Thomas Gandey (born 21 March 1976) is an English electronic music producer, composer, vocalist, keyboard player and former DJ, known for work under his own name as well as under his Cagedbaby pseudonym. He has released over 150 remixes to date including for

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, Empire of the Sun,

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and

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,Cagedbaby: remixes
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-09-04. and DJed and performed live shows at many of the world's best-known clubs and festivals, including

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, and Tokyo's Big Beach Festival. He has been a resident at We Love

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and

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's Razzmatazz.Thomas Gandey
Space Ibiza. Retrieved 2014-17-04. He lived in the UK until 2006, and now splits his time between

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and

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

.Thomas Gandey: about
Thomas Gandey official website. Retrieved 2014-12-04.

Early life and career

Born in Brighton, England, Gandey grew up under the musical influence of his grandfathers, one of whom was an orchestral conductor

London Philharmonic Orchestra The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is a British orchestra based in London. One of five permanent symphony orchestras in London, the LPO was founded by the conductors Thomas Beecham, Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a riv ...

,Cagedbaby interview
Female First. Retrieved 2014-12-04. the other a ragtime and boogie-woogie piano player. He learned to play the piano from the age of four, and after living next door to a church at the age of six where he practiced the organ; he began playing the instrument in school assemblies. His first efforts at making a career out of music were as part of grunge band, Airport, and punk band, Thrillcreem. He discovered electronic music while working as a sound engineer at festivals, and soon took his musical endeavours in this direction. Meanwhile, his piano playing talents saw him become a session and touring keyboard player for acts including

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.Cagedbaby interview
Higher Frequency. Retrieved 2014-12-04.

2004 - current: Cagedbaby

After spending several years playing keyboards for musicians, Gandey decided to pursue his love of electronic music with his own project. Gandey chose the name Cagedbaby for his first major electronic music project. "Either it's something to do with being linked to the earth, chained to Mother Nature by an unseen umbilical chord" he said in one interview in 2005. "Or I chose it because my releases would end up being next to

The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed by Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands in Manchester in 1992. They were pioneers in bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture. Originally known as The Dust Brothers, th ...

in the racks at

HMV HMV is an international music and entertainment retailer, founded in 1921. The brand is owned by Hilco Capital and operated by Sunrise Records, except in Japan, where it is owned and operated by Lawson. The inaugural shop was opened on Lo ...

." In another interview in the same year, he claimed "the actual truth is that it was my email address on Hotmail when Hotmail first came out." In 2002, he took some demos of his music to the

Winter Music Conference The Winter Music Conference (WMC) is a week-long electronic music conference, held every March in Miami Beach, Florida, United States since 1985. It is also known as the premiere platform for electronic dance music. The conference brings togethe ...

in Miami and gave them to

, who was suitably impressed with his music to sign him to his own

Southern Fried Records Southern Fried Records is a London-based independent electronic dance music record label founded and owned by Norman Cook, better known by his stage name, Fatboy Slim. The label was created by Cook in 1994 to publish and market his and other ...

label. His debut album ''Will See You Now'' was released in 2005, receiving a 4-star review from UK newspaper

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

CD: Cagedbaby, Will See You Now
The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-11-08. and was followed by a stream of singles and remixes for pop and underground artists alike.Cagedbaby: discography
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-12-04. The success of his album led him to becoming a tour DJ for

and

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. 2006 saw him mix

BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and Contemporary hit radio, current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including ...

Essential Mix The ''Essential Mix'' is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 0:00 and 2:00 a.m. UK time on Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, the ''Essential Mix'' features contemporary DJs and music pr ...

show.Essential Mix: Caged Baby
BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 2014-17-04. He began contributing vocals to other producers' and bands' projects in 2009, when he appeared on a track by Italian duo Analog People In A Digital World.Thomas Gandey: vocals
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-14-04. 2009 also saw him play the main stage at Scotland's

RockNess RockNess was an annual music festival which took place in Scotland at Clune Farm, Dores, on the banks of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The festival was known as "the most beautiful festival in the world" and "the only festival with its ...

festival,RockNess 2009 line-up
BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 2014-11-08. and take part in a collaborative art project with photographer Rankin for Youth Music.Last chance to buy the Rankin/ Cagedbaby collaborative
Mixmag. Retrieved 2014-11-08. Following a hiatus of several years, Cagedbaby returned with the ''Synthwave EP'' in December 2021. ''Attention'' from the EP was chosen by

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as her Record Of The Week on her

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show. A new album ''Music for Somewhere Else'' will be released on his own label Uncaged Recordings in August 2022 Cagedbaby tracks have been released on labels including Innversions,

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and

Planet E Communications Planet E Communications is an independent electronic music recording label that started in 1991 in Detroit, Michigan. The label was founded by DJ/Producer Carl Craig. History Planet E's first release was titled "4 Jazz Funk Classics," which Craig ...

