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Posted by Paradox Lost on Mar-28-2008 09:01:

Gabriel & Dresden finished...

EDIT:

So it's official:


quote:
hello friends and fans

some of you may have noticed that i have not checked into myspace at all this year. it has been quite a few troubling months for me and frankly i just didn�t know what to say here, but now i can talk freely and participate in the community and so please accept this blog as my grand hello.

yes, the rumor is true. Gabriel & Dresden and parted ways for the time being. Over the past year, Josh and i have been moving apart as artists and we decided rather than milk it and be moderately happy together that we separate and examine ourselves as individual artists for a while. Our final date was the beatport pool party in miami on march 30th. For those who were there, i want to thank each and every one of you for showing Josh and I the love and support that you did. A lot of the set was songs that we have individually been working on interspersed with a few fan favorites. I will remember that hour and 15 minutes forever because i certainly felt the love with all the hands in the air and the well-wishes.

After WMC i went into the hospital to have shoulder surgery. I had a torn rotator cuff and after years of constant dislocations to my shoulder, i wanted to get that out of the way so that i can be 100% when i hit the road in mid-may as a solo artist.

I have also been very busy in the studio with my own music. I made a track with my good friend chris cox back in february called "Hole Wide" - it samples a relatively obscure song from the 80�s band tears for fears "advice for the young at heart" and it�s the kind of feel-good house i have always wanted to make but never did. Some of you may have caught it on pete tong�s essential selection show yesterday. if you didn�t check out the bbc.co.uk/radio1 site and have a listen to the show. he played it right before the essential new tune.

it will take a few more weeks for me to recover fully from my operation and then i will announce my tour plans.

and for the 1000�s of people who have reuested to be my friend, please be patient, i will add all of you. godspeed


Dave Dresden's blog.

Can't say I'm terribly sad to see them part ways, as I've found their collaboration work to have steadily gone down that long, lonesome, uninteresting road.


Posted by Palladium on Mar-28-2008 09:08:

it was all about josh gabriel anyway

dave is applying in several mcdonnalds and burger kings as we post


Posted by idoru on Mar-28-2008 09:10:

Meh.


Posted by Paradox Lost on Mar-28-2008 09:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Palladium
it was all about josh gabriel anyway

dave is applying in several mcdonnalds and burger kings as we post


Although Gabriel seemed to be more involved with official and long-standing projects, Dresden, as far as I could tell, was consistently churning out little unofficial releases he would make available for free downloads to anyone who was interested.

Of course, I'm not saying they're necessarily any good, but he seemed to be pretty prolific on the side.


Posted by RebeL9 on Mar-28-2008 09:31:

Confused

I won't miss them. Both their sets and the majority of their productions have been a snoozefest IMO.


Posted by silene on Mar-28-2008 09:35:

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
I won't miss them. Both their sets and the majority of their productions have been a snoozefest IMO.


It pains me to say this, but +1. They had some great productions, and some not so great one that still struck that chord for me, but unfortunately those have become pretty few as of late.


Posted by Paradox Lost on Mar-28-2008 09:37:

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
I won't miss them. Both their sets and the majority of their productions have been a snoozefest IMO.


Not only did their sets seem to have they been largely go-nowhere snoozefests, but (and I'm sorry if this has been brought up to death in the past), they tend to consist predominantly of their own productions. It's almost as if their idea of throwing in variety into their sets is to drop a track recorded under one of their aliases. I have no problem with tastefully integrating your tracks into your sets for promotional purposes, but I've never seen tracklistings so consistently flooded with original productions as I've seen with G&D, and really appear as anything but tasteful.


Posted by silene on Mar-28-2008 09:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Paradox Lost
Not only did their sets seem to have they been largely go-nowhere snoozefests, but (and I'm sorry if this has been brought up to death in the past),they tend to consist predominantly of their own productions. I have no problem with tastefully integrating your tracks into your sets for promotional purposes, but I've never seen tracklistings so consistently flooded with original productions as I've seen with G&D.


I may be wrong, but do remixes count as original productions? Cause I didn't know they actually had too many original releases.


Posted by Paradox Lost on Mar-28-2008 09:47:

quote:
Originally posted by silene
I may be wrong, but do remixes count as original productions? Cause I didn't know they actually had too many original releases.


Yeah, they did have a lot of remixes and re-edits, but it's the essential point that you can't seem to look up a G&D tracklisting without seeing their names on 75 percent of the tracks, either before or after the track title.

