It’s strange to think that Kaskade’s REDUX journey began seven years ago. Back then, his chilled out sets reached a special pocket of his fans at smaller clubs like TAO Las Vegas. These days, REDUX sets can fill venues as big as the Hollywood Palladium and still have room to grow. Despite that, the shows are meant to be as intimate as they started…meaning a move to expand the size was hard to justify. Kaskade addresses this and more in a series of tweets. He talks about the main vision of REDUX first, then elaborates on this specific issue before revealing that he will in fact that he will be expanding the size of the shows even further. While it comes at the risk of a series misunderstandings, the venue size expansion is a huge win for everyone who wants the Redux experience.
Kaskade just announced a new run of shows for the REDUX Fall Tour. Check them out here.
REDUX. A few thoughts…
I have been meaning to sit down and write something but it has been an incredibly busy year… so I am just going stream of conciseness here on the short form thought platform, twitter. Excuse me. If you want it to make any sense try and read in order… sorry.
When I write a song… I do this because it satisfies something inside of me. I make music cause I love the process. But in the end I like to share what I have made – although that part can be really really scary – cause people can tell you that you suck…
…that part can be hard. Nobody wants to hear that something they dreamt up in there head is crap – or does not work or whatever might be on the down side. So it can be a scary process – the sharing part that is…
I tell this as it relates to redux. Originally it was a bit of a throwback for me. After loads of touring in 2012 I came up with the idea cause I was missing the club shows. Missing the small sweaty house parties. The vibe. Playing an arena is dope but it is different…
So the idea was to try and squeeze in some of these kinds of shows in between the festival plays and the massive arena shows and all the fireworks on confetti etc. etc.
To me it is not that one is better than the other… they are different. I love it all. I WANT THE CAKE AND I WANT TO EAT IT TOO. So I made some time to squeeze it in there…
…then people were like “bro.. I seen you 17 times and I can’t get a freaking redux ticket cause I work and I am busy when they go on sale. Why you hate me?!”….
I have heard some variation of this kind of thing time and time again over the last 7 years since starting redux… this is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night….
I don’t write a song and put it under my pillow. I don’t play shows so only a few can get in…
…so for the last few years I have been messing with the idea of trying to make redux bigger in size to accommodate more people BUT still keep the vibe and intention of the original idea… CAN THIS BE DONE?!?!
I have sat with my team, had phone call after phone call – emails shooting out my ass. To try and get it right. I have gone back and forth explaining what I want and how I want to do it…
Ultimately I went with this. The idea has to grow. It is impossible to freeze things and keep them exactly as they are. Impossible. So after wrestling with this for a few years I tried it out in New York…
That night. Oh man that night. That was it. The redux show I had there this past spring was it. Magic. This is what I strive for each and every time. That. That vibe. This is what it is all about…
…so after that night I could see that – yeah this can be done in a bigger room and still work. It can be more inclusive. It can be bigger than a few hundred people…
…this is how we got here. The fall tour of redux. A few bigger rooms, a few more cities…
Now listen. I try to get it right. I try to do it in places that welcome this kind of sound and vibe but I can’t know the ins and outs of every city but my team has put a ton of effort into this and I trust we will get I right…
…now I know of a few of you are out there shaking your heads. I know I know. I get you. “Why couldn’t he just keep it small and how it was” I hear you but it ain’t 1997 it is 2019 and I am here for it. So we move ahead into the future. With the good and bad…
So I really hope for the few Chad’s out there standing on the floor screaming “where is the drop you clown” there will be thousands of others that leave the club wondering what the hell just happened and when can it happen AGAIN!!!
Leave a Reply