NEW PROJECT FEATURES COLLABORATIONS WITH
BUNT., CRANKDAT, GLOCKENBACH, KAITLIN ARAGON, LAYTON GIORDANI, NATALIE JANE, WOOLI + MORE
ALBUM ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 25TH AMID KASKADE’S FULL-SCALE ORIGIN // HEADLINE TOUR
Eight-time GRAMMY-nominated producer, DJ, and electronic music pioneer Kaskade releases his new album, ORIGIN //, on September 25th, marking the culmination of one of the most ambitious and creatively expansive periods of his three-decade career.
Across the album, Kaskade moves between melodic house, progressive electronic music, and bass-driven production alongside an intentionally varied cast of established and rising artists. Rather than looking backward, ORIGIN // captures an artist still discovering new creative tension, new collaborators, and new ways to expand the emotional and physical possibilities of dance music.
ORIGIN // TRACKLIST
Stay For Love
Comes Back Around
Dealing With It
Meet Again
UV
Satisfy You
A Little Bit
Runaway
Sign of Life
Show Me The Way
Blink
Hear Me Now
The album includes previously released singles “Meet Again” with Layton Giordani and Natalie Jane, “Comes Back Around” with BUNT., “A Little Bit” with Crankdat, “Runaway” with GLOCKENBACH and Kaitlin Aragon, and most recently “Hear Me Now” with Wooli and MAXINE.
Each release has introduced a distinct dimension of the project. “Meet Again,” the official anthem of EDC Las Vegas 2026, paired Kaskade’s melodic depth with Layton Giordani’s peak-time intensity and Natalie Jane’s commanding vocal presence before reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Airplay chart - Kaskade’s seventh career No. 1 on the chart. “Comes Back Around” brought him together with BUNT. for a collaboration built around emotional production and festival-scale energy. “A Little Bit” marked Kaskade’s first full-scale dubstep collaboration, combining his cinematic songwriting instincts with Crankdat’s explosive bass production before reaching No. 1 on Beatport’s Dubstep Top 100. “Runaway” expanded the album further into dancefloor territory alongside masked producer GLOCKENBACH and rising vocalist Kaitlin Aragon.
Most recently, “Hear Me Now” with Wooli and MAXINE pushed Kaskade further into bass-driven territory while remaining rooted in the melodic identity and emotional depth central to his catalog. The collaboration brings together two distinct corners of electronic music, pairing Kaskade’s polished melodic sensibility with Wooli’s modern bass production and MAXINE’s commanding vocal performance.
Together, the singles reflect the wider philosophy behind ORIGIN // - an album built not around one specific sound, but around curiosity, contrast, and the belief that artistic longevity depends on remaining open to unfamiliar ideas.
First revealed during Kaskade’s landmark return to Coachella earlier this year, ORIGIN // is a forward-facing project rooted in reinvention, collaboration, and a continued refusal to be confined by genre or legacy.
More than three decades into his career, Kaskade continues to collaborate with and champion artists shaping the next generation of electronic music. Throughout ORIGIN //, he works alongside producers and vocalists whose careers emerged in entirely different eras of dance culture - from underground clubs and vinyl communities to livestreams, algorithms, and global online fanbases.
That openness has defined Kaskade from the very beginning. Long before electronic music reached today’s global scale, he came up through the independent house scene, digging for vinyl, running record stores, and serving as an A&R at San Francisco’s influential Om Records. With ORIGIN //, he approaches collaborators not as supporting players in his legacy, but as creative equals capable of challenging his instincts and pushing his sound into new territory.
The album’s vision first came to life at Coachella 2026, where Kaskade made his first solo appearance at the festival in more than a decade, closing the Sahara Stage across both weekends while unveiling his fully reimagined ORIGIN // live experience. During the performance, he debuted nine unreleased tracks, welcomed album collaborators onstage, and announced the project before one of the festival’s largest crowds.
The performance marked 11 years since Kaskade’s historic 2015 Coachella set, which drew more than 90,000 attendees and became one of the defining moments in electronic music’s rise across major American festivals. Rather than revisit that milestone, his 2026 return introduced an entirely new visual identity and immersive production concept built around monolithic staging, custom visuals, large-scale pyro, and a cinematic performance, setting the tone for a year defined by creative momentum.
That concept has since expanded into the ORIGIN // Tour, Kaskade’s first full-scale conceptual headline run in nearly a decade. Designed as the live companion to the album, the intentionally limited series of destination events brings the acclaimed Coachella production to New York, Santa Monica, Miami, and Austin.
The tour launched September 3 at Pacha NYC, where Kaskade was joined by Wooli for a special co-headline night tied directly to their “Hear Me Now” collaboration. Both artists performed individual sets before closing the night together with a special B2B, bringing the cross-genre collaboration behind the record into the live environment.
The ORIGIN // Tour continues with a hometown performance at the Santa Monica Pier on September 4, followed by Factory Town in Miami on September 18 and an outdoor headline show at The Concourse Project in Austin on November 20.
