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]

As part of Straylight Productions, he had his music featured in many games, including Crusader: No Remorse, Crusader: No Regret, Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex.

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 netlabel Monotonik 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]

• ModArchive.com music listing for Basehead
• Dan Gardopee / Dan Grandpre at MobyGames
• Beacon release at Monotonik

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