Thomas Gandey
| Thomas Gandey | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Thomas Gandey |
| Also known as | Cagedbaby, MATOM |
| Born | 1976 (age 40–41) Brighton, England |
| Genres | Electro, house, alternative dance, electropop, techno, dance, electronic |
| Occupation(s) | Music producer, D, vocalist |
| Instruments | keyboards |
| Labels | Southern Fried Records, Planet E Communications |
| Associated acts | Airport, Thrillcreem, Babydetroit |
Thomas Gandey is an English electronic music producer, vocalist, keyboard player and DJ born on 21 March 1976, known for work under his own name as well as under his Cagedbaby pseudonym. He has remixed the likes of Shirley Bassey, Ocean Colour Scene, Empire of the Sun, Fatboy Slim, The Temper Trap and Grace Jones and DJed and performed at many of the world's best-known clubs and festivals, including Womb, Glastonbury Festival, Fuji Rock Festival, and Tokyo's Big Beach Festival. He has been a resident at We Love Space Ibiza and Barcelona's Razzmatazz. He lived in the UK until 2006, and now splits his time between Bordeaux and Berlin.
Born in Brighton, England, Gandey grew up under the musical influence of his grandfathers, one of whom was the conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the other a ragtime and boogie-woogie piano player. He learned to play the piano from the age of 4, and after living next door to a church at the age of 6 where he would practice 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 Kylie Minogue.
After spending several years playing keyboards in the shadow of other 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 in the racks at HMV." 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 in Miami and gave them to Fatboy Slim, who was suitably impressed with his music to sign him to his own Southern Fried Records label. His debut album Will See You Now was released in 2005, receiving a 4-star review from UK newspaper The Guardian and was followed by a stream of singles and remixes for pop and underground artists alike. The success of his album led him to becoming a tour DJ for Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and Underworld. 2006 saw him mix BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix show. 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. 2009 also saw him play the main stage at Scotland's RockNess festival, and take part in a collaborative art project with photographer Rankin for Youth Music.
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