Sam Divine 

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With her years in the game, a multitude of awards, accolades and achievements, global tours and widespread influence, Sam Divine is a powerhouse artist. Renowned selector, producer, label owner and all round inspiration to countless women worldwide, she has established herself as a formidable presence. With 25 years under her belt, Sam’s vision and determination remain as staunch as ever. Driven by the finite nature of life, she is instigating a pivotal shift in her lifestyle. What we might call ‘Sam 2.0’ is the next phase of her evolutionary path, utilising her knowledge and experience to reveal more of her truest self.
 
Working on her personal growth, focusing on her wellbeing and exploring sobriety, while also pushing the boundaries of her creativity are key pillars of this internal, and external, development. As she reflects on the past couple of decades, Sam Divine is poised to push forward with the same energy and vibrancy that launched her onto the global circuit. This time with a fresh outlook and healthy.

From as far back as he can remember Marvin Lambert has always had music close to his heart, It was the turn of the new millennium when this musical journey began. Marvin was lucky enough to have the privilege of owning his first set of turntables at the tender age of 12, With strong early inspirations coming from the likes of Carl Cox, Mauro Picotto, Wu-Tang Clan, 2Pac, Dr Dre, Eminem and Shy Fx. Being blessed with a musical upbringing that involved multiple genres it’s that House Music sound that’s always been the most predominant for him. 

All the way through his teens Marv would find himself completing his weekly ritual spending every Friday night listening to the latest BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, It’s these mixes that helped to inspire him to put in countless hours of practice in his bedroom perfecting his DJ’ing skills. Once the art of mixing was mastered he then went on to college to study music technology this is where Marvin began to learn the production side of music. This step was something he always wanted being able to create his own sound and put a spin on the House Music genre that he could call his own. In 2011 he came across a track that took the world by storm “Azarii & III - Hungry For The Power (Jamie Jones Remix)” the shivers ran down his spine the first time he listened it and from that moment there was no looking back he fount the direction he wanted to go in. 

Since then Marvin has gone on to land himself residencies with one of the Midlands elite brands The Move, Who mix it up with the biggest DJ’s and producers in the world today he is also hugely involved in Freakshow a new event that wants to cause its own storm in the House and Techno world. It doesn’t just stop there global superpowers Defected & Do Not Sleep have also played host to the Marvin Lambert sound when they stopped by in his hometown of Stoke-on-Trent. With a bright future ahead Marvin will continue to put the hours in on his music productions while also continuing to rock the dance floor with his slick mixing skills.

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EMPEROR MACHINE  Biography
Over 30 years since acid house’s summer of love and there are few of 1988’s cast of actors still left standing. Still fewer are those whose music is still resolutely pointing towards the future rather than endlessly looking to the past. In fact, there’s arguably only one candidate left in the UK. While his peers are content with revival parties and classical house nights at the Albert Hall, Andy Meecham is out on his own as one of the few whose gleaming analogue machines are still pointing towards an imagined future rather than an endlessly relived history.
As the Emperor Machine, Meecham’s solo project since 2003, he has been wrenching monumental basslines, strange keyboard figures and luminescent rhythms from his beloved synthesisers, inspired by everything from sci-fi movies and KPM library albums. In some ways, his mission has scarcely altered in the 35 years since he first heard ‘Planet Rock’ in the early 1980s. “That’s the thing that got me hooked,” recalls Meecham. “The fact that it was futuristic sounding.  Anything that was sci-fi: UFO programmes, Dr Who, Star Trek. Stuff that suggested the future.”
While he’s happy to plough towards the future, we still has some serious history to contemplate. Meecham is one of the clique of acts in Staffordshire inspired by house music that included Candyflip, Altern-8, Sure Is Pure and Nexus 21. Meecham’s band with long-time conspirator Dean Meredith, Bizarre Inc, was one of the most successful of their generation and 1991’s ‘Playing With Knives’ was a staple in all self-respecting DJs bag that year. Major label deals, led to swift dissatisfaction; Meredith and Meecham went back to the mixing board to rethink their future. 
As Chicken Lips, they re-emerged alongside peers like the Idjut Boys and Faze Action, to offer their delayed and dislocated rhythms to an audience hungry for relief from the monotony of the four-to-the-floor house rhythm, with joyously dubbed out originals and fiendishly clever remixes for luminaries like Ennio Morricone and Groove Armada to Wolfmother, transforming Love Train from a metallic romp into a disco-dub delight with a bottom-end bigger than a Kardashian. Then there are Andrew’s other aliases (he’s had more than Carlos The Jackal), notably Sir Drew, Future Four, Gino Fontaine, BIG 2000, Randee Jean and Zeefungk.
The Emperor Machine was born out of an online slating of one of his favourite synths, the Roland SH 3A. Indignant at this appalling slight, Meecham set to work on a track only using said Roland. James Dyer at DC Recordings loved it so much, he asked him for another and gave the project its name. Emperor Machine it was.


 As with most of the Emperor Machine music, the methodology goes against the grain of how most electronic musicians approach producing. Rather than reducing it to mathematical blocks of music on a computer screen, Emperor Machine is about long passes, played live and then edited down by a crack team of highly-trained Potteries-based orang-utans, lorded over by merciless taskmaster Meecham.
The key to success is not dancefloor domination, but a far simpler rule, says Meecham. “The music has to make me shudder. So I work on something until I get that tingling feeling. So it’s almost more of a drug thing really. I have to get that out of the music and I can’t get that from full-on 909 four-to-the-floor dance music.”
A shudder and a tingle. And maybe a monster bassline. Emperor Machine redux. 
Bill Brewster

Underground // Raw // Deep // Soulful // House

House music producer and DJ since 1990. More aliases than I can remember.

Slo Moshun, Dansa Records, Robin Breaks, Rainstar, Waxtons, Monstr, Big Shot, Disko Kat, Dollar Bill, Bumpy Sunday and a dozen more you never heard of.

Founded Dansa Records with Mark Archer (Nexus 21 / Altern 8 / Trackman) in 1993.

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