Columbus Affairs

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Josh Gabriel of Gabriel & Dresden is visiting Columbus for the first time as far as I know.

This is no ordinary show. This duo is known to play some of the largest events in the world. Granted it’s only one of the renowned duo DJ team, I think this will still be a sight to see.

About Josh Gabriel from Wikipedia:

In 1988-89, a 20 year old exchange student from California Institute of the Arts, was living in The Hague in Holland and studying at the Institute of Sonology. Josh Gabriel had already been working with digital music since his high-school days, achieving mastery of the DX7 and TX816 by the age of 17. With an Apple Macintosh Plus, operating system 3, and the earliest of music applications like Mark of the Unicorn’s “Composer” and “Performer”, Josh was already at the bleeding edge.

In Holland, Gabriel’s inventor spirit took shape as he wrote a computer application to control samples on an Akai S900 in real-time with a joystick. And the inception for what later became Mixman had been born. Along with electronics whiz Jan Pannis, (Stockhausen’s tech-man) Gabriel and Pannis built an apparatus which converted beams of light coming up off the floor into a Midi Control device and the 20 year old Gabriel dressed in black, wearing white gloves performed his real-time beat-trigger device in the clubs of Amsterdam.

By 1993 Gabriel was doing high-end digital sound editing, design and production in Los Angeles, and finally found a business partner and the journey that was to become Mixman began.

And a sample video: