i really don't follow what you're looking for tbh, i've never listened to deadmau5 but isn't that electro? maybe you'd like breaks...?
basically i think you need to stop asking people what to listen to really cos it's not like you're looking for anything in specific
I'm NOT asking what to listen ...

nothing wrong with wanting to understand something that you dont really understand to begin with. but the forum has a sticky thread full of tunes for beginning listeners, you shuold try that. as far as up beat and faster pace music house is a great start. and you mentioned drum and bass so try so ...

I've only recently given dubstep a chance, and have almost no experience with electronic music outside of some drum and bass. I do like reggae, but it turns out that the music I'm listening to may fit somewhere else other than dubstep, maybe house music? I don't know where the genre boundaries are ...

I've only recently gotten interested in electronic music. I've come here to ask questions you've all heard a million times and to lurk around. So, 'sup?

By the way, the links in the "NEW TO DUBSTEP?" thread aren't working.