Sam is a northerner in the south, swapping the streets of Leeds for the beaches of Thanet. He has a lifelong interest in music and musical equipment, regularly playing his 1939 Kalamazoo acoustic guitar and owning a range of analogue and digital synthesizers, including the Yamaha CS-5, DX7 Mk I, FS1R, Nord Lead 1 (MkII) and the Dave Smith Tempest analogue drum machine. His background is in music production, audio-visual technologies and lecture capture, but as an electronic and communications engineer, Sam is capable of repairing, servicing and modding valve and solid state guitar amplifiers, FX pedals and synths. Often found on a bicycle, Sam still isn't sure why he isn't in Kraftwerk.