Interview: Sampology
Recently I interviewed audio-visual DJ Sampology for Acclaim Magazine. Here’s a little snippet, and the full article can be read over at Acclaim’s website.
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OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, AUSTRALIAN-BORN AVDJ MASTERMIND SAMPOLOGY HAS ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S PIONEERING PRODUCERS. RISING TO NOTORIETY WITH HIS CAPTIVATING AND TRULY UNIQUE AUDIOVISUAL SETS, SAMPOLOGY HAS COME A LONG WAY SINCE HUMBLE BEDROOM BEGINNINGS IN 2008 WITH A LINE OF MASSIVE FESTIVAL APPEARANCES AND A STRING OF STUDIO RELEASES, INCLUDING LAST YEAR’S DEBUT ALBUM, ALL SOLIDIFYING HIS POSITION AS A CULT ACT. SITTING DOWN WITH THE MAN HIMSELF BEFORE HE HITS THE ROAD AS PART OF ABSOLUT’S THE BLUE ROOM PROJECT, SAM POGGIOLI, THE INFAMOUSLY CHEEKY PRODUCER TELLS US ALL ABOUT HIS, QUOTE, “HEADFUCK” OF A CAREER.
You spent some time earlier in the year playing shows in the US and Asia, how were those tours?
Really great. I played about 11 shows through Canada and the US earlier in the year and I did two trips to Asia in the last few months, to Shanghai and Bali, but there’s a whole other story about the recent time I played in Bali about a month ago.
What happened?
I played after John Legend in front of about two-and-a-half thousand people on this beach setup and the stage got bum-rushed by about 20
Balinese authority. Actually the next day was so crazy. I just filmed myself talking about what happened the night before because I wanted to keep it fresh – I think at the end of the tour I’m gonna upload that video of what happened but that’s another story in itself. It was pretty funny and hectic and I’ve never experienced anything like it before, especially being in Bali. It didn’t have anything to do with anything I did in the set but it was all in all pretty funny and turned out to be a good thing.
But Asia’s really great as well. With a lot of the places you play in Asia,
you see in the crowd when you’re playing in front of them that it’s kind of a new experience for them, because they’re starting to get a whole new group of international artists that perform in different ways. So for me it’s perfect because what I do is kind of new for them. I’ve had a really good time in Asia.
You’re currently playing the AV Stimulation Tour across the country as a national tour. How’s that been going so far?
It’s really good – I mean I’ve done quite a few AV tours already through Australia, so a lot of people in the crowd would’ve been to previous shows of mine and brought their friends. I’m really hyped because it’s a completely new show and it’s a completely new theme.
Actually, last weekend in Sydney, half an hour after I finished, one of the event organisers told me that during the show he got a message through on the radio saying two people were having sex up the back at the end of my set – like there were these chairs up the back in the dark and there were two people caught having sex which yeah I was pretty stoked about.
Wouldn’t that have to be the ultimate sign that people enjoyed your show?
They enjoyed it so much they couldn’t keep it in their pants, yeah.
What if there’s a baby called Sampology in nine months time?
It’s really funny on Sunday at the FBI Show in Sydney, one of my really good friends told me she was pregnant on the day and then like a few hours later the thing happened with the people having sex during the show and it was just like, weird.
In terms of the rest of 2013, what have you got up your sleeve?
More music releases is my main priority at the moment, so that’s the main focus. There’ll be more shows coming, and I’m still locking that in at the moment, but the main priority is just my own original music. I’ve got a stack of music I’m really excited to let people hear but I definitely wouldn’t say the A-word yet.
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