ORIGIN // TOUR
Sept. 3 — Brooklyn, NY — Pacha
Sept. 4 — Santa Monica, CA — Santa Monica Pier
Sept. 18 — Miami, FL — Factory Town
Nov. 20 — Austin, TX — The Concourse Project (Outdoors)
Tickets + More Info: kaskadeorigin.com
Since Coachella, Kaskade has continued a global touring run spanning EDC Las Vegas, Electric Forest, Tomorrowland, Beyond Wonderland at The Gorge, X Games Sacramento, international appearances across Asia and Europe, and his longstanding Wynn Las Vegas residency. At Tomorrowland, Kaskade and GLOCKENBACH also joined one another onstage to perform “Runaway” together for the first time outside the United States, further underscoring the collaborative spirit driving the ORIGIN // era.
The album follows 2025’s undux, his most intimate and personal project to date. While undux looked inward, ORIGIN // expands outward - transforming that introspection into a collaborative, festival-scale body of work built for clubs, stages, and immersive live experiences.
The campaign also included the return of Sun Soaked to Huntington State Beach on September 12, where Kaskade performed both a solo headline set and a special back-to-back with BUNT., bringing another of the album’s defining creative partnerships into the live environment.
Across more than 5,000 performances in 75 countries, Kaskade has consistently expanded the boundaries of an electronic artist’s career - from helping pioneer the Las Vegas residency model to becoming the first-ever in-game DJ at the Super Bowl, performing for more than 123 million viewers, and the first starting-grid DJ at Formula 1 Miami. His career also includes becoming the first electronic artist to headline Coachella and the first solo electronic artist to headline SoFi Stadium, alongside the record-setting Kx5 performance with deadmau5 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Grounded in Kaskade’s history but driven by discovery, ORIGIN // is an album shaped by underground culture, emerging voices, cross-genre experimentation, and the belief that evolution remains possible at every stage of an artist’s career.
Upcoming Kaskade Tour Dates
Oct 2 – Encore Beach Club – Las Vegas, NV
Oct 3 – Breakaway Utah – Sandy, UT
Oct 10 – Laroc Club Guarujá – Guarujá, Brazil
Oct 11 – EDC Colombia – Medellín, Colombia
Oct 23 – Melkweg – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct 31 – ORIGIN // Rebel – Toronto, ON, Canada
Nov 6 – ORIGIN // Chicago – Chicago, IL
Nov 7 – EDC Orlando – Orlando, FL
Nov 20 – ORIGIN // Concourse Project – Austin, TX
Dec 18 – EDC Thailand – Tambon Choeng Thale, Thailand
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Kaskade, born Ryan Raddon, has solidified his place as one of the most influential figures in electronic music. An eight-time GRAMMY Award nominee, he has spent decades pushing the boundaries of dance music while maintaining an unmistakably emotional core. In December 2025, he released undux, his most personal album to date, returning to introspective songwriting and emotional storytelling. Just four months later, he debuted his new live concept, Origin //, at Coachella, delivering one of the festival’s most talked-about performances.
Kaskade’s influence extends far beyond the traditional electronic music circuit. In 2022, his collaboration with deadmau5, Kx5, set a record for the largest single-day concert headlined by an electronic artist in North America with their show at the LA Memorial Coliseum, while Billboard named it the biggest ticketed global headliner dance event of the year. The duo went on to grace the cover of Billboard and headline SXSW in 2023. A year later, Kaskade became the first-ever in-game DJ at the Super Bowl, performing for more than 123.4 million viewers, and the first-ever starting-grid DJ at Formula 1 in Miami. His expanding presence across sports and live events has included performances at the X Games, LIV Golf and Coachella, as well as a three-hour back-to-back set with Idris Elba in 2025. Across a career spanning decades, Kaskade continues to evolve while preserving the emotional connection that has made him one of dance music’s most enduring and devotedly followed artists.
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About Arkade
Founded by Kaskade in 2014, Arkade is an independent record label and creative platform built around a simple idea: champion music Kaskade genuinely believes in and create space for artists and projects that deserve to be heard.
The label grew out of Kaskade’s lifelong relationship with record stores, artist development, and independent music culture. Before becoming one of electronic music’s defining artists, he worked in record retail, A&R, and label operations, experiences that helped shape Arkade’s artist-first philosophy and its focus on creative freedom, discovery, and long-term development.
Since launching with Kaskade’s “A Little More” and the formal introduction of Arkade in 2014, the label has served as a home for some of the most important projects across his career. Its catalog spans releases connected to Automatic, Redux, Fire & Ice v3, Kaskade’s acclaimed Christmas albums, the Destinations series, and collaborations including “Beneath With Me” with deadmau5 and Skylar Grey. Arkade has also supported major collaborative projects such as Kx5, Kaskade’s project with deadmau5, whose self-titled album included the global hit “Escape” and earned GRAMMY recognition.
More recently, Arkade has continued evolving alongside Kaskade’s own creative output, including undux in 2025 and his forthcoming album ORIGIN //, while remaining rooted in the same principle that inspired its creation more than a decade ago: identifying compelling music, supporting creative risk, and building a platform for what comes next.
Today, Arkade operates as both the home of Kaskade’s expanding body of work and a broader creative ecosystem connecting releases, collaborations, live concepts, and artist development across generations of electronic music.