. As A DJ, Gandey held residencies as Cagedbaby at

in Tokyo and Razzmatazz in Barcelona and recorded an episode of

2010 - current: Thomas Gandey

Gandey has been producing records and providing vocals under his own name since 2010. He released further tracks on his 'home' label

, German house/techno label

Get Physical Music Get Physical Music is a Berlin-based electronic music record label founded in 2002 by M.A.N.D.Y. (Patrick Bodmer & Philipp Jung), DJ T (Thomas Koch) and Booka Shade (Walter Merziger, Arno Kammermeier & Peter Hayo). They were DJ Magazine's "Label ...

and on

DJ/producers Andy George & Jaymo's Moda Black.Cagedbaby: discography
Discogs. Retrieved 2014-12-04. He has provided vocals for producers including

Hot Since 82 Daley Padley, also known as Hot Since 82, is a British house music DJ and producer from South Yorkshire, England. He has been releasing music under the Hot Since 82 moniker since 2011. Personal life Originally from South Yorkshire, Padley ente ...

, Blond:ish and German Brigante. He was also a writer and producer for the 11-times Lucille Lortell Awards nominated

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musical ''

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'', created by

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and

,Here Lies Love Closes Today
Broadway World. Retrieved 2014-17-04. and worked as a producer, programmer and keyboardist on

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;Thomas Gandey: Out Of The Box
Pulse Radio. Retrieved 2014-17-04. a project, also featuring

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and

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.Gary Barlow delighted to join war effort
Express. Retrieved 2014-11-08. In 2012, he created a guest mix for

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's long running

show.Annie Nightingale guest mix
BBC Radio 1. Retrieved 2014-11-08. He has provided vocals for a track on UK house music producer Huxley's debut album ''Blurred'', called "Never Easy", released in October 2014.Full details of Huxley album revealed
Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2014-12-08.

2012 - current: MATOM

MATOM is Gandey's

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...

project alongside fellow English producer Matt Edwards, which came to being after the duo were asked by

Red Bull Music Academy The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH. The main five-week event is held in a different city each year. The public portion of its program is a festiv ...

Matom Interview
Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved 2014-20-09. to collaborate for a special live set at Berlin's

Berghain Berghain () is a nightclub in Berlin, Germany. It is named after its location near the border between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain and is a short walk from Berlin Ostbahnhof main line railway station.

club in September 2012.Radio Slave & Thomas Gandey live at Hansa Studios
Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved 2014-14-04. Follow-up shows were booked in Berlin, France and Poland,Little White Earbuds interviews Radio Slave
Little White Earbuds. Retrieved 2014-14-04. and the duo have produced an album that was released on

Carl Craig Carl Craig (born May 22, 1969) is an American electronic music producer, DJ, and founder of the record label Planet E Communications. He is known as a leading figure and pioneer in the second wave of Detroit techno artists during the late 1980 ...

in 2014.Matt Edwards and Thomas Gandey to release album on Planet E
Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2014-12-08.

Selected discography

Albums

*''Will See You Now'' (2005)

Singles and EPs

*Cagedbaby - ''Star'' (2003) *Cagedbaby - ''10 Inches Of Blue Eyed Soul'' w/ Grandadbob (2004) *Cagedbaby - ''16 Lovers'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Disco Biscuit'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Golden Triangle'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Hello There'' (2005) *Cagedbaby - ''Bordeaux'' w/

