Daniel Gardopée a.k.a. Dan Grandpre (a.k.a. Basehead in the tracker community) is an American electronic musician and former member of game music production company Straylight Productions.[1][2][3] He was active in the tracking community during the 1990s and was a member of the groups Five Musicians and Kosmic Free Music Foundation.[4]
As part of Straylight Productions, his music was featured in many games, including Crusader: No Remorse, Crusader: No Regret, Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex.
Gardopée co-composed three CD albums, AtmosphereS: Cultures, AtmosphereS: Moods and AtmosphereS: Pulses, together with Alexander Brandon.[3]
In 2001, he had a single track release under the Basehead alias. This release was titled Beacon and was released by the netlabel Monotonik Records.
Since 2005, Gardopée has worked in-house at 2K Games, primarily as an audio engineer for the NBA 2K and WWE 2K series.[5] He also writes reviews for Pitchfork Media.[6]
References
- ^ "Interview with Alex Brandon". Deus Ex Machina. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "A Conversation With Alexander Brandon". UnrealSP. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ a b Bezeau, François (November 2007). "Interview with Alexander Brandon". Game Music Online. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ Asle (2009). "Interview with Basehead". Amiga Music Preservation. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "NBA 2K12 credits" (PDF). 2K Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ Gardopee, Dan (February 29, 2000). "NakedSelf". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 4 September 2014.