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Slow Dance Records

Stuart hears from GG Skips, co-founder of the London-based DIY arts and music label. The featured album is Mark Stewart & Maffia鈥檚 Learning To Cope With Cowardice from 1983.

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鈥檚 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鈥檚 favourite talent such as Black Midi, Jockstrap and Bunny Hoova.

The featured album this week is Mark Stewart & Maffia鈥檚 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鈥檚 a profoundly disorienting, claustrophobic and an intense critique on the cold war. Inspired by early hip hop and Stewart鈥檚 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鈥檚 Japan, dreamy harp arrangements from L.A. and experimental electronics inspired by London鈥檚 landscape and concrete architecture

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Music Played

  • The Fall

    Jerusalem

    • 458489 A Sides.
    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Miss Grit

    Grow Up To

    • Impostor.
    • Self-released.

  • Bell Orchestre

    IV What You鈥檙e Thinking

    • House Music.
    • Erased Tapes.

  • Mark Stewart & Maffia

    Learning to Cope with Cowardice

    • Learning to Cope with Cowardice.
    • On-U Sound Records.

  • Toumani Diabat茅 & London Symphony Orchestra

    Hainamady Town

  • Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle

    Anhedonia Anhedonia

    • 础苍丑别诲辞苍颈补听.
    • Sargent House.

  • Tortoise

    Glass Museum

    • Millions Now Living Will Never Die.
    • City Slang.

  • Mark Stewart & Maffia

    Jerusalem

    • Learning to Cope with Cowardice.
    • On-U Sound Records.

  • Junior XL & Bianca Scout

    Dreams That Know the Future

    • Slow Dance 鈥�18.
    • Slow Dance Records.

  • Terror Peaks

    Show You

    • Single.
    • Slow Dance Records.

  • Faust

    Jennifer

    • Faust IV.
    • Virgin.

  • Gazelle Twin & Nyx

    Deep England

    • Deep England.
    • NYX Collective Records.

  • Pram

    Omnichord

    • North Pole Radio Station.
    • Merge Records.

  • Soft Machine

    Virtually Pt. 1

    • Fourth.
    • CBS.

  • Nacholbedurfnis

    • TAPEWORKS VOL 2.
    • Self-released.

  • Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One

    Song Of Island

    • J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan.
    • 大象传媒 Records.

  • Pere Ubu

    Non Alignment Pact

    • THE MODERN DANCE.
    • Blank.

  • Mark Stewart & Maffia

    Liberty City

    • Learning to Cope with Cowardice.
    • On-U Sound Records.

  • Tortusa

    Ubevegelige

    • Single.
    • Jazzland Recordings.

  • Mya Gomez

    Justforu

    • Mono No Aware.
    • PAN.

  • Mary Lattimore

    Silver Ladders

    • Silver Ladders.
    • Ghostly International.

  • Jazz Sabbath

    Iron Man

    • Jazz Sabbath.
    • Self-released.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Mar 2021 20:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music