For good or ill, Deadmau5 is responsible for introducing the gossip pages to electronic dance music. That is, above and beyond the panicked “rave culture is killing our youth” theme experiencing a popular media resurgence alongside North America’s delayed embrace of the machine-made sounds now referred to as “EDM.” Deadmau5 — one of the lynchpins of dance music’s current commercial boom — has managed to boldly go where pop-courting electronic forebears like Daft Punk, the Chemical Brothers and Moby, and such au courant EDM contemporaries as Skrillex and the shamelessly crowd-pleasing Tiesto have never gone before, occasionally barging into the tabloid/TMZ orbit historically reserved for the Britneys and Beyoncés and Katy Perrys and Justin Timberlakes of the world. Read the rest of the article HERE.
