Name

Deadmau5

Country

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Age

30

Music Genre

Electronica,
Neo-trance, Progressive-house, Electro house,
Dubstep

His real name is Joel Thomas Zimmerman. He is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto. His tracks have been included in compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, MixMag's Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness (mixed by deadmau5 himself), and on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show. He released his debut album, Get Scraped, in 2006, followed by others in the next few years.

As well as his own solo releases, deadmau5 has worked with numerous other DJs and producers, such as Kaskade, MC Flipside, Rob Swire of Pendulum, Skrillex, and Steve Duda under the BSOD alias. He is known for often performing in a titular costume head, which resembles a mouse head, that he originally created while learning to use a 3D program.

Joel Zimmerman does not like being called a DJ. He plays mostly his own material, assembling tracks on the fly, using cutting edge computer technology, including software he's helped write himself.