Artist
deadmau5
Niagara Falls, Canada · b. 1981
deadmau5 is a musician from Niagara Falls, Canada, active since 1981. Their discography on Gatefold includes 12 records. They also recorded with Kx5.
13
Albums tracked
67
In collections
1981
Since
Biography
Canadian progressive house/minimal trance and techno producer, and DJ, born on January 5, 1981 as Joel Zimmerman and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He first released music in 2000 as Karma K under various forums and adopted the famous alias Deadmau5 in 2005. (he also went by Pivoteffekt and fuckmylife)
He established the successful label Mau5trap Recordings in 2007.
As of 2025, "Create Music Group" has since acquired the label for 55 million.
The name Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") comes from an incident where a pet mouse crawled into Zimmerman's computer and died. "Dead Mouse" was too long for a website login name, so he abbreviated it to "deadmau5".
Bio from Discogs
deadmau5 — solo
Their records — most-collected first.
Kx5
deadmau5 under another name — MusicBrainz marks this project eponymous.
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