They collaborated from to , then again from to the present. During that time, they have created numerous hit songs and remixes, some of which are considered classics. The pair reunited in early and proceeded on a reunion tour, which began at Ruby Skye in San Francisco on March 4, Dave Dresden 's musical ability was developed through 15 years DJing prior to forming the group, while Josh Gabriel has an undergraduate college degree in music composition from the California Institute for the Arts.
DJ Ralphie Gomez, the club's longtime resident DJ β , played an eclectic mixture of new wave and early industrial music that drew crowds to this popular back road rural night spot. The night was promoted by Long Island's This helped him to land a spot reporting his top tracks to the Hot Dance Club Songs chart in Billboard , a highly touted, and difficult title to earn amongst DJs in the US with only 95 DJs in total submitting their weekly charts.
Josh started experimenting with synthesizers and computers in the early s, achieving mastery of the Yamaha DX7 and TX by the age of With an Apple Macintosh Plus , and the earliest of music applications like Mark of the Unicorn 's "Composer" and "Performer", Josh was already on the bleeding edge. In the Netherlands, Gabriel's inventor spirit took shape as he wrote a computer application to control samples on an Akai S in real-time with a joystick.
With this, the inception for what later became Mixman was born. Along with electronics whiz Jan Panis, Karlheinz Stockhausen 's tech-man [ 5 ] Gabriel built an apparatus which converted beams of light coming up off the floor into a MIDI control device and the year-old Gabriel dressed in black, wearing white gloves performed his real-time beat-trigger device in the clubs of Amsterdam.
He founded the music creation tool Mixman in the s, which was the first program to make music using loops of digital audio. Gabriel's patents for loop-based music remixing are the backbone of industry standard music making software applications used in virtually every producer's studio today. Dave met Pete Tong whilst he was the music director of Swedish Egil's grooveradio. A few months later, as a thank you for the work he had done, Pete offered Dave the opportunity to do a remix of New Order 's Someone Like You and Dave asked Josh to work on it with him.
