After listening to Afrojack speak at EDMbiz 2013 one thing became very clear to me. Do not mess with Afrojack. Nick van de Wall, had no problem cleverly and hilariously shutting down bad questions and comments, to the amusement of the attendees. Obviously Deadmau5 wasn’t there, but it looks like he’ll learn this the hard way.
Deadmau5 and Afrojack got into it on Twitter earlier over differing opinions on production and tastes. Deadmau5 was quick to slam van de Wall’s recent work and opinions on popular EDM. Afrojack‘s response was basically along the lines of “everyone gets their own taste, if they like it so what?” Deadmau5 didn’t take kindly to this and criticized the Dutchman who had literally just finished praising the controversial Canadian’s musical prowess as one of the best. Strange way to say thank you. 
It doesn’t look like Deadmau5 will be getting the last laugh in this situation though. Afrojack just posted a track called something_ to his Soundcloud, clearly poking fun at Deadmau5‘s signature sound. Something_ is all sorts of progressive badness, out of key and poorly timed. It builds into an awful, ear-shattering big room turd before dropping into a completely different Dutch breakdown out of nowhere, which is equally as awful.
Most of Afrojack‘s fans didn’t quite understand the message and seemed to be upset, but I like to think we get it. The title, the plucked progressive pretentiousness, random drop, and genre ‘unclassified as of now’, all point to Afrojack putting out probably one of the best troll pieces in EDM to date. Seriously, other artists need to take notes, instead of taking to Twitter, take it to the studio if you have beef. Laughs are guaranteed, check out the piece bellow. Well played Afrojack, well played.
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this song is great till the drop.
I think that was the whole point
Am I the only one that thinks that maybe deadmau5 + Afrojack are trolling the EDM community by creating a «fake» bitch-fight between the 2 just to create a buzz?
Hey! C’est pareil comme la saga Pat Vaillancourt s’taffaire là!!
En faite ont as eu le droit à ça entre Jay St-Louis et Gab Roy il y a genre 12-14 mois…..
should have tagged fuckmylife hahaha.
LOL @ the drop toward the end.
I’m on Deadmau5’s side but hilarious troll by Afrojack.
I hope Afrojack is kidding with this…
At least I could hear a deadmau5, kaskade, wolfgang gartner, tommy trash, or dada life set and tell it apart from a random other 15+ artists playing at major festivals these days.
Afrocrap amongst them.
this is a masterpiece! masterpiece of shit!
Deadmau5 is incredibly over rated Afrojacks is epic bro
Haha! damn..
So Afrojack is going to be a little girl and make his prissy track poking fun at deadmau5, who brought up a true and valid point. Way to be mature, Afrojack. Deadmau5 was right anyway- EDM is starting to boil down to the same sounding crap. What’s ‘popular’ is getting worse and worse as it evolves. THIS VERY BLOG posted ten tracks that sound exactly the same- come on guys, whose side are you on?
Deadmau5 is and always will be a better producer than Afrojack, and a greater person too. Wish Afrojack could actually take criticism like a man. Gah.
I think Afrojack should stick to his commercial bullshit, I seriously enjoy Deadmau5’s style. Also, anyone who helps someone like Paris Hilton produce an album should be ashamed to call themselves a producer.
Go home Afrojack, you’re drunk…
Dylan Adams You can not be serious. There are maybe 99 other people in the world who would back you on this, all of them equally retarded. Afrojack had one good year (his first). After that he went down like freefall.
i agree afrojack is a sellout now first he helped paris hilton on the EDM scene now hes helping nick cannon? if that not a slap in the face to house music i dont know what is :/
Deadmau5 IS completely over rated, I’ll give him one thing and one thing only, Strobe is one of the best pieces of music ever created, but aside from that, he has to be the biggest douche in the scene.
LOL are you serious here talking about maturity? They were arguing on twitter. Anybody that argues over twitter is a fucking child.
HA, as if Joel has ever been mature about his shit. His blatant disrespect towards other artists and his blatantly obvious not-giving-a-shit attitude towards his fans has earned him the title biggest douche in the scene.
Did you not read the article?
wait.. Vince.. Did you just argue through facebook?? Does that make you.. a.. baby?!? lol.
@Vince, generalization is almost always wrong, especially hypocritical generalization, but putting that aside, I think one should pay more attention to the points made than to the means with which they are arguing. But that’s simply my opinion.
Haha everyone just beaks for no reason. Lets see someone else produce something! No? Then shut the fuck up
Fake beef tune! Exactly what I thought..
i hate afrojack
i hate afrojack
Someone will make an edit of this, it will get played in Vegas… People will go nuts
Someone will make an edit of this, it will get played in Vegas… People will go nuts
Its like 50 and JA all over again
My hope is that Afrojack and Deadmau5 will go back and forth with joke/troll tracks at each other until we can put together an album called ‘Take Over Whatever’
or At Soul City
or At Soul City
I’m curious to see what the mau5 puts up in response.
