Benton is back this month with a selection of hardcore, bass and breaks. Marlie joined for the last hour playing a heavy all vinyl drum and bass section of the show. 

Listen back to hear the likes of Plez, Trazmen and Majistrate.

Benton w/ Marlie - April 2022

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Listen back for chestplate pressure, bass heavy broken beat, and 140 classics with Nancy June and Pent.1 live from the Studio.

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Nancy June b2b Pent.1 - October 2022

Hailing from North London, Junior T is an up-and -coming UK Garage DJ and producer. As a ‘Champion Sound’ resident, Junior T has demonstrated his ability to select tracks which turn empty rooms into maximum capacity by the end of his set. Specialising in UKG and UK Funky, Junior T is starting to gain serious set experience and is beginning to make a name for himself in the underground scene.

UKG Archives w/ Junior T - Subtle Radio - 09/10/2022

Coco Bryce is joined by No Nation for an hour of personal favourites and recent purchases. Expect tracks from the likes of K-Lone, Lupe Fiasco, and Kurt Elling.

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Coco Bryce w/ No Nation - October 2022

An interview with the legendary DJ Flight

We speak about her journey from Pressure and Rinse FM to BBC 1xtra presenter to British Podcast Awards nominee for her amazing Windrush Stories podcast. We explore the common theme of community that ties all her projects together and how she continues to search for music that gives her a unique sound as a DJ.

0860 is an album, mixtape, radio station and interview series that explores the history and legacy of Pirate Radio and its importance in the development of UK underground music.

PREORDER album bit.ly/APHA0860

Including: 

2x12” 8 track vinyl
Cassette mixtape including bonus tracks and skits
Iconic Pirate stations art print by @utile.studio
T-shirts

Over the coming weeks, 0860.fm will broadcast interviews with Bryan Gee, Eastman, DJ Flight, Scratcha, Dextrous, Uncle Dugs, Mantra, Missing, Eddie Peake, Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni, Naina & Sherelle, Stamina MC + more TBC, lost recordings of original 90s & 00s London pirate station broadcasts and more.

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0860.fm INTERVIEW #2 - DJ FLIGHT

This episode I have something slightly different in that the guests don’t have a background in Pirate Radio as they were too young at the time but are from the generation that are certainly influenced by it. I think it’s incredibly important to speak with younger people involved in radio and to discuss the legacy and to hear their thoughts. So - I give you the incredible and dynamic duo Naina and Sherelle. Both came through the community station based in Brixton - Reprezent. It’s a great station and I’ve had the pleasure of playing on there a few times.

We discuss the links between Pirate Radio and the current day. Their understanding of the legacy and how they continue that legacy. Again there are links to community as Naina talks about her work with No ID, a collective and party series focussing on South Asian Talent and as Sherelle talks about Beautiful - a new label platform for Black and LGBTQI+ artists. I love these guys, I love their energy and the respect they have for the culture.

0860 is an album, mixtape, radio station and interview series that explores the history and legacy of Pirate Radio and its importance in the development of UK underground music.

PREORDER album bit.ly/APHA0860

Including: 

2x12” 8 track vinyl
Cassette mixtape including bonus tracks and skits
Iconic Pirate stations art print by @utile.studio
T-shirts

Over the coming weeks, 0860.fm will broadcast interviews with Bryan Gee, Eastman, DJ Flight, Scratcha, Dextrous, Uncle Dugs, Mantra, Missing, Eddie Peake, Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni, Naina & Sherelle, Stamina MC + more TBC, lost recordings of original 90s & 00s London pirate station broadcasts and more.

0860.fm INTERVIEW #11 - NAINA & SHERELLE

recorded by a very young DJ Neptune. It’s Nick Power on Pulse FM 1993 even though the home made cover Nelson made says 92? You’ll have to ask him! Proper Hardcore Jungle vibes on this one. Shout to Pulse FM and the Music Power crew.

0860 is an album, mixtape, radio station and interview series that explores the history and legacy of Pirate Radio and its importance in the development of UK underground music.

