Sam Perez

Sam Perez, real name Salvatore Arancino, was born in Italy in the middle of 70's. His passion and love for the music was evident in his constant purchases of funky and electronic music. His first vinyl was Marrs "Pump Up The Volume", purchased when he was twelve. Basically, he grew up influenced by the music of artists such as Depeche Mode, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, Alan Parson Project, Kraftwerk.
In the beginning of 90's, he started to join clubs and dj's world, this allowed him to recognize various musical genres. Initially, he worked in one of the biggest club of his hometown and there he met famous djs and producers as Masters at Work, David Morales, Frankie Knuckles, Todd Terry, whose music was influenced by House Garage as well as Deep House.
This lead him toward a new musical career which brought him the opportunity to play in the hottest sicilian's clubs. In 2001, Sam moved to the north of Italy and there he performed as a dj for many clubs, such as Muretto, Aida, Gasoline (Milan), Kursaal, and many others. This gave him the chance to meet and play with a lot of national and international celebrities such as PeteTong, Deep Dish, Francois Kevorkian, Satoshi Tomie, Hector Romero, Alex Neri, Claudio Coccoluto.
In 2004, Sam produced a tech house single called Ghouls and Ghosts, that immediately entered in Paul Van Dyk's top chart. In 2005, Sam with his friend Dariush realized a single called "Across The Ocean", released on Yoshitoshi Recordings, runned by Deep Dish. This single reached the top international charts of djs as John Digweed, Pete Tong, Danny Howells, Nic Fanciulli, Alex Neri, Joe T. Vannelli, Hernan Cattaneo, Chus and Ceballos, Desin Masiello, Sasha, Tiesto, Paolo Martini, Deep Dish and was licensed around the world. This track, gave him notoriety to be recognized and to receive gigs in many countries.
In the same time he took part in two different projects named "Darsam" and "Angelmoon", and he remixed artists as Stonebridge, Ultra Nate', Moony, Simon and Shaker, appearing in compilation as Global Underground, Amnesia Ibiza, Pacha Ibiza, Matinee Ibiza, Miss Nine Yoshitoshi, Sultan Montreal Yoshitoshi.
Since 2006, he became a Kosmoparty dj resident, this event organization was founded in 1998, and was famous for its partyes around Italy with guest djs as Armand Van Helden, X-Press 2, Layo & Bushwaka, Tedd Patterson, Umek.
In 2008, with the collaboration of his friend Brusca, he created a new project called Apologist with the first track "Eve" that immediatly captured the attention of New York's Francois Kevorkian, who signed their debut release to his Wave Music label, and immediately it was charted by Osunlade, Tedd Patterson, Brendon Moeller, Silicon Soul, Patrice Scott and added from Behoruz on Nervous Recordings compilation. And the second release on Wave Music called "Revolution EP", was added from F.K. on SW4 compilation for DJ Mag.
Since 2009, he moved and established in London, continuing to produce, and release as "Sam Perez" and "Apologist" at the same time; and remixing artists as Scope (Ric McClelland), Chris Woodward (Buzzin' Fly).
He has performed in many clubs like Lightbox, Debut London, Ambasada Gavioli (Slovenia), Bar 54, Cosmobar, City Art Music Project, Russian Bar, beside artists as Monika Kruse, Kaiserdisco, Locodice, Martin Buttrich, Derrick May, Mauro Picotto, Argy, Anthea.
Actually, his tracks are played and charted from artists like Danny Tenaglia, Frankois Kevorkian, Italoboyz, Mark Knight, John Digweed, Carlo Lio, Dubfire, Markus Schulz, Danny Howells, Aki Bergen, Behoruz, Alex Neri (Planet Funk), Jacuzzi Boys, Sasha Le Monnier, Jerome Isma-Ae.
Sources: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/samperez www.myspace.com/samperezdj www.soundcloud.com/samperez



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