Every1 Knows Deadmau5 is an ass
Do you even music?
It´s just fuckin´music 😀 every artist is just bitch slapping each other GOD DAAMN! script shit I say.
He thinks he’s clever but any money bet Deadmau5s response is gonna flatten Afrojack to the ground
There’s no base line through the whole song
There’s no base line through the whole song
https://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/assume-control
what about this? deadmau5 had posted this a long time ago?
He mocked afro at his game wayy better.
I think this is the beginning of an EDM equivalent to Tupac v. Biggie.
Shits about to go down.
I think this is the beginning of an EDM equivalent to Tupac v. Biggie.
Shits about to go down.
Hahahaha afrojack tanned mau5 man u gottcha admit it
How the hell is making a faulty chord progression a way of tanning deadmau5? Afro just did what deadmau5 had done to him a long time ago. Most unoriginal piece of shit.
Ooihhhhhhh jus read ittt
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fake or not it´s very cool (y).
that was the worst 3 minutes of my life holy shit.
Afro just tried to hard.
Joel should remix it and make it awesome!
Joel should remix it and make it awesome!
I love everyone on Deadmau5’s side here calling Afrojack’s music “Commercial Bullshit.” Do you realize the irony of what you just said there?
Damn I only thought beef existed in rap but Deadmau5 and Afrojack are really taking shots at each other…
Damn I only thought beef existed in rap but Deadmau5 and Afrojack are really taking shots at each other…
Still better then the crap I make.
I think Deadmau5 is constantly trying to point out that music sounds too similar and that he is putting out something more creative than the “status quo.” However, Afrojack’s rebuttal song not only shows that they both can create something different and similar, but that they are both masters of their craft. Joel can should call out Tiesto or Guetta for selling out to the mainstream, but Nick, well, his beats are always original… and funky to say the least.
Com’n u guys … Both of you. Stop Trolling & Support Dance 4 Syria … https://soundcloud.com/subnoiz/sets/tracks-from-dance-4-syria-vol
Enough said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXM2Vfb4dhw
So much butthurt from all of you. I’m a fucking DJ and I don’t even give two fucks about who’s a sell out and who only makes music for their fans. Shut the fuck up and just listen to music. When did all you losers turn Electronica into a fucking soap opera?
I can’t be the only one who didn’t 100% hate this track to the full
lol wut this is nowhere near as good as deadmau5’s trolls….
you know you’re a pussy when you don’t enable the comment section
Lol i bet @deadmau5 gonna remix this and post it xD
Deadmau5 loves to fight with every and any one. Half the time I think he enjoys it because it entertains people and makes a deliberate attempt to pick on someone who doesn’t agree with him. Boring, after a while.
Afrojack’s troll track didn’t sound like deadmau5 at all. Like he could’ve tried harder.
this is fucking stupid…. afrojack was horrible before he put out this garbage and he will be after… he has no leg to stand on especially compared to deadmau5. these articles are getting harder and harder to ready each day, I feel my iq dropping from shit like this lol
this is fucking terrible though. even as a “troll” track. whoever wrote this article, stop being stupid.
I think the writer might need to learn a bit of theory cuz it’s not out of key… SMH
Brett Edgerly you deaf twit.
Wow, look at all the bias in this post!
Afrojack is right some people are bound to like shitty music, otherwise he would be broke. Also some people are bound to find good minimalist music boring hence all of the people that don’t like Deadmau5.
This is garbage lol. It simulates a similar melody that Joel has used, but is sloppy overall. And that shit after the drop made my ears feel like they were bleeding. Trollfail
Best troll ever? Are you fuckin kidding me? Yea NO
Lol Afrojack makes a better Deadmou5 than Deadmou5
I don’t think Joel has figured out how to be socially acceptable yet. Give him time people.
Why did this get necro’d from over a year ago?
It would be a good troll if it actually sounded like deadmau5
i actually kinda like it….
omg those arps are horrible lol
Thats the pryda snare…
who?
EDM music suck my dick
https://soundcloud.com/avlmusic
bullshit
LOL what the hell is this? XDD mau5’s style?? This is nowhere near deadmau5’s music, it’s just shitty afrojack being afrojack
Afrojack trolled himself lol!!! Nowhere near mau5’s standards.
Afrojack isn’t anywhere near the talent that Deamau5 is
What the hell was that ? That sounds nothing like deadmau5
dont mess with the mau5 son