Issues are spicing up this summer time! Considered one of EDM’s greatest trolls, and Canadian producer deadmau5 has picked his subsequent foe. Though Joel Zimmerman has trolled artists and audiences all through the years, his opponent, British DJ and Home star James Hype, has retaliated. In what seems to be essentially the most present beef between artists within the digital dance scene, deadmau5 and James Hype are actually straight addressing one another on social media.
Timeline
The meat and steak began again at Extremely Miami 2025, the place deadmau5 closed out the Worldwide stage taking part in a set filled with his classics. The artist then closed out the set whereas choosing up the microphone to make enjoyable of the fireworks and whoever purchased the $500,000 bottle service. Then, he acquired uninterested in his outro tune ‘Faxing Berlin’ and began scratching the cdjs. The sentence that began the meat was: “How do I James Hype my means out of this one?”. Lastly, he adopted with: ” It’s actual djing, I’m simply saying”.
Hype didn’t keep quiet lengthy, following the “shade” posting the clip on his socials, mixing in his latest launch in the mean time, ‘Don’t Wake Me Up’. Hype stored going extra not too long ago, selling his latest dwell present, “Sync”. The artist used deadmau5’s brand projections to show you can play dwell and sync the visuals alongside. That is in reference to Zimmerman’s previous claims that one can solely sync visuals to a pre-recorded set and that it’s not attainable taking part in dwell. Hype ended his video with an image of deadmau5 throughout one among his studio periods whereas he’s consuming.
deadmau5 refused to let Hype have the final snicker, as he threw a barrage of feedback, making enjoyable of Hype and joked about Hype’s effort to attempt to undermine him. Someday later, Zimmerman went the additional mile and responded with a flurry of posts on Instagram the place he exhibits how he synced the cdjs to his monitor in 5 minutes. To make issues extra intense, the movies present Joel taking part in Elden Ring, a large profitable platform recreation, utilizing the decks as controllers.
Nonetheless, deadmau5 likes to joke round and one among his posts states it’s “not that severe”, however is he being actual, or trolling us but once more.
