Gaston Laterza

As from the age of 14, Gaston Laterza has been feeling deeply attracted to electronic bands such as Depeche Mode, New Order, Duran Duran, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, etc. It was at this age when he started to play at local pubs having in this way his first contact with the public. In 1995, he gets his first show at a club playing Tony Humphries, Frankie Knuckles, Graeme Park and Danny Tenaglia's kind of music. Since then, Gastón has played at several known clubs of Buenos Aires underground such as, Vai-Ven, Enigma, Back Stage, etc till he gets his residence in Umanno, one of the most elitist places at that age, where he plays classic house, deep house and retro disco. A year later in 1996, Gastón meets the person who is going to influence him the most and from whom he learned the craft and how to manage the dance pit, we are talking about Hernan Cattaneo, with whom he keeps a close relationship.
It is in that year that he decides to be a DJ for the rest of his life, he starts doing it more and more profesionally and continues working at Umanno for some years till he changes to Follia, where he plays at the VIP his characteristic style. At the same time, Gastón starts to play on international radio shows such as “Studio Phonic's”, where he is a guest to the show “Terra Firma”, “Frisky Radio” for "Cloud 9 Mix Sessions" ; “Quimika Sessions” and “De Ushuaia a la Quiaca”, where Gastón is convoked to make the most important show, “Artist Of The Week”. Gastón keeps the record for the longest set, 6 hours 30 minutes, getting an impressive acceptance by the audience and almost breaking that show audience record. He is also convoked by an international radio “Proton-Radio” to carry out one of the main shows, the best Djs in the world have been playing on it, the “Featured Artist” where Gaston shows a 3 hour dj set (download currently available On Demand) Besides this, Gastón produces his own tracks, signing a contract with the American record company “Fiberline”. Time after, he is convoked by Terry Grant, to make a remix of one of his songs, “Beautiful Dirty”. When Terry Grant listens to the remix, he immediately decides to edit the track. Gaston dedicates most of his time to his own productions, and is signing contracts with different record companies across the globe such us Italy, Spain, Holland, Mexico, The United States, among others.
Nowadays, Gastón plays at different clubs in Argentina and around the world. Appart from his work as a producer, he has a radio show “HOOKING” on KSK-Radio 101.9, an Argentinian RF and Internet transmission local radio, where he plays every Wednesday at 11pm.

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Releases

Gaston Laterza & Andys - Blowing Minds [Fiberline] Gaston Laterza - Hostetler [Fiberline] Gaston Laterza - Lai [Fiberline] Gaston Laterza & Andys - Des Denkens [Fiberline] Gaston Laterza - Grey [Basic Energy] Gaston Laterza - Virtual [Basic Energy] Gaston Laterza - Funk [Basic Energy] Gaston Laterza & Andys - Magik 2 [Magnolia] Gaston Laterza - Senyk [Magnolia] Gaston Laterza - My feelings [Bit recordings] Gaston Laterza - Rhythm travel [Bit recordings] Gaston Laterza - Using new tools [Bit recordings] Gaston Laterza - Distorted life [Bit recordings] Gaston Laterza - Equinos [Turbo Recordings] Gaston Laterza - Cohen! [Magnolia] Gaston Laterza - Dynasty [Magnolia] Gaston Laterza - True world democracy [Balkan Connection]

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Remixes

Digital Witchcraft - Fingerpaint (gaston laterza rmx) Filo & Peri - Further away (gaston laterza rmx) Team4 - Tortured soul (gaston laterza rmx) Blake Jarrell - Okoboji (gaston laterza rmx) Steve 'Silk' Hurley - The word is love (gaston laterza rmx) Terry Grant - Beautiful Dirty (gaston laterza rmx)

------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Future Releases Gaston Laterza - Darkchangels (main mix) [TBA] Gaston Laterza - Darkchangels (unearthpella mix) [TBA] Soundexile - Foolphobia (gaston laterza mix) [Off Side] Gaston Laterza - Syntha [Magnolia] Gaston Laterza - Syntha (MOS remix) [Magnolia] ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------