San Jose
Instinct
Bay Area hip-hop, hyphy and rave culture. Guitar and voice before production.
First transmission / incoming
Electronic artist / producer2026 — forward
The name arrived after the work.
The name is new. The work isn’t.
Arrival
A new name / a longer story
San Jose made the instinct. Australia made the practice. The Philippines gave it distance. Gabriel Forbes is the name for what comes next.
He learned music first by ear, then by repetition: guitar, voice, software that once felt out of reach, five years abroad, and roughly one hundred tracks in a single year.
The throughline
Electronic music for movement now — and the feeling that catches up with you later.
Prologue
Previously / AWARENSS
Before Gabriel Forbes, two records appeared as AWARENSS. They remain where they belong: not hidden, not rewritten — the opening chapter.
Formation
San Jose
Bay Area hip-hop, hyphy and rave culture. Guitar and voice before production.
Australia
Five years away. A studio built. Roughly one hundred tracks in one year.
Philippines
The place where the work became public — and the name finally caught up.