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After Sammy Virji’s landmark 2024 (sold out North America headline tour, DJ EZ Glasto B2B, NYC K-Bridge DJ set, Boiler Room debut, TOTY, mentioned on I’m A Celeb to boot), the “global garage phenomenon” returns with his new surefire hit, ‘I Guess We’re Not The Same’, out now via Polydor.
The follow-up to 2024’s hit ‘Damager’, ‘I Guess We’re Not The Same’ (‘IGWNTS’) opens with a soft, delicate vocal refrain and a lush, catchy melody. True to Virji’s signature style, this drops into a skippy garage drum groove, underpinned by a rumbling, spine-tingling bassline that hits you right in the core. In December, Four Tet gave the track a spin on New York’s much-loved The Lot radio. (LISTEN/WATCH HERE at 1hr 23m).
The release of ‘IGWNTS’ will closely follow two SOLD OUT landmark shows at the O2 Academy Brixton on Friday January, 31st and Saturday, February 1st.
2024 was a pivotal year for Sammy. He played to his largest crowd yet—55,000 fans—at Chase & Status‘ Milton Keynes Bowl takeover (clip HERE), toured North America and the UK with his Isn’t It tour and attracted huge crowds at major UK dance festivals including Parklife, Boomtown and Glastonbury, where he went B2B with DJ EZ, Todd Edwards, Joy Anonymous and Hamdi respectively. Across the pond, he notably joined Ben UFO, Chloé Robinson, and Four Tet under New York’s K-Bridge at the Four Tet & Friends event and made his Boiler Room debut at Portola Festival in Denver alongside magnetic names Nikki Nair, Ahadadream, Hudson Mohawke and Doctor Jeep. In October, he teamed up with fellow UKG heavyweight Interplanetary Criminal for the rave anthem, ‘Damager’, a collaboration with Interplanetary Criminal that’s been inflicting major damage at raves and festivals globally. Sammy even found himself being the centre of discussion on ITV’s hit show, ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’.
Sammy Virji is driving the evolution of UKG, as the genre takes the world by storm—again. The London producer/DJ, nominated for Best Producer at DJ Mag’s Best Of British Awards in 2023, is an in-demand dance music maker, whether that’s for his brighter garage cuts like ‘Find My Way Home’ (26M streams), screw-face belters like ‘Shella Verse’ featuring Grammy-nominated Flowdan (13M streams), or synth-heavy bass house singles like ‘Summertime Blues’ with Chris Lake and Nathan Nicholson. His catchy 2023 single ‘If U Need It’ was arguably his biggest hit yet, now cruising towards 50M streams, having reached #85 on the UK Singles Chart.
With more releases on the horizon, Sammy Virji is proving himself as one to watch moving into 2025. ‘IGWNTS’ is out now.
Buy/stream – https://sammyvirji.lnk.to/IGWNTSWE
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