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Pascal Gabriel
   
photo of pascal gabriel with headphones Pascal Gabriel's music career started to take shape when he left an art-school band in his native Belgium in the late 1970s and headed to London...Once there, he worked as a freelance sound engineer in various studios, earning a reputation for innovative remixes for cult artists like Marc Almond, Yello, Can and Wire.

By the late 1980s, Pascal was at the forefront of the dance music explosion as producer and co-writer for S-Express and Bomb the Bass, achieving Number One singles with both S-Express’s 'Theme from S-Express' and Bomb the Bass' breakthrough track 'Beat Dis'.

Pascal embarked on a series of mixing, writing and producing duties for a wide range of artists, from pop supremos like Erasure to pop legends such as Deborah Harry and Billy MacKenzie.

The 1990s saw him working across a broad musical spectrum. Though still in touch with his dance instincts, Pascal began moving away from beats and breaks towards indie-pop, working with a number of bands, including New Order, co-producing their single Respect. He was also a producer on EMF's multi-platinum album 'Schubert Dip'. By 1997, he had formed the band Peach, resulting in a string of international hits.

In the new millenium, Pascal was introduced to an unsigned singer called Dido, with whom he wrote several songs. These tracks – Here With Me and No Angel – became flagship songs on Dido's multi-million selling debut album 'No Angel'.

Following that, he began writing with and producing tracks for Kylie, including Your Love for the critically acclaimed 'Fever' album.

Since then, he has notched up several hits with an eclectic mixture of musical collaborators including KT Tunstall, David McAlmont, folk hero Boo Hewerdine, Norwegian superstar Morten Abel, pop starlet Rachel Stevens (co-writing & producing her Top Ten electro track 'So Good') as well as indie darling Hafdis Huld and Liberty X (co-writing the UK Top Ten hit 'Everybody Cries').

More recently, Pascal co-wrote and produced two tracks for Sophie Ellis Bextor's album 'Trip the Light Fantastic'. He also co-wrote and produced Miss Kittin's instant cult classic 'Batbox' album, released in February 2008.

He is currently working with New Zealand's rising star Ladyhawke as well as several other exciting new projects.... watch this space.....


Pascal is published by Warner Chappell.

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songwriter / producer
s-express, the theme from s-express bomb the bass, into the dragon inspiral carpets, saturn five dido, no angel, here with me kylie, your love bebel gilberto, ceu distante liberty x, everybody cries rachel stevens, so good sophie ellis bextor, what have we started