He stands high above the audience in a specially designed, spacecraft-like cube. The helmet looks goofy, but it’s important: it was key in Zimmerman’s transformation from a dance music outsider into a mainstream icon.īefore Zimmerman started appearing in his mask, his style of fast-paced rave music was typically played in a warehouse accessed via a dark alley. When he performs, Zimmerman wears his own electronically enhanced mouse mask, what fans call a Mau5head. Deadmau5 (pronounced “dead mouse”) is the nom de guerre of the Toronto electronic music artist Joel Zimmerman. They were worn as a tribute to the musician Deadmau5, who was the headlining act that night. The helmets’ eyes were blank and bulging, their crescent mouths leering grins. Some of the dancers wore cartoonish, oversized mouse helmets that bobbed side to side and back and forth. The show should have been a flop instead, it became a frenzied dance party, like Woodstock on methamphetamines. The rain and the force of thousands of feet had turned the park into a swampy field of splattering mud. (Image: Matt Barnes)Ī steady August downpour drenched Chicago’s Grant Park on the final night of the Lollapalooza music festival. Mouse pad: Joel Zimmerman’s downtown condo has jägermeister on tap.
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