Daniel Gardopée a.k.a. Dan Grandpre (a.k.a. Basehead in the tracker community) is an American electronic musician and former member of game music production company Straylight Productions.[1][2][3] He was active in the tracking community during the 1990s and was a member of the groups Five Musicians and Kosmic Free Music Foundation.[4]
Gardopée co-composed three CD albums, AtmosphereS: Cultures, AtmosphereS: Moods and AtmosphereS: Pulses, together with Alexander Brandon.[3]
In 2001, he had a single track release under the Basehead alias. This release was titled Beacon and was released by the netlabelMonotonik Records.
Since 2005, Gardopée has worked in-house at 2K Games, primarily as an audio engineer for the NBA 2K and WWE 2K series.[5] He also writes reviews for Pitchfork Media.[6]