‘Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd’ 

The New Album Out March 24th, Pre-Order – 
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Sydney Dj  , Club Promoter since 2000. 
Resident Dj @ Wao Superclub ivy,
previous residency  
Sublime, Gas, Gatecrasher Sydney, Voodoo, Genesis, Seadeck

shed rock band from SUNNY COAST 4573

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc

thechats69@gmail.com

Producer, DJ, Middle Name Records, Balamii Monthly Show
 
Sam Poggioli, aka Sampology, is a DJ, producer, recording engineer, visual artist and former Worldwide FM host from Brisbane/Meanjin. Over the last fifteen years, Sam has been a key player in the rise of Australia’s burgeoning hip-hop, deep house, future jazz and broken beat scenes. Since 2017, he’s released records through Soul Has No Tempo, his own Middle Name Records label, and crafted uptempo remixes for Quantic, Kerbside Collection, Winston Surfshirt and Myele Manzanza.

In the early days of his career, Sam made his mark by performing acclaimed audiovisual DJ sets at festivals and nightclubs throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Asia, Europe and North America. In more recent years, however, he’s balanced his considered skills in the DJ booth with his personal evolution as a composer, producer and recording engineer. Revelling in lush, atmospheric soundscapes which draw from the grandiose splendour of the natural landscape that surrounds his hometown, Sam’s music embraces ornate melodic beauty, blending with syncopated rhythms, low-end theory and lush vocals.

Before he took his audiovisual DJ sets to the world, Sam sharpened his musical knowledge and skills while working at the iconic Butter Beats record store and spinning a mixture of hip-hop, breaks and drum and bass at nightclubs across Brisbane. The road he walked to that point began in his mid-teens after he was exposed to New York’s Native Tongues collective and The Avalanches from Melbourne/Naarm. 

Fascinated by the sampledelic production techniques that helped take hip-hop to new levels in the 90s, Sam learned the basics of computer music production from his cousins, who were already performing nationally in a live electronica group. However, for the first act of his career, DJing was where Sam really shined. Soon enough, he was gracing stages alongside underground US and UK hip-hop stars like Blackalicious and Roots Manuva.

After proving himself nationally and overseas, Sam felt compelled to reconnect with Brisbane’s musical community and focus on his own growth as a producer and composer. This time around, as opposed to DJs and beatmakers, he was hanging out with a generation of trained instrumentalists and singers like Laneous and Noah Slee, who were reshaping the sounds of neo-soul, RnB, broken beat and jazz in the city. After learning more about recording equipment, he began collaborating with them on the material that made up his debut EP, Natural Selections (Soul Has No Tempo, 2016).

Sam also began to spend more time in the grandiose natural landscape that surrounds Brisbane and found himself reflecting on the formative musical experiences of his childhood, like being exposed to string music ensembles by his father and aunt, who’ve both spent decades as members of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Sam also thought back to his early teens when he sang in a cathedral choir. As he began to carve out his own composition and production sound, choral music, harmony, and string textures became a crucial counterpoint to the rhythmic sensibilities he’d learned from DJing hip-hop and dance music to audiences across the globe.

By 2018, Sam was recording local choirs and string sections and had built a strong community of like-minded musicians around himself. That year, he established his own independent label and recording studio, Middle Name Records. He inaugurated it with the release of his soulful deep house EP Mt Glorious featuring Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Jordan Rakei, and Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol 1, a collection of broken beat, disco and house tracks he’d recorded with friends as Middle Name Dance Band.

In 2019, the tastemaker Gilles Peterson invited Sam to host a monthly online radio show on Worldwide FM, giving him a platform to share his ever-expanding musical taste with a global audience. Through his shows, emerging soul, jazz, RnB, hip-hop, and club music from Australia and New Zealand stood shoulder to shoulder with the freshest new cuts and reissues from the global underground.

Two years later, Sam released his debut album, Regrowth, through Middle Name Records. Featuring collaborations with Laneous, Allysha Joy (30/70 Collective), Silent Jay, Seven Davis Jr (US) and James Chatburn, the album showed off his hard-won growth as a composer and producer with inimitable style. Through a heady mixture of live instrumentation, synthesisers, machine beats and soaring voices, Regrowth charted a course through hip-hop, dance, ambient and jazz-funk, earning him comparisons to Bonobo, Jamie XX, Kaytranada and Jon Hopkins along the way.

After the release of Regrowth, Sam realised he’d spent the first half of his career chasing the cutting-edge underground sounds of North America and Europe. When he looked around him, he saw that in the wake of Melbourne/Naarm jazz-funk band Hiatus Kaiyote’s international success, the world was looking at Australia. Since then, he’s been working to document the sound of Brisbane’s underground through Middle Name Records. Sam hopes that in the future, the label’s discography may inspire a new generation of music lovers. Maybe in a decade, someone going through the bins in a record store in London or Manchester will become fascinated by the 2020s Brisbane sound.

