As each an icon and a trailblazer on this planet of digital dance music, Kaskade has some fascinating tales and insights from his three many years within the music business.
Simply earlier than his headlining “Redux” set at Nashville’s Deep Tropics competition, we caught up with the digital music celebrity, whose actual identify is Ryan Raddon, for an interview on the present state of the dance music scene. He is humbly snacking on Bitter Patch Youngsters in his trailer as we sit down to speak.
Raddon has long-positioned himself on the vanguard of dwell efficiency, a status that reached new heights in February after his historic performance as the Super Bowl’s first in-game DJ. With a lot main expertise beneath his belt, we have been curious to listen to his ideas about what makes a terrific music competition.
“There’s a variety of good festivals on the market, and solely a handful of nice festivals,” he tells us. “I believe stage is a giant deal, location and ambiance. I imply, that already is half the battle. For those who’re sitting at downtown and you’ve got the skyline, like Lollapalooza Chicago, each image you see from there, you’re like, ‘That is insane!’ That already is forward. So that you want top-level manufacturing and a terrific location.”
When touring for festivals and reveals, the chart-topping producer says he at all times seeks out native meals to get a style of a metropolis’s genuine tradition. One factor that solely his tour supervisor is aware of about him is that there is sure lodges he merely cannot stand whereas touring. Kaskade’s tour supervisor laughs in settlement off-camera.
In the case of the music, Raddon recounts experiences of being thrown out of institutions again within the day for blaring his tracks. Now, acting at main festivals and high-flying Las Vegas DJ residencies, he does not have to fret a lot concerning the quantity.
“I’ve had so many noise complaints all through the years,” Raddon says. “I’ve needed to transfer earlier than, I’ve been kicked out of flats and I’ve been kicked out of studio areas.”
However that wasn’t the craziest factor to occur.
“In faculty, I used to be throwing an enormous occasion,” he recollects. “We had so many individuals, it was on the second flooring, and we cracked the ground… our ceiling was going to collapse.”
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As soon as Kaskade’s profession began to skyrocket, he says he did not go loopy with lavish purchases or large procuring sprees—though he did go on to purchase “a pleasant automotive.” He does, nevertheless, vividly bear in mind the second he collected his first large paycheck from music.
“I bear in mind I laid the 2 checks out on my kitchen counter and I took an image of them,” he says. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m truly earning profits doing this!’ Once I did one in every of my greatest Vegas offers, I signed the lease shortly after that for my studio in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica. That was a giant deal as a result of it was a really large buy, and not likely like me, but it surely’s been superior. I’ve been there for seven years and I find it irresistible.”
We have been additionally curious to listen to what Kaskade would do for work, had he not adopted his path as a DJ.
“If I wasn’t out performing each weekend, I’d be writing and producing music for different folks, which I did slightly bit earlier than my profession took off,” he explains. “I’d nonetheless be doing one thing music-related.”
Kaskade’s “Redux” set at Deep Tropics was the unquestioned spotlight of Deep Tropics’ first day. The dazzling Nashville competition occurred August 16-17. You possibly can be taught extra here.
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