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After returning from his mission trip in Japan, Raddon transferred to Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. There he met his wife, fellow snowboarder, Naomi. While attending school, he ran a record store in Salt Lake City called Mechanized. In 1995, he began D.J.-ing his first weekly Monday night party at a basement venue called Club Manhattan. He used this additional income to purchase studio essentials.

Raddon had always aspired to move to New York, where he previously worked briefly as a Japanese tour guide but Naomi wanted to return to the Bay area, where her family lived. In May 2000, the couple moved to San Francisco. Raddon, got a job working as an A&R assistant to Chris Smith at OM Records, a house and electronic label. To Raddon’s benefit, San Francisco was an emerging site of a new deep-house movement. While at OM record he continued DJing and producing music. Soon after, Raddon created his alter ego, Kaskade. His wife worried that it would remind people of dish detergent. Concentrating on his DJing skills, Kaskade started to experiment and develop his own sound. Throughout the years of his success, Ryan and Naomi have maintained their relationship.

Currently, they are married and together have three daughters.