Campbell Ross is a guitarist, composer and teacher who lives in Brisbane, Australia. He developed a passion for the guitar at an early age and almost immediately began writing for the instrument.

Raised in New Zealand, Campbell won the Christchurch Guitar Competition before embarking on tertiary study at the Wellington Conservatorium of Music under the tutelage of Matthew Marshall. After completing his Bachelors Degree in Performance he moved to Brisbane to continue his study under Julian Byzantine at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Griffith University, completing a Masters in Performance.

While still a very active performer, Campbell is also a respected composer. His talent for composition has been formally recognised a number times including placing at the APRA Professional Development Awards and the New Zealand Classical Guitar Composition Competition. 

Campbell's most recent compositions have been fuelled by a desire to produce a fresh and invigorating style of music that challenges the more traditional perceptions of classical guitar, while extending the range of quality music emanating from the Asia-Pacific region.

Campbell is a highly sought after teacher in Brisbane having taught at both the Queensland Conservatorium at Griffith University and the School of Music at the University of Queensland. He is also a published author - his ever-increasing body of educational material for classroom guitar programs have been adopted by many schools across Australia.

Video and Audio recordings of many of his works can be found by visiting www.sounz.org.nz

Here is a place to hear the rave sounds of yester-year. Sydney's Rave scene which enjoyed many high points through the 90's & 00's produced many talented DJ persona's who expressed their love for the music & the scene by releasing amazing mix tapes... Here are some of the best tapes of the era. 

Hardbeatstore
(Official NEC Vinyl/Merchandise store) - http://www.hardbeatstore.com
Hardbeatsdownload
(Official NEC Download store) - http://www.hardbeatsdownload.com 
Freeformation Events: http://www.freeformation.co.uk/


Founded in 2000 by Kevin Energy, the Nu Energy Collective (NEC) is now a synonymous name with UK rave culture. The NEC was formed to represent a collective of like minded artists and labels all striving for a wider audience. Pulling the music together into a centrally managed place created a huge buzz for the music and bond with the artists which was to soon explode onto the scene. Labels like Marc Smith’s Notorious, AMS’s Switched On, Robbie Long’s TNC and many more were soon united in the mission to get their music as far as possible through the NEC’s worldwide network which at one point consisted of no less then 10 popular record labels. Fast forward over 800 releases to 2010, the music industry has changed so much so that the NEC now operates on a concentrated scale featuring on a select collection of key artists and labels only. Hitting its landmark 80th release in mid 2010, Nu Energy Records continues to unleash its unique, distinctive and trademark sound as it commands a cult following whilst always being renowned for finding new avenues of re-invention. Artists like Lost Soul, Eryk Orpheus, Douglas and of-course Kevin Energy continue to blast open the templates. Over 30 releases strong, Relentless Vinyl has emerged as one of the most consistently innovative hardcore labels around with current stars Joey Riot &amp; A.B all enjoying their very first major vinyl releases on the label. However, the digital age has now taken hold as the NEC’s main format to the sister label to Relentless Vinyl – ‘Relentless Digital' now flies the flag for the anything goes party styled rave tracks it’s always been renowned for.

Co-run with Sharkey, the Freeformation promotion banner has given the Nu Energy Collective a crazed presence at the heart of raveland. Four mental free parties in Vauxhall’s Hidden have been driven by full on rave tomfoolery and party hardcore in all its forms. In 07 Freeformation toured at Hardcore Heaven Weekender, HTID In The Sun and Vibealite! Since then the Wise Up, Get Stupid Freeformation takeover has not turned back as every single London party has been full to capacity! All the while our in-house stores http://www.hardbeatstore.com and http://www.hardbeatsdownload.com have built steadily to earn themself a reputation as one of the most extensive stores of underground music stocking everything from the most upfront UK hardcore to the ferocious Italian hardstyle found alongside UK hard trance, classic acid techno, nu skool gabba and one of the most exclusive second hand collections on the web.

The NEC mission has always been the same: To represent the full spectrum of hardcore music and to offer a chance for the new breed to shine. It’s a mission we have consistently achieved and will continue to do as long as we can survive. There’s no doubt the modern file sharing culture has had a big effect to the NEC artists and labels but any loyal follower who joins our main NEC community http://www.nuenergycollective.com knows we offer as much as possible to the people that legally support us. Join us now and enjoy our weekly podcasts, free mixes to download and full interactive site.

The future is bright….. The future is energy…..


Nu Energy Collective head honcho, Kevin Energy is firmly established as an award-winning DJ in both the Hardcore and Hard-dance scenes.  Energised, always and musically innovative, there aren’t many crowd-pleasers around that can rock a crowd quite like Kevin Energy but for a man who earned his first big room rave sets before he was old enough to legally attend them it is hardly surprising. His fresh and fast-paced Nu Energy sound and ever-enthusiastic mixing style make him a favourite behind the decks as he always delivers service with a smile and with more scratching and rockin’, upfront tracks than you can shake a glow stick at.

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