Deadmau5 traded in his usual mouse helmet for an actual medieval helmet to play the medieval EP-1320. We’re not joking.
The producer test drove Teenage Engineering‘s newest piece of kit in a new video posted to Instagram, in which he suitably dresses for the occasion in some medieval armour. He’s even got a medieval-style painting behind him featuring his distinctive mouse headgear.
Billed as the “world’s first medieval electronic instrument”, EP-1320 sampler is a new take on the EP-133 K.O. II with a new design and packaging plus a new set of effects, a new arpeggiator, and a collection of “craftily captured multi-sampled instruments. It is now available for the same price, $299, as the original sampler.
It has a rather quirky set of features – “hurdy gurdys, lutes, Gregorian chants, thundering drums and punishing percussive foley fx”, according to the company.
Check out deadmau5 testing it out below:
In other news, deadmau5 recently threatened to pull his music from Spotify following controversial comments made by the platform’s CEO Daniel Ek, in which he said the cost of creating content is “close to zero”.
Sharing a screenshot of a headline on Instagram which reads: “Spotify CEO claims ‘the cost of creating content’ is ‘close to zero’, deadmau5 responded in the caption: “Incorrect. The cost of creating content was 25+ years of my life and much of those proceeds going to your company you complete fucking idiot.”
And in response to a user’s comment on his post – which reads: “We hate Spotify so much” – deadmau5 replied, “I feel that, I’m about to pull my catalogue from these fucking vultures, enough’s enough.”
