Episode 4 - Post Punk, Squats and Techno - special guest - Howard Slater

Tales From A Disappearing City

For the fourth episode of Tales From A Disappearing City I am joined by my good friend Howard Slater aka Flint Michigan. I first met Howard in the mid 90's at Dead by Dawn which was a legendary monthly party that took place at the 121 squatted art and community Centre in Railton Road, Brixton. Howard has written extensively about his experiences within various strands of subculture in a wide variety of underground magazines. This journey began with his early love of independent labels such as Fast Product and Factory and progressed through the post punk and free improv scene in the 80's. He then started to hear and become involved with the emerging underground sounds of off kilter techno and electro as the 90's began. We discuss all these strands of alternative culture including the squatted landscape of London when he first arrived from Preston in 1984.

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Hosted from a South London tower block by Neil Keating aka Controlled Weirdness. Tales from a Disappearing City is a chance for Neil to tell some untold subcultural stories from past and present, joined by friends from his lifelong journey through subterranean London. Neil is a veteran producer and DJ and has been at the front line of all aspects of club and sound system culture since the mid 80’s when he first began to go to nightclubs, gigs, and illegal parties. His musical CV includes playing everywhere from plush clubs to dirty warehouses as well as mixing tunes on a variety of iconic London pirate radio stations. He has released music on numerous underground record labels and was responsible for promoting and playing at a series of legendary early raves in the USA at the start of the 90’s. He still DJ's in the UK and throu...