Domenic Cappello

@domenic-cappello · Glasgow

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 he wanted to be part of the future - not the past. After attempting to introduce acid house to the jazz club and he was sacked, but by 1993 Domenic was guesting and regularly warming-up at the Sub Club’s early nineties Saturday night, Atlantis (Harri & Slam’s massively influential weekly). He also had his own Glasgow reside