Swedish Chinese American singer/songwriter, composer, and DJ/producer SAM SHI (aka Samanta Liza) is a self-taught musical medium. Her music is a fusion of electronic dance, trip hop, psychedelic rock, tribal percussion, and alternative indie. Some of her favorite artists include Portishead, Chopin, Pink Floyd, Billie Eilish, Oliver Koletzki, Boris Brejcha, and Monolink. 

Sam spent most of her 20s in New York City, where she established a presence in the underground rave scene. She has performed at staple nightlife venues such as Mercury Lounge, Paradise Club, and Elsewhere (The Hall). She most recently released her sophomore album under the alias Samanta Liza on her independent record label But Did You Dance. Sam is now based in LA, releasing music in 2025 under her new alias SAM SHI.

Marley Carroll’s auspicious start as a classically trained percussionist and award-winning turntablist propelled him into the limelight at an early age. Carroll’s signature style of exquisitely-detailed atmospheric dance music is adored by fans for its powerful emotional resonance and highly rated by peers who cite him as an abiding influence, evoking comparisons to genre luminaries like Four Tet and Caribou.

Onstage, he delivers a raw and improvisatory adaptation of his records to spellbound audiences, combining sampling, drum pads and live looping with expressive and unconventional turntable skills. He has shared stages with Floating Points, Bonobo and DJ Shadow and has notched acclaimed appearances at iconic music festivals like Coachella and LiB.

His 2022 EP, Voices, was inspired by the heartache of missing raving during lockdown and combined the driving intensity of the dance floor with the luminous nostalgia of late-night afters. Voices captured the attention of BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6, Radio Ibiza, KCRW and KEXP and became a dance floor staple and essential listening for fans of artists like DJ Seinfeld and Godford.

This year, he returns with the One More Year EP on Anjunadeep’s brand new Explorations imprint. Over the course of three lean, expertly-crafted UKG cuts brimming with evocative vocals and lush pads, Carroll explores a spectrum of emotions: pain and regret on the title cut, longing and love on “Falling,” and joy and gratitude on “Dearly Beloved.” One More Year has picked up support from deep house legends Above & Beyond with multiple appearances on their legendary Group Therapy DJ mix series.

DJ Koze’s new album Music Can Hear Us, released on April 4, 2025, entered the official German album charts at number 4 and received widespread critical acclaim worldwide. Major publications such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, Musikexpress, and many others have celebrated its brilliance. In the music scene, platforms such as Resident Advisor, Musikexpress, Groove, Diffus, MINT, HHV MAG, and BEAT Magazine have all highlighted the album’s magic and Koze’s unique artistic voice. Music Can Hear Us is destined to be one of the year’s most talked-about releases.

Junge Junge is the DJ-production project of Michael Noack and Rochus Grolle. Both enjoyed their own respective successes as solo artists before the collaboration began: Grolle has been DJing and producing music since the early 2000s, while Noack has been DJing ever since he debuted on George Morell’s Groove On Records in 2012. Having crossed paths on various occasions the road—“We were always bumping into each other at random events,” they say—the duo decided to spend some time in the studio together in late 2012, only to discover a shared language and intention: “to excite people” with their music. Soon they began touring as Grolle & Noack before releasing 2013’s “Why” as part of the Schneeweiss II compilation on Oliver Koletzki’s Stil vor Talent imprint—albeit as Grolle & Noack rather than Junge Junge. 
The first official Junge Junge release landed in April 2015. Titled “Beautiful Girl,” and stemming from a spontaneous jam session at 2014’s Helene Beach Festival, the single landed on Get Physical Music. Pairing a feel-good bassline with the smooth vocals of Australian Kyle Pearce, the track served as a perfect example of the deeply melodic, pop- orientated sound. “Our songs automatically become melancholic, harmonic, and somehow ‘poppy,’” they say, describing their style as “pop with other influences.” 
Having heard “Beautiful Girl” played in a local beach bar on holiday in Ibiza, the Managing Director of Universal Music Sweden offered the duo a record deal on the spot. The first product of this arrangement was 2016’s “Run Run Run” single, followed soon thereafter with the Beautiful Girl EP which featured three original productions alongside the licensed title track. “Run Run Run” went double platinum in Sweden and has over 35 million streams on Spotify; while “Beautiful” went gold in the same territory. Earlier this year, the duo returned to the label with the “Postcard” single. Away from original productions, Rochus and Michael are also regular remixers—and can count Glashaus, Charlie Puth, James Arthur, Kyle Pierce, and Avicii as artists they’ve reworked. 
As DJs, the duo also continue to impress—although their tech-house sound is distanced somewhat from much of their studio output. “If we’re DJing we’ll play only tech-house or techno,” they say. “This is what has inspired both of us to play out music as DJs.” Following a busy few years of touring—during which they played Pacha Ibiza, Germany’s Magnetic Festival, HYTE on New Years Eve in Berlin, WET Open Air, to name just a few—the duo’s tour schedule continues only to grow. 2017 will see them combine bookings at large-scale festivals with smaller, more intimate club performances. 
Up next is the duo’s highly anticipated debut LP, scheduled for Spring 2018 release on Universal.

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