Having spent a good proportion of his adolescence honing his skills as a jazz musician, the young Sam Butterfield felt it necessary to continue the trend by applying for a place at Guildhall. But failure to gain access to this prestigious jazz college Sam puts as being: "the best thing that ever happened to me."

His lack of affinity with the jazz 'clique', and the realisation that he never actually liked jazz in the first place, convinced Sam that a slightly different approach to his music was necessary. So he went out, bought a Korg T3 all-in-one workstation, and wrote a song called 'Fang-face' for his girlfriend (who, incidentally, is still his girlfriend).

"Baaaaad price..."

And he never looked back - writing many songs under such salubrious names as: 'Scooby' and 'Johnny Radar', at the same time bridging musical genres with his own particular mixture of breakbeat, funky house and moody tinkling. Writing tunes with vocalists comprised a large proportion of his output at this time.

Sam found that having to meet a co-writer halfway prevented him from having the adventure he needed to find out a style of his own. But, after a year out in the realm of instrumentals and dialogue samples, he returned in 1998 to write the groovy house tune You Give Me Reasons – aided and abetted by the dry and funky tonsils of Evie.

Wanna contact Chocker?
Maybe ask him to remix you?
samuel@themoon.co.uk