''Stuff I Used to Do'' (stylized as ''stuff i used to do.'') is a retrospective

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by Canadian electronic music producer

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. The first 13 tracks were prereleased and available for free via file-sharing on

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on February 24, 2017. It was released on his record label

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on March 3, 2017.

Background

The release had previously been confirmed in a

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post from Deadmau5's

label that initially announced its release for free. 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

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release of ''

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'' for a limited time, "The Big Difference" from ''

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'', "Oblistique" from '' Project 56'', & "Bored of Canada" from ''

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''. These tracks were omitted from the final tracklist for unknown reasons. Several tracks from the album were previously released on other albums and compilations: * "Messages from Nowhere", "Sometimes I Fail", "Support", "Try Again" and "Unspecial Effects" featured on Zimmerman's debut studio album ''

''. * "Digitol" and "Squid" feature on '' A Little Oblique''. * "Screen Door", "Long Walk Off a Short Pier", "Superlover" and an earlier version of "My Opinion" feature on Zimmerman's 2006 compilation album ''deadmau5 Circa 1998–2002'', as well as "Obsidian" (titled "Obsidian (Halcyon441 Remix)" originally). While not released officially on any of his albums, the track "HaxPigMeow" was originally uploaded on deadmau5's

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account, before it was deleted in 2016, under the title "Get in the Pig Meowingtons". 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.

Free download version

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

Charts

References

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