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Sam Gellaitry views the world through palettes of vivid color. A C minor scale becomes purple, plum, and grape. C-sharp minor is cool and blue. Nighttime is best evoked in dark F minor reds and D minor induces rich forest green. His music is a journey through experience, circumstance, and surroundings, told through his impressive, synesthesia-informed knowledge of differentmusical tones.

For him, songwriting and producing has always connected to a process of pairing and contrasting different tones – “using the notes to create different sensations – like tension or relief in your head.” In practice, this technique has seen him experiment with high definition club music, crisp hip-hop production, dabs of orchestral instrumentation and more, via ‘Escapism’ – three EPs released in the mid to late 2010s that cemented him as one of the most varied and visually strong producers of his generation.

Born far away from key electronic music hubs like LA, Glasgow, and London, Sam, now 23, grew up in Stirling – an old town in central Scotland that’s rich in medieval history and visually stunning views. Living here lead Sam’s older brother to happy hardcore – a kind of hard dance music born from the UK and Europe’s breakbeat and rave scenes – which in turn led to Sam learning to produce.

YouTube granted unfettered access to the world’s electronic scenes, with the array of sounds pushing Sam to pick up production in his early teens. He dove into Daft Punk’s robotic space realm where looped-up disco samples reigned supreme and LA producers Samiyam and FlyingLotus were early inspirations. But no matter the genre, one thing remained constant: the idea that music can take your imagination on a voyage through colour, place, and sound, via combinations of notes.

His first breakthrough song – 2014 single “powder” – bridged the gap between hip-hop and electronica, treading delicately as it glitched between maxi-and-minimalism. It sat in his favourite key too, with its instrumentation diving between hues of blue and green. “It reminds me of beinga hyper sixteen-year-old making music,” he says today. The track took off and sent Sam’s music on a journey, taking him from an unknown beatmaker to a Soulection – and later, XL Recordings– signee.

‘Escapism’ was released in 2015, with ‘Escapism II’ (2016) and ‘Escapism III’ (2017) coming after. The series showcased a young producer picking and choosing his way through a lavish buffet of sound and picked up nods from many of his peers in the electronic scene, like Kaytranada and Flume.

Sam has always used instruments to convey voices – high-pitched flute sounds to evoke falsetto sounds and female vocals, for example, or top lines made from melodics. But after taking a break for a few years since the release of ‘Escapism III’, he decided the time was right to start singing on his own music. You can hear this for the first time on his latest EP ‘IV’. Produced, written, vocalized, mixed and mastered by Sam, its name is a subtle nod to ‘Escapism’ trilogy and the work he’s released so far. More literally, it’s also called ‘IV’ because it’s a collection of four songs and four emotions.

“Me singing is just another instrument that I can use. I’m at an age now where I feel ready to talk and tell people what I’ve experienced in life. It’s perfect timing in that sense,” he says.

“I’ve done three EPs. I’m at the point now where I’m like – I want all the smoke. Now I’m comfortable singing on my songs, I want to go back to each point in my musical journey and tap into it. I’m using the voice as my anchor, then tapping into other sonics that have influenced me.

”This new era begins on ‘IV’ with “New Dawn” – a bright track of highly saturated blues and greens signaling Sam’s rebirth. “It’s the fullness of everything. On show and full blast,” he explains.

The EP then cruises along from the beginning of one day to the end of another, twisting and turning as it journeys through luscious soundscapes, electro-disco, LA funk, open-air ambiance, and a whole load more, all underpinned by Sam’s commanding vocal.

Second track “Duo” hones in on the French house music Sam discovered in his early teens, while “Games” is awash with euphoric yet mellow post-dub-step production, moving into darker territory.“The song at the start has its own drop, then there’s a second drop after that. It’s about the false sense of security with someone,” says Sam about the structure of the latter. By the time EP's closing track “Assumptions” comes around, the listener is firmly placed in the party – “it’s that moment when you’re saying things that aren’t realistic because you’re on a high,” Sam explains. It’s pure euphoria.

Coming alongside this new phase of Sam’s career is an embrace of both his Scottish heritage and his unparalleled and unadulterated passion for creativity. He’s getting a tartan made up whichfeatures the prominent colours he sees in music – the blues, the greens, and everything between. The idea is to feature the tartan on kilts and capes and clothes released via Sam’s new Viewfinderlabel – a creative venture unifying his love of music (he’s just signed his first artist), photography and fashion.

