Why This Song is Genius (Deadmau5) 

Do you ever analyze video game soundtracks? I've been asking RU-vidrs for years to analyze "Zombies ate my Neighbors ". No one transposed that Score yet. (Only a couple songs)

David Bowie's The Labrynth Soundtrack is also good and so hard to find.

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Pryda - Vega / Pryda - Melo

To him it was just a throwaway track the label wanted a b side to the record and he said well u can have this i guess

That's wild. Strobe is one of my all time favorite electronic songs.

That's wild, yet true!

Are you serious?? This is like one of the greatest melodies of all time! How could Joel leave this on the chopping room floor??

Perhaps because it was so unlike anything else. It's hard to know when something is good if you don't have anything to compare it to. This was the final track on the first Deadmau5 album I bought. It's still the most haunting track on the album (ironic when two other track titles include "ghosts").

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Wow you nailed it.

Progressive EDM

@@Slugg0n yeah I mean we used to call deadmau5's shit progressive house back in the day unfortunately nowadays progressive house means fuck all

Great analogy!

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Wee bit haunting 😂

Dude must be so proud he learned about the other meaning of haunting so he had to use it hauntingly inflationary.

must be daunting to find something so haunting

Polaris reminded me of strobe so much. I remember having to watch the Japan set to listen to it before it released

Words cannot express how much I love Polaris, its such a beautiful track and its reminiscence of Strobe is incredible.

It is! Polaris is totally different but somehow evokes similar feelings. I'd love to hear more of this kind of tracks from deadmau5@@dioxide39

love the polaris shout out. one of my fave tracks of him, severely underrated track

I’m glad you’ve said this cause haunting isn’t what I’d call it either

I'm sure Joel would be very pleased to hear that

Skrillex + Zedd broke me down to fall in love electronic, Deadmau5 + Wolfgang Gartner hardened that for forever

I've never had many other friends who were into EDM. This was one of my introductory tracks to the genre when I was younger, and it meant a lot to me during those days. I'm glad to find it means so much to other people as well.

When I was in high school, one of my best friends loved electronic music and we used to drive around during the summer in his old convertible Saab and he'd put on deadmau5. I hated it at first, but now I'm commenting on a deadmau5 production video 16 years later so you can probably guess the trajectory of my music taste.

Same ❤️💯

Not really. He is a super intelligent guy with musical talent, but 0,0 music theory background or no playing capabilities. He just shoves notes up and down until he likes it. Don't get me wrong - the results are sometimes stunning, but for different things. I took his masterclass some time ago for these different things.

@@r0ck53n like the guys music but i really dont like his attitude

Why ppl are so fragile these days..

Music theory is trash. It's theory. It isn't rules. Do whatever sounds good.

I don't think he's a genius, I think he's just someone who's wasting 20 years of his life thinking he can make music. Realistically he's just regurgitating or taking credit from other people. He himself even admits. He doesn't even know what he's doing. He does not really have a lot of musical talent. And a majority of his music is only famous because of the hype that was based off of his collaborations. Especially kaskade when he did 2009's." I remember "Joel Zimmerman took the credit for KasKades work even though KasKade himself was the one who made the song. Yeah, you can say strobe is halfway decent, but when you listen to a majority of his music there's just not a whole lot of excitement there. It takes too long to build up, it's just the same drum pattern for the next 14 measures before every once in a while. Occasionally a small melody that repeats itself. Maybe four four time four or five times the entire track and that's it.. That's like that with most of his music. Even today. He's got all this sound equipment but doesn't know how to use it, he will literally spend the majority of his time high or drunk, trying figure out what to make. He's by far a musical genius compared to Martin Garrix, Calvin Harris, or even Zed.

This isn’t nostalgic in the slightest, however Boards of Canada are the absolute kings of nostalgia

​@@Kung_Fu_Jesus it is 👍

@@jfreitag88 decent dance music had died by 2010, it just got recycled around and around again and hasn’t stopped being recycled

I found it haunting

@@megaweezerfan Isn't it haunting?!!

Yes Indeed!

I'd like Alex to break down some of CMA's songs. You're Alive, Don't Look Back etc.. He was 12 when he made these.

YES! YES! this was amazing

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​@@SofbitDamn, I listened to his tracks after your comment and I was shocked to see that illenium stole the chords from Don't look back for one of his tracks. Really underrated artist.

I hear Porter Robinson's Language there lol

Look for his unreleased song, Quetzalcoatl. Similar feelings.

This is easily the best description of it I have ever heard

Christ almighty are you for real

"The 2008-2009 Era" 😂

​@@theftking 🤭🤭

I think this is his "magnum opus" for arranging the whole song. But other more simple songs like Faxing Berlin have great arrangements that are far more simple

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Hearing it live the first time you see him in person is like a religious experience after listening to it on your devices for 10 years. Cube v3 blew my mind.

@@daftelf is he still doing live events?

What's the song called?

@@PM-wt3ye never gonna give you up

​@@PM-wt3yeim the globglogabgalab

Can't understand how a song can be this good. I've a got a decent set of music knowledge thru the years, but this? Crazy good. The man hit a proper homerun with this one.

That’s so cool hope you like it bro

No EDM? Try these bangers, I put them in the same realm of feel that Strobe has 16 Bit Lolitas - Chant A Tune (Jeremy Olander Remix) Infected Mushroom - Elation Station Estiva - Sound Goes Down Eric Prydz - Opus Tipper - Ambergris, Sayonara, Dreamsters, The Re-Up (not EDM but....) If you want a shortcut to some heavily emotional tracks

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what's the name of the song?

@@KadinWhitney he said it in the beginning. “Strobe”

very haunting

im the globglogabgalab

True, it sounds so melancholic, it really tugs at the ol' heart strings.

What do you mean? There's no song here, there's no lyrics/vocals. It's unfinished.

I used 1928 Steinway from Spitfire Audio here

It's crazy reading all these people conflating personal connection to a track with it being 'genius' or whatever.

@@bigsmokerc I know right! It’s almost worrying 😂

It’s not different at all. Genius presents itself in many different ways.

Einstein never had his own Masterclass on the Masterclass app 😅