From the beginning we knew this wouldn't be a typical music video. Deadmau5's track "The Veldt" had interesting origins.
The song began life as an instrumental track on a live stream that Joel Zimmerman (aka Deadmau5) did in March 2012. It was inspired by American sci-fi author Ray Bradbury's story with the same name. Bradbury passed away in early June 2012.
From the live stream, one of Deadmau5's fans Chris James took the inspiration on board. He read the story, wrote vocals and lyrics to match and uploaded this onto Soundcloud. The Deadmau5 fan community heard James' track and through Twitter, got Zimmerman to listen. What resulted was a creative, collaborative piece of music with some great inspiration. When we were asked to make a video for it we kept this history in mind.
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