Unmasking DEATHPACT - Who is DEATHPACT? (Part One)

[@audioeats]

How did you first discover Deathpact? For me it was the Life & Death collab with Rezz

[@septemberstarlight9362]

his performance on digital mirage. i've listened to that set probably hundreds of times since then.

[@LegendaryKillStreak]

for me it was in an underground club in vrc, where someone played a song of deathpact

[@christopherjordan7105]

Chemical Bond

[@BigBoyBolter]

It was his song Axiom that SoundCloud recommended to me

[@kms2174]

Chemical bond with REZZ I really really hope to see Deathpact live one day! Have seen REZZ twice

[@gravitasrecordings]

I stage managed deathpact at LiB this year. He’s around 6’1” and pretty skinny. Based on his body movement, I’d say that he is in his 20s. At the least the person that I worked with. The security and process for keeping their identity secure is robust.

[@audioeats]

Oh that's sick! Thanks for the info! I'm curious if it's the same person every time or if they switch it up. I'm gonna dig into tour/festival dates and set times to figure out if there are any coincidences of x person never playing the same time/day as Deathpact. Personally I think it's a group of producers, and the person on stage doesn't necessarily have to be one of the producers, but they definitely could be. Before I made this first video I thought it was spearheaded by Zeds Dead with the help of some other Deadbeats artists, but after digging into the deathdrops I think it could be a pretty large group of producers behind the project.

[@gravitasrecordings]

@@audioeats hmmm, I don’t know. I personally think it’s one person and then he has used homies to have these multiple gigs. The other interesting thing is when his TM was setting up his computer, he was remote logged into his Mac setting up his set and sync with the visuals from the hotel. Definitely an 1337 hax0r.

[@audioeats]

That's really interesting about his computer! I've been comparing tour dates of Deathpact with all of the artists who are thought to perform as DP (1788-L, Opiuo, ZD, Blanke, Rezz, Clozee etc) and there are definitely some interesting routing "coincidences" with some of them, especially for that November 4th 4 shows in one night thing. I've also been trying to match up DP's body language with those artists and DP's body language seems to change for different sets, and I've found some pretty convincing matches for some. If DP is any of those artists I've been looking into, then it's multiple of them and they probably choose who plays based on who has the most convenient routing. But I guess it could also be a totally random person that wasn't previously well known, kind of like Malaa. But the Deathpact project is way more complex than Malaa so I definitely lean towards the collective of people idea.

[@DjghostyMusic]

I think its space laces.

[@craigrobertson5030]

U are all wrong, lol

[@lordwhatshisname3408]

I would love if they can keep the identity an enigma. "We are deathpact" honestly hits pretty hard. All this searching, all these questions. What if we are all deathpact? It has a deeper meaning to many people including myself

[@CQBlitz0]

I think Deathpact’s identity should be respected. A lot of the mystery with their whole bit is nobody knowing who they are.

[@audioeats]

I definitely understand that perspective. I think anonymous projects naturally elicit curiosity though, and speculation adds a degree of fun to the project. Plus Deathpact doing things like saying "Deathpact is Zeds Dead" at the end of Ether just shows that they're intentionally playing into that curiosity. Either way, they're definitely running a tight ship and I don't think they're at risk of having their identity exposed anytime soon.

[@CQBlitz0]

@@audioeats yeah- however, talking about DP’s identity is actually not allowed in their discord server lmao

[@audioeats]

Ah I wasn't aware of that

[@CQBlitz0]

@@audioeats yeah- they very clearly do not want anyone to find out who they are. Btw, they’re not Zeds Dead.

[@Pitstopcomponents]

Like Daft Phunk, vut Deathpact is intentionally giving hints and so, so i‘ll guess he wants us to eventually figure it out…

[@SuperSilentOps]

Deathpact had a concert at 5 different cities in the USA all at the same time. It has to be a collective.

[@audioeats]

I agree, you should check out the part 2 video!

