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Song Analysis: Strobe by deadmau5

Strobe - Full Length Version     "Strobe" is the behemoth progressive-house track by Canadian electronic music producer Joel Zimmerman, better known by his moniker deadmau5. The track saw it's release as a single in 2010, quickly becoming a cult-classic for both producers and listeners alike. The artist is said to have created it in parts, with different sections of the song having been completed at separate times and locations. While Joel can be known to employ the abused tropes of house music like the progressive repetition of looped percussion lines and monotonously repetitive synth melodies, Strobe does the opposite of lull it's audience with any of these things. Remarkably, the over-ten-minute length of this piece doesn't work against itself or feel forced. Most EDM consumers or mau5heads (as Zimmerman's most faithful fans lovingly call themselves) consider this to be his magnum opus. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone in Joel's audience wh...
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An Open Letter to the Most Disappointing Person I've Come to Know

My dearest mental ghost, It's tempting to write about you like a nuclear physicist would about having seen the result of his work in Nagasaki. It wasn't the first time I saw the bomb go off, but it was certainly the worst time for it to go off. I'd studied you for years, and have you down to a science. I came to love you, even the moral fault in the theoretical implications of what you could do. Like any studious professional, this is my attempt to observe the destruction of the bomb you were. An ultimate "for the record". But, unlike the common practice in fields of science, personal emotion and bias will turn my bullet points into messy paragraphs. They say that the good die young so it's no wonder that it kills me knowing you walk the earth so unaccountably after what you did to me. Yours is the great American crime story with a heinous ending about your wrongful escape into the sunset. They'll someday study what you did to me in the sam...
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