“But watch: I’ll tweet ‘BRB drowning a bag of kittens right now – and see who gives a s**t in three days.” He does just that – likes, RTs and ‘That’s not funny’ responses flood in within seconds.

Zimmerman delights in idly tapping his finger on his career’s self-destruct button.

The first electronic artist to grace the cover of Rolling Stone, he became a figurehead for the EDM scene before ferociously turning on it, unleashing scathing – and not unfounded – attacks on what he came to view as an ego-ravaged, greed-crazed and creatively moribund movement.Įven deadmau5 himself isn’t safe from the eviscerating judgement of deadmau5.

It’s just the culmination of three years of s**t lying around on a hard drive.” When I tell him I enjoyed his new album, ‘W:/2016ALBUM/’ (named after the desktop folder he kept the album files in), he responds with a confused, “Huh. Zimmerman’s not affecting a shrugging, punk-rock attitude here – he really does regard his own output semi-disdainfully. Interactions with producers that he admires, such as Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor or Venetian Snares’ Aaron Funk, invariably leave him racked with insecurity. “It’s hard to talk to people that I respect like that because I don’t even respect my s**t, so how are they gonna, y’know ?” This gnawing self-doubt is something he’s learning to deal with. Some stuff I put out I’m pretty proud of, and some of it is just… work.” “I’d say there are 10,000 people within this field who do s**t way better than I do, but then there are six billion people on the planet who don’t, y’know what I mean? So you try to not get stuck in your own s**t too much. It was like… so fucking rushed / slapped together. but i mean… hey, if you like it i wanna like it too, just dont. Well, if he’s unwilling to big up his eighth album, I’ll do it for him. A judicious side-step away from the plasticky insta-rush of EDM, it finds Zimmerman rebuilding his sound around the huge collection of classic and rare synths he’s lovingly assembled in his new studio.

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