SUBCULTURE

Subculture residents, Harri and Domenic head to Tisno 2013! The concept behind Subculture is a paradox - at the same time incredibly simple and painfully rare. Two resident spinners at Sub Club spend all their time doing what they love - sourcing great house records, playing them (at the right speed) and mixing them so well that one of their sets sounds like four hours of the greatest song you've ever heard. Subculture head men Harri and Domenic have the kind of relationship with their crowd that most jobbing djs would give their left deck for. Their parties are like a parallel universe in which all the cynicism and preciousness that surrounds dance music nowadays is left at the door. When inside, you realize that you're at the kind of celebration that you've been told just doesn't exist anymore. Rarely does a club's ethos and it's music converge with such rapturous results. Perfect.

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HARRI

Harri is synonymous with Glasgow's vibrant house scene. His record breaking 10 year residency at the Sub Club was the foundation for it's growth into one of the UK's premier dance venues. Harri's extraordinary mixing and producing skills are showcased creating and recording music as the Papa Washington Trio, Daddy's Favourite, H Foundationand numerous other aliases. "I Feel Good Things For You", released on Go Beat records, propelled Harri into the charts in 1998, under the alias Daddy's Favourite, and is now a standard on many house compilations. The H foundation's "Liaka", another Harri production, made it to no. 12 In John Peel's festive 50 in 1994. More recently, the Papa Washington Trio released the "Trio de Janeiro" ep and lp on Paper Recordings. Perhaps the best way to sample Harri's style is to check Subculture, the celebrated Sub Club mix cd, which perfectly projects Harri's eclectic & unique fusion of house styles.

Having already taken on London alongside Kenny Hawkes at his residency Fridays'r'Firin' @ Plastic People, Harri's beat takes him on a regular basis to Europe, the USA and Asia, where his blend of house has gained wide acclaim. In DJ magazine 1998 and 1999, Harri was voted one of the world's top 100 dj's. The Face and many other leading music magazines have lauded Harri's unique contribution to the UK house scene. Seamless mixes, seductive beats and a capacity to transcend narrow musical boundaries are Harri's hallmarks. With regular appearances at Fabric, The End, Basics, Glastonbury and T in the Park he is undoubtedly one of the UK's most talented dj's.

DOMENIC

After embarking on various one-off gigs around Glasgow, including the infamous Desert Storm Parties in the early 1990's, Domenic warmed-up and then filled in for Stuart Mcmillan (Slam) At the Sub Club's legendary Atlantis by early 1993. It was also in 1993 that Domenic's first residency began. The monthly Something Fishy ran for a year at the Sub Club however the departure of Slam from the Sub saw Domenic join forces with Atlantis resident Harri and the creation of Subculture, the Sub's flagship Saturday night in April 1994. Eight years on, Subculture with Domenic and Harri at the helm, is still going from strength to strength as one of the best and most credible underground house nights in the world.

On the recording front, Domenic has released various material on different labels under several different alter-egos including Urb'n'ri (Scotland's favourite soft drink spelt backwards!) And Hutton Drive on Glasgow's Soma label. His long term relationship with Leeds' Ralph Lawson saw him involved in the inception of the 20:20 Vision label and involvement in a number of 20:20 Vision projects including their European tour of 1999. More recently, Dom released "Push it" as Hutton Drive on Soma, remixes of Random Factor on 20:20 Vision and is now concentrating on his new label Seventh Sign whose inaugural release "OSB" by Hutton Drive gained much critical acclaim. Away from home Dom has regular guest spots at Basics, The End, Fabric, T in the Park and Barcelona's Sonar Festival.