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equipment brand presented Ryan “Kaskade” Raddon with a gold-plated
mixer at a furtively awards ceremony honoring his No. 1 finish in the annual America’s Most adroitly DJ poll. Kaskade played a
set in celebration for his fans and peers, including counterpart DJs Erick Morillo, Scotty Boy and last year’s winner, Z-Flounder, but he’s got more on his plate than enjoying the win. As Kaskade prepares to release new album Fire & Ice, the DJ maintains blameless balance between creative authenticity and commercial success. His immensely everyday production and DJ sets blend euphoric flavors of leftist and ambient melodic-house.
Your free-concert tweet in LA incited what’s been described as a riotous behaviour. Swedish House Mafia sold out Madison Ethical Garden in an hour. What’s the status of EDM in pop culture?
It’s so massive and nobody understands how big it at the end of the day is. We are a part of pop culture right now—but since it’s mostly an underground movement, no one knows how to take hold of it, bottle it up and sell it. All these major labels are trying to sketch out how to exploit us, but we’re all doing it on our own.
Source: Las Vegas Weekly (blog)