deadmau5 — VELD Music Festival Toronto, 2025

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Why this recording

Uploaded by deadmau5 himself four months after the show, as a premiere on December 9, 2025, the August 3 set runs 1 hr 16 min on the Downsview Park main stage. The release ties in with the promotion of the single Ameonna and announces his return to VELD in 2026, this time as part of Kx5, his duo with Kaskade. For anyone following Joel Zimmerman's recent path, the video bridges his solo sets and that joint project, whose 2023 debut album earned a Grammy nomination.

— Simon Janvier, live-sound professional and editor of the catalogue

Recording technical sheet

Rights-holding channeldeadmau5
Source statusOfficial — artist’s channel
Broadcast
Uploaded
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ResolutionHD (720p+)

Metadata checked on YouTube on 29 September 2026.

Published on September 21, 2026 by

This filmed live set features deadmau5 on the VELD Music Festival Main Stage at Downsview Park (Toronto) on 3 August 2025. Joel Zimmerman, a Canadian producer among the leading figures of progressive house and electro, closed the final day of the 2025 edition, whose line-up also featured Tiësto, Dom Dolla and John Summit. Released in full by the festival, this live concert delivers the DJ’s signature: hypnotic pads, patient build-ups and polished stage production, played before a large Toronto crowd. deadmau5, known for his mouse-head helmet and tracks such as Strobe and Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff, unfolds a main-stage DJ set built for collective immersion. The capture highlights the interplay of sound and light typical of festival electronic performances. A reference electro live concert for progressive house fans, this document illustrates deadmau5’s return to a major North American stage in 2025, in his adopted city.

Personnel & credits

  • deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) — DJ / production
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What to watch next

Neither deadmau5 nor VELD Music Festival, Downsview Park, Toronto, Canada appears elsewhere in the catalogue: what follows rests on the ground itself, Electronic from the 2020s.