Miika Kuisma
Billow
LOTUS
Saturday 28.2.2009 // 22:30-04:00
Bangkok by Night
Kaisaniemenkatu 4
00100 Helsinki
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MR SAM (MOJADO, FR)
Miika Kuisma (Lotus, Helsinki)
Billow (Lotus, Helsinki)
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Tickets:
Presale: Tiketti & Street Beat: ticket 6 + b 1 + cloak room 3 = 10
Charge at the door: ticket 7 + cloak room 3 = 10
Lights: marX
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Mr Sam Bio
Mr Sam was born during the mid seventies just as punk was emerging from beneath the ruins of stadium-rock, he grew up in a small idyllic village near the Belgian border in the north of France.
From an early age, Sam had no escape from his parents own musically mixed cocktails of Giorgio Moroder, Klaus Schulz combined with a dash of Elvis Presley. Through this heavy involuntary dose of electronically initiated influence, he developed an early fascination for squelchy synthesizer sounds and after buying his first Depeche Mode single, he was firmly hooked. But it seemed like from here to eternity before he was to pick up his own musical instrument.
With the advent of technologically generated Hi-NRG dance music and through his passion for playing computer games, he had by the mid-eighties almost drowned in the tidal wave of New Beat which was flooding over the borders from the flourishing Belgian EBM scene.
By the sweet age of sixteen, hed become so intoxicated by the new techno music evolving from the underground scene, that he chose to embark upon a musical career and made the decision to cross the French frontier and move over to Belgium. By the time he was 18, he was successfully DJing at French and Belgian underground clubs to ever enthusiastic crowds.
His club sound was becoming ever more inspired by releases coming from such innovative labels such as MFS, who had released the very first trance records from their pioneering artists such as Cosmic Baby and Paul van Dyk and this in turn had brought what was to become the techno-trance sound moving towards a more melodic direction. Sam fed on this enthusiastic and attractive new direction, it appealed to his sensitive side and sense of melody.
As his talented fingers swept nimbly over the turntables week after week, it wasnt long before hed attracted enough attention to accumulate a firm following of steadfast admirers and he was offered the chance to spin at the renowned club, La Rocca, one of Belgiums most notorious clubs. This was the moment hed been waiting for, his feeling for melody was just the right ingredient that was needed to spice up the monotonously industrial techno crowd.
Over the years, as trance music rapidly succeeded techno as the popular music genre of the 90s, Mr Sam was to play together with some of the dance industrys top djs at a variety of colorful locations, from France, Belgium, Portugal, Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Corsica or at events like the legendary and immensely popular I Love TECHNO festival in Gent.
The many exciting moments behind the decks, such as DJing for 12 hours with Andry Nalin, have left an indelible impression upon this young and talented DJ and the attraction of whipping up the crowd to fever pitch, have always created a bond between the DJ and the audience.
Within Belgium, his popularity grew quite rapidly and within a short space of time, hed become one of Belgiums top DJs, Sam ultimately became a resident DJ at Lagoa, La Nova, Tour & Taxi, Pacha, but sadly, real international success had eluded him thus so far.
How can an attractive young DJ move up the ladder of success when the top rungs are occupied by such big names as Sasha, BT, Paul Oakenfold and Paul van Dyk?
Towards the end of the 1990s the Trance sound had become defined, it had without doubt become the pop music of the 90s. It was time to move on and try new things. Mr Sam had already played and impressed some of the biggest names in the music business today, such star DJs as Carl Cox, Jack de Marseille, Andry Nalin, Danny Howells, Robert Miles, Mistress Barbara, Luke Sater, Corvin Dalek, 100% Isis, Parks & Wilson, all have fond memories of him. But it wasnt until he started to create his own tracks, that he really was able to express himself and show he had songwriting and producing talents as well. Meanwhile, it is for his excellent remix work that Mr Sam is most well known.
His first remix was in1999 for Diki Records (famed for their trance anthem Age of Love), where he briefly worked as an artist. This remix was for Circuit Boys The Door, a track which was heavily featured by both Danny Tenaglia and Corvin Dalek and both of them went on to eventually remix it. This remix was swiftly followed by remixes for Dillinger & Capone and Timo Masss Mad Dogs and he cemented his remixing abilities venturing into the realm of wet&hard with the now legendary wet&hard remix of Corvin Daleks Pornoground, which was licensed from the Flesh and is soon to be released in the UK on Ministry of Sounds Data label. In the meantime, Sam has accumulated a long list of remixes ranging from Timo Mass, Sinead Oconnor, Y-Traxx, Maria Naylor, Praga Khan, Corvin Dalek, Delerium, Niels Van Gogh, Todd Terry, Kay Cee to name a few
His work with Frederic de Backer under the project name Madrid Inc has attracted the attentions of the worlds stage, with the track My Sundays Love being featured in the July Summer Edition of Minstry Magazines free covermount CD.
They did also team up their forces on Mr Sam vs. Fred Baker Forever Waiting picked up by the No 1 DJs label: Magik Musik from Tiesto!! The track has received huge critics from magazine as well as a large panel of djs worldwide.
It is clear that Mr Sams determination to retain his longevity through his composing career is pivotal for him.
Inevitably with time, his sound will continue to evolve