Get Ready for Kaskade - 4.26.08

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Yeah! Kaskade's making his way back to St. Louis! I absolutely love his mixes, and his live sets are unbelievable. You can expect to find me on the dance floor for sure as this will be my third time seeing Kaskade. His music is very melodic and housey featuring releases by Nelly Furtado and other great artists. Kaskade is smokin' on the tables and delivers feel good grooves that lift your spirit as you dance it out on the floor. Hope to see you there! If you would like to sample music from his album "Bring the Night" CLICK HERE! Then you'll really know what you are in for :)



Saturday April 26th, 2008

Kaskade – Album Tour “Bring the Night” | Ultra Records

Info from B&W and Disco:

Bring the Night is the latest mix album by house DJ/producer Kaskade. Released on Ultra Records, Bring the Night is crafted to give unwavering house heads what they want most in a mix album: it delivers on the party front and drops the big room jams. And true to Kaskade style—and what differentiates this artist from others in dance music—Bring the Night also manages to serve up those trademark melodies and sensual vocals.
But more than anything, this is 115 minutes of feel good body rock.

 “With my artist albums, I’m conveying emotion, I’m constructing beats and writing songs that represent me as an artist and a person, so it doesn’t necessarily come out as ‘dance heavy,’” says Kaskade. “But a mix CD is about walking the line, and fitting my style in with the DJ side of things. Yeah, I want to keep it musical and fresh, but Bring the Night is intentionally produced very rhythmic and…well, banging. This is a head bobbing mix, something to pop in your car and thump.”

And with 15 hard-hitting tracks, including Dance Chart topping Kaskade remixes of Nelly Furtado’s “All Good Things (Come To An End)”, and Floetry’s “SupaStar,” Bring the Night achieves just that—it’s a non-stop, seamless stream of orchestrated beats and flavor, all with a nod to the night life.

Other tracks include the Kaskade original “Sorry,” remixed here by Dirty South, which has become the track for DJs like Pete Tong and Deep Dish to work into their sets. There’s also Armand Van Helden’s “NYC Beat,” a catchy pop-house track that pays homage to the urban hipster. The collective vision of Bring the Night isn’t a journey nor does it wax philosophical; rather, it marks a timestamp on the party scene and everything current and fresh in house music today. “For me, this mix is about what’s happening right now in the club. This is what kind of set I’ve put together,” says Kaskade.

Bring the Night is Kaskade’s first mix album with Ultra Records and follows his widely acclaimed artist album, Love Mysterious. With four albums, 14 singles, 30-plus remixes and Bring the Night as his fourth mix album, Kaskade has become a veritable foundation within house music, though his rise to top-tier status in the dance music scene is not without significance. As Tricia Romano of the Village Voice observed, "In dance music no one ever seems to graduate or ever get promoted, which means that the ability for new DJs and producers to break in the upper ranks is incredibly hard. Kaskade is one of the few who've pushed past the Sashas and the Derricks to get on the A-list." This is so clearly the case that when URB Magazine featured Kaskade on their cover alongside Kanye West's A-Trak and NYC's Tommie Sunshine as the three the most influential DJs in North America today, they explained that "Kaskade is a special breed of house star, one who has increased in popularity over the past few years in an industry where most of the major players have at least a decade (often two) of stardom behind them."

The broad appeal that Kaskade has been able to tap into has not gone unnoticed by the music industry. The accolades and recognition are numerous and include a nomination for "The Borders Award for Best New Artist" in 2004 to being voted number 20 in the "2004 America's Favorite DJ Poll" conducted by BPM Magazine. The San Francisco based magazine, SOMA, summarizes it well: "Kaskade has taken over the scene as one of the West Coast's most sought after DJs."

All this appreciation is not to say that he takes his profession too seriously. "I'm just a guy who loves to make music, and I'm having a really, really good time doing so. I'm not it in for the ‘scene.' I don't wear shiny sequin shirts and I don't usually hang out in clubs unless I'm going for a specific reason." With his relaxed West Coast demeanor (it's not uncommon for him to show up to a club in flip flops), and his affable personality, Kaskade is an anomaly to the stereotypes often associated with the DJ persona. Individuality is apparent in Kaskade's personality, and so is the music he produces. Bring the Night hits this standard on the mark and reinforces Kaskade's stronghold in dance music.

LOCATION:
Dante's
3221 Olive St.
Downtown St. Louis, MO

9pm till 3am

Tickets:
Available @ http://www.groovetickets.com

Very Limited Online Special - $10
Advanced - $15
Door - $20