Samim (full name Samim Winiger) is a

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producer of

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Biography

Winiger is of Iranian descent.Samim to Play Dublin
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'', 1 April 2008, retrieved 2011-07-13 With Michal Ho, he released several tracks under the name Samim & Michal.Samim
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, 30 July 2007, retrieved 2011-07-13 He has also worked with Jay Haze as Bearback and Fuckpony. In 2004, Samim temporarily stopped his work after he developed

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. However, shortly after he brought out several 12-inch singles. His breakthrough in Europe was in the summer of 2007, with the eccentric

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track "

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" which became a summer hit and was included on the

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2008 compilation ''The Rush''. The single was released in the

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on 27 September 2007 and reached number 6 in the

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top 40. It also reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart.Samim
, Chart Stats, retrieved 2011-07-13 In September 2007, his first solo-album, ''Flow'', also appeared. A second album, ''Kook Kook'', was released in 2009.

Discography

Albums

*''Flow'' (2007), Get Physical

Singles

*''Eternally Collapsing Object'' EP (2006), Moon Harbour *"Do You See the Light?" (2007), Circus Company *"

" (2007), Get Physical

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Swiss house musicians Swiss people of Iranian descent {{Switzerland-musician-stub