Stuff I Used to Do

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Stuff I Used to Do
Stuff i used to do deadmau5.jpg
Compilation album by
Deadmau5
ReleasedMarch 3, 2017
Recorded1998–2007 [1]
Genre
Length67:12(Released version)
57:30 (Free download version)
Label
Producer Joel Zimmerman
Deadmau5 chronology
W:/2016Album/
(2016)		Stuff I Used to Do
(2017)		 Where's the Drop?
(2018)

Stuff I Used to Do (stylized as stuff i used to do.) is a retrospective compilation album by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The first 13 tracks were prereleased and available for free via file-sharing on WeTransfer on February 24, 2017. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] It was released on his record label Mau5trap on March 3, 2017. [1] [13] [14] [15]

Contents

Background

The release had previously been confirmed in a Facebook post from Deadmau5's Mau5trap label that initially announced its release for free. [16] [17] It was then officially released on March 3, 2017 for digital download only.

The compilation was originally supposed to feature the original version of "Creep" that was on the Spotify release of Album Title Goes Here for a limited time, "The Big Difference" from Deadmau5 Circa 1998–2002 , "Oblistique" from Project 56 , & "Bored of Canada" from Get Scraped . [18] These tracks were omitted from the final tracklist for unknown reasons.

Several tracks from the album were previously released on other albums and compilations:

While not released officially on any of his albums, the track "HaxPigMeow" was originally uploaded on deadmau5's SoundCloud account, before it was deleted in 2016, under the title "Get in the Pig Meowingtons".[ citation needed ] The track also featured elements that would later become the track "Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer", released on his seventh studio album while(1<2) in 2014.

Track listing

Released version

Track listing taken from iTunes. [20]

No.TitleLength
1."Messages from Nowhere"5:00
2."Digitol"3:55
3."Screen Door"4:38
4."Squid"1:03
5."Sometimes I Fail"3:39
6."50 Something Cats"2:25
7."Charlie Can't Dance"2:21
8."My Opinion"4:08
9."HaxPigMeow"10:10
10."Obsidian"6:32
11."Long Walk Off a Short Pier"3:42
12."Support"4:10
13."Superlover"4:38
14."Try Again"2:52
15."Creep" (Alt. Version)4:42
16."Unspecial Effects"3:17
Total length:1:07:12

Free download version

Stuff I Used to Do was initially made available on WeTransfer for one week commencing February 24, 2017 [8]

No.TitleLength
1."Messages from Nowhere"5:00
2."Digitol"3:55
3."Screen Door"4:38
4."Squid"1:03
5."50 Something Cats"2:25
6."Charlie Can't Dance"2:21
7."My Opinion"4:08
8."HaxPigMeow"10:10
9."Obsidian"6:32
10."Long Walk Off a Short Pier"3:42
11."Support"4:10
12."Superlover"4:38
13."Creep" (alt. version)4:42
Total length:57:30

Charts

ChartsPeak position
US Top Dance Electronic Albums ( Billboard ) [21] 20

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