Kaskade Live Tour 2026

Inside Kaskade

Kaskade is the rare American electronic producer whose career stretches back to the early 2000s deep-house underground and is still actively shaping the upper end of the dance-music touring business more than two decades later. He records and tours as Ryan Raddon, born in Chicago in 1971, raised in Utah from an early age, and now one of the longest-tenured American house-music producers with a continuous release schedule and a touring footprint that runs across both Las Vegas residency culture and the artist-curated destination festival format. The catalogue across the last quarter-century includes more than a dozen studio albums and a long roster of singles and remixes that helped define what American audiences understood deep, progressive and melodic house to mean during the genre's mid-2000s underground phase and again during the early-2010s EDM boom. Atmosphere, 4AM, Strobelite Seduction, Move for Me with Deadmau5, I Remember with Deadmau5, Eyes with Mindy Gledhill, Lessons in Love with Neon Trees, Disarm You with Ilsey, Never Sleep Alone, A Little More with John Dahlbäck and Sansa, and the more recent collaborations on the Reset and Automatic albums — the catalogue is wide enough that fans of different eras can disagree about which Kaskade is the "real" Kaskade without either side being wrong. The 2022 Cipher tour, which Kaskade ran alongside Deadmau5 as a joint headline arena production, was the first time the two had toured together at scale since their original collaborations more than a decade earlier, and the format — alternating B2B sets, custom production design tied to the joint catalogue, and an explicit framing as a reunion of two of the most important figures in American house music's modern era — was treated by the dance-music press as one of the most significant arena bookings of the year. Kaskade's Las Vegas residency at Encore Beach Club at Wynn Las Vegas has been running for years and remains one of the most durable single-venue residencies in American dance music; he has also held appearances at XS Nightclub and other Wynn-property rooms across the broader residency calendar. Sun Soaked, the artist-curated destination festival Kaskade has produced in San Diego at Waterfront Park, has been one of the most reliable annual Kaskade-anchored events on the West Coast and routinely sells out the primary onsale. Live, the show is built around a Pioneer DJ-and-controller booth with Kaskade himself at the front-center of an LED-clad stage, with the visual programming carrying the show's emotional arc and the setlist sequencing through a mix of his own back catalogue from across multiple eras, current productions, collaborator-driven edits and unreleased material previewed live. The rest of this page walks through how a Kaskade touring year is built, what tickets actually cost, what the setlist tends to look like night-to-night, and the markets where the show lands hardest. The focus is on the parts of the experience that change between a club DJ set, a festival main-stage appearance, a Las Vegas Encore Beach Club afternoon and a full arena production, so you can plan an actual evening rather than recap the Wikipedia entry. If you have only heard the streaming singles, the live version is where the catalogue actually opens up — the deeper house material from the OM Records-era catalogue lands differently when stretched out across a two-hour set, the Deadmau5 collaborations take on a different shape when played in the context of his own back catalogue, and the more recent radio-leaning singles are sequenced into the longer-arc emotional structure that has defined a Kaskade set since the mid-2000s.

