Deadmau5 was fascinated with technology as a kid, playing video games for entire days and dismantling and reassembling gadgets as a hobby. In his teenage years, he turned to raving, sporting spiked bright yellow hair, baggy pants and a Pikachu backpack. The video also mentions a brief and long defunct deadmau5 side project called Blue Screen of Death, which he formed with current Mau5trap member Steve Duda. The two made a song that satirized the formulaic nature of electronic music, only to see it rocket up the Beatport charts to the number one spot. “Before They Were Famous” offers unprecedented depth to deadmau5’s life story, chronicling everything from his childhood to his breakthrough as an artist to the origins of his name, which came from an actual dead mouse that crashed his computer.