5-A-DAY WITH HARRI & DOMENIC

This week Harri & Domenic share some insights into their own peculiar fripperies as they fill in the long hours between playing records and doing the shopping.

It’s true – they do their own shopping!

To keep it simple we asked them to share some ‘favourite 5s’ with you all in what may become the 1st in a mini series of guest blogs – that’s if the excitement doesn’t get too much !
Just to be on the safe side, it’s one per day throughout the week leading up to their ‘residents only’ Subculture spot this Saturday night.

For the final piece in the Harri & Dom favourite 5s mini series we have Harri sharing his top 5 fonts – and we don’t mean beer fonts! As a fully fledged and time served draughtsman, Harri has always been very particular about all things linear.  The following are the 5 fonts which have made most impression on the Sub Club’s longest serving man of letters…

Harri’s Top 5 Fonts…

Domenic’s Top 5 Labels…

1. Trax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Q9YqVKGh4

2. Transmat

3. Nu Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhFx5fNws2Q

4. Underground Resistance

5. Dance Mania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcu79xwCfH8

Harri’s Top 5 Classic Cars…

1. Jaguar Mk 10 – Just like Uncle Dan’s.

2. Mercedes W123 200 Series – My First Family Car.

3. Saab 96 – Love this one – My Convertible 93 was lovely too.

Domenic’s Top 5 Old School football strips…

1. St. Etienne 1980 – “First strip I had which wasn’t a Scotland one”  

2. Napoli circa 1984 – “My other local team –  my Grandad was Neapolitan & when Maradona signed it was like Messi signing for Kilmarnock!”

3. New York Cosmos – “Just because some of the best players ended up there –  Pele, Franz Beckenbauer etc.
Also as the top is white and green – which i like!”

4. West Germany  – ” The year the Kaiser lifted the World Cup – I love Adidas, this long sleeved one without the stripes is one of my all time best”

5. Barcelona 1989  – “Never had it aff.” 

Harri’s Guilty Pleasures  …

1.Microfibre – “For shiney glass”

2. Peter Andre – “likeable naivety”

3, The Carpenters – “Karen Carpenters voice and harmonies” 

4. Bubble Wrap – “For popping”

5. Boots cologne water – “Smells Great”

Beta & Kappa Detroit Influence Mix

Ahead of Juan Atkins’ long overdue return to Sub Club on 26th April we asked his hosts for the night, Beta & Kappa from i AM, to record us a Detroit Influences mix to get us suitably hyped.

Tonight the duo are back in the basement for a Recovery Special fresh from kicking things off for the Sub Club Soundsystem at Rockness last weekend.  We thought this would be a good time to re share this mix!

Here is what they had to say about it first time around…
“We made a mix that worked best musically without changing styles too schizophrenically, to try to keep that club flow.”

Silicone Soul – 10 Years of Darkroom DUbs

Silicone Soul lined up a special tour across three continents to mark a decade since they launched their Darkroom Dubs label.

We chatted to Craig Morrison & Graeme Reedie as they prepare to return to Subculture on Saturday…

1.  Hi Guys, to any of blog readers who don’t know, tell us a bit about Silicone Soul and how this came about?

Hi, we’ve been recording for Soma since 1998 after releasing a couple of records on our own label at the time, Depth Perception. We met and played in a band at school and it’s just kind of continued from then really.

2. As a duo you came through in the midst of a very prominent musical era, who was your biggest influences from back then? 

Primal Scream and the Orb were huge for us as we discovered more electronic sounds but beyond that we’d have to say that hearing the likes of Slam, Harri and Dom week in week out, has really shaped our tastes. Through them we heard so much great, new music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIx2X8MSZF4

3.Having produced four studio albums on Glasgow’s Soma output, what has it meant for Silicone Soul to be involved with one of the UK’s top dance labels?

It’s been amazing for us, we were really moved to try and write this kind of music by hearing the guys play so for them to support and release our stuff is just great. It’s a lovely vibe with everyone at the label and they’ve always just patiently let us do our thing. There’s no place like home!

4. This year marks a decade of your Own Darkroom Dubs project, what has the last ten years been like for you both from a label perspective?

It’s been interesting as we started up just as the Internet was beginning to have a huge effect on the situation. That lead to some pretty dicey moments – we had a couple of distributors go bust on us and it’s been a bit of a struggle to keep it going at times. Very happy we have though as, musically, there have been some real high points and at the moment the stuff we have lined up is sounding better than ever.

5.Are you still heavily involved in A & R? Who sticks out as a memorable name on the roster? Who have been your latest additions?

It was a bit of an honour to have Robag Wruhme remixing Extrawelt for us, always been a huge fan of his noise. We’ve just released Freska’s debut Lp “Wrong Songs” which is sounding really cool and upcoming releases include some cool, spacey stuff from Glasgow’s Am$trad Billionaire and a lovely Ep from Dubspeeka .

https://soundcloud.com/freska/sets/freska-wrong-songs-lp-snippets

6.The current tour is spread across three continents gathering up some serious air miles, is there anywhere in particular that you are looking forward to returning to?

It’s been great fun so far. The parties have been great. It’s hard to really single anything in particular out for special praise, it’s all good :)

Here is a live recording from Berlin’s Watergate on the opening night of the tour…

7.The Glasgow leg hits Subculture on Saturday.  Having played here many times over the years, what does Subculture mean to Silicone Soul.  Do you have any specific memories or standout moments ?

Having grown up in the Sub Club it’s always lovely to have the chance to play , we’re really looking forward to it a lot . We’ve had some top nights in there over the years. Can remember a party many years ago with Joshua closing the night with D-Train’s “Keep On” – that was pretty spectacular.

8. As well as the tour have you guys got anything else lined up to celebrate the ten year landmark?

We’ll be releasing a 10 track Lp featuring 10 different artists including Ryan Crosson, Gary Beck, Jozif, Antonio Olivieri, Of Norway , ourselves and more . The tunes are starting to arrive thick and fast at the moment and they’re all sounding great.

9. If you weren’t touring the world and putting in the studio hours, what do you reckon you would both be doing with yourselves?

I could work in a haberdashery :o)

10. What’s in store for the next ten years

Hopefully more of the same, we’re always feeling like we’re just getting started and have loads more to do.

£5 ADVANCED TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE HERE TO CATCH SILICONE SOUL ALONGSIDE SUBCULTURE RESIDENT TELFORD AT THE SUB CLUB THIS SATURDAY. 

Telford Talks

Ahead of his appearance at Subculture last month, we sat down with our Subculture residents Telford, to find out what makes him tick.

This Saturday with Harri & Domenic up at RockNess they have once again handed over the resident controls to our own man of many talents, who will be joined on the night by Silicone Soul.

Dj Sneak’s Budcast Episode 7 – live recording from Subculture’s 19th Birthday

Budcast episode 7 is a whole 3 hours of DJ Sneak recorded live at Subculture’s 19th  birthday on 4th May 2013. Sneak destroyed it alongside our record breaking residents Harri & Domenic.

Ali Ooft!’s Subculture warm up for Midland & Will Saul – 13/4/14

This is a live recording of Ali Ooft!’s warm up set for Midland & Will Saul at the Sub Club last month. He was pretty chuffed to be asked to cover Harri & Domenic on warm up duties – Ali’s is only one of a handful of non-residents to do a warm up at Subculture Saturdays over the past 5 years!  Anyone who was down early for this night will understand how on point he was at setting the vibe, for what turned out to be a fantastic party.