Sampology – 2011 Bio
Sam Poggioli aka Sampology is no ordinary turntable technician. His legendary “Super Visual” AVDJ series has earned him an undeniable reputation as Australia’s leading Audio Visual DJ, playing a number of the world’s greatest music, film and arts festivals including Big Day Out, SXSW, Big Chill Festival, Falls Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sydney Festival, Tropfest and Adelaide Fringe Festival.
He’s unlike your regular artist releasing singles, EPs and albums, and touring live music venues and clubs around the world. (Although he does this too!) Sampology’s performed as feature AVDJ for the internationally acclaimed “Tom Tom Crew” which played sold out seasons in 2009 in Manhattan, London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2011, he was commissioned by Red Bull to produce an AV show opener for their X Fighters World Championships on Sydney Harbour, performed live from an LED cage suspended 50 metres in the air by crane over 15,000 fans and broadcast to some 50 or so countries around the world. Chris Lilley of Angry Boys/Summer Heights High fame hand picked Sampology to produce an audio and video remix for his Angry Boys Soundtrack release and iconic Australian act The Wiggles came to Sampology as their go-to man for an audio and video remix on their 20th anniversary tribute album “ReWiggled”.
Undoubtedly, his reputation globally has grown largely online and in particular via his YouTube channel which has attracted over 1 million hits around the world. But arguably it’s Sampology’s “Super Visual” series of AVDJ shows, which are garnering him the most attention. The technical aspect to his Super Visual shows is impressive, he madly manipulates video via two turntables using his special Rane mixer and Serato, as well as live-triggering custom animations via his drum machine. It’s Sampology’s cheeky sense of humour, sprinkled across exerts from film and TV shows, film-clips, YouTube clips and vintage VHS finds that takes your ordinary club night or event and turns it into a stupidly exciting and crazy fun visual mash-up. It’s like dancing your tits off to your favourite movies of all time, and laughing the whole way through.
In 2010, he toured the Super Visual Smackdown – a homage to Hulk Hogan, where ridiculous fun met wrestling in a dance floor foray. In 2011, he toured the Super Visual Monster Mash across 10 dates in Australia, and showcase performances at SXSW, New York and LA, attracting horror fans alike, mixing up Teen Wolf with Tron and Daft Punk, Charlie Sheen with Kanye West, Evil Dead with the Muppets, and so on, as only Sampology can. He’s currently in pre-production for his next Super Visual blockbuster which will tour globally from mid 2012.
As a producer, Sampology’s much-awaited debut EP the “Super Sounds EP” was released in April 2011, featuring single “Piggy Bank”, a collaboration with South African artist Spoek Mathambo and Croatia born, Swedish based Gnucci Banana. Rightly so, the EP was hailed as a unique and seriously fun take on black influenced club music. A third single release “Hell On Wheels” featuring Kween G of Killer Queenz fame was released in November 2011, while Sampology buried himself in the studio writing his debut album, due for release mid 2012.
“On the decks you have Sampology who has turned spinning records into an art form as he combines sound and vision to create a multimedia sensation” – British Theatre Guide
DISCOGRAPHY | REMIXOGRAPHY
2011 – “Hell On Wheels” feat Kween G 2011 – “Slap My Elbow” S.Mouse (Sampology remix) [Angry Boys Soundtrack] 2011 – “Wobbly Camel” The Wiggles (Sampology feat. Prince Zimboo remix) [Rewiggled] 2010 – “Piggy Bank feat. Spoek Mathambo & Gnucci Banana” Sampology [Top Billin] 2010 – “Bora Bee feat. Sunny Dread” Sampology [Top Billin] 2010 – “Brazil Pop” Sampology [Top Billin] 2010 – “You feat. Lady Chann” Sampology [Top Billin] 2010 – “Move It Y’all” Sampology [Top Billin] 2010 – “Mic Check” Million Dan (Sampology remix) 2010 – “Drunk In This” Surecut Kids (Sampology remix) 2010 – “Transatlantic Skank” Two Fresh (Sampology remix) [Klub Kids] 2009 – “Peace & Love” Resin Dogs (Sampology remix) [Hydrofunk Records] 2008 – “Baby” PNAU (Sampology remix) [Etc Etc]
TOURS
2011 Hell On Wheels 2011 Super Visual Monster Mash 2011 Big Day Out 2010 Super Visual Smackdown 2010 Bacardi Express 2009 Tom Tom Crew 2009 Parklife Festival 2009 Good Vibrations Festival 2008 Super Visual Disco Party
FESTIVALS / SPECIAL APPEARANCES
2011 Big Day Out national tour 2011 Good Vibrations 2011 Tropfest Short Film Festival 2011 Perth International Arts Festival 2011 Southbound Festival
2010 Big Chill Festival 2010 Berlin Festival 2010 Northbridge Festival 2010 Good Vibrations 2010 Sydney Festival 2009 Brisbane Festival 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 Udderbelly
2009 New Victory Theatre 2009 Parklife Festival national tour 2009 Good Vibrations national tour
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CONTACT Management : Jane Slingo management@sampology.com
Bookings Aust NZ : Dayna Young dayna@archeryclub.net.au