About Kaskade

Ryan Gary Raddon was born in Northbrook, Illinois — a suburb on the North Shore of Chicago — in February 1971 and moved with his family to Utah at an early age. He was raised in the Salt Lake City area in a practicing Latter-day Saint household, attended Brigham Young University, and has remained publicly observant of his Mormon faith throughout his career — a personal-lifestyle detail that has shaped both his public profile and several of his lyrical and creative decisions, most notably the visibly clean (alcohol- and drug-free) onstage persona that has distinguished him from much of the rest of the touring DJ business. The Kaskade project formally launched in the early 2000s. After moving back to Chicago briefly in his early twenties — where he absorbed the city's deep-house scene around the Smart Bar, Frankie Knuckles' legacy and the broader American house infrastructure — Raddon relocated to San Francisco, signed with the Bay Area-based deep-house label OM Records, and released his first album, It's You, It's Me, in 2003. The OM Records era of the catalogue — It's You, It's Me (2003), In the Moment (2004), the deeper of the early productions — is what fans of the underground phase point to when arguing that Kaskade's most musically interesting work is the early material, and it includes the Strobelite Seduction record (released in 2008 on Ultra Records after the OM run) and the singles that established the warm, melodic deep-house template that would carry forward through the entire catalogue. The first major mainstream pivot came around 2008 and 2009 with the collaborations with Deadmau5 — Move for Me, released in 2008 on Mau5trap, and I Remember, released in 2009, both of which charted on the Billboard Dance/Electronic charts and established Kaskade as one of the principal American figures in the broader American-progressive-and-electro-house sound that would carry the genre into the 2010s EDM boom. Strobelite Seduction included Move for Me as one of its anchor tracks. Dynasty followed in 2010, Fire & Ice in 2011, Atmosphere in 2013 (which contained the title track Atmosphere as one of the most streamed singles in his catalogue), Automatic in 2015, and a steady run of subsequent records — Redux EPs, Reset, Arkade Sounds compilations and standalone singles — through the late 2010s and into the 2020s. The 2022 Cipher tour with Deadmau5 was the first time the two had toured together at this scale since their original 2008-2009 collaborations. The Cipher framing positioned the joint catalogue as the canon of modern American house and progressive house, and the production design — built around a joint stage that allowed the two producers to perform alternating B2B sets across a single continuous show — was treated by the dance-music press as one of the most consequential arena bookings of the year. The tour routed through major North American arena rooms and selected European dates, with the secondary market for the dates running well above face. Sun Soaked, the Kaskade-curated destination festival, has been running in San Diego at Waterfront Park since the mid-2010s. The festival is structured as a single-day or two-day Kaskade-headlining event with a curated supporting lineup drawn from the broader American house and progressive-house roster, and it has consistently sold out the primary onsale. The Las Vegas Encore Beach Club residency at Wynn Las Vegas is the dayclub anchor of Kaskade's touring calendar and has run for a continuous stretch of years. Encore Beach Club, the pool venue at Wynn Las Vegas, programs Kaskade as one of its most consistent recurring DJs on Sunday and weekend dayclub slots through the broader summer season, and the Wynn property has also booked him for XS Nightclub night-time appearances across the same residency window. The combination — Encore Beach Club afternoons, XS Nightclub nights, and the broader Wynn property residency footprint — gives Kaskade one of the most durable single-property partnerships in American dance music. He has also been a recurring headliner at EDC Las Vegas, EDC Mexico, EDC Orlando, Coachella, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, Lollapalooza and a long list of major dance and pop-leaning festivals across two decades, and his appearances at Tomorrowland in Belgium have included the Tomorrowland mainstage and the curated Tomorrowland Around the World virtual editions. Around the records and the touring, Kaskade has built the Arkade and Sounds of Kaskade compilation series as long-running curatorial vehicles, hosting his own SiriusXM Sounds of Kaskade radio program for years and running the Arkade label as a meaningful imprint in the broader American house ecosystem. He has been Grammy-nominated multiple times — including for Atmosphere as a record and for several mix-show and remix nominations — and his albums have certified across multiple national markets. Off the road, his Latter-day Saint faith has shaped both his lifestyle and several decisions within the broader Kaskade brand. He has spoken publicly about not drinking and not using drugs, in marked contrast to the broader touring-DJ culture of the early 2010s EDM boom, and his family life — he is married with multiple children, primarily based in Utah — has been a stable element of his public narrative across decades. He has appeared in Latter-day Saint-focused interviews and panels and has been one of the more prominent public Mormon figures in the broader American music industry. The persona on stage is restrained relative to peers in the EDM lane. Kaskade typically performs without theatrical stage business, the showmanship is in the production design and the music rather than in physical antics, and the emotional arc of the set carries the room rather than crowd-work or interludes. The crossover with deeper house and progressive house has placed the project inside a broader conversation about American dance music's history and continuity, and the live show has reached audiences who would not typically buy a ticket to a more aggressive contemporary EDM headliner.