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(2006) *Cagedbaby - ''Medicine'' (2009) *Thomas Gandey - ''Behind The Mask / Here's What You Do'' (2010) *Thomas Gandey - ''Get It On / Mercy Hump'' (2010) *Thomas Gandey - ''That Piano Track'' (2012) *Thomas Gandey - ''The Organ Track'' (2012) *Maxxi Soundsystem & Thomas Gandey - ''Shake Your Head'' (2012) *Thomas Gandey & Zeb Wayne - ''Trust Me EP'' (2012) *Thomas Gandey & Zeb Wayne - ''Breathe'' (2013) *Thomas Gandey - ''The Cube EP'' (2013) *Cagedbaby - ''That's The Trouble'' (2014) *Cagedbaby & The Young Punx - ''Loving You Baby'' (2015) *Thomas Gandey - ''Love Machine'' - (2016) *Thomas Gandey - ''Pieces Of Me'' (2017) *Thomas Gandey - ''To Find Reason'' (2017) *Ghost Vision - ''Saturnus'' (2018) *Ghost Vision - ''Sakuhachi'' (2018) *Ghost Vision - ''Ozen'' (2019) *Thomas Gandey & Mia Mendi - ''Cultum'' (2020) *Cagedbaby & Dorothys Fortress - ''Attention'' (2021) *Thomas Gandey & Mia Mendi - ''Ubi'' (2021) *Thomas Gandey - ''We Survive'' (2021) *Thomas Gandey & Santiago Garcia - ''On Two Strangers''

Remixes

* Armand Van Helden - My My My (Cagedbaby Pace Mix) (2004) *

Sugababes The Sugababes are an English girl group composed of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Siobhán Donaghy. The lineup changed three times before returning to the original lineup in 2011. Formed in 1998 by Ron Tom, the manager of All Saints, ...

- Red Dress (Cagedbaby Remix) (2006) *

MJ Cole Matthew James Firth Coleman, better known by his stage name MJ Cole, is an English garage DJ, recording artist, record producer and remixer. Career Born in London, in his youth, Cole was classically trained on the oboe and piano, and won sch ...

feat. Laura Vane - Badboy (2006) *

- Get The Party Started (2007) *

- I Told You So (Caged Baby Remix) (2007) *

Tracey Thorn Tracey Thorn (born 26 September 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl, active from 1982 to 2000, and again from 2022. She was in the band Marine Girls from 1980 to ...

- Raise The Roof (Cagedbaby Remix) (2007) * The Brighton Port Authority feat.

& izzee Rascal- Toe Jam (Cagedbaby Remix) (2008) * Empire Of The Sun - We Are the People (Cagedbaby Remix) (2009) *

Sweet Disposition "Sweet Disposition" is a song by Australian indie rock band the Temper Trap. Described by critics as an "indie anthem", the song was written by Dougy Mandagi and Lorenzo Silitto. Upon the song's release, it peaked at 14 in Australia and reached ...

(Caged Baby Paradise 54 Disco Mix (2009) *

- Love You To Life (Cagedbaby & Guy Williams Paradise 45 Rework) (2010) *Howling - Signs (Radio Salve and Thomas Gandey Remix) (2015) *Myd - Together We Stand (Thomas Gandey & Radio Slave Remix) (2020) *Sailor & I - Thinking About You (Thomas Gandey Remix) (2021)

Vocals

*Analog People In A Digital World feat. Cagedbaby - ''Circus'' (2009) *Blond:ish feat. Thomas Gandey - ''Strange Attractions EP'' (2012) *

- ''Things You Do To Me'' (2013) *Thodoris Triantafillou & CJ Jeff feat. Thomas Gandey - Body Clock (2014) *KatrinKa feat. Thomas Gandey - The Nameless One EP (

Chapter 24 Records Chapter 24 is an English record label based in London, England. Its three founders are Sam Pauli, Marcus Blacker and Paul Nolan. Their artists belong to the house and techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is genera ...

, 2016)

Compilations

*''Southern Fried & Tested'' w/ The Mighty Dub Katz (2007) *Thomas Gandey - ''2010 Collection'' (2010) *''Southern Fried & Tested 3'' w/

The 2 Bears The 2 Bears are a British musical duo formed in 2009 composed of Joe Goddard (of electronic band Hot Chip) and Raf Rundell (previously of 1965 Records). The duo produces original material amalgamating various styles including , house and soul ...

(2011)

References

External links

* * * statistics, tagging and previews at

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