“Stuart hears from GG Skips, co-founder of the London-based DIY arts and music label. Born in 2015 initially as a zine and party collective when many of its founders were just eighteen, Slow Dance’s output meets at the intersection of post-punk and experimental electronic production. They have put on shows in the legendary Windmill Brixton and Royal Academy of Arts as well as being early nurturers of some of Freak Zone’s favourite talent such as Black Midi, Jockstrap and Bunny Hoova.
The featured album this week is Mark Stewart & Maffia’s debut collaboration ‘Learning To Cope With Cowardice’ from 1983. After The Pop Group disbanded, frontman and visionary post-punk iconoclast Mark Stewart joined forces with dub producer Adrian Sherwood to create the groundbreaking record that’s a profoundly disorienting, claustrophobic and an intense critique on the cold war. Inspired by early hip hop and Stewart’s prolonged trip to New York the year before recording; bass lines support a mangled coagulation of screams, yelps and rants about lurking terror, political machination and urban dread.
Also on the show, sprightly jazz from 1980’s Japan, dreamy harp arrangements from L.A. and experimental electronics inspired by London’s landscape and concrete architecture.”
Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone 2021-03-14 Slow Dance Records download alternatives:
[Rapidgator download]
[Uploaded.net download]
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