

It’s no exaggeration to say that he’s the most exciting name in clubland right now. It’s an approach that’s catapulted Deadmau5 into dance music’s A-list. If people come out to see Deadmau5 I want them to hear Deadmau5 music.”

“It’s a technological orgy up there and I try and keep it more my music than anyone else’s. “There are no CDs involved,” he explains. He plays mostly his own material, assembling tracks on the fly, using cutting edge computer technology, including software he’s helped write himself. His sets are closer to live performances. The 28-year-old dance music phenomenon from Toronto, better known as Deadmau5, rolls his eyes a the description, which he sees as a hopelessly outdated way of describing what he does. Joel Zimmerman doesn’t like being called a DJ.
