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About Gabriel & Dresden
Gabriel & Dresden (@gabrielndresden) is a Musician/band creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists. The account has 75,673 followers and 6,232 published posts. Recent posts average 1,126 likes and 56 comments, an engagement rate of 1.44%.
With 75.7K followers, Gabriel & Dresden is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 1,625 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 47 followers per account Gabriel & Dresden follows. Gabriel & Dresden carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Gabriel & Dresden under Musician/band, with Music & Artists as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Gabriel & Dresden runs to 17 words. The bio tags #CQ. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Gabriel & Dresden dates from April 2026.
6,232 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Gabriel & Dresden, 6 are carousels, 2 are videos and 2 are single images. That mix leans toward carousels. With 6,232 posts published, Gabriel & Dresden's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 12 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 160 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include tell, room, it’s, collaboration and played.
The story of “Velour,” our collaboration with, actually began a couple of years before we ever wrote a note together.
In 2023, Josh and I were at Above & Beyond’s Gorge Weekender listening to and play one of their legendary Deep Day sets.
At one point they dropped a song that completely stopped me in my tracks.
After the set I walked up to Jody and asked:
“What’s the breaky tune with the 90s bass squiggles in it?”
He laughed and said:
“That’s a new artist we signed. Blake.08. The track is called ‘Eyes Ablaze.’ Isn’t he amazing?”
He was right.
I became an instant fan.
Fast forward to 2025.
I played Blake’s track “The Change Of Love” on Club Quarantine and shortly afterward received a DM:
“Thanks for playing my track on your stream. Huge fan of you guys.”
That simple message turned into a conversation.
And that conversation turned into a collaboration.
The next day Josh and I started experimenting with some of his favorite late-70s and early-80s synthesizers and quickly found the foundations of what would become “Velour.”
Rather than overproduce it, we sent Blake a rough collection of ideas and left plenty of room for him to interpret them in his own way.
The very next day he sent it back.
And immediately we got excited.
He’d taken the music somewhere we never would have expected, giving it a rhythmic identity that felt completely his own while somehow making everything we’d written feel stronger.
Over the following weeks we passed the project back and forth until it became the record you hear today.
Blake shared it with.
They wanted to sign it.
And somehow, after 25 years of making music together, Gabriel & Dresden ended up with our very first release on Anjunadeep.
All because I heard a track called “Eyes Ablaze” and walked up to ask Jody what it was.
Thank you, Blake.
It’s been a pleasure making this record with you.
Every artist has people who help open doors for them.
For us, one of those people was Hosh Gureli
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, Hosh was one of the most respected dance remix A&R people in the business. He had an incredible ear for records that could work in clubs while still connecting with a mainstream audience.
Some of the remixes he helped bring to life became legendary.
The Soul Solution and Hex Hector remix of Toni Braxton’s “Un-Break My Heart” is one of them. This remix was so iconic she performed it on the 1997 American Music Awards, which at the time was unheard of.
The Thunderpuss remix of Whitney Houston’s “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay.” Is yet another, which became a top 5 Billboard Too 100 hit in 1999.
Hosh understood something that wasn’t obvious at the time: Dance music wasn’t a niche, it was becoming part of popular culture.
So when Hosh reached out to us in early 2002 and asked if we’d be interested in remixing Annie Lennox’s “Pavement Cracks,” it felt huge.
At that point we were still finding our footing. We’d had some success, but this was Annie Lennox. One of the most recognizable voices in music. Someone we looked up to and were inspired by.
We knew immediately that we had something to prove.
And we poured everything we had into that remix.
When it was finished, we were incredibly proud of it.
Not because it was a big artist.
Because for the first time it felt like we were being trusted with something important.
Looking back now, the remix itself was only part of the gift.
The bigger gift was confidence.
It made us believe we belonged in the room.
Hosh continued to send us many more remix opportunities after that, but Pavement Cracks will always stand out because it was one of the moments that helped change how we saw ourselves.
So thank you, Hosh.
Not just for the remix.
For believing in us before a lot of people did.
After that, we’ll be attending the b2b show at Mission Ballroom like regular people.
What a fantastic day of music in Denver!
The track will be released on on June 12th.
Check our story for the pre-save link and be ready when it arrives later this week.
This collaboration was born in a hotel room in San Diego in late 2004.
