We don’t normally post editorial about celebrities, but this really grinds our gears!

In a recent post on his personal tumblr blog, Joel Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 writes a spell-check-free rant admitting that the best part of his live shows are sequenced beforehand and that all he does is press play on his MacBook. He goes as far as to say that absolutely every electronic music performer does it and that nothing else exists.

“Its no secret.  when it comes to “live” performance of EDM… that’s about the most it seems you can do anyway. It’s not about performance art, its not about talent either (really its not) In fact, let me do you and the rest of the EDM world button pushers who fuckin hate me for telling you how it is, a favor and let you all know how it is.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik7hngNfudY&feature=related

“My ‘skills’ and other PRODUCERS skills shine where it needs to shine… in the goddamned studio, and on the fucking releases. thats what counts… because this whole big ‘EDM’ is taking over fad, im not going to let it go thinking that people assume theres a guy on a laptop up there producing new original tracks on the fly. becausje none of the “top dj’s in the world” to my knowledge have. myself included.”

Which, of course, means he’s showing a vulgar amount of disrespect to a large portion of the worldwide EDM community.

We have to politely disagree with Mr. Deadmau5. The pages of this blog alone are enough to negate much of his argument.