Why Deadmau5 Went Orchestral With 'Where's the Drop?'

A day before his public debut as a tattooed maestro of symphonic music, the EDM superhero Deadmau5 is reclined in a basement recording studio in West Hollywood, crunching anxiously on nuts and celery stalks. He's dressed in a Banksy T-shirt and bright red sneakers, scrolling through social media on his phone, looking for fan reaction to Where's the Drop? – a just-released album of symphonic translations of his sweeping dance tunes.He seems pleased but admits to being "a little nervous." In