New album by Deadmau5 "while(1 | Music Junkie Press

World acclaimed electronic music producer and musician deadmau5 has just released his double album titled while(1<2) on mau5trap/Astralwerks Records. It consists of 25 tracks and is available digitally. Stay tuned for physical and streaming release on June 24th.

What can fans expect with while(1<2)? “It’s a good mix of sh*t I want to do versus sh*t people want to hear or what they would expect. It’s a good balance. It’s not like, ‘Oh, it’s such a departure. He’s doing smooth jazz,’” says deadmau5. “It was when I was working on some live stuff, setlists for shows and stuff like that, and it just must have been a couple of tracks that sounded pretty good stitched together end to start and I thought, “Well, if I ever do an album or compile this into some kind of album this has got to be that part of the order for that.” And I just kind of took everything and played musical Tetris with it.”

Leading up to while(1<2)—a double-album collection of 25 tracks that together he truly feels is his first proper artist release–deadmau5 made four key tracks off the album available. First there was “Avaritia,” which premiered on Pete Tong’s Radio One show in mid-May. “He’s back. The internet menace Joel Zimmerman, aka deadmau5 has returned,” observed Lucas Sachs of YourEDM(5/17/14). “This exclusive preview of ‘Avaritia’ is derived from Pete Tong‘s radio show and a sample from the upcoming album; and let me be the first to express my excitement just with this first sneak-peek. A throbbing bass-line is amplified by the beautiful madness that are mau5′s percussion lines and organic synth atmosphere.”

Next came “Seeya,” with its rare vocal tracks courtesy of new mau5trap signing Colleen D’Agastino. “With a throbbing backbone, pitch-perfect vocals, and an irresistible dance-along chorus, this is feel good music at its coolest. And, well, it should be blasting now, tomorrow and all.summer.long”, wrote NYLON’s Jamie Wilson (5/26/14) As deadmau5 was about to launch on his adventure of a lifetime, the Gumball 3000 Rally, Rolling Stone premiered “Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer.” “An epic 10-minute track with a melody that nods to 8-bit without bending to glitch, the newest single pulls in soaring phasers, thump-backed vocals, a sample of speeding cars and more for a sound that only a man who simultaneously loathes dance music while pushing it forward can create”, touted Allegra Dimperio of Dancing Astronaut (6/3/14), while Matt Medved of Billboard (6/6/14) wrote, “Another week, another noteworthy new single from Joel’s upcoming album. Striking a more throwback tone and title than the other two singles premiered so far, this one sports a progressive lead over assorted electro bass gurgles and classic mau5 organ chords”.

Then came the unveiling of “Phantom’s Can’t Hang,” courtesy of Mashable. “…it’s instantly identifiable as classic deadmau5: gobs of clean synth over a massive prog-house beat that runs a little longer than nine minutes” wrote Chris Zeigler of The Verge (June 13).

Now the full modern-day electronic opus from one of the world’s most prolific producers is available for all via iTunes with other formats to follow next week.

Purchase the album now at iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/whileiTunes

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~ Marisol

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