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Behing Gad there are two people with Greek origin and a quite long musical story each: Hercules Anastasiadis, the half of Atria and for many years a musician, composer and dj, and Kostas Antoniadis, singer of the rock act Narrow Paths. As Gad, Hercules composes electro vocal tracks and does instrumental experiments while Kostas sings and co-composes and co-writing the lyrics. Both of them continue to work with their other projects. In spring 2005 Hercules and Kostas (long time friends and collaborators in Kostas' band, Narrow Paths) decided to create a track together for the 'Greek Electro 02' compilation, a cd series with the best of the Greek electro acts. "What Hides In There" was the result and the track was chosen as the first single to come out of this compilation. Gad was named such, a little before the Greek Electro 02 cd booklet was written... Summer 2005 Gad start their dj sets and they brought out their positive energy through the songs that shaped them as artists. Dj sets in Athens continued till November 2005 when Hercules and Kostas got it the studio to create the songs of their first album. Album was finished with all songs being sung from Kostas' wonderful, very "northern", warm voice... Then guys did a couple of collaborations with various singers, something to add a creative flash to the album... This wonderfully creative process was the voice of Dioni from Astyplaz sung "Dont Forget to Live Before You Die", Apostolina Mai from Ammos shared vocals on "Leslie", Debora E.C. Zeier from Switzerland sung and played e-cello on " Noone Knows Your Name", Daphne Gerogianni sung on "No Songs For Her'' and Nomik from Sleepin' Pillow sung on "Safe". Gad is not a dj or studio only act. Thus, the guys formed a touring band consisted of them two, one guitar player( Antonis Antoniadis) , a bass player( Michalis Semertzoglou) and a drummer (Spyros Papakotsis). They have performed live on stage at the Greek Electro Festival 2006, at Club 22, along with Cyanna and Mikro, at Coca Cola Soundwave Festival 2007 and at the Soundwave competition (came 3rd in voting!), on Syntagma Sq.(European Music Day 2007), EarthDance Festival 2007 and they opened Nouvelle Vague and Chicane. Debut album was released at December on Archangel's sub label Shift Records. Lately, they co-produce the Popeye's debut albumGAD
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