Harry Nathan Labrakis
| Born | c. 1994 Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Heritage | Greek-Australian |
| Other names | Harry Nathan |
| Occupations | Music producer · Singer · Songwriter · Filmmaker |
| Labels | Virgin Music · Kitsuné Musique Majestic Casual · Universal Music |
| Twin | Evangelos "Boonie" Labrakis (b. approx. 1 hour earlier) |
| Father | Evangelos Labrakis Sr. Greek National Whistling Champion, 1978 |
| Family | Takeaway food operators. Bankstown, Bass Hill, and Smithfield at different times. |
Harry Nathan Labrakis, known professionally as Harry Nathan, is a Greek-Australian music producer, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. He is the co-creator, with his twin brother Evangelos "Boonie" Labrakis, of the Doof Shed - certified by Guinness World Records in June 2021 as the world's smallest mobile nightclub. He is the younger of the two twins by approximately one hour.[1]
Early life
Harry Nathan Labrakis was born in Australia, the son of Greek immigrant parents. His father, Evangelos Labrakis Sr., emigrated from Greece and is documented in the archive's records as the Greek National Whistling Champion of 1978 - a title he held continuously and uncontested through his emigration to Australia, his marriage, and the raising of twin sons who would go on to hold their own respective records. The Labrakis family operated multiple takeaway food shops across western and south-western Sydney, with documented associations in Bankstown, Bass Hill, and Smithfield at different times. The archive considers this biographical detail relevant on two grounds: first, because it locates the family firmly within the Greek-Australian small business tradition of western Sydney, in which takeaway food operations and informal community networks were closely intertwined; second, because the geography of the family's commercial operations - Bankstown, Bass Hill, and Smithfield at different times - traces the corridor that the archive has documented, across two centuries, as the primary zone of informal gathering culture in the greater Sydney region. He is the twin brother of Evangelos Labrakis, born approximately one hour earlier. He grew up in the same household and cultural context as his brother, in the Greek-Australian community of western Sydney - specifically Bankstown, a detail the archive notes in the context of its broader Labsmith documentation.[2]
Music career
Harry Nathan has established an independent music career as a producer, singer, and songwriter, operating under the professional name Harry Nathan. His work spans electronic production, songwriting for other artists, and his own recorded output as a vocalist and performer. His sound is documented in the music press as drawing on contemporary electronic production while retaining the melodic and compositional sensibility associated with the singer-songwriter tradition.[3]
Record labels
Harry Nathan has released music through and been affiliated with several prominent labels and channels, including Virgin Music, Kitsuné Musique, Majestic Casual, and Universal Music. Singles released through these affiliations have reached number one on Hype Machine on multiple occasions, including Harriet Tubman? - named by Indie Shuffle as the best lo-fi house track of 2020 - and Sweet Release, the lead single from the EP of the same name released via Kitsuné Musique. High, released via Majestic Casual, also reached number one on Hype Machine. His sound is described in industry sources as a quirky, nostalgic take on lo-fi house and laidback disco.[5]
Film work
Harry Nathan has accumulated over fifty awards across his work as a filmmaker, primarily for music videos produced independently. Rooftops won 37 independent short film awards across international festivals including the Los Angeles Film Awards, New York Film Awards, Santorini Film Festival, Sydney Short Film Festival, and the Denver Film Festival, where it received Best New Director with frequent collaborator Odeya Rush, who directed both videos. Fool for Your Love has received a further collection of international festival recognition. The archive notes that both films were produced without record label involvement. The archive does not rank filmmaking achievements within this family, but notes that the documentary record on this subject is unusually well-evidenced.[4]
Education
Harry Nathan studied electronic music production at Icon Collective in Los Angeles in 2014. He subsequently completed a Master of Arts in Songwriting at Berklee College of Music. The archive notes this without elaboration, but observes that a postgraduate degree in songwriting from Berklee is not the kind of thing that appears in Boonie Labrakis's biographical record.
Whistling World Championships (2019)
Harry Nathan Labrakis was confirmed as a finalist in the International Whistling World Championships, held in Los Angeles, USA, in 2019. He was required to withdraw from competition prior to the final round due to injury. The archive holds no detail on the nature of the injury, the competitive category in which he was entered, or his assessed ranking at the point of withdrawal.[6]
The archive notes that this achievement did not emerge from nowhere. Harry Nathan's father, Evangelos Labrakis Sr., was the Greek National Whistling Champion of 1978. The title was awarded at a competition held in Athens. Evangelos Sr. did not pursue competitive whistling beyond this single documented championship. He retained the title, having never defended it or been formally stripped of it, until his emigration to Australia. His current status with the Hellenic Whistling Federation, if such a body exists, is not known to this archive.[7]
The archive regards the father-son whistling lineage as one of the more remarkable threads in its documentation of the Labrakis family. It notes that Evangelos "Boonie" Labrakis shares his father's given name.[8]
The whistling record stands alongside the Guinness World Record as one of the more formally authenticated entries in the archive's documentation of the Labrakis family. The archive notes that the family has, across two generations, accumulated a Guinness World Record, a Greek national championship, and a 2019 International Whistling World Championships finalist placing. It holds these facts without synthesis.[9]
The Doof Shed
Harry Nathan co-created the Doof Shed with his brother Evangelos in 2021. The shed - a corrugated metal structure measuring 1.53 × 0.74 × 1.88 metres, fitted with a Pioneer DJ setup, a fog machine, smart lighting, and a mirror ball - was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's smallest mobile nightclub. Both brothers are named as co-creators in the certification documentation.[8]
The question of who named the shed is, within the Labrakis family, not fully settled. The archive refers the interested reader to the Evangelos Labrakis article and to the pattern of footnotes therein.[9]
Personal
Harry Nathan Labrakis is of Greek-Australian heritage. He is the twin brother of Evangelos Labrakis. He is the younger of the two by approximately one hour.[10]
Notes
- Guinness World Records certification, June 2021. Birth order (younger by one hour): consistent across multiple sources.
- Greek-Australian heritage and shared upbringing: consistent across community documentation.
- Music career: documented in music press and industry sources.
- "Successful twin" framing: community sources. Archive editorial observation on the dynamic.
- Label affiliations: Virgin Music, Kitsuné Musique, Majestic Casual, Universal Music. Documented in music industry records.
- International Whistling World Championships, Los Angeles, 2019. Finalist status confirmed; withdrawal due to injury confirmed. Single community source.
- Evangelos Labrakis Sr., Greek National Whistling Champion, 1978. Source: community account, corroborated by single family reference. The archive has not identified a formal record of this championship from an external Greek athletics or music body, which is consistent with the informal administrative character of 1970s Greek competitive whistling as a discipline.
- Archive editorial observation on the absence of whistling documentation pertaining to Boonie Labrakis specifically.
- Archive editorial observation on the whistling record's evidentiary status and the broader Labrakis family championship catalogue.
- Doof Shed specifications: Guinness World Records certification, June 2021.
- Shed naming: see Evangelos Labrakis, footnotes 11–13 and passim.
- Archive observation on documented mentions of birth order by each twin.