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Gaston

Posted on: 2020-04-06 Last edited on: 2020-04-23

lifespan	2000 – 2005
genres	math rock post-rock experimental rock post-hardcore punk rock pop
located in	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
related artists	Kinn Taunus The Ever Present Orchestra
members	Jan Ferdinand Jan Thoben Jochen Briesen Sören Schrader Wilm Thoben
associated labels	Becalmed Records Beau Rivage

Gaston was an early 21^st-century German

math rock band that, although largely unknown to this day,

were a quite early entry into the realm of math rock/post-rock hybrids. Their sound is superficially jazz fusion-esque, and primarily based around bass guitar and various pitched percussion idiophones, thus foreshadowing the stylings of later groups in the same genre like Tyler Shoemaker, Renaissance Sound, and Monobody.

Although Gaston remains somewhat obscure, their music is nothing short of superb — their compositions are as good as, or better than, any others in the genre.

notes on the distributions

“#1” was ripped from YouTube videos uploaded by DistroKid on behalf of Becalmed Records, using youtube-dl -x to rip the highest-quality audio possible.

“What Time Does Your Train Leave Today?” was offered via a https://mega.nz/* link in the description of a YouTube video, courtesy of The Math Rock Collective. The source of these MP3s is ultimately unknown, but they were probably directly encoded to MP3 from a CD rip. This particular album was released simultaneously on CD and vinyl by Beau Rivage.

Also, the album art for “#1” found on Discogs was very low-quality, so the “#1” album art given here was obtained as follows:

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppV3Yww9pjc"
ffmpeg -i "Cargo-ppV3Yww9pjc.mp4" -vf "select=eq(n\,0)" -vframes 1 1.png

Gaston discography

title

What Time Does Your Train Leave Today?

cover art

other art

vinyl cover

year

2001

2004

tracklist

1	Zepter	2:37
2	Cargo	4:40
3	Beauty No. 1	3:14
4	Bobeck	3:57
5	Dangast	5:17
total duration		19:45

1	Hanjin	4:56
2	Luz	4:46
3	Zapalki	5:22
4	Hekla	4:41
5	Slavsstein	5:58
6	Dutch Schultz	5:34
7	Modino	5:55
total duration		37:12

distributions

dspr?	format	source	gratis?	URLs
yes	AAC @ 128kb/s (CBR)	YouTube (via Becalmed Records)	yes	[1] [2] [3] [4]
no	AAC @ 128kb/s (CBR)	YouTube (via Becalmed Records)	yes	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

dspr?	format	source	gratis?	URLs
yes	MP3 @ 252kb/s (VBR)	Soulseek	yes	[1] [2] [3] [4]
no	MP3 @ 189kb/s (VBR)	The Math Rock Collective	yes	[1]
yes	MP3 @ 189kb/s (VBR)	The Math Rock Collective	yes	[1] [2] [3] [4]