Thomas Gandey (born 21 March 1976) is an English electronic music producer, composer, vocalist, keyboard player and former DJ, known for work under his own name as well as under his Cagedbaby pseudonym. He has released over 150 remixes to date including for Shirley Bassey,

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, Fatboy Slim,

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and Grace Jones,Cagedbaby: remixes
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-09-04. and DJed and performed live shows at many of the world's best-known clubs and festivals, including

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, Glastonbury Festival,

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, and Tokyo's Big Beach Festival. He has been a resident at We Love Space Ibiza and

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's Razzmatazz.Thomas Gandey
Space Ibiza. Retrieved 2014-17-04. He lived in the UK until 2006, and now splits his time between

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and Brighton.Thomas Gandey: about
Thomas Gandey official website. Retrieved 2014-12-04.

Early life and career

Born in Brighton, England, Gandey grew up under the musical influence of his grandfathers, one of whom was an orchestral conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra,Cagedbaby interview
Female First. Retrieved 2014-12-04. the other a ragtime and boogie-woogie piano player. He learned to play the piano from the age of four, and after living next door to a church at the age of six where he practiced the organ; he began playing the instrument in school assemblies. His first efforts at making a career out of music were as part of grunge band, Airport, and punk band, Thrillcreem. He discovered electronic music while working as a sound engineer at festivals, and soon took his musical endeavours in this direction. Meanwhile, his piano playing talents saw him become a session and touring keyboard player for acts including Kylie Minogue.Cagedbaby interview
Higher Frequency. Retrieved 2014-12-04.

2004 - current: Cagedbaby

After spending several years playing keyboards for musicians, Gandey decided to pursue his love of electronic music with his own project. Gandey chose the name Cagedbaby for his first major electronic music project. "Either it's something to do with being linked to the earth, chained to Mother Nature by an unseen umbilical chord" he said in one interview in 2005. "Or I chose it because my releases would end up being next to

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in the racks at

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." In another interview in the same year, he claimed "the actual truth is that it was my email address on Hotmail when Hotmail first came out." In 2002, he took some demos of his music to the

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in Miami and gave them to Fatboy Slim, who was suitably impressed with his music to sign him to his own Southern Fried Records label. His debut album ''Will See You Now'' was released in 2005, receiving a 4-star review from UK newspaper

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CD: Cagedbaby, Will See You Now
The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-11-08. and was followed by a stream of singles and remixes for pop and underground artists alike.Cagedbaby: discography
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-12-04. The success of his album led him to becoming a tour DJ for Fatboy Slim,

and

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. 2006 saw him mix

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show.Essential Mix: Caged Baby
BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 2014-17-04. He began contributing vocals to other producers' and bands' projects in 2009, when he appeared on a track by Italian duo Analog People In A Digital World.Thomas Gandey: vocals
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-14-04. 2009 also saw him play the main stage at Scotland's RockNess festival,RockNess 2009 line-up
BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 2014-11-08. and take part in a collaborative art project with photographer Rankin for Youth Music.Last chance to buy the Rankin/ Cagedbaby collaborative
Mixmag. Retrieved 2014-11-08. Following a hiatus of several years, Cagedbaby returned with the ''Synthwave EP'' in December 2021. ''Attention'' from the EP was chosen by

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as her Record Of The Week on her

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show. A new album ''Music for Somewhere Else'' will be released on his own label Uncaged Recordings in August 2022 Cagedbaby tracks have been released on labels including Innversions, Southern Fried Records,

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and

Planet E Communications Planet E Communications is an independent electronic music recording label that started in 1991 in Detroit, Michigan. The label was founded by DJ/Producer Carl Craig. Planet E's first release was titled “Four Jazz Funk Classics,” which Craig re ...

. As A DJ, Gandey held residencies as Cagedbaby at Space Ibiza,

in Tokyo and Razzmatazz in Barcelona and recorded an episode of

2010 - current: Thomas Gandey

Gandey has been producing records and providing vocals under his own name since 2010. He released further tracks on his 'home' label Southern Fried Records, German house/techno label Get Physical Music and on

DJ/producers Andy George & Jaymo's Moda Black.Cagedbaby: discography
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-12-04. He has provided vocals for producers including

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, Blond:ish and German Brigante. He was also a writer and producer for the 11-times Lucille Lortell Awards nominated

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musical ''

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'', created by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim,Here Lies Love Closes Today
Broadway World. Retrieved 2014-17-04. and worked as a producer, programmer and keyboardist on

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;Thomas Gandey: Out Of The Box
Pulse Radio. Retrieved 2014-17-04. a project, also featuring

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and

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.Gary Barlow delighted to join war effort
Express. Retrieved 2014-11-08. In 2012, he created a guest mix for Annie Nightingale's long running

show.Annie Nightingale guest mix
BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 2014-11-08. He has provided vocals for a track on UK house music producer Huxley's debut album ''Blurred'', called "Never Easy", released in October 2014.Full details of Huxley album revealed
Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2014-12-08.

