Artist profile
deadmau5 is a Canadian progressive house producer and DJ known for his distinctive sound design and live performances featuring his signature large mouse head helmet. His work spans electronic dance music production and DJing, with a focus on progressive house and electro house styles.
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deadmau5 is a high-energy with strong groove and drive artist.
Sits right in the typical Progressive House pocket.
Across 81 analysed tracks, deadmau5 averages 70% groove — straighter than 69% of individual Progressive House tracks.
Measured against 20,247 Progressive House tracks on 11 August 2026.
Most tracks sit between 67–171 BPM with a median of 128 · predominantly minor keys (57% minor) · most common key: 7B (F Major) with 9 tracks.
How deadmau5’s production has shifted across their catalog. The radar overlays earlier and recent eras as one shape, the year-by-year chart shows every metric move, and the tempo trend tracks the BPM migration against the typical Progressive House tempo.
Across deadmau5's catalog, tempos have climbed from ~114 to ~122 BPM.
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We scored every transition between deadmau5’s 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 939 catalogues clear the bar — a transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number you’ll see on any track page. The 8 with the widest margin over chance are below.
Chance is measured, not assumed: 0.573% of transitions between two randomly drawn tracks by different artists in this catalogue reach 80. Listed alphabetically — the set is reproducible, the order inside it is not.
38 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 9 different deadmau5 tracks.
Rydly → Work That - Extended Mix · 1A → 1A · −1 BPM · 93 chemistry
42 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 12 different deadmau5 tracks.
40 of the 1,440 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 8.3. They come from 8 different deadmau5 tracks.
39 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 9 different deadmau5 tracks.
I Remember (Strobelight Edit) → Goliath · 10A → 9B · −4 BPM · 86 chemistry
43 of the 1,120 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.4. They come from 10 different deadmau5 tracks.
Monophobia - Rinzen Remix → Reborn · 11A → 10B · −1 BPM · 89 chemistry
37 of the 1,160 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 6.7. They come from 8 different deadmau5 tracks.
Arguru → Lose Your Mind · 9A → 9A · −5 BPM · 87 chemistry
39 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 12 different deadmau5 tracks.
Pomegranate - Carl Cox Remix → Losing Focus - AYOR Extended Remix · 7A → 7A · −4 BPM · 90 chemistry
39 of the 1,600 transitions between these catalogues reach 80 chemistry. Chance would give 9.2. They come from 11 different deadmau5 tracks.
FALL → Doctor Käfer · 7B → 8B · −4 BPM · 88 chemistry
Chemistry weighs harmonic, rhythmic, energy, groove, mood and vocal compatibility. Tempos are as analysed from the recording — where a genre is habitually detected an octave down, this is how we handle it. Different measurement from the audience-overlap list further down the page.
DJs and producers closest to deadmau5 by audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play. It’s a taste signal, not a measured key-and-tempo match: good for shortlisting crates when you’re prepping a set around deadmau5, then check the chemistry on the pair you actually mix. Eligible names link to their own page.
Similarity data from Last.fm. BPM, key and energy on this page are measured from the recordings in our catalog.
deadmau5's tracks in our catalog range from 67 to 171 BPM, with a median of 128 BPM. Across 81 tracks, the most common range falls in the 130–135 BPM bucket.
deadmau5's tracks are mostly in minor keys (57% minor across 81 tracks). The most common single key is 7B (F Major) with 9 tracks.
We scored every transition between deadmau5's 40 analysed tracks and every track by 12,460 other artists. 939 catalogues clear the bar by more than chance would give, and Bingo Players, Dabeat, Forty Cats are three of them — listed alphabetically, because the set is reproducible and the order inside it is not. A transition counts at 80 chemistry or above, the same number shown on a track page. One measured example: Rydly into Work That - Extended Mix, 1A to 1A, 93 chemistry.
deadmau5 sits closest to Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner, BSOD, Melleefresh & Deadmau5 in our catalog. That ranking is audience overlap — the artists their listeners also play — rather than a measured key-and-tempo match, so treat it as a shortlist worth digging through, not a promise that any two tracks will beatmatch. The full list, with track counts, is in the Related artists section above.
Our catalog has deadmau5 releases spanning 2006 to 2026, with the most tracks from the 2020s.
