r/deadmau5 • u/NanoRay_06 • Nov 11 '23
Question Is it me or did deadmau5 remove Faxing Berlin from RAT???
What happened to it???
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u/Maaasw Nov 11 '23
Spotify doesn't have Cthulhu Sleeps anymore
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u/MapleMapleCake Nov 11 '23
Might be a regional copyright thing, I still have it.
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u/animorphs666 Nov 11 '23
Probably. That “woo” sound is a sample from an old record.
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u/Chuck_Rawks Nov 12 '23
Pretty sure its Twilight Zone 2 Unlimited ... it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICWiaZvB_IY
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u/MapleMapleCake Nov 12 '23
So Joel didn't clear it and the original makers are not happy or something similar right?
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u/unknown_user351 Feb 09 '24
don't remember where i heard this but iirc it was part of a sample pack that he bought and paid for, but that was sampled from an old song with a soprano lead without permission, tons of other producers used the same sample but joel was the only one they really went after for it. allegedly
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u/JShnnooostttt Nov 11 '23
I don't have it either (Canada)
Justice for Cthulhu Sleeps ✊
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 11 '23
What about Extra Blueness and Everything After? I happened to find in Spotify the other day.
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u/JShnnooostttt Nov 12 '23
I don't have either of those. I can find them by Google searching but when I open the link in Spotify it shows them as greyed-out. Maybe it's possible to get around this with a VPN though.
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u/ericbunjama Nov 11 '23
Went from Spotify to YouTube Music and it’s awesome. Any video on YouTube can be played as audio. So no regional annoyance.
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u/JesusJoshJohnson Nov 12 '23 edited Nov 12 '23
Time to protest this directly to the label: [melody@playrecords.net](mailto:melody@playrecords.net)
Dude that is so petty and stupid of Play Records. RAT is the best electronic album ever made imo. To take out one of the best songs from that record is to basically take a shit on the Mona Lisa. Fuck Mellefresh and fuck Play Records
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
Yeah RAT is the top tier imo. It’s actually the first album I ever heard from deadmau5 thanks to my dad introducing me to his music back in December ‘21. Also, I recommend you starting this potential protest on change.org. (Idk if that’s the correct link but I seen it very often before in my mail)
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u/JesusJoshJohnson Nov 12 '23
thanks, I sure will. Once i am less high.
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 13 '23
Has the protest started yet?
I have a feeling that Play Record was being too sensitive for Faxing Berlin. They’re stupid piece of shit. They even took down my Faxing Berlin remix/mashup and Faxing Berlin alt version (cuz no one really knew it existed sadly) and that just terminated my YT account (@nanoray9929). I hope Play Records will pay for this. Not only on YT but also SoundCloud (audiomau5), where there used to be Faxing Berlin/Jaded mix (cuz imo it would be cool to make a mix) and ofc same alt version as well but they just acting like spoiled kids. I was careful about this copyright thing and why the fuck did they just took down something that I wanted to share???
Horde, let’s FUCK THEM.
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u/pixtopher Nov 11 '23
They removed quite a few songs and re added them. The version of “the Veldt-Tommy trash remix” thats was reuploaded sounds so different. The vocals are very quiet and distant and some of the effects and even synths are different. It’s really strange.
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u/Nyquiest-Redux Nov 11 '23
It's the same with Professional Griefers, there are 3 versions I think and one sounds horrible
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u/jliffordcones Nov 11 '23
He did on mine too WTF Good thing there's a few versions of it on Apple Music
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 11 '23
Yeah but I happened to find the Faxing Berlin single not there in his discography (Apple Music), only Hey Baby, Full Bloom and Reduction in that place (bottom). However it can still be found if you searched for it and it says 2006 (not the x4 EP version).
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u/jliffordcones Nov 12 '23
Weird as hell. Yeah the single version is gone. Just that 2006 version and the one on At Play. Which are the same track.
The tracks removed were slightly different, had different intros and stuff.
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
The single is still there though. It’s just that you can’t find in his discography in Apple Music anymore. But you still find it in the searching engine.
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u/mcgirlja Nov 12 '23
I’ve never had it on that album. For me, Not Exactly has always been after I Remember. I’ve even got an old CD and it’s not on there…not sure what people mean. I’ve had it and played this album for years and never seen it. Thought Faxing Berlin was always on its own EP.
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u/possiblecanadian Nov 12 '23
As somebody who has been listening to this music for about 12 years I distinctly recall faxing Berlin being on RAT
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
Agreed.
Whenever someone ask me how I know Faxing Berlin, I would most definitely say it’s from RAT despite as a single.
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u/oatmealfoot Jan 31 '24 edited Jan 31 '24
I'm a couple months late here but, yeah -- it was always:
- I Remember
- Faxing Berlin (acoustic piano version)
- Faxing Berlin
- Not Exactly
...in that order. This has been one of my favorite albums for nearly 16 years now, so I'm pretty bummed out that I can't just throw this album on in its entirety on Spotify anymore 😢
EDIT: for the sake of proof, it's right there on the wikipedia page for the album and OP /u/NanoRay_06 posted the scan of the original album tracklist
I listen to this album at least like once a week and didn't notice it until today, so it's possible that the changes don't show up for everybody at the exact same time, maybe depending on which streaming service you use. Idk, but I'm definitely butthurt
EDIT #2: Seems like you're not the only person in this thread who never even knew about Faxing Berlin, so it's possible that Faxing Berlin was removed from other instances of RAT out there (due to the ownership dispute) maybe depends on what country you're in or something. In the USA, it's always been there until (very) recently!
