Giulio aka Astin was born in Naples, 12 years later he moves to Caserta where start his love for the music listening a grunge group, “Nirvana”. The adolescence music drives him in the hip hop direction, and it is still in his music today.

In '99 Astin goes in touch with House and tech house music, he goes to club in Campania and starts to playing in that club
In 2007 he moves to bologna, where he knows new places and he appreciates new kinds of music like minimal continuing to look for his music style.

In 2009 he releases his first ep whit Paked Music in Madrid, in the same year he become notorious playing in the most famous club of bologna, Cassero, Kinder Garten, RedRum,The Club, Doc Show.

in 2013 Astin is taken into account by the famed Riva Starr's label, Snatch! Records, which has produced artists such as Carl Cox, Dj Sneak, Fat Boy Slim, Ramon Tapia, Pirupa, Leon and the same Riva.
He made hid debut with the Ep “I’m Sorry”.

In 2014, with the same label, the single “Dejected” debut, track played by many artists, like Marco Carola, Davide Squillace, Sven Vath, Carl Cox and many more.

Next year, in 2015 debut two fantastic remixes of Sidney Charles and Paul C & Paolo Martini.

In the same year Astin started a collaboration with Waveshape, releasing tracks in the same label “Snatch” and on the american “Inmotion”.

In 2016 Astin Releases one Ep on Davide Squillace’s “This And That Lab”, and one Ep on Moan Recordings, an italian promising label.

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Always in constant evolution, Djames never stays too long on a single sound. His musical path comes from an uncontrollable desire to discover new sounds.
His DJ set it's very minimal with indistinct influences from all over the world. He doesn't like to be labeled, and most of all he doesn't care about the name he finds on the prints of the records he buys: always leave the decision to take or leave to the ear.

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