Take a look at this tracklisting (I think it may have been one of their NYC gigs):

01. Depeche Mode - Here Is The House (Gabriel & Dresden Bootleg)
02. Beber & Tamra - Travelling On (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
03. Coldplay - White Shadows (Gabriel & Dresden Bootleg)
04. Gabriel & Dresden - Arcadia
05. Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
06. Rachael Starr - Till There Was You (Gabriel & Dresden Fluffo Mix)
07. Ozgur Can - Changed (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
08. Moby - Running Again (Steve Angello Remix)
09. Gabriel & Dresden - Portobello
10. Markus Schulz feat Departure - Without You Near
11. Armin Van Buuren feat Gabriel & Dresden - Zocalo
12. Above & Beyond - No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
13. Eye Wall - Bad Deal (Remy & Roland Klinkenberg Remix)
14. Motorcycle - My Blue Heart (Gabriel & Dresden Chocolate Popart Dub)
15. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Sweeping Strings Mix)
16. Deep Dish - Say Hello (Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso Remix)
17. Perasma - Swing To Harmony (Gabriel & Dresden Club Mix)
18. Andy Moor - Halcyon
19. Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun (Gabriel & Dresden Chillout Mix)
20. Andain - Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix)
21. ID
22. Bigtop - Sub
23. Josh Gabriel - Alive
24. Kay D Smith & Marc Tall pres. Passive Resistance - Praiseworthy Tunes (Hoipolloi Mix)
25. Dido - Don't Leave Home (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
26. Motorcycle - Around You (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
27. Nicole Spoonberg - Resurection (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)

In retrospect, G&D are by no means the only people guilty of this, and I'm sure the overwhelming majority people in the crowd found it to be a blast, but seriously...what a joke.


Posted by kitphillips on Mar-28-2008 11:11:

They were one of the acts that got me into trance in the first place, but lately they're stuff has been a shambles. So sorry to see them go, but I guess it was all over for me anyway after "Tracking Treasure Down".


Posted by Magistrate on Mar-28-2008 12:18:

now Dave won't be able to ruin the new Andain album (if it ever comes...)


Posted by sljiva on Mar-28-2008 12:34:

God nows I won't miss them. Still, Arcadia is one of my favourite post-2000 prog. house tracks


Posted by CGRumler on Mar-28-2008 13:30:

And I just got their Toolroom Knights Vol. 2 cd in the mail, last week!


Fucking mint.

Shame to see them go.


Posted by spike1056 on Mar-28-2008 14:28:

i gotta say they had some taste, some good stuff, and i am personally sad to see them go...


Posted by sleepydragon on Mar-28-2008 15:09:

thank god for that. i saw them play a 6 hour set and they were shocking crap isnt the word to describe it easily my worst ever night out.


Posted by david.michael on Mar-28-2008 15:40:

DAVE DRESDEN RELATED missing from thread title IMO


Posted by Sykonee on Mar-28-2008 16:20:

Heh. The whole G&D empire sure did crumble after their debut album tanked, didn't it.


Posted by RJT on Mar-28-2008 16:29:

It's going to be fun to see how fast Dave falls off the face of the planet.


Posted by PaulSn on Mar-28-2008 16:33:

They were never any good. Sure, a couple a good remixes but that's as far as this duo went.


Posted by Ted Promo on Mar-28-2008 17:18:

Oh no! How will Dave Dresden eat?!


Posted by frostdude1 on Mar-28-2008 17:38:

Do you think its a coincidence that this news comes after Armin just played their choons as the ASOT Classic for 3 weeks in a row. Do you think maybe he knew about this news before and this was his way of telling them how much they mean to the genre ?

Most likely not but love to speculate


Posted by lim f(x) = f(a) on Mar-28-2008 18:55:

support Josh


Posted by miamitranceman on Mar-28-2008 21:40:

Can't say I'm surprised to see this. When I saw them last year, Dave could barely stand up straight in the booth. He actually LEFT Josh alone in the booth for the last half of the show.

They had some great stuff pre-'06.

Their latest tracks have gone nowhere. This is for the best, and Josh will hopefully finally get the sole credit he deserves.


They're supposedly playing down here tonight for WMC...I wonder if they're just gonna finish touring together first or what?


Posted by Trance-M on Mar-28-2008 21:54:

quote:
Originally posted by PaulSn
They were never any good. Sure, a couple a good remixes but that's as far as this duo went.


Yes, I would say "Faithless - It's a Kind of Peace (Gabriel and Dresden Remix)" proves that one.


Posted by SteelWolf on Mar-28-2008 22:04:

TOo bad, they had some good stuff... but not so much lately... Dangerous Power was more like... Dangerous Power poop


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