Shy and conservative have never been Deadmau5’ style. This DJ refuses to be defined by the confines of ‘EDM’ and marches to the beat of his own drum, casually chafing egos of many artists along the way. After deciding to ditch the commercial music festivals and going solo with his own tour, the DJ shed some light on this upcoming tour in an interview with UK’s ‘ The Standard’.
Taking jabs at the EDM industry on social platforms and speculating its tumble down have been one of the most favorite leisure for Joel Zimmerman and that’s exactly how he opened in his interview. This time, caught in the mau5 trap were electronic music festivals that Joel claimed to simply hate. “It’s another thing I can’t f*****’ stand, you know? Festivals are being branded bigger than the acts, which is totally backwards in my head,” he said. “It’s ’cause of those acts that you’re a festival! Who wins? The promoter. The guy who’s throwing this festival that’s branded bigger than you, that you think you’re awesome for headlining. It’s a shame, so that’s why I’m pulling out”, is what he had to say about them.
Moving on to Joel’s own tour in which he’s been investing extensively with blood and sweat, apart from the dollars of course. When you have Hollywood screen writers and video game developers coming together to put up a show for you, you know it’s going to be a spectacular one!
“The show is gonna be a whole lot better than all eyes on you in some confined cube. It’s gonna be way more immersive. It’s in the round. We have Hollywood screenwriters coming up with a script. We have Chris Ha over at Blizzard [the video game developer] doing storyboards for it. We’re producing it like you’d produce a film. I’m really excited about it because it’s a sink-or-swim thing. Even the accountant’s freaking out.”
The mighty tour will see nothing less than the stadium lights, because of the massive amount of space it will be covering. With an extravagant tour being planned for us by him and his album ‘While (1<2)’ being released, Deadmau5 has been living up to his name for his fans in the best possible ways!
Read the full interview here.
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