deadmau5 has a book out, and of course it’s called book_title_goes_here. The full title is book_title_goes_here: 25 years of deadmau5, a 320-page hardback put together by London publisher Soi Books from Joel Zimmerman’s own archive. The name borrows the joke from his 2012 album >album title goes here<.
The book follows him from early club gigs to world tours across more than 1,000 colour photos, many of them from his own hard drives and never published before. There are show shots, backstage pictures and the people around him over the years, including Tommy Lee, DJ Aero, Steve Duda and SOFI. Meowingtons, his late cat, gets a typographic spread of her own.
The cube, in pieces
A big chunk of the book is about the stage shows. That means the LED cube that first appeared at Coachella in 2010 and grew into one of the best-known sets in electronic music, and the stadium-sized Kx5 show he played with Kaskade at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The collector’s edition includes a spread of cube schematics printed on architectural tracing paper.
Two editions, and one won’t come back
The mau5hop Edition is the collector’s version. It’s limited to 1,200 copies and won’t be reissued. It comes in a 3mm card slipcase with two die-cuts, with red metallic foil on the front and back covers, black metallic page edges, 157gsm matt art paper, the tracing-paper spread and two vinyl sticker sheets chosen by deadmau5. It measures 320 x 245 x 35mm and weighs 2.8kg, so you’ll need a sturdy coffee table.
In the UK and Europe it’s £150 on pre-order from Soi Books, and EU orders include VAT and duties, so there’s nothing extra to pay on delivery. Buyers in the US and Canada order from mau5hop for $200. Orders ship from 28 November.
A Classic Edition of 800 copies, without the sticker sheets, goes on sale through selected independent bookshops from 8 December.
On the live side, deadmau5 is booked for Igloofest 2027 in Montreal alongside Fatboy Slim and Boris Brejcha.
