Sam Mcqueen

Spanning all of 4 years, Sam McQueen's recording career is perhaps  as seasoned as his techno peers; however, that brief time span belies the depth of this artist's engaging work. New Age Electronic describes his music style, encompassing presets and pads "for a thicker feel." Samurai Records has released McQueen's first independent work and there are many other future projects ready to go including a tribute to Chicago's  Wicker Park. In addition to collaborating with John Beltran and Seth Taylor for the Indio project on Transmat Records, McQueen contributed to Beltran's highly successful Placid Angles album.

His early attempts at cultivating a techno career were affirmed, if unexpectedly,
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when he would send out various tapes for promotional reasons and would frequent different clubs and hear those same songs—his songs!—before anyone had even heard of Sam McQueen. It was all the motivation he needed. McQueen lists Detroit techno as a major influence on his work (he went to college with Kevin Saunderson, among techno's true innovators), namely Derek May's Strings of Life creation, as well as Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter, Kraftwerk's programming, Mr. Fingers and Lil Louis.

He sees techno evolving into "more mature sounds in the years to come, going into different directions." And McQueen intends to grow with it, adding to the genre's steadily growing popularity.