Courtesy Francesco Pirro
Talk
Milano Afterpunk
May 27 2025, 7.00pm
Free admission upon registration
A multi-voiced account of Milan's 1980s post-punk and new wave scene, including music, graphics and underground aesthetics. Tommaso Toma talks with Simone Fringuelli of Spittle Records, a label specializing in reissues that brought back forgotten sounds from that decade. With them Fred Ventura, producer, DJ and key figure of that season, as well as a longtime Spittle collaborator. An opportunity to rediscover the creative energy of an era marked by a new cultural ferment after the years of lead.
To follow, vinyl DJ set with Fred Ventura and Tommaso Toma: the soundtrack of the underground spaces of 1980s Milan.
Speakers
Tommaso Toma, director of Billboard Italia, speaker and DJ
Simone Fringuelli, founder Spittle Records
Fred Ventura, DJ and producer
Tommaso Toma
Music journalist and DJ, he has signed articles for publications such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Uomo Vogue and L'Officiel Homme. He has been Editor-in-chief of Billboard Italia and Playboy Italia. In radio since the 1980s, he is one of the historic voices of Radio Popolare Milano. Always a vinyl collector, today he returns to the console with the eclectic spirit of the underground nights of 1980s Milan.
Simone Fringuelli
Founder of Spittle Records in 1984 near Florence, a label born out of a passion for punk and new wave. After a long hiatus Simone reactivated Spittle in 2006 with the aim of reissuing and archiving the Italian post-punk movement of the 1980s, also taking care of the compilation and remastering of several releases. The label today is a well-established reality that with records and books exports the best Italian independent productions of the golden decade of post-punk, punk and Italo Disco.
Fred Ventura
Best known for his Italo Disco productions, he began his career in the early 1980s as vocalist in the Milanese post-punk band State Of Art. He later embarked on a solo path, devoting himself to electronic and dance music, areas in which he continues to be active. For more than fifteen years he has also been responsible for curating collections dedicated to Italian post-punk for the Spittle Records label.
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