As each an icon and a trailblazer on the 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 famous person, whose actual title 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 reside efficiency, a popularity that reached new heights in February after his historic efficiency because the Tremendous Bowl’s first in-game DJ. With a lot main expertise beneath his belt, we had been curious to listen to his ideas about what makes an incredible music competition.
“There’s a lot of good festivals out there, and only a handful of great festivals,” he tells us. “I think stage is a big deal, location and ambiance. I mean, that already is half the battle. If you’re sitting at downtown and you have the skyline, like Lollapalooza Chicago, every picture you see from there, you’re like, ‘This is insane!’ That already is ahead. So you need top-level production and a great location.”
When touring for festivals and reveals, the chart-topping producer says he all the time 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 resorts he merely cannot stand whereas touring. Kaskade’s tour supervisor laughs in settlement off-camera.
In relation to 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 would not have to fret a lot concerning the quantity.
“I’ve had so many noise complaints throughout the years,” Raddon says. “I’ve had to move before, I’ve been kicked out of apartments and I’ve been kicked out of studio spaces.”
However that wasn’t the craziest factor to occur.
“In college, I was throwing a massive party,” he recollects. “We had so many people, it was on the second floor, and we cracked the floor… our ceiling was going to cave in.”
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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 buying sprees—though he did go on to purchase “a nice car.” He does, nonetheless, vividly bear in mind the second he collected his first large paycheck from music.
“I remember I laid the two checks out on my kitchen counter and I took a picture of them,” he says. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m actually making money doing this!’ When I did one of my biggest Vegas deals, I signed the lease shortly after that for my studio in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica. That was a big deal because it was a very big purchase, and not really like me, but it’s been awesome. I’ve been there for seven years and I love it.”
We had 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 every weekend, I’d be writing and producing music for other people, which I did a little bit before my career took off,” he explains. “I’d still be doing something music-related.”
Kaskade’s “Redux” set at Deep Tropics was the unquestioned spotlight of Deep Tropics’ first day. The dazzling Nashville competition befell August 16-17. You’ll be able to study extra right here.
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