Kaskade Announces New Double-Disc Album, Releases New Single

Although recently in the news for a Hollywood concert before the Electric Daisy Carnival documentary that turned into a riot, Kascade is currently on tour for Identity Festival 2011, which kicked off last week. In an interview with the Miami New Times, the DJ not only spoke about the tour, the first cross-country electronic dance music festival in the United States, but he also revealed that he’s releasing a new album in October. Its first single, a track titled “Eyes,” came out recently.

Kaskade is still finishing the album, a two-disc release that represents both sides of the producer. He told the New Times: “Yeah, it's a double disc. But it's the same album seen two different ways. Ten songs, each with two mixes. Fire and ice was the concept. Each song has a version that I could play at 2 a.m. in some nightclub and another version that I might be playing in the car on the way home from a club gig.

I've always enjoyed more downtempo chill music. And I've always included it on all my albums. But it was a weird disconnect for fans who were tuning in for uptempo dance tracks. So I was like, ‘How can I achieve both of these things?’ Well, one song can be produced two different ways. And so, I was just trying to set the record straight that way.”

He also revealed his inspiration and concept behind the new single: “Umm ... I enjoy writing about love. I just had this concept about eyes never lie. No matter what people say, you can always look into somebody's eyes and see the truth. They're the windows to the soul. I mean, it's nothing that hasn't been written about before. But I was trying to say it as only I could say it.”

The headliner of the Identity Festival, Kaskade had some input in the lineup and attempted to make it appeal to all fans of electronic music, as well as those new to the genre: “I thought it was really important to have a diverse lineup. I think a lot of electronic music fans get really caught up in these micro-genres. But it just needs to be looked at in a broader sense.

There's a lot of really cool music being made. Some of it's considered dubstep. Some of it's techno. Or whatever. So my thing was, ‘Let's get a really cool variety of acts and different sounds, so a lot of what's going on in the underground can be represented.’”

Listen to Kaskade’s new single “Eyes” here: