# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C7PHcOGxJq5
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17873414-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-05-21T15:51:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

Twenty-five years ago, Ghostly International was born inside a dorm room. Sam Valenti IV was a 19-year-old art history major studying Jackson Pollock by day and DJing warehouses by night; in between, he pressed records and drove around the city to different record stores, selling them copies from the back of his car. The first release was a 12” featuring MatthewDear’s seminal techno anthem, “Hands Up For Detroit,” which went on to be sampled in Fedde Le Grand’s 2006 worldwide dance hit, a culture-shifting moment that Valenti can’t help but feel “tangentially proud” of.

Since then, Valenti’s influence has only grown thanks to a curiosity that has never waned. Unlike other label heads, he’s never been a fan of creative restrictions, streaming data, or business mandates. Instead, Valenti allows his roster of leftfield artists the creative freedom to experiment and get weird, “surfing on the edges” on the cultural zeitgeist, often to long-standing success.

For their 25th anniversary, founder sv4, artists, and label associates like Matthew Dear, dreamcast.moe, hanavuuu, geoffrickly, crushedworldwide, and more talk about favorite Ghostly releases and memories.

Read sndrsng’s full piece at the link in bio.
🎨 deathcabforcady 

#Ghostly #GhostlyInternational

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