Deadmau5 Attacks Collabs And Announces A Cypress Hill Collab

Canadian electronic superstar Deadmau5 has confirmed a new EP for release on June 22 - it features collaborations with both Chris James and hip hop legends Cypress Hill.

The Veldt EP will lead off with the title track as a single and features vocals by James, who Deadmau5 claims, in a recent blog, he "randomly stumbled on via Twitter".

Deadmau5 writes that the track was inspired by sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury's short story The Veldt, and intends the EP to "soundtrack" the story about "kids bestowed with insane technology which enables them to conjure up any setting or any thing they desire".

The EP is planned as the first of a series of EPs to be released in the coming months and compiled together as an album at the end of the year.

The first EP will also feature the cut Failbait, his collab with Cypress Hill that has been kicking around in his sets for some time now - and has been travelling around the internet for some weeks now as well.

Ironically, given the new EP features at least two collabs, Deadmau5 has also attacked the idea of collaborations in his blog. "Theres a perfectly valid reason why i dont usually enjoy the idea of a 'collaboration'," he writes.

"All to often, there's an influx of 'big names' that would get thrown around the label from time to time and of course, they fly off the table and out the fuckin door faster than they hit my desk. eg. do you want to do a track with big name X, remix huge pop act y, etc etc."

Deadmau5 then states: "no.  i fucking don't. i really REALLY don't."