Things are spicing up this summer! One of EDM’s biggest trolls, and Canadian producer deadmau5 has picked his next foe. Although Joel Zimmerman has trolled artists and audiences throughout the years, his opponent, British DJ and House star James Hype, has retaliated. In what appears to be the most current beef between artists in the electronic dance scene, deadmau5 and James Hype are now directly addressing each other on social media.
Timeline
The beef and steak started back at Ultra Miami 2025, where deadmau5 closed out the Worldwide stage playing a set full of his classics. The artist then closed out the set while picking up the microphone to make fun of the fireworks and whoever bought the $500,000 bottle service. Then, he got tired of his outro song ‘Faxing Berlin’ and started scratching the cdjs. The sentence that started the beef was: “How do I James Hype my way out of this one?”. Finally, he followed with: ” It’s real djing, I’m just saying”.
Hype didn’t stay quiet long, following the “shade” posting the clip on his socials, mixing in his newest release at the moment, ‘Don’t Wake Me Up’. Hype kept going more recently, promoting his newest live show, “Sync”. The artist used deadmau5’s logo projections to prove that you can play live and sync the visuals alongside. This is in reference to Zimmerman’s past claims that one can only sync visuals to a pre-recorded set and that it is not possible playing live. Hype ended his video with a picture of deadmau5 during one of his studio sessions while he’s eating.
deadmau5 refused to let Hype have the last laugh, as he threw a barrage of comments, making fun of Hype and joked about Hype’s effort to try to undermine him. Sometime later, Zimmerman went the extra mile and responded with a flurry of posts on Instagram where he shows how he synced the cdjs to his monitor in 5 minutes. To make matters more intense, the videos show Joel playing Elden Ring, a massive successful platform game, using the decks as controllers.
Nonetheless, deadmau5 loves to joke around and one of his posts states it’s “not that serious”, but is he being real, or trolling us yet again.