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Following the recent reunion of Gabriel & Dresden and their recent performance at the Anjunabeats event in Miami we are extremely ecstatic to bring you an in depth Q & A with none other than Dave Dresden and Josh Gabriel. In this interview we discuss the circumstances surrounding their reunion as well as what other projects they may be up to at the moment.

Who initiated the first step in Gabriel & Dresden getting back together?

It wasn't until we were booked to play on New Years Eve together at the Hollywood Palladium that we started talking in earnest. When we accepted the booking, we started to talk on Skype pretty regularly about what the show might sound like. We were sending tracks back and forth between each other and getting a feeling for what each of us was into. That pretty much started everything,.

Many fans claim that they knew you would get back together someday. Did you both break from the duo with that same thought in mind?

When you work as closely as we did together for as many years as we did, we came to a place in 2007 where we needed a break to explore other sides of our musical minds. We really had no plan as to what the future would hold for us, but in the back of our minds we knew our paths would cross again musically someday. It really was the fans who brought us back together...with all their tweets and youtube postings of Gabriel & Dresden songs on our Facebook pages, we knew that people wanted us to play together again.

When you played your first gig together again after being broken up for some time, did you notice if you’re dynamic changed at all?

Things were a little strange at first, but by the 2nd or 3rd track we were reminded of our great musical chemistry and that the time away did not take anything from it.

When you were both playing as solo artists, which aspect of performing on your own took the most getting used to?

For Josh it was based around being his own DJ and everything that goes into putting together a set, and for Dave it was learning to start and finish his own productions in Logic.

Do you feel that you have grown as artists since the separation, and if so in what ways?

We feel that the biggest changes for us are the personal growth that we have each achieved apart. That growth is helping us to relate better which has improved every aspect of our career together.

When you are DJing do you each take turns playing a track or do you switch off every few transitions, and how is this normally decided?

We work together the entire set, exactly the way we have since we started in 2004 playing together. Josh is on Ableton Live and Dave is on the mixer and we are both discussing which song to play next and how we're gonna do the segue. From then on it's all body language with Josh on the Ableton effects and Dave working the mixer's EQ's and faders. We feel this process still works great for us, but we are talking about ways we can improve our live show which we plan to implement over time.

Are you working on any new tracks or may be possibly an album?

We just finished a remix for Andain's "Promises", a song which we both worked on together in 2007 with singer Mavie. We plan to start working on singles while we're on the road in Australia with the hopes of releasing a mix CD sometime this summer. It will likely have a bunch of exclusive Gabriel & Dresden productions and remixes on it.

Do you think you will work with Jes again as Motorcycle at some point in the future?

Probably. It was our biggest tune and her biggest tune so it would be silly to not get in the studio again and try some stuff out. We both love her voice and penchant for words.

What is the latest piece of hardware or software that either of you have purchased?

We are getting a lot of use out of the WAVES plug-ins, especially the Chris Lord-Alge compressors the API EQ's and the SSL bundle of EQ's and compressors.

Which Gabriel & Dresden track has been getting the biggest audience reaction at your recent shows?

People seem to really still dig "Zolcalo", "Tracking Treasure Down" and "As The Rush Comes" in their original versions. A couple of mashups we've done with our acappellas over them have also won favor with the fans especially the one we did with our song "Let Go" over Mat Zo's "Synapse Dynamics" (Arty Remix)

Are you working on any other projects that you would like to share with us?

Josh has Winter Kills with Meredith Call on vocals as well as the Andain album which we both have had a hand in producing, and Dave has an unreleased Dresden & Johnston album waiting in the wings featuring vocal collaborations with Skylar Grey, Nadia Ali and Jan Burton.

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