deadmau5 Announces New Album, Previews Opening Track

May 12th, 2014

Nina Corcoran

Shortly following the news that deadmau5 is looking to trademark his logo and butting heads with Disney, word has been spread that the DJ/producer will release a new studio album on June 17 (digitally) and June 24 (physically) via mau5trap/Astralwerks Records. The album, called while (1<2), is 24 tracks long, making it his first double-disc release.

Regarding the album, deadmau5 says:

It’s a good mix of sh*t I want to do versus sh*t people want to hear or what they would expect. It’s a good balance. It’s not like, ‘Oh, it’s such a departure. He’s doing smooth jazz.’ It was when I was working on some live stuff, setlists for shows and stuff like that, and it just must have been a couple of tracks that sounded pretty good stitched together end to start and I thought, “Well, if I ever do an album or compile this into some kind of album this has got to be that part of the order for that.” And I just kind of took everything and played musical Tetris with it.

deadmau5 has shared a preview clip of the album’s opening track, “Avaritia,” as well. Check it out below: