Deadmau5

Progressive house/minimal trance and techno producer and DJ, born on January 5, 1981 as [a=Joel Zimmerman] and raised in Ontario, Canada. He first released music in 2000 as [a=Karma K], and adopted the alias [a=Deadmau5] in 2005.

He established the label [l=Mau5trap Recordings] in 2007.

The name Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") comes from an incident where a mouse crawled into Zimmerman's computer. "Dead Mouse" was too long for a website login name, so he abbreviated it to "deadmau5".