Ultimately, this next phase of Sam’s career comes back to why he does it all in the first place. He loves creating and playing around with different colours. It’s like a form of magic: a source of respite, release and happiness. “I want all my work to paint a joyful image of the process of creation,” he explains. As he prepares to ready his debut album, ‘IV’ is the next step on Sam Gellaitry’s colourful journey.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 6TH

Sam Gellaitry + Jarreau Vandal (SF Debut) + JAEL (Soulection) plus X-Coast in the Klub Room with RINSED SF

10pm • 21+ Only

Sam Gellaitry, Jarreau Vandal, JAEL, X-Coast

Famous DJs spin into the wee hours for packed crowds at this Friday & Saturday night dance club

1015 Folsom

Rinsed SF is taking over the KLUB Room on Friday with X-COAST plus support by massii b2b Vertigo, Doctors Hate Him, and Jackson Walker!
F﻿RIDAY OCTOVER 6TH 2023
R﻿insed SF x DJ Dials x 1015 Folsom
K﻿LUB ROOM:
X﻿-COAST

+﻿ massii b2b Vertigo • Doctors Hate Him • Jackson Walker

1﻿0pm • 21+ Only

X-coast

You can't mention Saturdays without PURA CLUB. Reggaeton, Salsa, Banda, Hip-Hop in a 20K sq foot nightclub in downtown San Francisco! Open LATE til 3 AM

Saturday October 7th

10pm - 3am • 21+ only
PHYSICAL IDs REQUIRED


In order to bring you the very best and safest Latin Nightclub Experience

PURA SATURDAYS enforce the following dress code standards:

We encourage our guests to wear fashionable attire and do not allow loose-fitting clothing, sports attire/sneakers, sandals, work boots, or clothing that is too revealing.

Management reserves the right to make all final dress code decisions and can refuse entry for any reason.

MEN Please wear:

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Pura Saturdays

Droeloe

THURSDAY OCTOBER 12TH
DROELOE
9pm • 21+ Only

Emancipator

Douglas Appling, the Portland-based electronic musician known to electronic music enthusiasts as Emancipator, takes a natural approach to his art. The classically trained violinist, and veteran of more traditional bands during his college years, grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Listening to his parents' wide-ranging collection of albums — Kraftwerk, Orbital, Fleetwood Mac — as well as the African sounds his mother discovered during her years in the Peace Corps, profoundly influenced his expansive approach to music making.

"So much credit goes to my parents and the music they curated at home," Appling says. "My father had a tasteful, largely indiscriminate record collection. Instrument-wise, there were dulcimers that he himself built, kalimbas and shakers that my mother brought back from Africa, an upright piano from my grandparents, and an infamous Casio keyboard. That says a lot about my sonic DNA. The folk elements come from growing up listening to bluegrass, and all kinds of music, on the radio."

Appling's ideas about music are influenced by a degree in psychology but, while he was in college, he was also studying music theory. He began revisiting the multi-layered sounds he was creating on Acid Pro during high school and expanding upon them.

"I was a second-year college student when I released my debut album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough. I was performing at the Meridian Coffeehouse in Williamsburg and taking handmade CD-Rs to the post office every day. I was getting orders from around the world on my Myspace page. During my junior year, Hydeout Productions, a label in Japan, owned by the legendary producer Nujabes, contacted me. He released my album on his label. I got an offer to tour Japan just a few months after I graduated."

After graduation and his Japanese tour, Appling moved to Portland, lured by the promise of a thriving electronic music scene. After relocating, he released four more albums, slowly evolving toward the sounds he created for Mountain of Memory. "To me, the music feels like a wave of memories, a geological archive of sounds. These songs were created layer by layer, each element a sedimentary piece of the bigger picture. The songs have become stronger over time, throughout various waves of creativity and entropy. There is a feeling of building upon the past and looking toward the future. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants."

Since that release, Appling has been musically active and releasing many collaborative albums with respected artists in his inner circle, such as CloZee, 9 Theory, Cloudchord, Asher Fulero, and most recently with his close friend and touring violinist Lapa. Appling says this of their album 11th Orbit, "We decided to write the album entirely in the realm of house music tempos, which opened up a lot of room for creative instrumentation. It was inspiring to explore new instruments, effects, and timbral combinations as we stacked, blended, and sifted layers of cosmic analog synthesizers, melodious tones, and acoustic instruments into these worlds of sound. The process of writing this album was different from previous projects of ours in that it is a from-the-ground-up fusion of our songwriting and production styles."

