
The latest version will have Deadmau5 completely enclosed in a rotating cube. With just days until Ultra Music Festival Miami and the rollout of Cube 3.0, the excitement is growing again. Clearly, this skill set is what has made the evolution of his Cube stage so seamless.

During this time he hones his audio composition skills but was also mastering the visual coding techniques. Second, she details how part of Deadmau5′ roots came from his coding background. She even uncovered the nugget of him getting his Mau5 helmet idea from a death-pop singer. First she details the history of Joel Zimmerman from his days as a web designer to the EDM legend he is today. In a revealing interview, just days before Cube 3.0’s debut, he sits and talks to Miami New Times’ Kat Bein. She went in on the Mau5 and was able to get a much closer look at the history of the setup. Thus, the evolution of the Cube has been incremental but ever game-changing nonetheless.įast forward to February 2019. That model brought a slimmed down version that made the setup accessible to more venues. In response to the high demand, the 2.1 version was rolled out. With rotating parts and more intense graphics, fans the world over had something new to lose their minds to. At Veld Music Festival, Cube 2.0 took the production to new heights.

Next, he upgraded his production with the roll-out of Cube 2.0 and 2.1 in 2016 & 2017 respectively.

He rolled out his Cube and proceeded to do just that. He saw what none of the other high priced DJs did: if there’s no real human quality in the performance (such as singers and instrumentalists), then the production should be next-level. So if kids want a show, give them a show.” That year, Samantha Oltman caught up with him at Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco and was able to get him to speak about the state of industry at the time: “I’ll fucking shoot myself in the face if I got ticket prices up in the hundreds and I’m sitting there with two turntables, playing other people’s fucking music…That’s just highway robbery it ain’t right.
