Sam Valenti IV is the founder and A+R of The Ghostly International Company, home to two of America's best-known independent electronic-based labels. Ghostly and its sister-label, Spectral Sound represent a stable of recording artists exploring the fringes of experimental pop and dance music, and a unique team of forward-thinking graphic designers. The Michigan-based company has built a formidable reputation for artistic quality and innovation since its inception in 1999. After spending his formative teenage years in the Detroit suburbs, he became a deep fan of any kind of underground music culture he could take in, finding his taste for it after sneaking into Hip-Hop clubs by carrying records for his Detroit DJ hero Houseshoes. Valenti got his first pair of decks at the age of 15 and donned the title DJ SpaceGhost. A ghost "logo" could be seen gracing Valenti's High School notebooks and would be a prophetic image of what was to come. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sam+Valenti+IV">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.