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deadmau5 speaks out about future album plans
House | Wednesday 26th September 2012 | Osh
The mouse-headed producer plans to take a year out of touring to work on a new concept album.
Having only just released >album title goes here<, you’d be forgiven for thinking deadmau5 might enjoy a well-earned break from writing, and maybe do more live performances to showcase the record. The reality is quite the reverse: the man behind the mask, Joel Zimmerman, is already looking ahead to his next release. He seems to have quite big plans for what is to come, telling MTV: “Hopefully next time - and I know I say this every f***ing time - I'll have this year off of touring and put together something that's like Pink Floyd's The Wall.”
If the whispers of a concept album are true, it may well turn out to be very different in production from deadmau5’s last release. Speaking about the somewhat chaotic way in which it was made, Zimmerman said that he did songs as and when he could, before streaming them and putting them on the album, if the feedback from the public was positive enough. Tracks were done in his weeks at home between shows: “It wasn't one of those albums where I did ‘A, B, C, this is the way the album is going to go’ with the tracks, because I had a big f***ing tour year.” Any possible album, then, is likely to at least be more structured than his last album, but little else is known about deadmau5’s plans.
The fifth track from >album title goes here<, ‘Professional Griefers’, was released last month, and sees him collaborate with My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. The accompanying video, which is the most expensive electronic dance music video of all time, sees the two battling it out with giant robots, complete with mau5 heads – as you do. It remains to be seen what deadmau5 will do in future videos, but he isn’t short of help: artists he has collaborated on the record include Cypress Hill and Imogen Heap.
By Dave Rees
