Take it from us, Nasty is a seasoned veteran of recycling cultures, his Rubbish&Nasty squatted record shop, next to New Cross Town Hall, was quite possibly the most diverse vinyl collection ever sold in London and one that more than likely helped with the birth of Basement Rock and numerous awesomagnificent DJ careers…

These days, Nasty is still knee deep in activism – involved with all sorts of modern liberation – from the deviously simple, EMIrecordings.com with the plaster-cast portable bootlegging system creating one-off impressions of your music, to the regular Charity Shoppe events which you can read a Time-Out review of here. Better news altogether is that we are currently connecting together the final few dots for releasing a Nasty Nomad Mix, so keep your ears peeled for the electro-dancehall-badboy any day now!

Excerpt from “Nasty McQuaid’s Guide to Squatting” :

If you’ve read this far then I’m assuming you’re already interested in breaking a place for one of various reasons. As such I won’t bother going into the history or philosophy of reclaiming dead space. This is about the practical’s; the tools and knowledge you need to storm the castle and begin the siege.

First of all (obvious this one) you need a building. There are empty buildings everywhere. As a rule of thumb, the viler and more run down an area, the more empty buildings. This leads to a mental equation where you have to offset the potential amazingness of, say, a towering fully furnished 20s dancehall with the fact its in West Norwood and surrounded by mental bastards. Generally, unless you’re a mental bastard too, it’s best to stay out of places that are too hardcore. Your neighbours will hate you for paying no rent (even if none of them ever have either), and will either rob you, extort you, or burn your house down. Whilst squatting in Lewisham our neighbours did the first two and threatened the third. I’m not joking here…

It’s an essential read, so get on over to Off Modern and read it here.