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Publication and Pioneer DJ announced that Las Vegas regular Kaskade had secured the top mote in the 2011 America’s
Best DJ competition . Exactly a month later, the DJ famed his win with an exclusive ceremony at The Library in Marquee at the Cosmopolitan. The tracking down was fitting, as Kaskade, birth name Ryan Raddon, is a in residence DJ at Marquee and even played a set at the nightclub after the ceremony Sunday non-stop.
“I’ve done nine shows here, and I don’t know, they’ve all been crazier than the next,” Kaskade said of Marquee. “It’s only been an unbelievable ride.” That ride the L.A.-based DJ speaks of also includes another residency unhesitatingly down the street; for the past two summers, he supplied his sensational sounds under the sun at Encore Lido Club at Steve Wynn’s Encore. His decision to stable a more-permanent show space in the city led the way for nightclubs to invite big-name electronic acts to contend with rather than celebrities to host.
With June’s first Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, the town has become an electronic dance music destination, something Kaskade supports. “Las Vegas is a horrible city, and they deserve to have electronic music as unbridled as it is now,” he said. With three other DJs in the contention’s Top 10 also holding residencies here this year, EDM here is anything but restrained. Steve Aoki (No. 5) and Wolfgang Gartner (No. 7) have residencies at Encore nightclubs, and Diplo (No. 6) served as a abiding for the Palms’ weekly Clash! party at Teem.
Source: Las Vegas Sun