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Kaskade norco12/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, he’s played almost everywhere, but there’s nothing like coming home to an Insomniac crowd, a community that gave him the wings to fly in the first place. It’s like what are they going to do next year? Have me on a floating stage? I’m not sure where the end is, but that’s the cool part.”Īs Kaskade gears up for his HARD Summer debut, he knows the stakes at hand, considering how the community has flourished in recent years. I have so much respect for Insomniac, they just keep continuing to push forward and every year they continue to up the energy and it blows my mind. We didn’t do it to buy big houses or for the glamour, we did this because we love what we do. “I’ve known Pasquale for over 25 years and we were in it before there was any money or fame, so it means a lot for those who have been around. “Before this EDM boom the world is experiencing now, we were just doing it for the love of it,” Kaskade said. He reminisced on when the two started out and had no clue what the future would hold except the possibility of birthing a new community. His ties with Insomniac Events are strong, as he notes he’s grown alongside the event company’s founder and CEO, Pasquale Rotella, who has been instrumental in the EDM festival circuit. Aside from the record-breaking show last year, he played evening sets at Insomniac’s Electric Daisy Carnival at the venue in 20. So, I’ve been about him for a while now, so it does feel full circle.”įor Kaskade, the LA Coliseum is starting to feel like a second home. He’s on the same path that I took way back in the day and I just wanted to help this dude out in any way possible. He’s just this new kid from Chicago and that was me once upon a time. “When I found him, he was in the beginning stages of getting buzz and I was intrigued with what he was doing. “Well let’s see, I feel like John is me, but a long time ago,” he said. With Summit around, Kaskade said he feels like he’s looking at a younger, more energetic version of himself. Kaskade found the young DJ online six years later and that led to occasional meetups, exchanging music via text chains and an impromptu New Year’s Eve B2B set at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco to ring in 2023. That moment inspired Summit to start producing music at just 16-years-old. It was at Lollapalooza Chicago that Summit was introduced to Kaskade’s music for the first time as his 2008 song “I Remember” erupted through the speakers during Deadmau5’s set. ![]() Though Kaskade, 52, and Summit, 28, have two different generations of audiences, there’s a lot of crossover and Kaskade said they share a love for the DIY Chicago house music scenes and for the electronic music that’s allowed them both to connect with millions of fans. We know it has to be epic, so as long as we got that down, were in good shape.” (Summit) is coming over a week before the festival so at that point, I think that’s when we’ll figure out what the hell we’re doing, because we don’t actually know. “It feels like we’re winging it, but in the best way possible. “Literally nothing has been planned or plotted out for this set yet,” he said. Whether you are a Coachella lifer or prefer to watch from afar, get weekly dispatches during the Southern California music festival season. Sign up for our Festival Pass newsletter. Kaskade will also be sharing the stage by doing a B2B set and splitting the decks with fellow DJ John Summit. HARD Summer will take place in multiple venues and across several stages set up at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Park and BMO Stadium (formerly Banc of California Stadium) in Downtown Los Angeles. He’ll be there this year, topping the bill on the first evening of the two-day event, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary on Aug. Kaskade has never headlined Insomniac’s HARD Summer Music Festival. ![]() Though he’s received numerous accolades, topped the music charts and headlined major festivals around the world, he said there is one thing he still hasn’t done. This flurry of activity was “a wild yet enjoyable breeze,” as he described it during a recent interview. According to Billboard, it was the biggest ticketed global headliner dance event of 2022. Last year, he teamed up with fellow DJ, Deadmau5, for the Kx5 project, which broke a record for the largest single-day event headlined by an electronic music act in North America when the duo played the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in December. Some of his most recent milestones include opening and selling out the brand new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in 2021. To an outsider, it may seem like Los Angeles-based DJ and noted record producer Kaskade has done it all. ![]()
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