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.
He was active in the tracking community during the 1990s and was a member of the groups Five Musicians and Kosmic Free Music Foundation.
As part of
Straylight Productions, he had his music featured in many games, including ''
Crusader: No Remorse'', ''
Crusader: No Regret'', ''
Unreal
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* ''Unreal'' (short story collection), a 1985 book of short stories by Paul Jennings
* ''Unreal'' (TV series), a 2015 television drama series on Lifetime
Computing and games
* ''Unreal'' (video game series), ...
'', ''
Unreal Tournament
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'' and ''
Deus Ex
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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, in ...
.
In 2001, he had a single track release under the Basehead alias. This release was titled ''Beacon'' and was released by the
netlabel
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Monotonik Records.
Since 2005, Gardopée has worked in-house at
2K Games
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, primarily as an audio engineer for the ''
NBA 2K
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The ser ...
'' and ''
WWE 2K
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'' series.
He also writes reviews for
Pitchfork Media
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.
References
External links
ModArchive.com music listing for BaseheadDan Gardopee
Dan Grandpre
at MobyGames
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Beacon release at Monotonik
American video game composers
Demosceners
Chiptune and tracker musicians
American audio engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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