The tables were flipped on Deadmau5 earlier this week when a potential copyright dispute actually saw someone else on the offending end. That “someone,” as was pointed out by Zimmerman himself was Erik Fink of Harkonnen Entertainment, former tour manager for Krewella.
In a video uploaded to Twitter by user @SONYEDDIE, a clip can be seen from a Tigerlily event in Austin, Texas showing DJs atop an almost mirror image of Deadmau5’s cube design. As a piece of technology that Deadmau5 and his team had poured their hearts into for years, he said that witnessing someone try and create a cheap copy was simply “heartbreaking.” Suffice it to say, Zimmerman wasn’t going to let this slide.
Hey @deadmau5 these guys stealing your cube setup? @djtigerlily concert @ Austin. pic.twitter.com/9c22KTvDkf
— Eddie V. (@SONYEDDIE) September 16, 2016
Fink quickly owned up to creating the knock-off cube, transferring all the potential hate and blame to himself, but it didn’t stop Zimmerman from expressing his disappointment.
yes. This was me. No one else had any involvement in this. No artists or anyone else. The hate, blame and whatever else is on me.
— Fink (@Erikdisco) September 16, 2016
.@Erikdisco much less the insane amount of manhours, technology, and development that went into it. It's heartbreaking really.
— Goat lord (@deadmau5) September 16, 2016
One Austin-based DJ, Nick Twist, jumped to Fink’s defense with a series of his own tweets aimed more at insulting Zimmerman than addressing the issue at hand.
sorry that we're staying relevant and all you can do is talk shit about people that are progressing themselves. step off
— Nick Twist (@DJNickMiddleton) September 16, 2016
all you do is hate on people, you make how much a show? Why the fuck does it matter what anyone else does?
— Nick Twist (@DJNickMiddleton) September 16, 2016
After one of the most tame and measured debates in Deadmau5’s conflict-laden Twitter history, he responded to one tweet to say that he and Fink had resolved the issue.
H/T: Magnetic Mag
