deadmau5 did more than just help to close out the 2025 Red Rocks season, as he does nearly every year; this time, he reset the game. This wasn’t the usual mouse helmet routine (don’t worry, he brought several), or the familiar monolith of the Cube that’s defined his live sets for over a decade. This time, he officially retired the Cube, trading it for an entirely new, hyper-interactive lighting system with full motion, sweeping beams, and effects that hit so hard they felt physical. For five straight hours, he turned the Rocks into a cathedral of sound and light.

The crowd was locked in from the first spark. When the new rig came alive, you could feel it more than just hear it. The bass rolled through the sandstone, the lights moved like living things, and the sound wrapped around the crowd like it had its own pulse. It was classic deadmau5: meticulous, immersive, and impossible to look away from.

And he didn’t come alone. Rising virtual artist DEATHPIXIE – signed to his label, mau5trap – took the stage earlier in the night and felt like a vision from the future. Her set fused viral anthems like “Hell Girl” with new tracks from her EP Asylum, all underscored by glitch-heavy visuals of demonic creatures and a coven of dancers that blurred the line between nightmare and performance art. The crowd ate it up. Skylar Grey helped usher in the chaos, introducing her and DEATHPIXIE’s debut collaboration “LET YOU LIE.”

When deadmau5 took back over, the mountain roared. Lights, lasers, fog, sound, even time itself seemed to all collapse into one relentless current. He dove deep into the catalog, dropping the staples that built his legend: “Ghosts ’n’ Stuff,” “Sofi Needs a Ladder,” and a reworked “Monophobia” that hit harder than ever. Each track built on the last, blending decades of sonic evolution into one continuous surge of nostalgia and innovation.

Between the classics came the new experiments – unreleased IDs, extended remixes, and modular improvisations that showed just how in control he still is behind that helmet. You could see it in the crowd, every time he teased a familiar melody, thousands of voices rose in unison before the drop even landed.

Skylar Grey returned mid set for their haunting new track, “My Heart Has Teeth,” her vocals echoing through the canyon walls while the lights rippled like heartbeat signals across the stone. It gave him just enough space to reset before launching back in for another barrage of deep cuts and crowd favorites that kept Red Rocks alive long past curfew.

If you were there, you know the moment, when it hit you that you weren’t just watching a show anymore. You were inside it. That’s what deadmau5 does better than anyone: he builds worlds and invites you to join him there, even if only for a night.

This new era feels different—almost sharper, more ambitious, and somehow more human. Whatever comes next, one thing’s certain: deadmau5 has entered his next form, and he’s still out there rewriting the rules in real time.

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