{"id":1969,"date":"2025-06-02T23:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deadmau5-rezz-rezzmau5-interview-cover-story-coachella-1235987542\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T23:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:29:44","slug":"deadmau5-rezz-rezzmau5-interview-cover-story-coachella-1235987542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deadmau5-rezz-rezzmau5-interview-cover-story-coachella-1235987542\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Love Everything He Does, Except for That\u2019: Deadmau5 & REZZ Discuss\u00a0REZZMAU5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tREZZMAU5 \u2013 the collaboration between REZZ<\/a> and deadmau5<\/a> \u2013 shouldn\u2019t work as well as it does.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe produce in two totally different ways,\u201d says Joel Zimmerman, the man behind deadmau5. \u201cI am so old school and she is so new school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth artists hail from Niagara Falls, Ontario, and both are known for their innovative production, DIY ethos and big-stage spectacle. They\u2019re both big thinkers and big presences, instantly recognizable for their larger-than-life visual trademarks \u2013 deadmau5 with his signature LED mau5head helmet and REZZ with her hypnotic spinning light glasses \u2013 and they both have dedicated cult fanbases.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThey have different sounds and use different tools, but they come together to blend the best of both of them. It doesn\u2019t happen often, but it\u2019s special when it does.<\/p>\n

\n\tREZZ \u2013 born Isabelle Rezazadeh \u2013 cites deadmau5 as an immeasurable influence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe essentially birthed me as a producer,\u201d she says. \u201cHe birthed my entire interest in making music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith about 14 years of age separating them, REZZ grew up in a world deadmau5 created. Deadmau5 is one of the most influential artists of the last two and a half decades in electronic music. Though he doesn\u2019t identify with the term himself, he was a major influence on the late-2000s\/2010s EDM boom. His immersive and technologically innovative live shows inspired countless DJs and producers to amp up the spectacle and play to massive festival crowds.<\/p>\n

\n\tREZZ was at some of those pivotal deadmau5 shows as a teenager, and he later became one of her earliest champions. He signed her to his label, mau5trap, and released two of her EPs and her first two albums, 2017\u2019s\u00a0Mass Manipulation\u00a0<\/em>and 2018\u2019s\u00a0Certain Kind of Magic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn 2021, deadmau5 and REZZ officially joined forces with their first on-record collaboration, \u201cHypnocurrency.\u201d It\u2019s dark, spellbinding, and meticulously layered \u2014 a slow-burning cinematic journey that lands squarely between their two sonic worlds. To create it, they both had to step outside their comfort zones.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the things that characterizes deadmau5\u2019s signature sound is his tempo. Most of his classic songs \u2013 like \u201cI Remember,\u201d \u201cThe Veldt\u201d and \u201cGhosts \u2018n\u2019 Stuff\u201d \u2013 fall within the same tempo: 128 BPM (beats per minute). Even the epic slow-build \u201cStrobe\u201d starts with a patient ambient build but eventually ramps up with a beat at the exact same tempo.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked what he learned from working with REZZ, deadmau5 doesn\u2019t miss a beat.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI learned that there are BPMs that actually do exist below 128,\u201d he deadpans. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that all you had to do was click on the number and drag it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen they\u2019re collaborating, one artist comes in with a clear vision and a track sketched out, which gives them a basis to start from.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m the type of person who really wants to just get an idea out by myself before even entering a studio with another person,\u201d REZZ admits. \u201cIf we\u2019re starting from scratch, my brain is like \u2018I don\u2019t even know where to go from here.\u2019 The embarrassing process of making everything sound like s\u2013t by yourself is something I\u2019m ok with\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2026as long as you\u2019re by yourself,\u201d deadmau5 interjects, finishing her thought. \u201cI do the same thing. Even if it\u2019s a non-producer person who\u2019s sitting in the room with me, I\u2019m just like,\u201d he makes a shooing motion with his hand. \u201c\u2018You gotta go.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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