![]() “I mean after COVID, I’m just like, I want do stuff that I want do. I think both of us are just in a different phase of our lives and our career.” Raddon adds, I mean, things were so crazy at that time and they have been for so long. We were talking about potentially doing a TV appearance to promote the song and we couldn’t even get it together back then to do that. When ‘I Remember’ was taking off, we were in Detroit, I was playing at some crappy club and came to hang out and we had a steak dinner. Kaskade recalls, “We even tried to do a couple things together. Though, while the origins of Kx5 are still relatively fresh, the project’s roots took hold in a now fully bygone era of dance music, perhaps proving that good things do in fact come to those who wait. From AOL Instant Messenger to sold-out summer shows at LA’s SoFi Stadium-that’s how far all of this has come. “Yeah, parts were sent through email and texting or whatever it was. ![]() “We’ve never worked together in the same room ever,” admits deadmau5. Trying to do back then that would’ve been an impossibility.”Įven after COVID-19 forced things to collectively slow down, getting two old friends, who both just so happen to be some of the most prolific forces dance music has ever seen, together to produce, let alone talk about the project, still presents its own challenges. Both Joel and I had our own agendas and we were, I mean, I was barely surviving 15 years ago. “I don’t know… everyone in the entire world was just discovering electronic music. “When we first collaborated, I mean, that moment in time wouldn’t have allowed us to do something like this,” said Kaskade. And while these two titans of industry were already well established as the torch-carriers of that day by then, when deadmau5 and Kaskade first convened on “ I Remember” in 2008, the thought of something like Kx5-a fully fleshed out musical project that pairs the best of both producers-wasn’t even an inkling of an idea. To provide a barometer for where things were 15 years ago, Swedish House Mafia hadn’t even officially formed yet, EDC was a single-day event held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Martin Garrix was in the third grade. In club years, that’s equivalent to nearly a half a century. In 15 years, electronic dance music has changed in nearly every conceivable facet. However, if Joel Zimmerman and Ryan Raddon have anything to say about their own creative renaissance of sorts, it’ll be one that toes the line between timeless and spontaneous compelling and propulsive without taking itself too seriously. Enter Kx5, the brainchild of deadmau5 and Kaskade and the culmination of a rich collaborative history nearly two decades in the making. ![]() But we may also be on the cusp of a major creative rebirth across electronic music, signaling a rousing confluence of events on the horizon. Loaded lineups reflect a quickly mending festival circuit. Though, while we’re still just emerging from the pandemic’s trenches, in many ways, we’re starting to see things begin to repair themselves. Watching COVID-19 cripple the music industry so quickly was undoubtedly a formative experience across the collective zeitgeist, from fans all the way up to industry insiders and artists-the impacts of which may never be fully quantifiable. Words by David Klemow and Rachel Narozniak
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