[@SuperSilentOps]

@@audioeats I should

[@JadeEyeland]

or performers paid like mf doom

[@HugoStigletz]

@@SuperSilentOps he should

[@Entropy5th]

Or they premixed sets and had 4 other people play em ;)

[@KaylinSullivan]

it is quite evident that the identity of deathpact is a group of people or multiple dj's sharing the role amongst themselves. my friend saw him in atlanta the night before i did in washington dc... he was about 6 ft in her videos and in dc, deathpact was maybe 5'6 IF even. the deathpact that DC experienced, definitely had the rezz or so to say, "woman" vibe or the fact that it was a house dj testing out their bass at echostage. either way, his secret identity is what attracts me to their music. its like an adrenalin rush

[@audioeats]

Yeah I definitely think it's a group, I'm just curious how many people are a part of it

[@forwonder]

I was also at the dc show and thought deathpact looked short

[@brian.walker]

Fun fact. At Snowglobe Deathpact's team only allowed one photographer from the media team to shoot the show, and I lucked out and was selected

[@search4goosebumps297]

I was there!!

[@headyhawaii]

Just went to Deathpact Hawaii!! OMG what a trip!!! Got a unreal photo with them right as they were about to exit the venue in their car… we ran up and they seem super stoked! Gave us time, deeply and legitimately hugged me and my girl and legit took 3 flash photos. Set was LEGENDARY… photos we’re LEGENDARY… we’re on straight cloud 9!!!! WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?!?!? Is this real life!!!?????❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@headyhawaii]

Yooooo not gonna lie I was getting Odesza vibes with the electric drum set throughout their set tonight….. WTF MIND BLOW

[@audioeats]

Ah nice that's cool you got to meet them!

[@djederz]

Great video! I think most likely it is a collective of pretty well established electric artists. Although I would love for it to be an artist that nobody has ever heard of before.

[@audioeats]

Thank you! I agree, I also think it's a collective, but it would be insane if it's someone new. Everything I found during my research for the second video definitely points to it being a group, but I suppose there's a small chance it's someone we haven't heard of before. I'm finishing up the editing right now and I'll post it tomorrow!

[@djederz]

@@audioeats That does seem to be the most likely scenario. I feel like the audio clip from batman "Nobody cared who I was until I put on the mask" they use in almost every set is just too perfect for the Deathpact project. Which is really the only thing that points towards it being someone that is completely new. Keep up the great work! I will be on the lookout for part 2 tomorrow!

[@audioeats]

Yeah I love when they use that clip, I feel like they probably use it just because it fits with the whole mask brand though. I think if it is someone we haven't heard of before then they were either friends with Rezz or someone in the Deadbeats crew before they started the project.

[@djederz]

@@audioeats oh I completely agree! A ton of quotes in that movie that they use that are just too perfect for the Deathpact project.

[@audioeats]

Oh I didn't realize they use any others besides the Bane one! What other ones do they use?

[@yonkonomi5706]

I think Rezz is one of the mystery DJs in question

[@audioeats]

I think so too, I'm 90% convinced she was the Orlando DJ on the night they did 4 shows in one night

[@7even871]

Zeds Dead has always been my favorite EDM artist. I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen them. Death packs sound is a blatant updated version of Hooks work. I put all my money down that it Hooks.

[@AlecBurriss]

I completely agree. I saw both Deathpact and Zeds Dead at Lost Lands and I felt it

[@GarHoover]

Is Deathpact Canadian? Lots of ongoing Canadian collaborations with Rezz, Zeds Dead, and Mau5Trap.

[@audioeats]

Very possible, their debut live show was also at a Canadian festival (Shambhala)

[@GarHoover]

@@audioeats interesting! Your videos are so dang good. The production and presentation are phenomenal!

[@audioeats]

Thank you so much! Glad you like them

[@gravitasrecordings]

Good point. He definitely seems like a lanky, tall, white, super nerdy, white dude. This is from stage managing him at LIB.

[@johnfalk910812]

when it comes to Nationality we wont know,but all members of Deathpact are US based... i talked with Deathpact on discord... so thats how i found out that they are 5 members all Us based.

[@christiand8243]

The music video for Rezz's x Yultron "Hell on earth" is very similar to Jean Michel Jarre's virtual concert at Notre Dame de Paris

[@oklol8066]

I met the dude at my plugs house, he put on danger and holy SHIT i lost it, he casually says "i made it :)" The dude is humble af, and he is how i found out about deathpact lmfao He is them, and they are him.

