Kaskade, ‘Atmosphere’

Kaskade blew up with “Strobelite Seduction” in 2008 and gets better each year. He structures the songs on his latest album, “Atmosphere,” so tenderly he gives them all a chance to endure. Kaskade’s song calculus is simple: find the best vocalists and give them room to run. Yet amid that formula, the vocal-less “MIA to LAS” is reason alone to buy a good pair of headphones and this album. The song’s finely grooved beat meets the echoing melody in a lonely airport bar, or something equally as cool. “Atmosphere” rightly cements Kaskade’s position among the top half-dozen DJs worldwide. (AP)