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Album Reviews
Album Review: Deadmau5 – Deadmau5 At Play (Play Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 5 January 2009
By all accounts, Deadmau5 was a highlight of last years Wireless festival, playing before Fatboy Slim and to a crowd that was no doubt in the right frame of mind for his housey-electro bangers. This album is a compilation of sorts, bringing together a number of club hits and collaborations with Melleefresh, who also happens to be the owner of Play Records, one of Canada’s leading labels for this sort of thing. The tracks with Melleefresh show her to be a saucy one and leap out because of her funky vocals – most of the other tracks are either instrumental, contain a repetitive sample or, in the case of ‘This Is The Hook’, feature a computerized voice explaining the inner workings of a house track. This is billed as “unmixed for DJs”, and it must be said that as an album you probably need to find the right clubby frame of mind, as it were, to really appreciate it. But with Deadmau5 appearing in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll this year, I suspect this is just the beginning and we can look forward to him ripping up clubs and festivals over the next few years. IM
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