Kaskade tour: arenas, the Encore Beach Club residency and Sun Soaked

A typical Kaskade touring year layers several distinct formats rather than running a single linear tour. The first layer is the headline arena cycle, which appears in irregular intervals tied to album releases and to joint-tour bookings like the 2022 Cipher tour with Deadmau5. North American arena legs typically book rooms in the 8,000-to-18,000 capacity range — Crypto.com Arena and Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Madison Square Garden and UBS Arena in the New York area, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, United Center in Chicago, T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the Vivint Smart Home Arena and the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, and the broader major-market arena slate. The Cipher tour set a benchmark for the joint-headline format and the production design that traveled with it. The second layer is the festival circuit. Kaskade holds frequent annual headline bookings at EDC Las Vegas (typically on the kineticFIELD or stereoBLOOM stages each May), EDC Mexico, EDC Orlando, Ultra Music Festival (Miami, March), Coachella (Indio, April), Lollapalooza (Chicago, late July or early August), Tomorrowland (Belgium, July) and a long list of country-specific dance events across Europe, Asia and Latin America. The third layer is the Las Vegas Encore Beach Club residency at Wynn Las Vegas. Kaskade has held a continuous residency at the Wynn property's dayclub-and-nightclub footprint for years — Encore Beach Club on Sundays and weekend dayclub slots through the summer season, XS Nightclub on selected night-time appearances, with the residency calendar typically running on weekend dates and concentrated around event weekends like EDC week in May, Memorial Day, Labor Day and other US holiday weekends. The fourth layer is Sun Soaked, the Kaskade-curated destination festival held annually in San Diego at Waterfront Park. Sun Soaked typically runs as a single-day or two-day event with Kaskade headlining and a curated supporting lineup drawn from the broader American house and progressive-house scenes — Kaskade has used the format across multiple years to spotlight collaborators and emerging producers from his Arkade label and adjacent roster. The fifth layer is the routed theater and amphitheater tour, which appears in cycles tied to album releases and is the format that most closely resembles a traditional pop or rock tour. Amphitheater dates have included Greek Theatre in LA, Stir Cove in Council Bluffs, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison and the standard summer amphitheater slate, while theater-scale dates have appeared at the Hollywood Palladium and similar mid-cap rooms. We hedge on the specific 2026 Encore Beach Club calendar and 2026 Sun Soaked dates because residency assignments and festival programming shift between properties and can be re-announced within a calendar year — both the residency and the festival exist on the recurring calendar, but check the venue's own event listing or the Sun Soaked official site for current confirmed dates rather than assuming any single property or programmer holds the booking permanently. Across all five layers, the format on stage shares a common DNA: Kaskade behind the booth at the front-center of an LED-clad stage, with the visual programming carrying most of the show's narrative weight and the setlist sequencing through a mix of his own back catalogue across multiple eras, current productions, collaborator-driven edits and unreleased material previewed live.

Kaskade tickets: pricing, presales and the Wynn-property door

Kaskade tickets vary widely by format. Arena and amphitheater headline tour tickets — including the dates from the 2022 Cipher tour with Deadmau5 and standalone Kaskade arena dates — generally open between roughly $55 and $90 for upper-bowl general admission, $95 to $170 for floor general admission or lower-bowl reserved seating, and $200 to $475 for the VIP packages that the tour has typically included on recent cycles. Cipher VIP packages bundled pit access, early entry, a soundcheck listen-in (when production allowed), an autographed lithograph and a branded merch item; standalone Kaskade VIP packages have generally been in the same range. Festival appearances are priced as part of the festival's day or weekend pass rather than as a Kaskade-specific ticket, so the cost depends on EDC, Ultra, Coachella, Lollapalooza, Tomorrowland or whichever event he is headlining rather than on the artist directly. Las Vegas residency days at Encore Beach Club are priced through the Wynn property's own ticketing platform rather than through a tour promoter. Cover charges at Encore Beach Club typically run from around $50 for women and $75 for men on a standard summer weekend day, climbing to $125-plus for big-weekend days like EDC week, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day and the Las Vegas calendar's other peak periods. Cabana and bottle-service packages, which are the dominant economic model for Wynn-property pool venues, run from a roughly $1,500 to $3,500 minimum spend for a standard daybed or cabana on a non-peak weekend up to five-figure minimums for prime locations on event weekends; those figures should be treated as indicative rather than current, since Wynn-property pricing moves with demand and the property's own promotional calendar. XS Nightclub night-time appearances at the Wynn are priced separately and run higher than Encore Beach Club afternoon coverage. Sun Soaked at Waterfront Park in San Diego is sold as a single-day or two-day festival ticket through the festival's own platform, typically priced in the $85 to $175 range for general admission, with VIP and platinum upgrades available at higher tiers; the festival has reliably sold out the primary onsale and the secondary market typically runs above face. Presales for the headline arena tour follow the standard touring template — fan-list presale through Kaskade's official mailing list and social channels on Monday or Tuesday, Live Nation and venue presales midweek, then general onsale on Friday at 10am local time. Verified resale through Ticketmaster gives the cleanest transfer for arena tickets. AXS handles some of the Insomniac-promoted festival routing instead of Ticketmaster. For Encore Beach Club, the cleanest reservation path is the Wynn Nightlife platform rather than third-party resale sites, since dayclub admission is heavily tied to guest-list and cabana-host workflows that resale tickets do not replicate. For Sun Soaked, the cleanest path is the festival's own official site.