[@sweatpants1447]

Who was it

[@udontexist47]

6:24 shouts out to you for pronouncing GIF correctly

[@xaq343]

NO

[@johnfalk910812]

we now know that deathpact is group. with a structure of similar to how Dash berlin was, 1 frontman,but i actually think the members take turn on doing shows.

[@diegoverdin348]

Damn didn’t event mention Deathpacts appearance on the XLNTSOUND KZbin channel

[@audioeats]

Ah yeah I probably should have included that

[@thenativedude]

can see my LED cloud totem at 12:46 in the top left flickering, that set was wild

[@audioeats]

Oh no way, that must have been such a crazy set to be at!

[@Divine_Mode]

I know that totem 😜 you’re in AZ right?

[@thenativedude]

@@Divine_Mode from Vancouver

[@vincentchapman8595]

Sounds like a pretty good idea to rapidly increase people's awareness of you and get your career going real quick

[@Anubis-Ankha]

Yoi

[@farcried8279]

Aint nobody heard of this man and he gets his own documentary

[@audioeats]

Now ya know

[@codih1716]

burial anyone

[@aciidaliien420]

Someone's late to the party

[@dah2437]

We are deathpact

[@MoustiluigiRandom]

From what I gathered interacting with them, I know that at least one of the member is fluent in French (exchanged DM on twitter and the answers were def. not translated).

[@JayThomasofficial]

Has anyone seen more than one “ deathpact “ dj at a time . Like two people in the mask . I thought it was two at first then I saw one one time perform in Dallas but I do too . The scene was created / started with artists doing that to have dif styles under diff names ( example . U don’t want to pick up a Michael Jackson record and hear gospel . But if and when he /we made something different we we have an Alias good for creativity and growing the scene . I’ll wear my alter ego mask and perform twice in the same event without most knowing . I’m sure most Of you know this . Did anyone read about how deathpact would give out clues or something to go hunting for their demos. Such a great idea. Can’t wait to see deathpact this weekend in Dallas again .😊

[@audioeats]

There were 2 deathpacts that performed together at Shambala, and there was one other set where 2 of them played, I think it was hard summer maybe?

[@THEGRENAAAAADE]

Also a big name doing a side project as a unheard of artist allows them to go back to being in the underground scene which has its own appeal vs being a headliner at huge shows

[@cadenhowlett]

Great vid homie

[@audioeats]

Thank you!

[@chriswuzhere91]

Its Joel Zimmerman

[@mikeness5074]

We are all in this together dp

[@hanconscious]

So deathpact is heavily connected to Canadian labels and artists, debut was in Canada and someone in the comments who stage managed deathpact said they were 6’1… Drake is Deathpact confirmed 🤯🤯🤯

[@audioeats]

🤫

[@maksymnenashev8576]

Amazing video man

[@audioeats]

Thank you!

[@maksymnenashev8576]

I just saw deathpact a couple days ago in dallas, and this deathpact was around 6' @@audioeats

[@jaydekaytv]

There's some money behind it one way or another - which isn't a bad thing.

[@RobertMendez-jo4ih]

Rezz said she would never do a masked side project

[@audioeats]

I definitely don't think it's her project, but I could see her being involved to a degree. But I'm also just making guesses and testing theories and I could easily be way off.

[@atetraxx]

@@audioeats just a label plant. makes me not give a shit at all

[@volfgang1393]

Do you know where to listen to his unreleased music? I can’t find it anywhere

[@audioeats]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKPQZ4aFndOoZqs - Busker, Earwig, and Eternity [part one] are in this mix, they’ve got the timestamps for them in the description Eclipse is on one of the deathdrop usb drives and I don’t think it’s been uploaded to the internet, so whoever found the drive has it The Excision/Illenium remix and the DP original I talk about at 11:47 can be listened to here - app.milanote.com/1MMZBC1cPTfnct/deathdrop-40-102921?p=vBUI1fYHMLL Jackpot and Backbone are on the split personality vinyl, there’s one for sale on discogs for $300 if you’re feeling spendy lol (Earwig is on there too but you can hear that one in the mix I linked above)

[@volfgang1393]

@@audioeatsthanks so much!

[@audioeats]

No problem!

[@JadeEyeland]

JMJ does stuff w gesaffelstein so its not off brand

[@audioeats]

Ah nice I didn't know that! When I made the video I wasn't very aware of JMJ but after looking into him more it seems to make sense. Definitely a cool collab for Deathpact to have in his discog since JMJ is such a pioneer.

