Kaskade Teams Up With Crankdat For First-Ever Dubstep Collaboration “A Little Bit”

July 10, 2026 — Eight-time GRAMMY-nominated producer, DJ, and electronic music icon Kaskade joins forces with bass music powerhouse Crankdat for their first-ever collaboration, arriving July 10th across all digital streaming platforms.

The duo first debuted the collaboration during Kaskade’s highly anticipated return to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2026, where he delivered one of the weekend’s most buzzed-about performances. The set marked his first solo appearance at the festival in over a decade and introduced a fully reimagined live experience built around his ORIGIN // album announcement.

Midway through a set spanning career-defining records and new material, Kaskade surprised the crowd with Crankdat’s onstage appearance for the debut of their unreleased collaboration - an unexpected fusion of melodic scale and unrelenting bass design that immediately became one of the defining moments of the year in the electronic music and festival spaces.

The track represents a striking convergence between two distinct eras of electronic music. Kaskade’s cinematic, emotionally driven production style meets Crankdat’s high-impact, high-octane production style, resulting in a record built for both mainstage house music moments and bass-forward festival moments.

For Kaskade, the release extends the narrative of the ORIGIN // era, first introduced at Coachella, where he unveiled a new approach to large-scale live storytelling and immersive performance design. The project continues to emphasize reinvention, collaboration, and genre fluidity across his evolving catalog. 

For Crankdat, the collaboration marks a milestone moment amidst a career defining year. The track defies genre, time and audience, pairing one of electronic music’s most influential legacy figures with one of its most in-demand acts of the moment, showcasing his undeniable versatility as he continues to cement his position at the forefront of the scene. 

The release follows closely behind Kaskade’s recent collaboration with German DJ and producer BUNT. on “Comes Back Around,” which marked a key moment within his ongoing album rollout. Together, the two releases signal a continued evolution of Kaskade’s intentionally planned collaborative direction, bridging significant layers of melodic house, festival storytelling, and modern bass music.

Following its viral Coachella debut, anticipation for the official release has continued to build across the entirety of the electronic music community, setting the stage for one of the summer’s most anticipated cross-genre releases.

Together, Kaskade and Crankdat deliver a landmark collaboration - bridging melodic house legacy and modern bass aggression into a single, high-impact release built for the next era of festival music.

About Kaskade: Kaskade, born Ryan Raddon, has solidified his place as one of the most influential figures in electronic music. An eight-time GRAMMY Award nominee, his accolades include a nomination as part of Kx5, his collaboration with fellow producer deadmau5.

In April 2026, Kaskade debuted his new live concept ORIGIN // Origin // at Coachella, delivering one of the festival’s most talked-about performances. The set marked a defining creative moment - featuring the debut of nine new songs, a rare move at that scale, alongside his most ambitious production yet. The performance also served as the live announcement of his forthcoming album, signaling a new chapter that bridges the emotional depth of his recent work with a forward-facing, large-scale vision.

In December 2025, Kaskade released undux, his most personal album to date, marking a return to introspective songwriting and emotional storytelling. The project re-centered his artistic identity and laid the groundwork for his current evolution.

Kaskade’s legacy continued its upward trajectory in 2023 when he and deadmau5 graced the cover of Billboard and headlined SXSW. Their groundbreaking show at the LA Memorial Coliseum in 2022 set a record for the largest single-day concert headlined by an electronic artist in North America, according to Pollstar, with Billboard also naming it the biggest ticketed global headliner dance event of that year.

In 2024, Kaskade expanded his presence across major global platforms. In February, he made history as the first-ever in-game DJ at the Super Bowl, performing in front of over 123.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. In March, he was named Best Male Artist of the Year at the iHeartRadio EDM Awards, while Kx5 took home Best New Group. In May, he became the first-ever starting grid DJ at a Formula 1 race in Miami.

His momentum in the sports and live event space continued throughout 2024 with performances at the X Games in Ventura, a post-Phillies game set in July, and a LIV Golf tournament. He also made surprise appearances at Coachella, joining John Summit and Alison Wonderland in 2024, and completed a 3-hour back-to-back set with Idris Elba in 2025.

Kaskade’s fanbase is nothing short of evangelical, driven by his ability to evolve while maintaining a deeply emotional core. Across decades of output, he has consistently redefined the boundaries of dance music, earning recognition as one of the genre’s original curve-benders.

About Crankdat: Equal parts tastemaker and undeniable industry powerhouse, Crankdat (Christian Smith) is the sonic force leading a bass-driven revolution and redefining the category with his boundary breaking vision. After exploding onto the scene in 2023, he’s continued to catapult upwards as he continues to carve out a unique space for himself and his bone-rattling sound.

With triumphs including his history-making solo performance at EDC Las Vegas in 2024 that became the MOST ATTENDED closing set in BassPOD history, to a surprise appearance at Coachella’s DoLaB and back-to-back sold-out North American tours in 2025, the global phenomenon is breaking into a new era of meteoric growth as 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark chapter in his career. With an indisputable influence and unwavering commitment to the scene, he’s captivating global attention and pushing his category, which has long been considered subversive, into the mainstream in a way that only he knows how. 

After kicking off the year with career-defining headlining shows at the Tacoma Dome, Red Rock Amphitheater and Ultra Music Festival, as well as another surprise performance at Coachella, where he popped out with Kaskade on the Sahara stage, Crankdat is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Complete with a steady stream of highly-anticipated releases, another GET CRANKED! US Tour that will see five nights at Los Angeles’s famed Shrine Expo Hall this August – where his cult-like fanbase crashed the ASX website as he sold out four consecutive shows within minutes – the launch of his inaugural residency at LIV Las Vegas, and exhilarating surprises around every corner, 2026 is THE year of Crankdat.