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 Straylight Productions was a team of video game music composers and producers, founded in 1994. Overview The founding musicians were Andrew Sega and Dan Gardopée, joined later by Alexander Brandon. Straylight composed soundtracks for Origin Syst ...

. He was active in the tracking community during the 1990s and was a member of the groups Five Musicians and

Kosmic Free Music Foundation The Kosmic Free Music Foundation (a.k.a. Kosmic, or KFMF) was a worldwide group of computer musicians, artists, and coders focused on the PC demoscene. Most members were from the United States, Canada, and Australia. They created music - mostl ...

. As part of

, his music was featured in many games, including '' Crusader: No Remorse'', '' Crusader: No Regret'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Gardopée co-composed three CD albums, ''AtmosphereS: Cultures'', ''AtmosphereS: Moods'' and ''AtmosphereS: Pulses'', together with

Alexander Brandon Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community) is an American musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, incl ...

. In 2001, he had a single track release under the Basehead alias. This release was titled ''Beacon'' and was released by the

netlabel A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet. While similar to traditiona ...

Monotonik Records. Since 2005, Gardopée has worked in-house at

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, primarily as an audio engineer for the ''

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'' and ''

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'' series. He also writes reviews for

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References

External links

ModArchive.com music listing for BaseheadDan Gardopee

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Beacon release at Monotonik
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