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In the United States, 'Ghosts 'n' Stuff' received exposure from use in TV shows such as America's Best Dance Crew and heavy radio airplay. It also placed at number 96 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2009. The song peaked at number 12 in the United Kingdom on the UK Singles Chart week beginning October 4, 2009. Another vinyl version was released in 2009, with the original instrumental mix and 'Moar Ghosts 'n' Stuff'.

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The vocal edit featuring Rob Swire was released as a digital download single and EP on September 27, 2009.

The song's instrumental was released as a single through Mau5trap and Ultra on October 27, 2008, as a digital download single and 12' vinyl with its B-side 'Peddler of Misery'. The music video was uploaded to Ultra Music's YouTube channel on August 19, 2009, and has since acquired over 62 million views. He finds the Space Invader tattoo which he got as a ghost remaining on his neck. At the party, someone wearing a Mau5head pulls the white sheet off, as Joel is revived back in the hospital. After an unpleasant trip to a restaurant and a laundromat, Joel attends a rave with several people also dressed in costumes. He leaves the hospital and wanders around town, getting a tattoo of a Space Invader alien and running into a gang of other ghosts. He is then revived as a ghost, and attempts to pass through the walls but cannot.

The video begins with Joel Zimmerman being rushed into a hospital, before dying within minutes of arrival. The unmixed version released on Octoreplaces this version with the original mix, which excludes the vocal sample and the funeral march intro.Ī still from the music video showing deadmau5 as a ghostĪ music video promoting the single was released in August 2009 and was directed by Colin O'Toole. This version of the track also contains a new lead melody which Deadmau5 has said was inspired by the main melody of Stevie Wonder's Superstition. The 'hard intro' version of one B-side of the single, 'Moar Ghosts 'n' Stuff' (which appears on the mixed version of For Lack of a Better Name) features a new intro containing a vocal sample from the 1957 film The Brain from Planet Arous and a quote of the funeral march by Chopin. Deadmau5 debuted the song to a live audience at the HARD Haunted Mansion 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Deadmau5 was a guest on the show along with Steve Angello (the two, with Tong, were playing a live set in Manchester, England on that night). The song was made originally specifically for Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 Essential Selection show on October 10, 2008.

The vocal melodies performed by Swire were inspired by Chris Isaak's song Wicked Game. Zimmerman and Rob Swire had been coincidentally meeting each other backstage at various festivals and agreed to collaborate. The original version of 'Ghosts 'n' Stuff' was made in 2004, and Joel Zimmerman has stated that it 'ended up going through at least 10 revisions'. The latter was featured on Deadmau5's fourth studio album For Lack of a Better Name. Its instrumental was released as a single on October 27, 2008, and re-released with vocals on September 27, 2009. ' Ghosts 'n' Stuff' is an electro house song by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5 featuring vocals by Australian producer Rob Swire. Cover art for the version featuring Rob Swire