At about 5 PM on Friday I decided I wanted to go see Deadmau5 in Seattle. I had known about the show for sometime but had brushed off the idea originally and it has taken a week or two to really sink in that I have free time now. Spontaneous adventures are always the best so I called up Diego, Sean and Koolaid and we piled into the car two hours later.

We were deathly afraid we would arrive late, the Decibel festival was supposed to be popping and Deadmau5 is the sort of name that sells out clubs quickly. Luckily we quickly found the venue and got inside where it was indeed incredibly packed, a good mix of hipsters and bro’s with little pockets of burners. Not much dancing at first and almost no one was drinking so we assumed that everyone was just waiting for their tabs to kick in.


Santiago & Bushido were effortless and clean but seemed a little generic to me, buildups cut short and the basic progressive house the crowd expected. The dancing still seemed to be a minimum with small pockets (like us four crazy boys) but the mood was rising.

Deadmau5 is a rockstar. Bursting onto the stage with his giant blue mouse head, the crowd whipped itself into a frenzy, an impressive feat since the first half of Deadmau5’s set was fairly slow and boring. The outfit gives him that little boost, something fun and silly we can latch onto and appreciate. It is also features light up eyes (sound activated) and no headphones, making the songs he dropped in character that much more impressive.



The second half of the set was much better, extremely technical and building, this little twenty two year old hammering out beautiful notes on a ten by ten midi controller, dropping his Daft Punk remix into the middle of The Reward is Cheese to a now dancing crowd.
I randomly met this amazingly awesome guy from Seattle who rode with us to the after party (I have no pictures of this, we were pretty toasted by this time) and let us stay his house in the U district.
What impressed us most about this individual was how open and friendly, generous and trusting he was to four strangers. He also had this insane DJ set up in his basement, two CDJ 1000’s hooked up to two serato equipped turntables, with both of the mixers hooked up to a third mixer going through Abelton.

We slept for an hour or two at most and took off early in the morning to avoid freaking out the guys roomates who we had never met. A few hours adventuring around Seattle early on a Saturday morning and we all hauled our tired asses to home.