Deadmau5 Announces Limited Coffee-Table Book Covering 25 Years

Electronic producer Deadmau5 is releasing a limited-edition coffee-table book on his 25-year career, with the main release set for Dec. 8, according to Billboard.

Only 2,000 copies will be printed. A coffee-table book is a large, heavily illustrated hardcover meant to sit out on display rather than be read cover to cover. This one is built around pictures: archival images, live photos and behind-the-scenes shots that trace his career from its early years onward.

The book also includes images of Tommy Lee, DJ Aero, Steve Duda and Sofi. Deadmau5, whose birth name is Joel Zimmerman, is the artist at the centre of the project. Soi Books orchestrated the book, led by Ryo Sanada.

The copies come in two versions. The first is the mau5hop Edition, with 1,200 copies in total. It has a die-cut slipcase, which is a cardboard sleeve with a window or shaped cut-out, a red metallic foil logo, black metallic page edges, and silver and laser-blue metallic inks. Buyers also get cube schematics printed on architectural tracing paper, along with two vinyl sticker sheets chosen by deadmau5 himself.

The mau5hop Edition is available to pre-order now. Billboard reports that it will not be reprinted, so once the 1,200 copies are gone, that version is gone for good.

The second is the Classic Edition, with 800 copies and no stickers. These will go on sale at selected retailers on Dec. 8.

For fans, the split matters. Anyone who wants the stickers and the tracing-paper pages has to pre-order directly. Anyone who prefers the simpler version can wait until early December and look for it in shops that carry it.

Print runs this small are a common way for artists and their teams to offer something collectible rather than a mass-market title. The book's total of 2,000 copies is the number to keep in mind, and the 1,200 pre-order copies are the only ones that will not come back into print later.