Kaskade
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Ryan Gary Raddon in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2012.
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| Birth name | Ryan Gary Raddon |
| Also known as | Kaskade |
| Born | February 25, 1972 |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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| Years active | 1989–present |
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| Website | kaskademusic |
Ryan Gary Raddon (born February 25, 1972), better known by his stage name Kaskade, is an American DJ, record producer and remixer. On October 20, 2011, DJ Mag announced the results of their magazine, with Ultra Music, Kaskade placed at No. 30.DJ Times voted Kaskade "America's Best DJ 2011" and "America's Best DJ 2013".
Along with producers deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner, Kaskade became popular during the revival of American progressive house in late 2008–early 2009.
Born in Chicago, Kaskade grew up in nearby Northbrook and attended Glenbrook North High School. His brother, Rich Raddon, became an entrepreneur and film producer. He attended Brigham Young University in Provo, UT from 1989 to 1990, working on his DJ skills in his dorm room. At age 19, Raddon served a two-year full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Japan. Following his mission, in 1992, he moved to Salt Lake City to attend the University of Utah, eventually graduating with a degree in communications. While attending school, Kaskade and friend Jodi Call ran a record store in Salt Lake City called Mechanized.
In 1995, Raddon began DJing his first monthly Monday night party at a basement venue called Club Manhattan. He used this additional income to purchase studio essentials. In May 2000, Raddon moved to San Francisco where he got a job working as an A&R assistant to John Elkins at Om Records, a house and electronic label. To Raddon's benefit, San Francisco was an emerging site of a new deep house movement. While at OM records he continued DJing and producing music. Soon after, Raddon created his alter ego, Kaskade, which his wife worried would remind people of the dish detergent. He took his stage name from a nature book when he saw a picture of a waterfall and a co-worker agreed "cascade" was a good choice, but he then changed the spelling. He did not take his name from the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest as fans sometimes cite.
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