{"id":56415,"date":"2016-04-28T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.aws.dancingastronaut.com\/?p=249770"},"modified":"2016-04-28T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:36:27","slug":"deadmau5-earns-his-own-feature-on-before-they-were-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=56415","title":{"rendered":"Deadmau5 earns his own feature on \u2018Before They Were Famous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe\nsrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WN9WyMUFqLg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>Michael McCrudden&#8217;s popular YouTube series, &#8220;Before They Were Famous,&#8221; delves into the past of\u00a0variety of celebrities, from actors to artists to social media personalities. The show has already examined\u00a0musicians like Eminem, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Ellie Goulding and Skrillex, with dance music&#8217;s favorite rodent-inspired act,\u00a0<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/deadmau5\/\">deadmau5<\/a>,\u00a0earning his own highlight on the latest iteration.<\/p><p>McCrudden starts the segment at the beginning of Joel Zimmerman&#8217;s life in Niagra Falls where he is born. First discussing his childhood\u00a0love for mechanical objects and electronics, the video explores\u00a0Zimmerman&#8217;s early life milestone&#8217;s\u00a0like his\u00a0first rave, why he spells the project&#8217;s name the way he does, his BSOD project with Steve Duda, and lastly, the track that really put him in the public eye, &#8220;Faxing Berlin.&#8221; The video concludes\u00a0when\u00a0deadmau5 is starting to become the dance icon we know him to be today.<\/p> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/8WM8rM3VkqA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael McCrudden delves into the past of dance music&#8217;s favorite rodent-named icon, deadmau5, on his YouTube show &#8220;Before They Were Famous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56416,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415\/revisions\/56416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}