Kaskade Reveals Redux EP 002 To Drop On September 1st
Back in 2014, Kaskade released the 5-track EP titled Redux. While there’s been some confusion surrounding what Redux means, Redux is a celebration of Kaskade’s roots. His debut Redux album started on the 10th anniversary of his popular hit single “It’s You It’s Me.” While Redux is typically some of his older songs, Kaskade will not shy away from playing a mix of future house, deep house, and progressive house during some of his Redux sets.
While Kaskade has been playing Redux sets at some festivals here and there, Redux was meant to be played during small gatherings of people.
For the past 3 years, Kaskade has been rather silent about new material for Redux. That was until today when Kaskade revealed the Redux part two would be released on Friday, September 1st, 2017. Stay tuned for the official release.
◾️#REDUX EP 002◾️
Dropping:
Fri. September 01, 2017 on @Arkade pic.twitter.com/xLpVLWQp83— Kaskade (@kaskade) August 25, 2017
And fans are loving the announcement…
— Kaskade Konnect (@KaskadeKonnect) August 25, 2017
— Ⓜ️🅰️✝️⬆️ (@Its_MattyICE) August 25, 2017
— Julie (@_julie3) August 25, 2017
We have to ask, is this the second EP release of a series of REDUX EPs?
Redux was always meant to be the opposite of a festival set
What’s genuinely interesting about the Redux concept is that Kaskade built it specifically to be small and intimate, the antithesis of the arena and festival stages he’d become known for headlining. Going back to warmer, more stripped-down deep house in tighter venues was Kaskade consciously stepping outside the big-room, pyrotechnics-heavy version of his career to reconnect with the sound that got him started in the first place.
Three years of silence made this announcement hit harder
Fans had been waiting a long time for a follow-up here, the original Redux EP came out back in 2014 and Kaskade hadn’t said much publicly about a sequel since. That kind of gap builds real anticipation, especially for a concept as personal to an artist’s own musical roots as Redux was to Kaskade. It’s part of why the Twitter reaction embedded above reads as genuinely excited rather than just polite hype for a routine release announcement.
Kaskade calling it “Redux” instead of just numbering it “vol. 2” was a deliberate choice
Little branding detail here, but it matters, sticking with the Redux name for the sequel instead of rebranding it as something new tells you Kaskade wanted this to read as one continuous project, not a one-off callback. It’s the same reason artists keep numbering deluxe editions or “chapter two” style drops, it signals there’s a whole world here worth following, not just a single nostalgic single dropped for old times’ sake.