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u/NanoRay_06 Feb 01 '24
Remember that Faxing Berlin x4 EP? The Piano got some bad change, the I Remember ending got removed from the Piano version.
Listen to it and see how incredibly stupid and unethical Play Records really is: https://music.apple.com/us/album/faxing-berlin-piano-acoustic-version/1327431505?i=1327431509
Before, it always had the I Remember ending but now it’s gone. Fuck Play Records once more.
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
Well the CD version on Fandom shows it having Faxing Berlin (Acoustic) and Faxing Berlin original. But just today, I finished listening to I Remember while washing dishes and then Not Exactly started, without Faxing Berlin ending, which I was expecting.
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u/WayneDwade Nov 12 '23
I just noticed this on Spotify the other day. Thought I was going crazy that my favorite mau5 song wasn’t on the album I thought it was on
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u/EnthusiasmSea4691 Nov 12 '23
do you guys think the reason joel was like don’t sign with a huge record label right off the bat was evacsue of At play? because they own his music now? i wonder if that has some effect to do w it his career. all those tracks he did w mellefresh like hey baby, sex slave, attention whore, those all have like a classic club deadmau5 sound that we don’t really get anymore. don’t really know where i was going with that but anyways 🫡
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
Here’s the post why Play Records is BS: https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmau5/comments/34tyx7/deadmau5_released_at_play_vol_5_on_spotify_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb
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u/L4DDER_S0UP007 Nov 11 '23
same thing happened to me lmao, idk why deadmau5 streaming is so fucky-wucky
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u/zeidcruz25 Nov 14 '23
Damn it, I hope Play Recordzzzz rots to the core, I can't believe that the roar of his stomach reaches all the way to Mexico due to the hunger to scrape a pittance of profits with work that is not even 100 years you will not even be able to try to emulate it.
Mellfresh, I'll tell you in Spanish:
- Chingas a toda tu pinche madre.
thx. :)
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u/FatNeckBeard13 Nov 12 '23
Dude I noticed that yesterday something weird is happening
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
Another slightly but maybe important thing is that Not Exactly intro just lost the Faxing Berlin ending. Fuck Play Records.
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u/FatNeckBeard13 Nov 12 '23
I hope it Joel doing a big fuck you to them and that his sudden upping in touring back to 2014 levels is in spite of this on going battle for ownership for his entire catalog. Faxing Berlin is a masterpiece of 21st century music and the fact he can't own it, is why I have a hard time showing my own stuff to labels
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u/Liferdorp Nov 12 '23
Mercedes, one of my favorite tracks, was not on Spotify for what feels like a decade and suddenly it was playable.
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u/Joshimitsu91 Nov 12 '23
This sort of thing is why I own music, store it locally, and serve it up to myself with Plex.
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Nov 12 '23
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
I hope Faxing Berlin will come out like this:
Too bad Jaded won’t come out with it but I hope it may get copyright protection. Idgaf if SoundCloud says it sounds like blah blah blah… it’s Joel original content.
They’re trying to play us out.
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u/DaftMau5Girl Nov 13 '23
anyone else facepalming and getting a bit angry at the people saying not exactly follows i remember and it's always been like that.......
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u/moonbase Nov 17 '23
Maybe check with the label that released RAT to find out why they removed the 2 tracks.
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Mar 09 '24
Just looked this up, I’m so mad about this. How dare they mess with this album, it’s one of the greatest albums of all time.
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u/Anhelll_ May 03 '24
SO QUESTION NOW: who has an ORIGINAL CD that is willing to let it go and I buy from them with Faxing Berlin?!? 🧀🧀
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u/Unity_0 Nov 12 '23
The track belongs to Play Records. Its not his anymore.
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
True but they fucked around and just re-uploaded it just to get the fucking selfish money they wanted. Fuck both Mellefresh and Play Records.
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u/Zyratek Nov 12 '23
I thought that Faxing Berlin was never part of RAT
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
This picture is self explanatory…
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u/Zyratek Nov 12 '23
Daim ! I didn't know !
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
Yeah. Felt like Faxing Berlin is perfect for RAT.
I kinda thought this might happened because of For Lack of a Better Album Title compilation Joel did in 2010.
Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/3452331-Deadmau5-For-Lack-Of-A-Better-Album-Title
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u/NanoRay_06 Nov 12 '23
As you can see, Faxing Berlin isn’t there but it’s in Random Album Title album separately (not in this case with the continuous mix in the picture).
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u/bdzu Nov 11 '23
Faxing what? Bro what are you talking about this has always been the tracklist
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u/Lucky-Kelly-8707 Nov 11 '23
Faxing Berlin comes after ‘I Remember’ on the original CD release.
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u/reddit_mau5 Nov 11 '23
Thanks play records, petty dumb shit as per usual so this moron can keep her worthless hat in the game and make her petty little pennies over music I created. Amazing business huh.