Deadmau5 Hilariously Spams The Mic During Imagine Music Festival
The kind of trolls has just reigned again. During his set at Imagine Music Festival in the Atlanta, Georgia area, Deadmau5 decided to mess with the audience after he was inititated to “spam” the mic during his set.
For anyone who missed it, Imagine Music Festival is the multi-day electronic and bass event held annually just outside Atlanta, and Deadmau5 was one of the headliners for the 2017 edition. Leave it to him to turn a straightforward mic check into its own bit. Rather than just running through his usual set banter, he leaned all the way into troll mode and gave the crowd a moment they clearly weren’t expecting from one of the more notoriously deadpan performers in dance music.
As you can see from the footage below, Deadmau5 is seen saying things like “They said I wasn’t spamming the mic enough… Put your f*cking hands up” and how he got drunk off of just four beers. It’s a delivery that only really works coming from him. Most DJs hyping up a crowd sound like they rehearsed it in the mirror, but Deadmau5 has built a whole persona around sounding like he genuinely could not care less, which somehow makes it funnier every single time he does it.
Watch deadmau5 troll the crowd with his witty “1-2-3 JUMP!” commentary below.
Deadmau5 Spams The Mic During Imagine Music Festival 2017
The clip made its way around the usual dance music blogs pretty quickly after the set, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a short, self-contained moment that captures exactly what makes Deadmau5’s live shows fun beyond just the production and the music: you genuinely never know what he’s going to say next. Between the four-beers confession and the mock crowd-participation bit, it’s basically a two-minute highlight reel of why people keep showing up to his sets even when they’ve already heard the tracklist a hundred times.
Imagine Music Festival itself had already built a reputation by 2017 as one of the bigger bass and electronic gatherings in the Southeast, pulling in a lineup that spans everything from dubstep to house to trap over the course of the weekend. Landing a headliner like Deadmau5, who’s been a fixture at major festivals for well over a decade at this point, was a solid get for the event, and clips like this one are exactly the kind of thing that end up circulating long after the festival grounds are empty and everyone’s gone home. It’s a small moment, but it’s the kind of small moment that ends up defining how people remember a set months later.
