Deadmau5 (pronounced "Dead mouse") is actually Joel Zimmerman, from Ontario, in Canada. He is mainly a Progressive House producer and DJ from Toronto, Canada. His extensive discography includes tracks such as "Arguru" and "Not Exactly". These have been included on compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza and MixMag's "Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness", mixed by Deadmau5 himself, and on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show. He works alongside numerous other DJs and producers, such as Steve Duda under the BSOD alias. His debut album, Random Album Title was released electronically in September 2008, via Ultra Records in the USA and Ministry of Sound in the UK and Europe. Physical copies of the album will be available from November, 2008.
While Joel Zimmerman was born in 1981, his pseudonym Deadmau5 was created in 2005 after said animal crawled into his computer, died and a month later the smell became a concern. In 2008 he became Producer of the Year, he also became the most selling artist on Beatport with more than 30,000 sales only on Beatport with his singles "Not Exactly" and "Faxing Berlin".
