Deadmau5 Teased New Collaboration With Pendulum’s Rob Swire On Twitch
Deadmau5 and Rob Swire are two of the most renowned artists when it comes to dance music. Their first collaboration, Ghosts’n’Stuff, still lives on as one of the true classics of electronic music. Since the release of Ghosts’n’Stuff, near a decade ago, the two producers have gone their separate ways. Deadmau5 focused on developing forward-thinking sound design and an awe-inspiring live show, while Rob worked to produce new music as a member of both Knife Party and Pendulum.
Now it appears that the guys have gotten back together for a new collaboration.
Rob Swire and Deadmau5 – Monophobia
On Twitch yesterday, Deadmau5 played out a full minute of a new production featuring vocals from Rob Swire. Right now the track does not officially have a name nor a release date. Fans have started to call the ID, Monophobia.
It is no surprise that it sounds downright captivating. Deadmau5 does not utilize vocals on his works as much as some other artists, but when he does the results are absolutely spectacular. Check out the preview of the track below.
The Fan-Given Name Turned Out To Be Right
Fans calling this ID “Monophobia” weren’t just guessing well — that ended up being its official title when Deadmau5 finally gave the track a proper release as part of his ‘mau5ville: Level 1’ EP. It’s a great example of just how plugged in the Deadmau5 fanbase is; between Twitch streams, live debuts, and community sleuthing, dedicated fans often piece together an ID’s identity well before any official confirmation ever comes.
This reunion also made a lot of sense given how long Deadmau5 and Rob Swire’s creative paths had been running in parallel rather than together. Both artists spent the years since ‘Ghosts’n’Stuff’ building out massively influential corners of dance music on their own terms, so hearing them link back up, especially with Swire’s instantly recognizable vocals over a Deadmau5 production, felt like a genuine full-circle moment for longtime fans who’d been hoping for a sequel to that original collaboration for the better part of a decade.
A Twitch-First Debut Fit The Moment
Debuting a new ID on Twitch rather than in a live festival set was also a pretty notable move for Deadmau5 specifically, since he’s been one of the more prolific and outspoken artists when it comes to livestreaming his own studio process. Rather than treating unfinished material as something precious to guard until a big festival reveal, he’s built a whole segment of his fanbase around watching him actually build tracks in real time, which makes moments like this Rob Swire preview feel less like a marketing rollout and more like fans getting a genuine, unfiltered look behind the curtain. That transparency has become as much a part of the Deadmau5 brand at this point as the mouse head itself.
