Chris Harris & Dominic Martin
Chris Harris
For eight years Chris Harris was label manager for the Glasgow label Solemusic, dealing with manufacturing, distribution and foreign licensing. He was also head of A&R for Solemusic's sister label Tronicsole bringing artists such as Swirl People, Phil Asher, DJQ, Inland Knights, Jay Tripwire and Martin Venetjoki on-board. Chris left Solemusic and Tronicsole in summer 2004 to pursue pastures new with the Jazz/Funk label, Buff Records.
Chris is also a qualified audio engineer with a diploma in audio engineering from The School of Audio Engineering, with a degree in Audio Engineering with Multimedia in the pipeline. Currently his productions and remixes can be found under various guises on labels such as Tronicsole, Brique Rouge, Underwater, Nordic Trax, Random House, Om Records, GuestHouse, Lost My Dog and Mettle Music, and have found favour with the anyone who's anyone in underground house music circles.
DJ wise Chris has played with some of the worlds finest DJs including DJ Raoul (Swirl People), Kenny Hawkes, Paul Woolford, David Duriez, Luke McKeehan and Chris Lum in cities stretching from Glasgow to Barcelona to Vancouver, to Russia and full circle to Edinburgh.
Dominic Martin
Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, Dominic Martin has been DJing in clubs and bars up and down the country for over 12 years, and in that time has played alongside some of the industry’s top spinners. In terms of music style, it really depends where you catch Dom. He plays everything from house to hip-hop and rock to reggae.
On the studio front, Dom produces under 2 monikers: Dominic Martin and Domsko. As Dominic Martin his tracks reflect the influences of black soulful music, jazzy US, deep and funky house, while the Domsko tracks showcase his harder, electronic white-boy leanings.
2007 was a breakthrough year for Dom, signing tracks to prestigious labels all over the globe, such as Nordic Trax (Vancouver), Guesthouse (San Francisco), Kingdom Kome (Hamburg), as well as several respected UK imprints such as Tronicsole, Lost My Dog and SECND. 2007 also saw Dom’s tracks being played on UK National Radio 1.
Thus far, Dom’s tracks have been supported by a host of international DJs such as Derrick Carter, DJ Heather, Greenskeepers, Marco V, Mark Farina, Mousse T, John Larner, The Sound Republic, Demarkus Lewis, Jo Mills, Eddie Halliwell, Justin Long and John Acquaviva.
After breaking through in 2007 and several other productions slated for release in 2008, the future is shaping up to be big for the Glaswegian.
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