LOGIC1000

It's been two years since Logic1000, real name Samantha Poulter, released her winningly melodic debut record Mother. In the ensuing period, she has uprooted from Berlin to London, released a celebrated entry into the DJ-Kicks series, started a Substack and launched Therapy, a podcast she hosts alongside Heléna Star. Oh, and recorded and released Confirmation!, her best, most cohesive release to date. While Mother captured the freneticism and upheaval of becoming a parent, Confirmation! finds Poulter on steadier ground, and with plenty of friends in tow: collaborators include Kucka, Jam City, Christine and the Queens, Fauzia and Yune Pinku. Bridging the effervescent club pulse that made her name with slower, more reflective textures, Confirmation! is, at its heart, about acceptance. Drawing upon the sacrament of Confirmation, Poulter has reimagined it a symbol of self-trust, a quiet "yes" to every version of herself: the child she was, the woman she is now and the mother she has become. It's a generous, emotionally open record, and one that proves Logic1000's gift for balancing intimacy with dancefloor instinct has only deepened with time. Listen to the mix and read the the interview below.

Matteo Pini Your last album, 2024’s Mother, was written in a time of great personal upheaval. In the time since, you’ve started the Therapy podcast with fellow DJ Heléna Star and have also launched a Substack. How are you feeling now? Do you feel like those other practices are bleeding into the music at all?
L1000 I feel a lot more present and aware! With Mother, I felt a bit removed without realising it at the time. I think having writing as a platform for my voice has fed into my confidence. It’s very different from music-making – I’m not trained in writing and the Substack isn’t doing super well in the traditional sense, but it’s given me a sense of satisfaction because of how natural and comfortable it feels. I think that’s fed into how I approached the album: I’m not hiding any part of myself. I wanted to do something a bit less dance music-oriented, which is a realm I feel comfortable in already.

MP Did being commissioned for the DJ Kicks series help with building confidence? The mix you delivered was considerably slower and more reflective than some of your other music.  
L1000 A lot of people were telling me to do a dance mix, but it just didn't sit right with me. I'm not really listening to that kind of music these days, so I decided I was gonna do this downtempo-ish, leftfield pop thing. It was received really well and I saw it as validation to listen to my intuition. I did a similar thing with Confirmation!: I had a particular vision for the album and we made it happen. Obviously people change all the time, and being in somewhere like London, maybe I’ll be thrown back into UK funky. But at this point, I want to go deeper, not faster necessarily: we’re currently building a live show and I want to hone in on that aspect. 

MP The album opens with “48 Fairmount”. Why choose this song as the opener?
L1000 48 Fairmount is the road my grandparents lived on for all of my childhood and most of my adulthood. It has a really deep emotional attachment to it for me: I spent my summer holidays there as a kid. In my adulthood, I started to reject my family, something that had nothing to do with them, so opening with “48 Fairmount” felt like a beautiful way to come full circle, to say I’m proud of who I am and where I come from. 

MP Life as a DJ or touring musician can be very disruptive in terms of where you consider home to be.
L1000 I think that sense of home is something I've craved my whole life. I never really felt at home in Australia, not at all in Berlin. When I think back to 48 Fairmount Road in Titirangi in New Zealand, I feel that sense of identity and place, something I feel now in London, this feeling of being at ease with yourself.

MP The album boasts a wide range of collaborations. Do you enjoy the process of collaboration over the internet, where it feels like a kind of relay sport?
L1000 I don't know if I do anymore! I'm done with email exchanges and WhatsApp. I think I want to get in a studio with writers and feel someone’s nuanced personality: I want that visceral feeling you can only have with people in the flesh. There's something so nice about when someone has an idea they think is really silly, and then the other person is like, oh my God, that's genius. 

MP Christine and the Queens guests on “The Only One”, which has been released alongside a gorgeous dance video. How did that collaboration come about?
CA It actually started off with a Pinterest mood board for the entire album.  I shared it with my team, and we built the idea for the music video together. The world of it was kind quirky and a little bit freaky, and I think Rahim embodies those qualities as a person in the best way possible. I just felt like he had to do it, and he ran with the idea. It was so special to witness, in part because he hadn't danced in so long. It was 42 degrees when we recorded the music video, and he was wearing a suit. I could not believe that he got through it without even batting an eyelid.

MP Motherhood is an overarching theme throughout the album. Are there any songs that specifically pertain to that experience of motherhood?
L1000 That's a really good question. I think inherently they all do because being a mother isn’t something you can extract from my identity. My daughter has carved out this path for me, in a way. I think without becoming her mother and loving her so deeply and her loving me back, I wouldn't have found the energy or enthusiasm to do something like Confirmation!. 

MP The album’s closing tracks – “Confirmation!” and “Forgiven”, the former of which lends the album its title – both seem quite Catholic in their themes. 
L1000 In the literal sense, Confirmation is a sacrament in the Catholic Church, the point at which you’re old and wise enough to confirm your relationship with God or spirituality or whatever. The song is about me confirming my place within the world, my identity, and becoming OK with not constantly changing who I am to suit a goal. It’s about standing still and leading with joy and compassion. I try to be a good person and I think that’s enough; the idea is to be confirmed in that belief.

MP To me, confirmation also speaks to a kind of confidence, an affirmation that you’re doing the right thing, which is something evinced by the exclamation mark.
L1000 The exclamation mark embodies the meaning of the word. It didn't it didn't seem right without the exclamation mark, and as someone who cares a lot about aesthetics, it also worked really well visually.

MP On “Forgiven”, what or who are you forgiving in this track?
L1000 This is an interesting one because it's the a cappella from the track that catapulted my career. I wanted to call it “Forgiven” because I went on a bit of a journey, as we all do in life, with a lot of missteps and wrong turns. This album is a way of saying you are the sum of all your experiences, and in this moment, you're enough. I forgive myself for those mistakes, and I also forgive the people around me who I blamed for so many years. There's just so much that we have zero control over, and it's created so much energy inside us that we're turning all towards each other. Maybe we just need to learn how to sit with it and like to process it, and then use that collective energy to overthrow the powers that be.

Confirmation! is out now on Therapy/Because Music.