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W:/2016Album/ (stylized as W:/2016ALBUM/; pronounced "W drive 2016 album") is the eighth studio album by Canadian electronic music producer deadmau5. The album was released on December 2, 2016, through deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman)'s independent record label mau5trap. The album's title, which was suggested by fans on Twitch, refers to a computer directory on Zimmerman's network-attached storage server used to store the master tracks of the songs on the album. The album features several tracks Zimmerman uploaded to his SoundCloud account, prior to it being compromised. W:/2016Album/ is also his first studio album to be released exclusively by mau5trap. Two singles from the album have been released: "Snowcone" and "Let Go" (featuring Grabbitz). deadmau5 first announced the album's release during an interview with Pete Tong of BBC Radio 1 on November 7, 2016. Zimmerman stated that the album would have "an '80s sci-fi fantasy vibe", which he credits to his purchase of a Prophet-10 synthesizer. Shortly afterwards, the album's tracklist was leaked on Reddit, based on one that appeared briefly during a Twitch stream made by Zimmerman a month before. Zimmerman eventually revealed that he was not satisfied with the album, stating that he felt it was "slapped together". He had previously hinted that he was already working on his next album. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Zimmerman said he was dissatisfied with the album because "it's not written from start to finish; it's over a year's worth of work that doesn't correlate".

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