"In November 2007 Pinch’s debut album Underwater Dancehall was released to widespread acclaim. Four years later in July 2011 Space Shuttle Atlants commenced its final voyage from the Kennedy Space Centre. Unbeknownst to NASA and the crew, somehow a CD copy of Pinch’s landmark Dubstep masterpiece found its way aboard.

While the CD itself survived the journey into space physically unaltered the music contained within morphed and warped in its new zero gravity environment, Underwater Dancehall had become Dancehall in Outer Space. The weighty throb of the original floated away to leave a lean and spacious soundtrack for a new kind weighless wineing.

Whether through alien interference or some other miracle the CD started to play all by itself just as the Shuttle docked with the International Space Station. Beyond their control the crew found their bodies begin to contort into odd shapes as their muscles spasmed, seemingly in time to the beat. What follows is a recording of that moment from the Space Shuttle Atlantis sensors."

@sam_pv / @pumpingvelvet
IG: @sampv____ / @pumpingvelvetldn

Sam is the founder and a resident at Pumping Velvet, a London-based Queer dance party, and regularly plays at queer parties across the UK alongside a US tour and other international gigs including Planeta Manas (Lisbon), Savage (Hanoi), Kockiri (Seoul) and (Re)treat Festival (Vietnam).

Sam grew up in London, his tastes moulded by the city’s diverse dance music scenes: from childhood trips to Notting Hill Carnival, to formative dancefloor experiences at nights like FWD, Trash and Süd Electronic. He brings these influences to his DJing in sets that span a broad gamut of genres, tied together by a love for big drums, pop melodies and sleaze.   

Frustrated by the lack of queer spaces where you could hear both a Svek record and Kylie in the same night, Sam founded Pumping Velvet in 2018, driven by the firm belief that any barriers erected between pop and ‘serious’ dance music are entirely artificial and that there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. It’s this same ethos and disregard for boundaries that makes his DJ so thrilling.

Tracklist:
DJ Giant - Something Bady
Schuttle - Junkman
Joe - MPH
Leo - Jade Floors
Malcolm - Damâa
Brenda - Masato!
Kaval - Druid Potion
Product Toss - Willow
Yuseemi - Roll With It
Xzavier Stone, DJ Plead & Phillip Jondo - Bellydance
Plus One - Zero Chance
DJ Pausas & DJ Fofuxo - Tarracho Exxelentt  
Ayesha - Roll
Wes Lee - Gates
DJ Pitch - Juan Mecanico

Distant Signals 075: Sam PV

Received transmissions from the outer reaches of an exquisite corpse universe

Colombian-USian producer/DJ based in LA
1/3 of Dyspheric @dyspheric-x
Bookings - cattleya.sound@proton.me


Open-format DJ and improvisational live electronics act.  I am also an artist that creates films, multi-channel installations, sound design & scoring for moving image, and uplifting queer DIY music events through the @dyspheric-x platform and collabs w/ other collectives.

Some past shows~
2025
- Another Castle w/ SPRKLBB, Jake Muir –LA
- FERVOR – Salt Lake City, UT
- Santuario on Dublab w/ Santiago Salazar – LA

2024
-  Yessi w/ Chancleta @ VOID, PHL
- SPLOOSH! w/ ADAB, Beige – PGH
- Sweet Abyss w/ Kiernan Laveaux – PGH

2023
- HUMANAUT, Hot Mass w/ Carlos Souffront, PGH
- Honcho Campout Festival – Artemas, PA
- Techtonics @ Trans Pecos – Queens, NY
- Honcho @ Hot Mass w/ M.Bootyspoon – PGH
- Dyspheric x  Blessed Up Gang – Columbus, OH

2022
- Big Noise Candy Mountain Festival, WV
- Headcleaner, Columbus, OH
- DETOUR / Dyspheric @ Hot Mass w/ IDE, PGH
- SMOKING GUN  w/ Nick Leon, Houston, TX
- SMH Vol. 5 w/ SWAP MEET, Houston, TX

2019
- Be Careful w/ Jasmine Infiniti, Houston, TX

I acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as the traditional custodians of the land I am currently situated on. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal Land.

//recently playing under alias Freebag

Distant Signals 075: Sam PV

DISTANT SIGNALS