His manager, a merry Englishman named Paul Macrae, tells the group that Justin Bieber is in town, performing a free concert on the roof of the Oslo Opera House, so the tween traffic jam may make them late.
Like a scene out of a movie, he hops out, takes a few quick drags off a cigarette and bounds straight onstage. The crowd of 3, is getting restless, or what passes for restlessness among chemically altered Scandinavians.
Crouching behind his battery of synthesizers, Zimmerman slips on his trademark accessory — a pound, two-foot-wide, LED-powered mouse head — and pops up waving, and the kids in their green-glow-stick mouse ears go crazy. After the show — thanks to the northern latitudes, the sun is still lingering at 11 p. The bus is a Jumbocruiser: a red, ton, double-decker behemoth pimped out with two refrigerators, a microwave, an espresso machine, a couple of flatscreens, and neon lights straight out of an Eighties strip club.
Zimmerman grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the son of a stay-at-home mom and a dad who worked at GM building engine blocks. I had a whole graveyard under my bed. In high school he started doing Web design, and says he was one of the first people in the world to learn Flash. He still thinks about going back to school sometimes, just to learn about cool stuff that interests him — like, say, fluid dynamics.
He was working until 6 a. Macrae returns in a few minutes and sets them outside his door like you might for a prisoner, or a wild animal. In fact, he says, a lot of people do just that. Zimmerman starts by building his set on his computer, programming whatever songs he wants to play into a two-hour collection of discrete six-minute blocks. Then he starts stripping away elements one by one — a kick drum here, a bass loop there, as many as he thinks he can get away with.
Finally, in concert, he puts it all back together, re-creating each sound with his battalion of synthesizers. But the better you get at it, the more fun you can have. I just want him to go in the garage with his boys, fire up the fucking tape deck and do whatever the fuck he wants.
I see it — like, an year-old girl getting finger-banged and puking over a rail — like, are you seriously having fun right now? A lot of people like to be wizards and sit back and throw spells.
But I like to get all up in their shit. For the next few hours, Zimmerman just sits there, smoking and clicking. He ashes his butts in a half-empty water bottle. Then he starts putting them out on the carpet. Then, my coffee. At one point, a young man pokes his head in the doorway, and Zimmerman glares at him. The guy scurries off. Finally, around — after eight hours of nearly uninterrupted gaming — Zimmerman heads over to the crew room to check on his Mau5 head.
For his run of Halloween shows in , he debuted a special Pinhead-themed mau5head as tribute to the infamous horror movie franchise, Hellraiser.
The night sky will be a canvas this weekend at Orlando's Tinker Field. The remix earned airtime on "Diplo's Revolution. In , Zimmerman had a brief stint with a gold-plated mau5head. The ritzy design has probably earned this version of the head the title of most luxurious, but the bling had some unintended consequences. Gold is a heavy metal which ended up significantly weighing down the head, mounting further pressure on Zimmerman's neck.
Since the head didn't offer added functionality, this blinged-out version didn't have a particularly lengthy tenure. Zimmerman has never concealed his love for gaming; he's even participated in professional gaming competitions in recent years.
He hasn't been shy about integrating gaming elements into his brand, either, and this instantiation of the mau5head perfectly encapsulated that. Featuring old school arcade themes, Zimmerman's colorful gamer mau5head let fans know early on he had an appreciation for gaming culture.
In Zimmerman participated in the 3, mile long celebrity motor rally Gumball During this era he was tough to miss as he took his Ferrari Italia, affectionately referred to as the "Purrari" at the time, on the international trip. The car was custom wrapped in a baby-blue Nyan Cat-themed wrap. Zimmerman certainly didn't hide his love for Nyan Cat at the time and opted to make a custom mau5head to match featuring the animation with a Gumball logo on the forehead.
In recent years specialty mau5heads have gone on to make notable cameos of their own in Zimmerman's music videos. In fact, the beefed up robotic mau5head featured in Deadmau5's "Let Go" music video plays a prominent role. The music video was a walkthrough of his upgraded cube stage production and the specialty mau5head. With X-box insignia eyes and frying pan ears, Zimmerman's Playerunknown's Battlegrounds - themed head is one of the producer's most unique helmet concepts to date. In , the popular video game teamed up with Zimmerman for a special Twitch Prime co-sponsored event during which this post-apocalyptic version of the mau5head made its debut.
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