Deadmau5 has released more grainy footage of his PPI Control Surface – something he grabbed in complimentary fashion from the tech giant Microsoft. With little being detailed on why he keeps showing us the device, we did some investigating and suspect it could be used to tie in with his new ambitious live performance goal. In a recent interview with the Rolling Stone, Zimmerman opened up about his passion to explore storytelling;

“I want to explore the world of storytelling with music and technology, and presenting that technology in a way where you can unify the whole thing, and it’s not just a guy playing fucking good songs. So it’s big-picture stuff.”

In the lead up to his inevitably awesome tour of Australia on the Future Music Festival trail, the Mau5trap owner spoke about how the show will roll out like a story;

“I’m really following a plot, so there are moments in the story where I’m really thinking, “I gotta create a certain atmosphere” . . . We’re really, really going storyboard with this thing. We’ve got some writers who’ve written some amazing things working on a script for a show.

One element of the show we are aware of after a recent Las Vegas performance is the new new Mau5bots that run both sides of him during his performance that looks to be a long standing part of the live show. Will we be seeing the PPI Control Surface in action during his time in Australia? We think so.

Dammit why do rich people always get the freebies!