Sleep escapes. Evaporates into insomnia. When do you forget to imagine our separateness. Forget that I might be lit with sorrows. Because I love the shadow of beauty as much as beauty. And I love the thought of a song as much as the song itself. And I love a sleepless night more than a night from which I cannot remember my dreams. I am all the stories I never told. All the letters I did not send. What, then, is poetry. When do you forgive yourself for noticing the gap between us, for the loves and ecstasies, even though all are inevitably lost.

And now there is still the lump in my throat. The solidity of sadness that, too, will go away. As it always does. This is how tears get swallowed. This is how the bricks of why? fall into the pit of my stomach. Attach themselves like pearls, as though all unanswered questions would offer themselves in this way. Strings of pearls. Tears. Words. indigestible. And reminders that I am still here.

(and somewhere in there you ask, Are you okay.
Again. my heart wanted to crack. But I am flesh. Not rock)

"Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion....They are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual’s life."

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Samira is a San Francisco-based breaks DJ, a Dutch-Indonesian transplant from Amsterdam, who spent her formative years listening to the sounds of the gamelan and began her life-long love affair with the piano at age 7. She discovered her voice behind the decks during a stint of writer's block, and hasn't written since. Today, best known for her relentless and bass heavy late-night sets, it is still a deep love for story-telling that remains at the root of Sam's sound.

Samira is a resident of Sister SF, the most recognized cross-genre, female DJ crew in the world. She has recently had the pleasure of joining SEISMIC, a crew dedicated to strengthening San Francisco's breaks community.

Sam has produced and co-produced weeklies, monthlies, and one offs, hosted a 2-year-long weekly webcast on Club246, and has made appearances on FutureBreaks and Bass Pressure Radio, as well as the documentary film Vinyl Is A Girl's Best Friend (Irish Rose Films) with DJ Shortee, Annalyze, Shejay, and more. Samira has been featured in publications such Etc. Magazine, Karma Mag, REPELLENT, Womens Enews, among a number of other online publications. She has also been featured on the nightlife television show :CODEtv.

Sam has carved a niche for herself with her dark & compelling nu-skool breaks, DJing up and down the West Coast, gracing the decks as far as Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, New York, and Miami. She's played every well-known club in San Francisco, including Mighty, 1015 Folsom, Mezzanine, DNA Lounge, Club 6, and 111 Minna.

Samira has DJd alongside international breakbeat talent such as:
plump DJs, Krafty Kuts, Future Funk Squad, BLIM, SOTEG , the Carbon Community, 10Sui, Soul of Man, Stereo8, The Rogue Element, The Breakfastaz, DJ Hyper, Lee Coombs, Hi8, DJ Friendly, Boabinga, 30Hz, theIncredible Melting Man, Myagi, the Phat Conductor, Grayarea, J-Break. As well as other artists such as Andrea Parker, Miss Honey Dijon, Jondi & Spesh, Heather Heart, Reid Speed, Shortee.