Samy Birnbach

DJ, musician, singer and poet from Israel. Born in 1948. Spent most of his life in various European cities but has settled in Brussels, Belgium, since the early 1980s. Most famous as co-founder of Minimal Compact and as DJ Morpheus. As such he compiled the Freezone series for the SSR label, for which he also did A&R. Currently broadcasts the Lysergic Factory radio show on Radio Campus in Brussels. Has previously broadcast for various radio stations in the past, e.g. Radio Grenouille in Marseille (France), Radio Nova in Paris (France) and Radio Crystal in Belgium. He’s been a guest DJ on various shows around the world, such as Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide, 4 Hero’s (on Kiss FM), Coldcut’s Solid Steel (on BBC London), Paul Thomas (Radio One), Liquid Radio (4FM, Austria), Couleur 3 (Switzerland), KCRW (USA), FG and Le Mouv’ (France).