Mr Sam was born during the mid seventies just as punk was emerging from beneath the ruins of stadium-rock, he grew up in a small idyllic village near the Belgian border in the north of France. From an early age, Sam had no escape from his parents own musically mixed cocktails of Giorgio Moroder, Klaus Schulz combined with a dash of Elvis Presley. Through this heavy involuntary dose of electronically initiated influence, he developed an early fascination for squelchy synthesizer sounds and after buying his first Depeche Mode single, he was firmly hooked.

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