FRIDAY OCTOBER 13TH
Loci Presents:
Emancipator
MURGE • NORTHERN FORM
10pm • 21+ Only

You can't mention Saturdays without PURA CLUB. Reggaeton, Salsa, Banda, Hip-Hop in a 20K sq foot nightclub in downtown San Francisco! Open LATE til 3 AM

Saturday October 14th

10pm - 3am • 21+ only
PHYSICAL IDs REQUIRED


In order to bring you the very best and safest Latin Nightclub Experience

PURA SATURDAYS enforce the following dress code standards:

We encourage our guests to wear fashionable attire and do not allow loose-fitting clothing, sports attire/sneakers, sandals, work boots, or clothing that is too revealing.

Management reserves the right to make all final dress code decisions and can refuse entry for any reason.

MEN Please wear:

- Button-Up Collared shirts (no plaid or flannel)
- Dress Shoes ONLY (no sneakers, no boots)
- No shorts

Adriatique

SUNDAY OCTOBER 15TH 2023

Adriatique: 1015 Folsom 34th Anniversary Party
+ Marino Canal

8pm • 21+ Only

Adriatique: 1015 Folsom's 34th Anniversary Party

Hailing from the land of compromise in the heart of Europe, the four friends of Stavroz found each other in the east of Flanders. In its inception, IJsbrand De Wilde & Gert Beazar focussed mainly on playing DJ sets and creating music in which they loved colliding worlds. Only a few years later they hooked up with Maxim Helincks & Pieter De Meester to expand their DJ activities to a performing band and continued to try and find an unbeaten path in electronic music. This culminated in their delicately acoustic, organic and cinematic approach to electronic music. As a result they were awarded second place for "best producer" and "best breakthrough artist" in national awards for Belgium's electronic music scene.

In the years that followed, the four kept expanding their catalogue and continued to develop that uniquely own style. Their EP "The Ginning" resulted in an early breakthrough for the four-some. It reached gold status in France, dominated the nr. 1 spot on the Hype Machine and was chosen as vinyl of the month by Germany's "Faze Magazine," mainly thanks to the B-side "The Finishing."

In order to keep freedom in their music production and to be able to support other artists with a like minded vision, they started their record label "Moodfamily." It was on this label that their second hit single "Gold Town" was released. It kept the nr. 1 spot on Beatport's "Electronic Top 100" for several months and was picked up by Rockstar Entertainment and added to GTA 5's (already) excellent in-game music. Although Stavroz is now 11 years old, many of their songs are still relevant and are quietly nudging towards timelessness. Over half million monthly listeners and over 100.000 followers on Spotify alone will concur.

Their intimate live performance grew more dramatic and their unique dj sets spread like wildfire as they started frequenting many international stages. Coachella (US), Fusion Festival (DE), Wonderfruit (THA), Pukkelpop (BE), Strawberry Fields (AUS), Tropico (MX), Three Points Festival (FL, USA) all fell victim to Stavroz's unusual dramatic, melancholic yet determined approach. The band was quickly invited by the acclaimed Youtube channel "Cercle" to perform a streaming concert at Fort SaintEynard in France where once again, they managed to create a wholesome, comforting soundtrack for a place, which no words can describe.

2022 marked another landmark in Stavroz's history as they release their debut album "Mindibu."

THURSDAY OCTOBER 19TH

Stavroz
Kick Up the Dust Tour
9pm • 21+ Only

Stavroz

Wax Motif

Australian DJ and renowned house music producer Wax Motif has unveiled his highly anticipated, 17-track debut album House of Wax.
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Out now on his own Divided Souls imprint, House of Wax explores a wide range of genres, showcasing Wax Motif’s inimitable music production talents. Keeping the energy high, his sultry bass house sound is found throughout the album in songs like “Hard Street” (with ALRT and Nessly), "Skank N Flex" (with Scruffizer and Taiki Nulight), and the aptly-titled “Keep Raving.”

FRIDAY OCTOBER 20TH

WAX MOTIF PRESENTS:
HOUSE OF WAX 2023 TOUR

10pm • 21+ Only

House of Wax 2023 Tour

You can't mention Saturdays without PURA CLUB. Reggaeton, Salsa, Banda, Hip-Hop in a 20K sq foot nightclub in downtown San Francisco! Open LATE til 3 AM

Saturday October 21st

10pm - 3am • 21+ only
PHYSICAL IDs REQUIRED


In order to bring you the very best and safest Latin Nightclub Experience

PURA SATURDAYS enforce the following dress code standards:

We encourage our guests to wear fashionable attire and do not allow loose-fitting clothing, sports attire/sneakers, sandals, work boots, or clothing that is too revealing.

Management reserves the right to make all final dress code decisions and can refuse entry for any reason.

MEN Please wear:

- Button-Up Collared shirts (no plaid or flannel)
- Dress Shoes ONLY (no sneakers, no boots)
- No shorts