2012 - current: MATOM

MATOM is Gandey's

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project alongside fellow English producer Matt Edwards, which came to being after the duo were asked by Red Bull Music AcademyMatom Interview
Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved 2014-20-09. to collaborate for a special live set at Berlin's

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club in September 2012.Radio Slave & Thomas Gandey live at Hansa Studios
Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved 2014-14-04. Follow-up shows were booked in Berlin, France and Poland,Little White Earbuds interviews Radio Slave
Little White Earbuds. Retrieved 2014-14-04. and the duo have produced an album that was released on

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in 2014.Matt Edwards and Thomas Gandey to release album on Planet E
Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2014-12-08.

Selected discography

Albums

*''Will See You Now'' (2005)

Singles and EPs

*Cagedbaby - ''Star'' (2003) *Cagedbaby - ''10 Inches Of Blue Eyed Soul'' w/ Grandadbob (2004) *Cagedbaby - ''16 Lovers'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Disco Biscuit'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Golden Triangle'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Hello There'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Bordeaux'' w/

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(2006) *Cagedbaby - ''Medicine'' (2009) *Thomas Gandey - ''Behind The Mask / Here's What You Do'' (2010) *Thomas Gandey - ''Get It On / Mercy Hump'' (2010) *Thomas Gandey - ''That Piano Track'' (2012) *Thomas Gandey - ''The Organ Track'' (2012) *Maxxi Soundsystem & Thomas Gandey - ''Shake Your Head'' (2012) *Thomas Gandey & Zeb Wayne - ''Trust Me EP'' (2012) *Thomas Gandey & Zeb Wayne - ''Breathe'' (2013) *Thomas Gandey - ''The Cube EP'' (2013) *Cagedbaby - ''That's The Trouble'' (2014) *Cagedbaby & The Young Punx - ''Loving You Baby'' (2015) *Thomas Gandey - ''Love Machine'' - (2016) *Thomas Gandey - ''Pieces Of Me'' (2017) *Thomas Gandey - ''To Find Reason'' (2017) *Ghost Vision - ''Saturnus'' (2018) *Ghost Vision - ''Sakuhachi'' (2018) *Ghost Vision - ''Ozen'' (2019) *Thomas Gandey & Mia Mendi - ''Cultum'' (2020) *Cagedbaby & Dorothys Fortress - ''Attention'' (2021) *Thomas Gandey & Mia Mendi - ''Ubi'' (2021) *Thomas Gandey - ''We Survive'' (2021) *Thomas Gandey & Santiago Garcia - ''On Two Strangers''

Remixes

* Armand Van Helden - My My My (Cagedbaby Pace Mix) (2004) *

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- Red Dress (Cagedbaby Remix) (2006) *

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feat. Laura Vane - Badboy (2006) * Shirley Bassey - Get The Party Started (2007) *

- I Told You So (Caged Baby Remix) (2007) *

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- Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Remix) (2007) *

The Brighton Port Authority Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist f ...

feat. David Byrne & izzee Rascal- Toe Jam (Cagedbaby Remix) (2008) *

Empire Of The Sun ''Empire of the Sun'' is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology ...

- We Are the People (Cagedbaby Remix) (2009) *

Sweet Disposition "Sweet Disposition" is a song by Australian indie rock band The Temper Trap. Described by critics as an "indie anthem", the song was written by Dougy Mandagi and Lorenzo Silitto. Upon the song's release, it peaked at 14 in Australia and reached ...

(Caged Baby Paradise 54 Disco Mix (2009) * Grace Jones - Love You To Life (Cagedbaby & Guy Williams Paradise 45 Rework) (2010) *Howling - Signs (Radio Salve and Thomas Gandey Remix) (2015) *Myd - Together We Stand (Thomas Gandey & Radio Slave Remix) (2020) *Sailor & I - Thinking About You (Thomas Gandey Remix) (2021)

Vocals

*Analog People In A Digital World feat. Cagedbaby - ''Circus'' (2009) *Blond:ish feat. Thomas Gandey - ''Strange Attractions EP'' (2012) *

- ''Things You Do To Me'' (2013) *Thodoris Triantafillou & CJ Jeff feat. Thomas Gandey - Body Clock (2014) *KatrinKa feat. Thomas Gandey - The Nameless One EP ( Chapter 24 Records, 2016)

Compilations

*''Southern Fried & Tested'' w/ The Mighty Dub Katz (2007) *Thomas Gandey - ''2010 Collection'' (2010) *''Southern Fried & Tested 3'' w/ The 2 Bears (2011)

References

External links

* * * statistics, tagging and previews at

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