Lagered!

The year was 1996. The Dj was Sample Gee, New Zealands first ever local mix CD was about to hit the stores. Lagered had arrived!

Marketed as "14 Up for It Indie Dance Anthems" the album hit the streets with little fanfare and promptly sold over 5000 copies. Record company Universal took note 2Lageredb was released in 1997 with a national TV campaign and sold platinum (15,000+) 135,000 albums and 9 Cds later and Lagered! Is still going strong. Lagered Cloud Nine was released in NZ and Australia and was supported by a 9 date tour of both countries playing to more than 6000 people. Grant's other successful releases as Sample Gee include Chemistry, Cue and ZM Clubmix. The immense popularity of his mix albums have seen him collect five Gold and Four Platinum sales awards in New Zealand.
In November of 2001, Grant was asked to head up Universal Australia's new dance division and left his job of Local A & R Manager for Universal New Zealand to take up the challenge. Since that time he has mixed albums for Universal Australia such as Mint 4, Cream Spring 2002, Cream Trance Anthems, Cranking Hard Trance, Club UK and Trance Destinations selling tens of thousands of albums. After only two years living in Australia,Sample Gee was voted #5 Dj in the Country out of 700 nominations in August 2003. Grant left Universal in 2003 and is now based in New Zealand once again, concentrating on a full time career as Dj/Producer and promoter. Recording under the names Zander and Cyrpian, Grant has his own tracks featured on compilations worldwide. His total mix album sales in Australasia are now in excess of 250,000 albums. The latest Lagered album "One for the Road" was released in August 2005.

Without a doubt NZ's preeminent Dj Sample Gee has changed the face of the country's dance scene and ahs become an interstate crowd puller in Australia. Looking back on a career that began with a bedroom full of records, Grant says he can't imagine things turning out any other way. "My entire life has been based around music. What's always been important to me is to push dance music forward and we're miles ahead now of where we were 15 years ago. If I have got a crowd in front of me I can take them anywhere I want , and that means everything to me"

Lagered , elevating you to Clound 9 and beyond