June 21st, 2012 
Brian Leak 
EDM/house sensation Joel Zimmerman, known by his stage name Deadmau5, is on the cover of the current Rolling Stone magazine that hits news stands tomorrow, June 22. In mau5’s featured piece, he gets a little ballsy and a bit self-righteous, belittling peers such as David Guetta and none other than Skrillex.
“David Guetta has two iPods and a mixer and he just plays tracks –- like, ‘Here’s one with Akon, check it out!’,” he says. “Even Skrillex [a friend of Zimmerman’s] isn’t doing anything too technical. He has a laptop and a MIDI recorder, and he’s just playing his shit … People are, thank God, smartening up about who does what -– but there’s still button-pushers getting paid half a million. And not to say I’m not a button-pusher. I’m just pushing a lot more buttons.”
So here’s a word of advice to all your electronic-based musicians: If you want to be taken seriously and be better than Deadmau5, GET MORE BUTTONS AND PUSH THE SHIT OUT OF THEM!
You can check out the rest of the piece on Deadmau5 here if you care to see what else he feels obligated to gloat about. Let UTG know if Deadmau5’s ego is pushing your buttons in our comment section. Will Zimmerman have to start creating larger foam mouse heads to accommodate his ever growing head?
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Electronic…musicians? Thats an oymoron. It’s all garbage to me. Button pushers indeed. First rappers talking a rhyme on a beat claim to be musicians now programmers want to call noise music. Kid stuff.