Recently, Joel Zimmerman, or Deadmau5, surprised many by releasing a minimal techno track under what was to believed an alias on Richie Hawtin's Plus 8. Now, Zimmerman has finally come forward, admitting he was in fact the "skinny white kid" behind "Sunspot" all along, confirming what many already knew. “I was just trying something different,” Deadmau5 said in an interview over the weekend. “I kind of knew that if I put it out under an alias it would be fuckin’ five minutes before people figured out it was me. I mean, EDM all sounds the same to me. But with techno – minimal techno, or heavy techno, or neo-progressive techno – fuck, it’s all techno! Goddamn. You know what I mean? It’s got a kick every 4/4, so everything in that realm I’m cool with [sic].”
Though it's not the first, and will likely not be the last time Joel releases under an alias, saying “Fuck man, some of these things that I did that I put out are hilarious because they have these little cult followings and people who comment, “Oh this is way better than anything Joel could do.’ Funny, that. But whatever, it’s just a bit of side fun, because I always like to produce [sic].”
[Via In The Mix]
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