while(1<2) (studio album)
by deadmau5
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while(1<2) is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by Joel Thomas Zimmerman on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Joel Thomas Zimmerman is For Lack Of A Better Name which is ranked number 5934 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 222.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/10/2025 16:12 | araidernomore | 407 | 76/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2024 16:33 |  Tamthebam | 22,822 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/20/2024 10:37 | RemainInLight | 3,128 | 36/100 |
| ! | 03/13/2024 15:44 | cicadelic | 11,223 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2023 15:30 | PapaShiz86 | 10,797 | 79/100 |
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Boltzmann 02/02/2020 08:16 | #247412
2014 saw a lot of EDM artists trying to pake something big, or personal, and I guess the world realized that was never what was any fun about EDM.
For deadmau5... he tried. His fans will enjoy one or two tracks on this tracklist; people who don't think much of him probably won't be persuaded by this one. It isn't the masterpiece he hoped for. I think the lesson to learn from this is that the masterpiece EDM album is gonna sound like an EDM album, and not a prog rock album... so don't compare yourself with prog rock standards when trying to make the best EDM album. "The first real album I made" isn't as much self-aggrandizement as an insult to the genre he himself inhabits...
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...a fucking white album, are you serious?
souplipton 06/10/2016 04:13 | #168349
while(1<2) greatly expanded mau5's work outside four to the floor dance music, featuring more electronica and industrial inspired tracks. Expertly balancing dance floor killers ("Aviritia", "My Pet Coelacanth", "Infra Urbo Pigcart Racer", "Phantoms Can't Hang", "Gula", and others), with his electronica tracks ("Ice Age", "Terrors in My Head", "Creep", "Somewhere Up Here", "Silent Picture", "Rlyehs Lament", "A Moment to Myself", etc.), and even a big radio hit in "Seeya", mau5 shows his ambitions for his music while proving he can still make the type of music that he built his name on. Showing that his career so far has only been a taste of what he can accomplish, while(1<2) is a triumph.
DeusExMackia 11/04/2014 19:04 | #126158
Too long for its own good, but far more accomplished than any of his other work, While (1<2) is a fantastic EDM album. Deadmau5 does his usual job of including a range of styles, but this time it all feels like a proper album, compared to his other works which tend to feel more like compilations.
meruizh 07/18/2014 18:37 | #117009
It's an interesting approach from Deadmau5. "The first album [he’s] ever done that [he] would even call an album.” Although it departs in some way from Ultra Festival Music Lovers, it shows great ambition and depth, specially in the "more boring" second disc.
Avaritia, Phantoms Cant Hang, Invidia and Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer, best tracks in there.
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