The artist has spent many years touring all over Europe including Ibiza, Germany, Holland, Ireland and all over the UK with controversial hardtrance act Chill FM, playing to crowds of up to 25,000 people.
He has also played live at over 1,000 Danc
e events throughout Europe. During this time he received many Dance Music Awards such as "best live performance" three years running voted by M8 Magazine & the Smirnoff Experience dance awards.
He also won "best singles awards" voted by the readers of Ministry, Bassline & M8 Magazines for the controversial Strobelight ep and the massive Shocker ep which went to number one in a number of charts throughout Europe.
These singles were released on the Massive Respect record label, which was then followed up with the release of the Shocker album which sold 1000's in the first week of release. Apart from his production skills Sam DJs under the Riccocha pseudonym in clubs such as Amnesia (Ibiza) and more closer to home in The Arches in Glasgow.
With the knowledge Sam has gathered over the years in the dance music scene he decided to launch some new music projects, Riccocha being one of them.
The Riccocha sound has been described as "Hard edged trance with melodic uplifting tones to send any crowd into a frenzy".
After the success of his massive release "New Age" which reached number four in the world trance charts and was licensed to many compilations throughout Europe such as Danceland 2, European Trance mix etc he went on to collaborate and remix with the likes of Lost Witness, Jurgen Vries, Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet), Tomski, Chicane, Maurice & Noble, Del St Joseph (KWS), Mary Kiani (The Time Frequency), Simple Minds, Imporium, DJ Fraser Latta and many more.
He is currently working on music projects Scott Walker (the man behind De'lacy's worldwide hit Hide Away) vocalists Chris Hayes and Lucy Carr.
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