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DEADMAU5 SLAMS SKRILLEX AND GUETTA AS "BUTTON PUSHERS"
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No stranger to a DJ spat, Joel Zimmerman, aka Deadmau5 has given a less than complimentary verdict on the technical skills of both Skrillex and David Guetta.
Speaking in the latest issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, Zimmerman said "David Guetta has two iPods and a mixer and he just plays tracks - like, 'Here's one with Akon, check it out!''
The easily riled DJ then went on to question friend and former Mau5trap label-mate, Skrillex saying "Even Skrillex isn't doing anything too technical. He has a laptop and a MIDI recorder, and he's just playing his s**t."
Zimmerman protected himself against criticism saying, "People are, thank God, smartening up about who does what – but there’s still button-pushers getting paid half a million. And not to say I’m not a button-pusher. I’m just pushing a lot more buttons."
In the article Zimmerman also went on to call most dance music formulaic and that he'd like Dave Grohl to remix one of his tracks.
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