Steve Duda is an American DJ, record producer, audio engineer, manager and software engineer from Menlo Park, California.[1] He is best known for his mid-2000s collaborative electronic music projects with Canadian record producer and DJ deadmau5 under the names "BSOD" and "WTF?" (also with DJ Aero and Tommy Lee)[2][3] and owning the record label and digital music software company Xfer Records.[4] He is also known for creating the VST plugin Serum.[5]
In 2005, Duda and Canadian record producer Joel Zimmerman (deadmau5) formed the electro house group BSOD and released their debut single "This Is The Hook" a year later. The song topped the Beatport Top 100 chart, and went on to feature on deadmau5's 2008 compilation album At Play. Later that year, the group self-released their debut album titled Pay Here To Click.[6]
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Earlier that year, Duda also made several uncredited collaborations with deadmau5. Most notably, he performed vocals for "Porcelain" and co-wrote "Bitches" from Zimmerman's 2006 album A Little Oblique.
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The progression of F#5, C#min, Amaj, Bmaj, F#maj did not line up with any of the chord progression charts I was able to find. However, it is close to the key of A in the Lydian mode. It also has a pattern of major, minor, major, major, major. I think it is important to note the deadmau5 says he works with his music until it sounds right to him. And this is key because this is important and it is why his music sounds like his music. To deconstruct it further would probably do a disservice to it and to him. It is artistry if you ask me.
These options could have been put here for deadmau5 or at his request, so they are something to consider. The lowest note item is interesting as it is something that is a characteristic of the deadmau5 style, so it leads me to believe the inclusion in Cthulhu could be related to his method.
Looking at various deconstructions of deadmau5 songs, I am finding also that the Aeolian (Natural Minor) modes are used in quite a few of them. A few have Dorian, Major, and even a Locrian.
But, this is far from the whole story. It is not as easy to just say he writes in one mode or another. I was working with some music by Thomas Newman, that I also like, and found the mixing of minors and major chords. The same I found in Olsen by Boards of Canada. In deconstructing Olsen with Scaler, I found the music matched the modes of Mixolydian in C and Dorian in E-flat. I made some chord changes using these variants and it sounded a lot like deadmau5 chord changes. So I would say that mixing of these is a must to get the deadmau5 sound.
I tried yet another deadmau5 composition of chords and arpeggios. The pattern of this one was not there, but the repetition of the chord with the central parts variation was. So this could be consistency. There was also an unchanging bassline to the chord progression that anchors the bass with a steady beat. 2ff7e9595c
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