WGWit:  Samo Sound Boy, welcome to the eclectic world of WGWit! We do hustle bass heavy music. So tell us, how did the name “Samo Sound Boy” come about ?

Samo Sound Boy: No big story there really… My friends would call me Samo, but that alone sounded plain for a DJ name. I think I tried to register “dj samo” on myspace when I wanted to put some tracks up to share, but that account was already taken by a dude from Japan who made futuristic minimal-house porn soundtracks. So I thought really hard about it but couldn’t come up with anything good… a while later I ate at this indian buffet in yonkers, NY with a couple friends. I wound up eating this one dish that I thought was saag paneer at the time… but was probably something else in retrospect. Whatever it was, it gave me the most insane fever that night, a temperature of 108, just crazy… I was getting the shakes and sweats like mad, but then just passed out and started having this dream where I was talking to a raccoon who was wearing a golden vest. There was this strange beat playing from somewhere and he kept repeating “let me bang, let me bang” in the voice from the dj deeon record. Then he looked at me right in the eye and said “samo sound boy”. I woke up sometime the next day and registered that name on myspace.

WGWit: Are you from LA ?

Samo Sound Boy: I was born in Manhattan and grew up there, and then lived in New Hampshire. Since then i’ve lived in Florida, Buenos Aires, Seattle, and then Los Angeles. Far and away, this is my favorite place and I love living in LA.

WGWit: When did you sign with Trouble & Bass ? When can we expect your next release ?

Samo Sound Boy: I signed with Trouble and Bass early this year. They brought me to play with them in Washington DC last summer when I went out to New York to play at Ghetto Gothik. They had been supporting some of my early tracks a lot, which was big for me because I was really grinding to get my stuff out there. After that show in DC they asked me to do a Heavy Bass Champions release, which I did, and then we decided to just keep going. My next release is coming out on T&B this summer. It’s an ep with some big remixes of the lead track which is called “Shuffle Code”. Nobody has really heard it yet, but we’ve got some special things in store leading up to release, including a really fucking crazy and bugged out music video staring a smoked-out octopus who drives around LA in a drop-top caddy. The whole thing is like a twisted up take on John Carpenter’s Escape From La mashed up with the world created through the cover art from Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle .

WGWit: Here at WGWit, we are “trouble makers” [T&B fans per-say], we’ve blogged and supported past work from: AC Slater, Drop the Lime, Udachi (party like us) ect. but we are currently following Zombies For Money like crazy! Can we expect any collaboration with Zombies For Money & Samo Sound Boy ? or are we thinking too outside the box ? The heavy tropical sound is off the hook!

Samo Sound Boy: That’s what’s up! Those guys are my homies and I love to hear that. Honestly, I hadn’t ever thought about a collab before, but it’s a cool idea for sure. For me it’s easier to collab with somebody if we’re in the same room, but who knows maybe that’ll happen someday soon.

WGWit: Do you ever plan to produce any moombahton ?

Samo Sound Boy: the short answer is no. I think there’s some really cool elements in some of the moombahton stuff, and I love Dave Nada’s story of how he came up with idea for it, but the idea of producing under the umbrella of any one genre just isn’t for me. It’s too restraining. I take a lot of influence from different styles and productions, but im just trying to do my own thing really. That’s how I keep things fresh and interesting for myself, by just trying to make up the sounds I really want hear and not really caring about trends within genres.

Read more/listen to some remixes after the jump!

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