Josh Gabriel

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Josh Gabriel
Progressive trance, electronica
Occupation(s)DJ, Producer, Remixer
Years active1988–present
LabelsOrganized Nature, Different Pieces, Vandit

Josh Gabriel is an American electronic dance music DJ and producer, most known for his collaborative partnership Gabriel & Dresden with Dave Dresden.

History

Early years (1988–2000)

In 1988-89, a 20-year-old exchange student from California Institute of the Arts, was living in The Hague in The Netherlands and studying at the Institute of Sonology. Josh Gabriel had already been working with digital music since his high-school days, achieving mastery of the DX7 and TX816 by the age of 17. With an Apple Macintosh Plus, operating system 3, and the earliest of music applications like Mark of the Unicorn's "Composer" and "Performer", Josh was already at the bleeding edge. In the Netherlands, Gabriel's inventor spirit took shape as he wrote a computer application to control samples on an Akai S900 in real-time with a joystick. And the inception for what later became Mixman had been born. Along with electronics whiz Jan Pannis, (Stockhausen's tech-man) Gabriel and Pannis built an apparatus which converted beams of light coming up off the floor into a Midi Control device and the 20-year-old Gabriel dressed in black, wearing white gloves performed his real-time beat-trigger device in the clubs of Amsterdam.

By 1993 Gabriel was doing high-end digital sound editing, design and production in

RAM and a proper sound card
.

Gabriel's patents for loop-based music remixing are the backbone of industry standard music making software applications used in virtually every producers studio today. By 1999, Mixman had evolved and grown and merged with a larger dot.com. Expanding briefly to the Mac platform and deepening its relationship with Record Labels and MTV as well as starting work with Mattel on a controller (eventually became the DM2) -- things looked good. But as happened with many dot.coms the ride got bumpy. In late 2000 Gabriel decided he had had his fill of the corporate life, and decided he wanted to return to "music". In 2002 Mixman sprung free of the dot.com shackles and returned to independence.

Gabriel & Dresden (2001–2008)

Main article: Gabriel & Dresden

Before he attended music school in the Netherlands and

electric bass on Armin van Buuren
's single "Zocalo" in which both Dave & Josh produced the sounds.

The duo won the 2007 and 2008 IDMA award for "America's Best DJ". He has achieved 16 Billboard Dance Chart No. 1 hits as "Gabriel & Dresden", composed music that has appeared on Fox, HBO, NBC and CBS TV shows. Gabriel & Dresden have their own record label, Organized Nature. Gabriel has also invented a new pro-audio web application that will be available to the public in Winter 2009.[needs update]

Solo years (2008-2010)

Josh spent his time off from Gabriel & Dresden starting a label called Different Pieces (via

Hot Dance Club Songs chart[3] and was on Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance 2009 year-end compilation. He also produced the debut album for Andain "You Once Told Me" which finally saw a release in 2012 and spawned a sizable hit with the song, "Promises (Andain song)
", which Gabriel & Dresden remixed in 2011.

Gabriel & Dresden reunion (2011–present)

On December 31, 2010, Gabriel & Dresden reunited for special one off New Year's Eve celebration alongside ATB and Francis Preve at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

Shortly afterward, the duo were booked on the Anjunabeats WMC Miami party at the Ice Palace as a special guest. Since this event, Gabriel & Dresden have officially announced themselves as reunited.

Since the reunion, Gabriel & Dresden have performed at many clubs and festivals around the world including

Creamfields Australia, ASOT 550: Invasion, Ministry of Sound, London, Zouk and a monthly residency at the Marquee Las Vegas in Las Vegas.[4]

In 2011 they signed an artist deal with

Tracking Treasure Down Revisited.[5]

On February 3, 2014, they restarted their monthly radio show "Gabriel & Dresden present

Digitally Imported's progressive channel. Since this show was already on the air in the past, it began this time around with Episode 30.[6]

On March 29, 2014 they released "Rise Up" which was supported by a wide variety of DJs including

Creative Commons License content found on the video sharing website Vimeo[11]

Discography

For discography as Gabriel & Dresden, see Gabriel & Dresden discography.

Albums

  • 1996 Mixman: Remixable Hip-Hop · House · Acid Jazz · Underground (Compilation album)
  • 2008 Eight (Studio album)
  • 2011 Winter Kills

Singles/EPs

  • 2002 Wave 3
  • 2005 Alive
  • 2006
    Tracking Treasure Down
  • 2007 Summit
  • 2008 Tone Program
  • 2009 Rubber
  • 2009 Wood
  • 2009 Winter Kills - Deep Down
  • 2009 Entropy
  • 2010 Winter Kills - My Friend

Remixes

  • 2002 Andain - Summer Calling (Josh Gabriel Mix)
  • 2003 Andain - Beautiful Things (Josh Gabriel Mix)
  • 2004 RND() - Nova Santori (Josh Gabriel Mix)
  • 2010 Layo & Bushwacka! - Let The Good Times Roll (Josh Gabriel Unauthorized Dub)
  • 2008 Francis Preve - Caboose (Josh Gabriel Remix)
  • 2008 Stel - New Life (Josh Gabriel Remix)
  • 2009 Andain - Promises (Josh Gabriel Remix)
  • 2009 Winter Kills - Deep Down (Josh Gabriel Remix)
  • 2010 BT - Every Other Way (Josh Gabriel Remix)

Co-productions

Awards and nominations

For awards as Gabriel & Dresden, see Gabriel & Dresden Awards / Nominations.

References

  1. ^ "The Official Dave Pearce Website - Interviews > Gabriel & Dresden". Davepearce.co.uk. 1999-12-04. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  2. ^ "Artist of the Week: Josh Gabriel - Armada Music". Armadamusic.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  3. ^ "3 Billboard Club Chart positions for Napith Music! « Napith Music". Napithmusic.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  4. ^ "Gabriel & Dresden Tour History from 2007 - 2016 - Gabriel & Dresden Past Tour Dates". Bandsintown.com. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  5. ^ "Armada Music". Armadamusic.com. 2011-12-08. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  6. ^ "Organized Nature - with Gabriel & Dresden - DI Radio". 18 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-06-18. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Above & Beyond". Aboveandbeyond.nu. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  8. ^ "Episode 660: Future Favorite by Tenishia! &laquo A State of Trance". Astateoftrance.com. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  9. ^ MGMT (2014-04-15). "Official Website Global DJ Broadcast (April 10, 2014) - Markus Schulz | Official Website". Markusschulz.com. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  10. ^ "Metropolis: 4/5/14 : Metropolis". Npr.org. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  11. ^ "Gabriel & Dresden - Rise Up (Official Music Video)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 2016-03-07.

External links

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