Trance + Classics

This is old. Too old, but too good. You can download it if you want to do so. If you can find the original sound, please buy it.

Nicol Sponberg - Resurrection (Gabriel & Dresden Vocal Mix)

Paul Oakenfold-Southern Sun (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)

Michael Burns - Forwards

Rachael Starr gave Dave a demo copy of this song in 2003. Dave immediately loved it but didn't really think Josh was going to so he never played it for him. But then one day almost two years later, Dave got up the balls to play it for Josh and, lo and behold, he loved it. So, in 2005 Gabriel & Dresden did a remix for this song which helped get it signed to Positiva Records as well as Ultra Music. 

One of our best-loved remixes to this day.



Rachael Starr - Till There Was You (Gabriel & Dresden Club Mix)

The seeds of Zocalo were planted in early 2003 when Dave handed a demo of "As The Rush Comes" to Armin when he was playing at the Mayan in downtown LA. The next day Armin called Dave to tell him how much he loved the song and that he wanted to sign it to the label he was starting called Armada Music, thus becoming one Armada's first releases.

At that point, Armin wanted to get into the studio with us and create an original song together. In the fall of 2003 we went to Armin's house in Leiden, NL to create something. We spent a week in his studio and made a demo titled "16 Days Ago"  that we liked but didn't love. And thus, it never was finished.

Two years later, Armin got a copy of our song "Arcadia" and once again, this opened the conversation for us to collaborate. After the Winter Music Conference that year, we all headed to San Leandro, California to create something together in the studio and this is exactly what was made that first week of April, 2005.

While we were making the song, Armin and Dave decided to walk down the street to the local Zocalo Coffeehouse to get an afternoon pick-me-up. Armin loved their coffee so much that he decided that "Zocalo" should be the name of the song. We both agreed and the rest is dance music history.






Armin van Buuren feat Gabriel & Dresden - Zocalo

In 2004, We released a mix compilation on Nettwerk Records called "Bloom" - it was a 2 disc affair which included some of our favorite songs we were playing in our sets along with our newest tracks and remixes. 

Once we had most of the songs compiled, we felt like the compilation was missing something. Something that "took you there" but also with a bit of soul and real instruments. 

So one day, on a lark, Josh decided to pick up his Fender Jazz bass and start playing some stuff. Dave immediately loved what Josh was playing and implored him to record what he was doing so it would not be lost in the ether of "great ideas never recorded."

What happened next was pretty incredible. We started building this song layer by layer. By the end of that day, we pretty much had it finished. A couple days of tweaks and it was done. 

We were so over the moon that we had made a song in such a short period of time that we didn't know what to call it. Enter Dave's realtor, Carol Robbiano, who was showing him a house on Arcadia Avenue in Oakland, CA. While driving to see the house, Dave played her the song. She suggested we name it "Arcadia" if Dave ended up liking the property. 

in 2005, we decided to start our own label called "Organized Nature" and we knew immediately that "Arcadia" would be our first release. For the single we updated a couple of things, re-mixed it to sound bigger and fatter and added a swing-y house beat. So the version of "Arcadia" on the "Bloom" compilation is technically a demo.





Gabriel & Dresden - Arcadia (Original 12" mix - edited)

When you think of Gabriel & Dresden classics, "Dangerous Power" is nearly always close to the top of many fans' lists. 

Featuring a powerful vocal from Syntax's Jan Burton (whom we learned about through mixing the Nip/Tuck soundtrack), Dangerous Power has nearly every element that we believe makes a perfect dance track. A great vocal, meaningful lyrics, a smart arrangement and sounds that are unique and unusual. 

Hope you feel the same way too!




Gabriel & Dresden feat Jan Burton - Dangerous Power (Radio Edit)

Gabriel & Dresden feat Molly - "Let Go" (Album Version)

68 Beats - Replay The Night (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)

Yes, we have made remixes for Spinnin' Records - but that was 2001, y'all.

4 Strings - "(Take Me Away) Into The Night" - Gabriel & Dresden Remix

Gabriel & Dresden - Tracking Treasure Down Feat Molly Bancroft (Radio Edit)

Gabriel & Dresden feat Scarlett Etienne - "Eleven" - (Album Version)

Faithless feat Cat Power "It's A Kind of Peace" (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)

This post contains the continuous mix version of our one and only album. We spent the entire of 2005 making this record and the following 2 years touring it. 

You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_%26_Dresden_%28album%29

Tracklisting:
1. Let Go (Feat Molly Bancroft)
2. Eleven (Feat Scarlett Etienne)
3. Enemy (Feat Jan Burton)
4. Dust in the Wind (Feat Molly Bancroft)
5. Mass Repeat
6. Closer (Feat Molly Bancroft)
7. Not Enough (Feat Jan Burton)
8. Amsterdam Interlude
9. New Path (Feat Jan Burton)
10. Sydney 
11. Dangerous Power (Feat Jan Burton)
12. Tracking Treasure Down (Feat Molly Bancroft)
13. Outro (Featuring Rowan Gabriel)


Gabriel & Dresden - Gabriel & Dresden  (full album)

We did this one for fun and nobody's ever really heard it.

there was never an extended mix of our mix - just a radio edit.

we've made it downloadable so you may add it to your collection. 



Jes (feat Deepsky) - "Ghost" - (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)

it was an honor to remix this trance-house classic!

launched exactly 11 years ago at WMC 2003!



Nalin & Kane "Beach Ball" (Gabriel & Dresden's South Beach Vacation Remix)

We found out about this song on James Holden's Balance 05 Mix CD (still to this day one of the best mix CD's ever made)

So, when Ministry of Sound records asked us to remix it a year later, we jumped at the chance and treated it with kid gloves. 

What that breakdown does to a dancefloor...

Perasma "Swing To Harmony" (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)

Above & Beyond - No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Intro Mix)

This is a song we have loved for a long time. Long before it took our breath away at the end of 6 Feet Under.

Listening to a lot of the music that is coming out now, you can hear this song's influence on a lot of producers. it's a song and vibe that captures any moment deeply.

So we finally decided to make a version to DJ with. And this is what it is. 

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