Kaskade has shared the music video for his lead single "Never Sleep Alone" from the "Atmosphere" DJs upcoming album on Warner Music. With the music video, the American dance music veteran Kaskade invites viewers to "take a look into my dreamland."
The video follows Kaskade as he floats down Los Angeles streets -- starting in a L.A. suburb with an older gentleman watering his lawn and occasionally a tattooed woman sunbathing who seem rather befuddled, and rightfully so, at a sleeping man floating down the street in his bed. He then heads downtown into the heart of LA with a drum line surrounding him as the day turns into night with a couple taking the "Never Sleep Alone" motto to heart as they get it on in the front seat of a car. Kaskade shows his socially conscious side as he ponders the issues facing America with a scene of protesters clashing against riot police, a scene that has plagued Los Angeles and actually been something he has been a part of.
In 2011, Kaskade performed an impromptu set in downtown Los Angeles for the theater premiere of Electric Daisy Carnival's documentary riding around in the back of a truck with large speakers. The crowd grew to such a size that the police had to come to and disperse it.
When "Never Sleep Alone" was released last week, Kaskade described the personal process that he takes for writing songs like this and what the tune means to him and others.
"Never Sleep Alone" could be taken so many ways. I hesitate to tell people what it means to me, because I want my listeners to imprint their own circumstance on it. That's what makes it meaningful to them. But "Never Sleep Alone" is interesting because it conjures up so many moods. Essentially, the big picture meaning for me is this: we never sleep alone. Nobody does.
