while working at a local radio show in his native Niagara Falls.

Inspired by video game music, he started making chiptune music from old computer chips at age 15. The son of Rod Zimmerman, a General Motors plant employee, and Nancy, a visual artist, Joel Zimmerman took piano lessons as a child, and grew up with a keen interest in video games and computers. A leader in the revitalization of electronic dance music (EDM) in the late 2000s, he was the first Canadian artist to sell out Toronto’s Rogers Centre and the first electronic artist to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, which described his sound as a “spacey, melodic brand of fist-pumping house.” His groundbreaking mix of electronic and house music, cinematic original compositions and exhilarating live shows have earned him multiple Grammy Award nominations and several Juno Awar ds. Better known by his stage name Deadmau5 (pronounced “dead mouse”) and signature “mau5head” logo, Joel Zimmerman is one of the world’s top electronic musicians. Deadmau5), electronic and progressive house music producer, performer, composer (born 5 January 1981 in Niagara Falls, ON ).

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