Playing Favourites with Luke Slater - A Journey Through Techno

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"I'm like a collector—everything I come across makes it into my music." The dance music don talks about the music that shaped him and his most recent album on Dekmantel.

The British DJ, producer and occasional drummer Luke Slater has been making music under a slew of monikers since the '80s: Planetary Assault Systems, L.B. Dub Corp, LSD, The 7th Plain, Clementine—the list goes on. While he's put out a range of dynamic and high quality analogue music that runs the gamut of house, acid, breakbeat, electro and even spoken word, he's probably best known for his productions and live sets that focus on sleek and solid techno, as showcased on Ostgut Ton and his own imprint, Mote Evolver.

In the newest installment of our flagship series Playing Favourites, Slater unpacks the songs that best illustrate the history of techno at large and define his own creative process and career trajectory. He speaks with Chloe Lula live from Polifonic Festival about his love of Detroit and Underground Resistance as well as the abiding influence of hip-hop on his early work and his love of intentionally integrating mistakes in his music. He also reflects on how he became the first non-German artist to release on Berghain's esteemed record label and his most recent release, Saturn to Home, for Dekmantel; the double LP saw him return to his drumming practice and introduce surprising and powerful collaborations from electronic music contemporaries and vocalists like Kittin and the poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Listen to the episode in full.