Both and Gabriel & Dresden were playing there that night, and afterward I ended up in Markus’ hotel room for one of our classic late night music nerd sessions where we’d just play each other ideas and tracks we were excited about.
At one point Markus started playing me songs he was working on for his debut artist album and finished with a demo he was making with Departure ( & Boris Borajani aka Boris MD).
And immediately I was hooked.
“It’s a little bit lonely down here...
it’s a little bit faint without you near...”
I remember thinking:
“What a beautiful way to say something that’s been said a million times.”
Markus then said:
“This is the odd one out on my album. I don’t really know where to take it. Want to work on it with me?”
The next day I played it for Josh and he was instantly in too.
A few weeks later Markus came to our studio in San Leandro and we spent the weekend shaping the song together.
The turning point came when Josh came up with the line:
“How can you sit there watching someone else?”
Then he had another idea:
Record everyone singing it.
So pretty much everybody at the house that weekend ended up around a microphone singing that line. When we stacked all the voices together, the record suddenly took on a whole new life.
The verses worked.
The chorus worked.
And now the song felt bigger than the sum of its parts.
What always makes me smile is that Markus originally described it as “the odd one out.”
Yet somehow the song he wasn’t sure about became the title track of his debut artist album:
Without You Near.
Sometimes the songs choose their own destiny.
Inside you’ll find a preview of “Velour,” our upcoming collaboration with due June 12 on
Hope you enjoy the journey. 💚
Link in story
Philadelphia is a city that came into our story later than most American cities.
For all the years before Gabriel & Dresden temporarily disbanded in 2008, we never actually played there.
That changed in 2011 during our reunion tour.
Our first show was at a club called Rumor.
And from the moment we walked into that room, we thought:
“Wow. Philly really does bring the energy.”
The crowd was loud, passionate and completely locked into the music.
We felt it immediately.
Over the years we returned to Rumor many times, building some incredible memories along the way.
In fact, when it came time to launch the tour behind The Only Road album, Philadelphia was the city we chose to start with.
That show at Rumor ended up being the last time we played Philly.
Until now.
We’re excited to return with our Stories We Tell open-to-close set at, where we’ll also be reuniting with our old friend Ravi Bayanker (aka ) whom we met many years ago on that reunion tour when he worked for Club Glow in DC.
You can catch part of his interview with us from 2011 in the carousel
25 years of Gabriel & Dresden.
One night.
Originals, remixes, bootlegs and the stories behind them.
Philadelphia, we’ve missed you.
See you soon.
We didn’t really know what this tour was going to be when we started it. Now we do.
Playing open-to-close sets made up entirely of our own music is a very different experience. It’s not a classics set, and it’s not about chasing what’s new.
It’s something else.
It’s more personal. More exposed. Every moment is a reflection of something we’ve made over the last quarter century.
So far we’ve done 14 of these nights. And they’ve been some of the most rewarding shows we’ve ever played.
There’s something about taking people on a full journey, start to finish, where every record has a story behind it. Real lived history. You feel the connection in the room in a different way.
So we’re adding six more dates.
Six more chances to do this properly. To tell the story the way it was meant to be told.
(Except Miami… that one’s an “extended” story 😏)
Vancouver
Miami
Honolulu
Montreal
Toronto
Santa Barbara
Let’s keep this going. We’ve got more stories to tell.
These are the kinds of nights we love the most. No rush, no shortcuts. Just the full arc of only our music from the very first tracks we made to ideas that do not even have names yet.
Same story, new season. Tickets are available now to all shows at
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Gabriel & Dresden's engagement
Gabriel & Dresden's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.44%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 69 followers. An average post collects 1,126 likes and 56 comments, close to 20 likes for each comment.
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Who is Gabriel & Dresden?
Gabriel & Dresden (@gabrielndresden) is a Musician/band creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists. Gabriel & Dresden carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Gabriel & Dresden runs to 17 words.
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Gabriel & Dresden has 75,673 followers on Instagram (75.7K). Set against 1,625 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 47 followers per account Gabriel & Dresden follows. With 6,232 posts published, Gabriel & Dresden's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
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Gabriel & Dresden's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.44%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 69 followers. An average post collects 1,126 likes and 56 comments, close to 20 likes for each comment.
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