Gabriel & Dresden Split up....

[davehart]

Fresh news this from the MySpace pages of Dave Dresden:

hello friends and fans

some of you may have noticed that i have not checked into myspace at all this year. it has been quite a few troubling months for me and frankly i just didn’t know what to say here, but now i can talk freely and participate in the community and so please accept this blog as my grand hello.

yes, the rumor is true. Gabriel & Dresden and parted ways for the time being. Over the past year, Josh and i have been moving apart as artists and we decided rather than milk it and be moderately happy together that we separate and examine ourselves as individual artists for a while. Our final date was the beatport pool party in miami on march 30th. For those who were there, i want to thank each and every one of you for showing Josh and I the love and support that you did. A lot of the set was songs that we have individually been working on interspersed with a few fan favorites. I will remember that hour and 15 minutes forever because i certainly felt the love with all the hands in the air and the well-wishes.

After WMC i went into the hospital to have shoulder surgery. I had a torn rotator cuff and after years of constant dislocations to my shoulder, i wanted to get that out of the way so that i can be 100% when i hit the road in mid-may as a solo artist.

I have also been very busy in the studio with my own music. I made a track with my good friend chris cox back in february called "Hole Wide" - it samples a relatively obscure song from the 80’s band tears for fears "advice for the young at heart" and it’s the kind of feel-good house i have always wanted to make but never did. Some of you may have caught it on pete tong’s essential selection show yesterday. if you didn’t check out the bbc.co.uk/radio1 site and have a listen to the show. he played it right before the essential new tune.

it will take a few more weeks for me to recover fully from my operation and then i will announce my tour plans.

and for the 1000’s of people who have reuested to be my friend, please be patient, i will add all of you.

godspeed,
dave

p.s. i’d also like to thank all of those who voted for gabriel & dresden "best american dj" for the 2nd year running. it was an excellent way for us to go out: a bang!

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They have produced some excellent tracks together but the glam of solo stardom is to much for any duo to avoid.

Thuink it is one one, double the tunes...but as much quality?

[Stream]

Yeah, they've done some good remixes and quite a lot of nice sets, but I guess josh and dave will to well on their own too, and will probably do some work together again in the future.

[Richard Passarella]

hope they will be good in solo as they have been in past togheter!

[Spherix]

It will be interesting to find out what the future holds for them.

[RonnieCross]

I heard a rumour that they were still releasing a couple of tracks, something to do with their contract. Something like, its official they are splitting, but there will be a couple of tracks before they do, or something? :S