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Forget you are listening to Kaskade. The Kaskade you knew. With preconceptions & expectations dropped, your mind is open to the guilty pleasure of pretty male vocals floating in, “See the stars align,” on the opening track on Kaskade’s latest artist album, due out in September on (surprise) Ultra Records. Even if you can forget, that though won’t likely prepare you for this collection of reminisces to early 90s sugary pop dance (we used to call this Eurodance) with soaring synths and teen-pleasing bouncy kicks and claps. Kaskade wiped his musical palate clean when he sat down to create this collection. Even the reworkings of his classics (a remix of “In this Life,” , “Distance,” and “Fake”) are kicked up a euro notch – one that I could have done without. If you read a slight tinge of disappointment, that’s wishing: Couldn’t he have come up with a few more originals instead? What happened to the sultry subdued vibe? Well, its three years old to start... and if that’s really what you’re hoping to hear, you should pick up his two disk retrospective instead of this album. However, if you can just follow into this new dimension which Ryan Raddon (the genius behind Kaskade) is exploring, ignoring boundaries of genres and time, stepping out of the dark underground house club and into the mega-event stadium, then you’ll get it. Youl’ll get “All You” with its Ultra-pleasing retro-tingled repetitive Atari pulsing. Give in to the canned “clap, clap-clap” fantasy, and so “Sorry” you won’t be. You may however, be torn between enjoyment for this bold departure from his signature San Francisco house sound, and nostalgia for the Kaskade you loved. Take my advice: let this one sit in your stereo. Clear you mind and then the fun that is this record can really begin.
Download the “In This Life” remix here:
http://www.kaskademusic.com/downloads/music/in_this_life_(justin_micheal_mix).mp3-- review by Claire Maxwell
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