Veldt is a common South African geographical indication, I received as a translation grassland, scrubland, steppe, in the geographical sense, a rather flat landscape. This makes the audio more understandable, this percussive stressed part goes until about 2:00 min. For the long "rest" of the title I can to the audio samples of the single with "Radio Edit" and "8 minutes Edit" refer (Note: The "eight minutes Edit" is mostly with vocals).
Who is surprised that the song lyrics do not want to really fit for track names, the following chronological statement, taken on deadmau5.com Publications:
- The beginning of April 2012 created The Veldt as instrumental during a live stream of Deadmau5. Chris James designed as a fan to a text and presents all on soundcloud.com what Deadmau5 is alerted.
- 30.4. Announcement of the Veld Music Festival Toronto for 4 and 5.8. on deadmau5.com as Festival for Electronic Dance Music (EDM) with the headliners Deadmau5 and Avicii
- 12.5. Release of the single "The Veldt" feat. Chris James
The festival itself following comments yet: words of general use my knowledge not legally protectable, "typo" already. That explains the missing t. And that Joel Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 as Canadians performs there, certainly no surprise.