Tag Archives: Deadmau5
New music platform Audius plans to capitalize on SoundCloud’s faults
A new streaming service, Audius, wants to make up for SoundCloud's shortcomings. The free hosting service and music streaming platform launched today, and it's positioning itself as a blockchain-based SoundCloud alternative that lets artists upload s...
Deadmau5 is no longer on Twitch
EDM artist Deadmau5 (aka Joel Zimmerman) has deleted his Twitch account after the service apparently suspended his channel over a homophobic slur. When he was streaming PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds this week, he reportedly called out another player...
Tidal’s next exclusive concert pairs Deadmau5 with a symphony
Electronic musician Joel "Deadmau5" Zimmerman is stripping down his sound and adding string instruments to his army of synths for a Tidal-sponsored "Where's the drop?" concert next month. Tidal subscribers can jump in on today's pre-sale, while the g...
Kanye caught on Pirate Bay while his album streams on Pornhub
In the picture above, you'll spot Joel Zimmerman's alter ego, Deadmau5, standing side by side with Kanye West. Last night, the rodent-headed musician was putting a little distance between him and his Tidal buddy, for apparently using Pirate Bay to do...
TwitchCon made me a Twitch convert
I'm going to admit this right up front: I wasn't looking forward to covering the first-ever TwitchCon. Sure, I co-host our weekly Playdate broadcasts and absolutely adore talking with our community of regulars who show up three times per week to wa...
Razer Music is a content sharing and creation portal for musicians
Ever notice that conspicuous green glow radiating off of Deadmau5's desk during his Twitch streams? There's a reason for that. It turns out the artist has been working with Razer to help launch a new music service -- one tailored specifically to pr...
Deadmau5 is on Twitch
If it weren't for Deadmau5's terrible broadband speeds, he wouldn't be on Twitch, the live video-streaming site favored by gamers. Prior to moving to the Canadian countryside just outside of Toronto and building "a goddamned death ray" in his back...
Nissan Trolls Ferrari, Offers Deadmau5 Nyan Cat GT-R
If you are into music, you probably know who Deadmau5 is. I’m not a big fan of his music, but I did like his Nyan Cat Ferrari. Ferrari took issue with how that car was clad and eventually, Deadmau5 ditched the Purrari. Nissan recently trolled the crap out of Ferrari with a pot offering Deadmau5 a Nyan Cat GT-R.
The GT-R isn’t that much slower than the Ferrari the musician had before, and I will admit it looks really cool with a Nyan Cat wrap on it. The part that Ferrari’s lawyers didn’t like were the custom emblems on the 458 Italia owned by Deadmau5 that said “Purrari.” Really?
Hey @deadmau5, heard what happened to your car. Good news? We found a replacement, ready right meow. #GTR pic.twitter.com/c6NRmOr3Nv
— Nissan (@Nissan September 3, 2014
The car has a special logo under the GT-R that adds a tiny Deadmau5 mouse head logo. I think they should do this for sure, the car is apparently a Photoshop job, but the potential is there. I bet if Deadmau5 showed interest, Nissan would make it happen.
[via Jalopnik]
Own Your Own deadmau5 mau5head. Holy 5hit.
If you’re a fan of deadmau5, and have a massive budget for your Halloween costume, here’s something that’ll blow all your friends away. It’s a replica of the performer’s famous light-up stage head, and it can be yours for the low, low price of $2750 (USD).
It was made by Etsy artist Jeffrey Nappi, and it has an orb-shaped helmet, covered in 168 RGB LEDs, along with electroluminescent mouse ears. It’s operated by a San Devices E680 pixel controller and Madrix computer lighting control software which can be programmed to display any imagery you’d like. While it’s not quite as awesome as this guy’s version that uses over 760 LEDs, you can’t buy that one.
In case you’re wondering how you see out of this thing, the helmet is actually made from a see-through acrylic globe, so I can only imagine the trippy, rave-like experience you’ll get wearing this thing. Here’s a video montage showing Jeffrey’s build process, as well as the helmet in action:
And some more footage of the head reacting to music (and playing a little Tetris):
If you can’t spare the nearly $3000 to buy a pre-built one from Jeffrey, you can attempt to build your own from the parts list and source code provided up on GitHub. But for those of you with the budget, and the lack of technical skill, you can order one over on Etsy now.