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Dance music’s problematic fave Deadmau5 has returned to the BBC Radio 1’s hallowed booth to deliver his first solo Essential Mix in nearly 11 years.

The full mix runs for two hours — with the first hour dedicated to his techno and house alias Testpilot, and the second focusing on classic Deadmau5 cuts. Joel Zimmerman threw in a couple of as-yet-unreleased goodies as well, including ‘Fall’ from Testpilot, and ‘A Seed’, ‘Saturn’, and ‘Coasted’ from Deadmau5. Listen to the full mix below.

The Canadian producer is currently gearing up to premiere his Cube 3.0 at Ultra Music Festival in Miami this weekend, having tinkered with the set up for nearly six months. He’s also now back on streaming platform Twitch, after being kicked off a month ago for using a homophobic slur during a PlayerUnknown’s Battleground game.

Deadmau5’s response was typically scathing and unrepentant: “It wasn’t ‘directed at an entire group of people who have a sexual orientation that differs from my own,” he wrote. “Fuck off with that shit, I know who I am, and I don’t have to fucking sit here and cry and defend my-fucking-self with the obligatory ‘I’m not that person, I am sorry’ reflex.”

Deadmau5 Essential Mix Tracklist

Testpilot

1 deadmau5 – Polyphobia

2 deadmau5 ft. Rob Swire – Monophobia

3 Nic Fanciulli – Understand

4 Pierre Blanche – Ares

w/ deadmau5 ft. Chris James – The Veldt (Acappella)

5 Pig&Dan – Lost Another Angel (Dub)

6 Architectural – Cubismo 8.3

w/ deadmau5 ft. Greta Svabo Bech – Raise Your Weapon (Acappella)

7 Enrico Sangiuliano – Symbiosis

8 Cosmic Boys – Minotaur

9 deadmau5 – Imaginary Friends

10 ARTBAT – Planeta

11 deadmau5 – Avaritia

12 Tony Rohr & Layton Giordani – Careless Suggestions

13 Inner Membranne – Lucy Rose

14 Julian Jeweil – Transmission

15 testpilot – Fall

Deadmau5

16 deadmau5 – Where My Keys

17 deadmau5 – My Pet Coelacanth

18 deadmau5 – Maths (Cobra Effect Remix)

19 deadmau5 – Moar Ghosts N Stuff

20 Guy Mantzur & Roy Rosenfeld – Systematika

w/ deadmau5 ft. Rob Swire – Ghosts ‘N’ Stuff (Acappella)

21 deadmau5 – A Seed

22 deadmau5 – Midas Heel

23 deadmau5 – Saturn

24 deadmau5 – Coasted

25 deadmau5 – Polaris

26 deadmau5 – Strobe