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"The Veldt" is a song by Canadian electronic music producer deadmau5, featuring vocals by American artist Chris James and is featured on deadmau5's sixth studio length album > album title goes here < released on 21 September 2012. "The Veldt" is the second single of the album released on 8 May 2012. "The Veldt" was inspired by the 1950 short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. The song was initially created during a 22-hour live streaming session in March 2012. The following day, Zimmerman (deadmau5) found Chris James, who created his own vocal rendition of the song, via Twitter. Zimmerman was impressed with James' vocals, particularly with the lyrical references to the Ray Bradbury story, and confirmed that the official release of the song would include James' vocals. The song's production was captured on a live streaming session via his official website. "The Veldt" is a progressive house song with a tempo of 128 beats per minute and is written in the key of A major. On April 20, 2012, Zimmerman and Ultra Records uploaded the eight minute-plus version of the song onto their YouTube channels, with the radio edit being uploaded onto Ultra Records' channel on May 7, 2012. Both versions of the song were released the following day. The Veldt EP was released on June 24, 2012, and includes the eleven minute-plus original mix of the song, remixes by Freeform Five and Tommy Trash and an original song called "Failbait" featuring American hip hop group Cypress Hill. The origin
