The New York Times may have called him the “new face of electronic dance music” in a recent profile, but Ryan Raddon, known as Kaskade, has been in the trenches of the EDM scene as an original recording artist and in-demand DJ for more than a decade. He has released seven studio albums, including his latest, Fire & Ice, scored nine Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay Chart, created chart-topping remixes for everyone from Lady Gaga to Beyoncé, appeared at all the major summer festivals, and has performed between 150 and 200 headlining shows a year for the last 10 years, building a name for himself as an innovator of the EDM scene as we know it today, which has opened doors for the likes of Deadmau5, Tiesto, Skrillex and more. In doing so, he has helped to lay the groundwork for a titanic musical and cultural shift: a post-rock EDM revolution that has captured the imagination of a new generation of music lovers across North America.
Kaskade has been named America’s No. 1 DJ by DJ Times and Pioneer DJ. In 2012, he will appear at this year’s Coachella, for which he has a special performance planned, and will hit the road in May for his biggest headlining tour ever — 50-plus North American shows in just over three months. His own live show is a jaw-dropping spectacle that finds him performing in front of an 80-foot wide, three-stories tall LED screen that blares images synched with the music while strobe lights scan the crowd. Kaskade’s belief in the transformative power of dance music to uplift thousands of people at once has had a significant effect on the U.S. scene. His ground-breaking double residency in Las Vegas at the Encore Beach Club (which had not even been built when he signed on) and Marquee has elevated the city’s status as a premiere club-going destination on par with London, Berlin, and Ibiza, is another testament to his influence.
Kaskade: Disarm You feat. Ilsey
“The song itself is a sincere plea for uninhibited or honest love with the beautiful vocal stylings of Ilsey set to a bed of music that is intense + powerful.”
Kaskade: Disarm You feat. Ilsey Lyrics:
Let me disarm you
I’m not trying to own you
I just wanna know what it feels like
To have your body so close
Let me absolve you
Of the past that controls you
I just wanna know what you look like
Without a weight on your soul
I know somewhere we can get away
If you wanna find another place love
Disappear and never leave a trace
Take you anywhere you want
So let me disarm you
There’s an army I’m fighting around your heart
Let me disarm you
Cause baby I just wanna love who you really are
Who you really are
Spoken in silence
Blazing like sirens
I can bring you out of the darkness
Into the firey light
I know somewhere we can get away
If you wanna find another place love
Disappear and never leave a trace
Take you anywhere you want
So let me disarm you
There’s an army I’m fighting around your heart
Let me disarm you
Cause baby I just wanna love who you really are
Who you really are
Let me disarm you, Let me disarm you.