[@cartnergod]

It's Dani ferarri & Parker ament :D

[@audioeats]

If it was really them I'd love Deathpact even more

[@cartnergod]

@@audioeats no doubt

[@robotninjv]

➕🎶👐🏽

[@MrRADicalOfficial]

I wonder if the real Deathpact is in this very comment section.. at least the one who came up with the idea.

[@OneSleeveSteve]

☠️👤☠️

[@briancorrell]

does anybody actually check the song credits because it literally says names... Kris Noir and Kelly Lockhart

[@audioeats]

I mention that in the video (either part one or part two, don't remember which), but they're fake names

[@arbCannons3395]

I think Shaq is Deathpact

[@TheManInaHat]

Waves?

[@xaq343]

I love Deathpact so much and I appreciate the lore explained in this video but after the guy said fucking JIF and not GIF I highly considered disliking it. I didn’t but I really thought about it. Also it doesn’t say that Deathpact IS Zeds Dead at the end of Ether it just says Deathpact AND Zeds Dead because that’s who released the song.

[@audioeats]

Steve Wilhite, the person who created the GIF format has said that it is pronounced "jif", so that is the true correct pronunciation, but the majority of people incorrectly pronounce it by sounding out the G naturally. I don't think it really matters how it's pronounced though, everyone will know what you're talking about regardless of pronunciation. Definitely seems to be a hot topic of debate though lol. And as far as the end of Ether, even though the audio is highly processed, you can hear the hiss of the "s" from "is" - there wouldn't be a hiss from "and". Plus if you look up the lyrics on Genius, it says "Deathpact is Zeds Dead" - granted, those are submitted by the public, not the artist, so it's not 100% confirmed to be saying "Deathpact is Zeds Dead", but that is the general consensus on what is being said.

[@RobertMendez-jo4ih]

I say he's 13

[@audioeats]

That actually seems very probable, I've never heard someone mention his name when talking about DP theories so I never looked into it

[@HugoStigletz]

dont dig too deep man, you might uncover the deathpact secret

[@zenquarium]

The finders/puzzle solvers/geocachers seemed staged to be honest...creative marketing well done

[@audioeats]

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if the first ones were staged to get the whole thing going

[@pajodasaurus]

Jif tho

[@audioeats]

The person who invented gifs said it's pronounced "jif" so that's what I'm rolling with lol

[@pimpslapish]

i bet its zeds dead

[@audioeats]

They're definitely involved, but I think it's more than just them

[@goblin4911]

​@@audioeatshas to be more involved, hooks loves his side projects though.

[@W4LK1NGphoenix]

I was thinking it was probably Mr. Zimmerman

[@LoserDub]

industry plant

[@Doctorkarmah]

he’s not, and even if he was, his music is fucking fire. people like the hawk tuah bitch are industry plants.

[@SeriouslyBadFight]

Genius you should have spent more time explaning how the hunts went.

[@DjghostyMusic]

Its either rezz or space laces. There is just no way it could be deadmau5. Eventho he has signed the best dub adtists of all time (excision and skrillex) he hates dubstep and rezz loves dubstep same with zeds dead 😂

[@audioeats]

I haven't considered Space Laces much but maybe I should look into it. I personally think it's a supergroup with a pretty large number of members. You should check out the part two video, it might change some of your theories!

[@Secularexpansion9]

I don’t see space laces in the sound design…. The boiler room show was definitely a girl you can tell by her movements from the video….So I’m thinking part Rezz, 1788L, and zeds dead

[@ryanquintero2137]

I think it’s biicla

[@audioeats]

He's had scheduling clashes with Deathpact in the past, but he could be involved in some capacity. I personally think Deathpact is a whole group of people.

[@IsHeHigh]

you said Jif lol.... i can't watch anymore, that's just silly

[@audioeats]

You're silly 🤪🤭

[@atetraxx]

industry plant. SUPER SUPER LAME

[@audioeats]

I don't think it's a secret that whoever is behind Deathpact is well connected, I wouldn't call that an industry plant

[@wooksrusfamily]

Saw him at the mirage in nyc it was honestly the best set that night to so i looked more into him and was actually kinda impressed 🤌