Gaston Nakazato | en

Gaston are a quintet from Berlin. They set out as a trio with two basses and a drum kit. Today the line-up is augmented: There’s a vibraphone, there are guitars and sometimes they make use of brass instruments and samples. Their pieces are instrumental and at times rather intricate, therefore the exhausted and by now almost fading term ‘postrock’ comes into mind. Jazz has surely been influencing Gaston. It remains hard to tell how deeply they are really rooted in musical history. At least one of the musicians I once heard say something about the complex rhythmics of Polish (or...

1975 - 1992 René, alias DJ Zki, and Gaston, alias Dobre, are from the city of Haarlem. They both start their careers working as DJ's in various local clubs and discotheques. 1992 - 1994 René (1961) and Gaston (1972) meet in 1992 when René works as a radio DJ and Gaston Steenkist is still a student. They start working together and record the track Give It Up, which was originally meant as a B-side track, but turned out to be a worldwide hit record. UK band Simply Red later used a sample of the track for their chart-topping hit Fairground....