Deadmau5 Makes Dreams a Reality Through the Interwebz Once Again

A new Deadmau5 track is always big news. With the release of his album, “while (1 < 2)”,  last summer the world was introduced to a catalog of new Deadmau5 tracks. Among these tracks was a calm and serene sounding ode entitled “Silent Picture”. What is special about this track, “Silent Picture”, is that something has happened with this song that is very similar to what happened with the Deadmau5 track, “The Veldt”.

Deadmau5 – Silent Picture

If you are not familiar with the story behind how Deadmau5 got the lyrics for his song “The Veldt”, it goes a little something like this: Deadmua5 took to Twitter to stream the creation of his new song. He showed off every minute of what it took to make a new track, and over all was a 22 hour stream. For the track, he did not create vocals, and said that he would still have to figure that out. In next to no time, Chris James, who had been watching his stream, took to Twitter and shared his own vocal rendition to the song, vocals that complimented the story story of the same name on which Deadmua5 had based the song. Zimmerman was awe-stricken. He tweeted James and told him that his vocals would be featured on the track and the rest was history. We all know what they say: “History repeats itself”.

Deadmau5 – Silent Picture (Grabbitz Vocal Edit)

With “Silent Picture”, up and coming producer Grabbitz, has done what Chris James did. He took the Deadmau5 track and created his own lyrics for the song, and let me say: the track is supremely inspiring. The lyrics are serene and make you want to look to the sky and hope for something better. “Silent Picture” is not the Deadmau5 we are used to hearing, so it’s interesting to witness this score-like style with his name attached, especially with lyrics like Grabbitz’s. However, the situation this time around regarding the release of the track is a bit different. Deadmau5 wasn’t looking for lyrics to this track, so rather than releasing the same track with the vocals over the song as an official version of “Silent Picture”, Deadmau5 has decided to take the lyrics that Grabbitz has written and create a new track to compliment them. He reached out to Grabbitz, like Chris James, over Twitter to initiate the collaboration officially. Below you can take a look at the original track, “Silent Picture”, the Grabbitz vocal edit, and the 7-minute progressive masterpiece, “Blood for the Bloodgoat” by Deadmau5 and Grabbitz.

Each version of the song is unique in its own way and I am very excited to see if Grabbitz’s career will take off after this song. If Deadmau5 is willing to put his name alongside Grabbitz, I am sure that he will being going places! Stay tuned for more from Grabbitz and Deadmau5!