Deadmau5 Trolls Zeds Dead For Their ‘Original’ Coffee Break Idea
Deadmau5 has taken to Twitter to call out Zeds Dead on their brand new web series on Vice’s Thump called “Coffee Break.” If you’re not connecting the dots as to why Deadmau5 called them out, here’s why… Last September Deadmau5 began a new web series called “Coffee Run” which featured him driving around different celebrities and musicians in his Ferrari and just making small talk.
Deadmau5 has featured people such as Kaskade, Eric Prydz, Laidback Luke, Vanilla Ice, Daler Mehndi and many others. The coffee runs have proven to become a success, so without a doubt Deadmau5 called out Zeds Dead for their “brilliant idea.”
Read his rant below:
Yay! @whoszed coffee break! Brilliant idea! Who the fuck says EDM is unoriginal? Let’s have coffe break on coffe run. Where’s xhibit at?
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) May 6, 2014
Originality in EDM = “whatever dude, I ripped it off first”
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) May 6, 2014
Just like daft punk ripped off all them funk LPs on discovery. They did it first. It’s original. Haha
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) May 6, 2014
Worth saying up front: nobody here is actually mad at anybody. This is the same kind of good-natured ribbing that runs through most of dance music’s online back-and-forth, and Deadmau5 in particular has built a whole persona around clowning his peers on Twitter. Zeds Dead — the Toronto duo of Dylan Mamid and Zach Rapp-Rovan — didn’t fire back with anything defensive, and Coffee Break went on to become a recurring segment on Thump throughout 2014, with the pair riding around and chatting up guests including Zedd, in the same loose, low-stakes format Deadmau5 had been running with Coffee Run since the previous fall.
If anything, the format itself says more about where the genre was in 2014 than any actual beef does. Casual, car-based interview shows became a quick trend across dance music media that year, with more than one act trying their hand at a version of the same idea. Deadmau5 got there first with Coffee Run, and he wasn’t shy about reminding everyone of it — but by the time the dust settled, both shows were coexisting just fine, giving fans two different windows into their favorite artists hanging out off stage.
