Superstar house producer deadmau5 - famous for his opinionated views and online rants - has confessed that he ‘sold out’ when he put out some new dubstep material previously.
The producer and DJ has countless times talked about the whole issue of selling out, particularly within the realms of dubstep, but today has admitted that when he made his own wobbly 140bpm tracks, it was purely for the ‘popularity’ factor.
Speaking to Q Radio, deadmau5 said: “It's a conduit now for previously mainstream pop acts to use. I've only ever made one dubstep track and I will admit I only did it because it was cool at the time. I'm not a fan of dubstep but I figured, 'OK, well I'm sure I can engineer something that's palatable or on par with the whole Skrillex thing that everyone is into'.”
He continued: “I sold out on that one track - that would be me admitting yes, I absolutely sold out because I did it for the popularity factor. But now a lot of pop acts, like she who shall not be named and a whole bunch of other people, are going to use the whole dance/rave thing that died in 1992 that somehow got revived as mainstream dance music and they're going to use that and sell it out and over-saturate it.”
You can check out a clip of the track in question below.
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