Kaskade released ORIGIN // on September 25, 2026 through his own label Arkade, and it feels like the record of an artist three decades in who still wants to be surprised. Twelve tracks, eleven of them shared with someone else, and a guest list that runs from BUNT. and Layton Giordani to Crankdat, Wooli, GLOCKENBACH, and Natalie Jane.
The whole project was born onstage. Kaskade unveiled ORIGIN // at Coachella 2026, closing the Sahara Stage across both weekends in his first solo appearance at the festival in more than a decade. He debuted nine unreleased tracks, brought collaborators out with him, and wrapped it all in monolithic staging, custom visuals, and serious pyro. Now the music behind that production finally gets to live off the stage.
Start at the top. “Stay For Love” with Brieanna Grace opens the album as its focus track, and it was the one that jumped out on our early listen. It sounds warm, patient, and built to swell, the melodic house Kaskade has spent decades perfecting with a vocal that carries the whole thing. Then the record starts wandering. “A Little Bit” with Crankdat is his first full-scale dubstep collaboration, and closer “Hear Me Now” with Wooli and MAXINE leans hard into bass. Same emotional core, very different rooms.
The singles already made their case. “Meet Again” with Layton Giordani and Natalie Jane served as the official anthem of EDC Las Vegas 2026 and became Kaskade’s seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Airplay chart. The album also follows undux, the far more introspective record he released in December 2025. That one looked inward. ORIGIN // takes the same feeling and points it straight at the festival field, and this era feels like one of the most generous chapters of his career.
The live side keeps rolling too. The ORIGIN // Tour, his first full-scale conceptual headline run in nearly a decade, hits Toronto on October 31, 2026 and Chicago on November 6, 2026, then heads outdoors at The Concourse Project in Austin on November 20, 2026.
Kaskade 2026 Tour Dates – Tickets
Oct 2 – Las Vegas, NV – Encore Beach Club
Oct 3 – Sandy, UT – Breakaway Utah
Oct 10 – Guarujá, Brazil – Laroc Club
Oct 11 – Medellín, Colombia – EDC Colombia
Oct 23 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
Oct 31 – Toronto, ON – ORIGIN // Rebel
Nov 6 – Chicago, IL – ORIGIN // Chicago
Nov 7 – Orlando, FL – EDC Orlando
Nov 20 – Austin, TX – ORIGIN // The Concourse Project
Dec 18 – Tambon Choeng Thale, Thailand – EDC Thailand
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