Kaskade setlist trends

A modern Kaskade setlist is structured as a continuous DJ mix rather than a sequence of discrete songs, but the set's emotional arc and the underlying catalogue depth give the format a different feel from a typical festival-EDM headline slot. The shape of the set has been broadly consistent for the past several cycles. Opening sections typically lean on deeper-house and progressive-house material from across the broader catalogue, building a slower, more atmospheric pulse with edits of Atmosphere, 4AM, Eyes with Mindy Gledhill, Disarm You with Ilsey, and selected cuts from the Automatic and Reset albums alongside warmer mid-tempo material from the OM Records-era catalogue. The middle of the set climbs through the more upfront progressive-house and tech-house material, including remixes and ID tracks that have not yet been released, and a stretch of throwback edits that reach back into the 2010s catalogue and beyond — Move for Me, I Remember (both with Deadmau5), Strobelite Seduction, Lessons in Love with Neon Trees, Never Sleep Alone, A Little More with John Dahlbäck and Sansa, and the more anthemic material from Fire & Ice and Dynasty. The closing section typically lands on a peak-time anthem or a current single, and the encore portion — when there is one — often pulls in an unexpected throwback edit or a freshly-debuted unreleased track. The Cipher tour with Deadmau5 ran a different setlist template — built around alternating B2B sets where the two producers traded selections across a single continuous show, with the canon of their joint catalogue (Move for Me, I Remember and the more recent re-collaborations from the Cipher cycle) anchoring the show's emotional peaks. Festival sets — EDC, Ultra, Coachella, Tomorrowland — are tighter than arena sets (60 to 90 minutes versus 90 to 120) and lean more heavily on the peak-time material with less of the slower opening run. Encore Beach Club afternoon sets are longer (two to three hours) and look more like a traditional dayclub mix, with deeper edits, longer transitions and more unreleased material than the festival or arena format. The Sun Soaked headline appearances are typically the most catalogue-aware sets of the year, with multi-hour formats and meaningful inclusion of deeper-cut OM Records-era material that the broader festival circuit does not surface. ID-spotting culture is active around Kaskade sets, and tracklists from major dates are usually online within a day on 1001Tracklists and on the broader American house-music fan-tracking platforms. Atmosphere, in particular, has been a consistent fan-favorite call-back across the past decade and a half of touring and is the song most likely to mark a Kaskade show as connected to the project's emotional core rather than to any single era. Move for Me and I Remember — the Deadmau5 collaborations — have become canon-defining tracks that appear in nearly every Kaskade set and that draw the loudest crowd response on the joint Cipher dates and at the headline solo shows.

Kaskade meet and greet: what is actually available

Formal meet-and-greet packages on Kaskade tours are typically structured around the VIP tier of the standalone arena cycle and the joint-tour bookings like the 2022 Cipher tour with Deadmau5. The arena-tour VIP package generally bundles pit access, early entry, a soundcheck listen-in (when production allows), an autographed lithograph or branded merch item, and on certain dates a structured meet-and-greet allocation that delivers a brief in-person interaction with Kaskade and a posed photograph. The photo workflow is typically handled by the tour's own photographer rather than by attendees' phones, with images delivered by email a few days after the show. Sun Soaked, the Kaskade-curated destination festival in San Diego, is the format with the most reliable artist accessibility outside of the formal VIP package — Kaskade is curating and present across the full event, and the festival's smaller scale relative to EDC or Coachella means informal interactions in the artist-and-VIP areas are more common than at the larger festivals. Festival appearances at EDC, Ultra, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Tomorrowland produce occasional informal interactions in the backstage and artist-lounge areas for guests with the appropriate credentials, but those credentials are not something you can buy through a public channel. The Las Vegas Encore Beach Club residency at the Wynn property places cabana and bottle-service guests in the section closest to the booth, and the dayclub format generally allows table guests to come up to the booth area in a way that arena production rigs do not — though this is not a meet-and-greet in the formal sense. Kaskade has historically been more available for fan interactions at album-launch events and at the Arkade Sounds compilation series listening events than at the standard touring dates, and his social media presence has occasionally produced fan meetups around specific tour stops. If a third-party site is selling a Kaskade meet-and-greet package outside of the official tour VIP bundle or the Sun Soaked or Wynn-property workflows, treat the offer with skepticism. The cleanest paths are the official tour VIP through the tour's own ticketing platform and the Sun Soaked festival's own platform.

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