Domenic Capello has maintained his weekly Saturday Subculture residency, the flagship night at
Glasgow’s Sub Club, since 1994. Subculture has thrived where so many house clubs have flagged
because the night has always embraced and sought out the most innovative and culturally relevant
electronic music - regardless of fickle fashions or commercial pressures.
Domenic’s refusal to compromise his artistic vision was apparent from the start. After getting into electro
and the break-dancing scene of the early 80s he became disillusioned with the lack of innovation and
turned instead to old blues records. His first residency was at a blues club just outside Glasgow, where
he surprised the grumpy old men with his encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure blues records, most of
which were recorded long before he was born. He was popular and was offered both the Friday and
Saturday nights. Alas, though, Domenic’s career as a blues DJ would be short lived. Acid House was
about to emerge. Going down to the late 80s warehouse parties where a young Stuart and Orde (Slam)
would play the music that was emerging from Chicago and Detroit at that time, Domenic realised that
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