Sam Young, best known for his Vanilla Ace moniker, is a prolific and increasingly prominent force in house music. A firm favourite in his native UK and a growing name globally, with releases on Toolroom, Suara, Kittball, Safe Music, Hot Boi, Glasgow Underground, Nervous, Simma Black and Spinnin Deep Vanilla ACE has been making club hits since 2012.

Originally from Ladbroke Grove, London, Vanilla Ace has more than two decades of DJing behind him, growing up on a healthy dose of hip-hop, disco and house music.

The last few years have seen him go from strength to strength with top charting singles on Beatport, Traxsource and Trackitdown. In January 2018 ‘Commotion’ was released on Ministry of Sound and had support from A-Trak, Silk City (Diplo & Mark Ronson), Danny Howard, MistaJam and James Hype.

2018 saw releases on Elrow Music, Big Beat/Atlantic, Erase, Universal, Box of Cats, Hot Boi, Stashed and Club Sweat.

2019 saw Sam launch his own label WyldCard which is growing fast with some great releases.

The crowning achievement of 2016 was ‘The Gee’. Built around an instantly recognizable sax sample, the track shot to no.1 on Beatport 100 chart and stayed there for 2 weeks and picking up support from an array of club and radio DJs. This follows his 8 week stay on the top 10 on Beatport ‘Deep House’ top 100 with ‘Bring it Back’ on OFF recordings in 2013.

Touring globally, Vanilla Ace has performed in North and South America, Australia, South Africa and India, with bookings including HARD Summer festival, Holy Ship , Green Valley in Brazil, Ministry of Sound and Egg in London and Chinese Laundry in Sydney, Australia playing alongside the likes of Amine Edge & Dance, Shiba San, Patrick Topping, Tough Love, Green Velvet, Low Steppa, Roger Sanchez and Breach.