PREORDER album https://sq.lnk.to/APHA0860_

Including: 

2x12” 8 track vinyl
Cassette mixtape including bonus tracks and skits
Iconic Pirate stations art print by @utile.studio
T-shirts

Over the coming weeks, 0860.fm will broadcast interviews with Bryan Gee, Eastman, DJ Flight, Scratcha, Dextrous, Uncle Dugs, Mantra, Missing, Eddie Peake, Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni, Naina & Sherelle, Stamina MC + more TBC, lost recordings of original 90s & 00s London pirate station broadcasts and more.

0860.fm MIX #6 Nick Power on Pulse FM 1993

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Mixtress - 17 November 2022

This recording was sent in from listener Tom Hills. It’s a recording from 1993 of DJ Skeme (incorrectly titled DJ Ski on the cassette) on Eruption 101.3fm. Very cool recording that includes loads of ads - a real snap shop and insight in to that era. Some words from Tom . . .

“So July ‘93 I’m 14 years old, growing up in Canterbury, Kent. About to go in to year 10 at school and it was that classic summer holiday that went on and on and on.
Got to shout out my pal Dean White at this point, we met and became friends a year or two before and shared a love of Graffiti, Gangstarr and the Hardcore sound of Rave music. 

His cousin in Lewisham recorded many different shows for us and it seemed like every couple of months, Dean would turn up with a bag of tape recordings for us all to share around. 
Many would be listened to and cast aside, simply because of the volume of tapes coming through and a lot were overlooked due to various technical issues but this one stood out a mile at the time for me, mainly because of the dark side vibe to it.

Hardcore was splitting in two and this sound felt both future and current, although it was the height of summer I could not get enough of this sound!

It really got under my skin that winter though, I spent my whole time outside of school out and about; riding my bike, tagging and getting up where we could, hanging out in record shops listening to every single tune in stock - and picking up 274 copies of each flyer to share around the playground at school! 

Throughout those long dark evenings, I listened to mainly two things - this and DJ Ratty at The Edge/Mad P’s birthday. It was my soundtrack for the whole winter, I’ve come back to both throughout the years since, this tape especially has never felt dated or naff in any way - the ads for a while maybe but they’re obviously zero budget affairs but thinking back now, they would have needed some serious cash to make anything remotely mainstream!
Proper diy affair, along with a lot of the music at the time. 

Eventually I found a strong enough aerial that could pick up Bukem, then Hype, on Kiss 100 - unless the weather was bad we could just about get that down here but nothing else. 
Radio is a curious format, a lot more versatile than club sounds and without the constraints of trying to keep a dance floor moving, at all times. Would our scene be as healthy, diverse and experimental without Pirate Radio? I genuinely doubt it, the best example I can give is the dance floor sounds that Dillinja put out on Philly blunt/V etc, compared to his, Lemon D’s and Alex Reece’ 
early Metalheadz stuff. 
Maybe without the label those bits would still have been made but not put out? For me what pirate enabled was the forum to go a bit deeper, or a bit darker and not compromise in the process. 

That I’m still buying and playing a lot of both a lot of the mid 90’s stuff and the very newest productions too, shows just how much depth and subtlety there is under the banner of Jungle/DnB. 

I could go on for days about all this but if you’ve got this far then we’ll done and thank you!!

I’d like to end by just saying bigs ups to you Charlie for curating all this - for a kid in Kent to tap in to another world and feel like it was some magical kingdom and then all these years later still have that love, as well as finding out that I wasn’t alone in those feelings, has been quite profound for me and all the credit to you man for putting together what you have. Incredible. 
Big love man. “

0860.fm MIX #7 DJ Skeme & RJ Vibes on Eruption 101.3 July 1993

Astrophonica

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As a producer, DJ and label owner Charlie Fieber continues to be an important figure in the development and innovation of UK electronic music genres with a career spanning over two decades. As Fracture, Fieber’s output is prolific and never stands still. From the hyper sped up Techno sound of Turbo to the genre blending Footwork Jungle collaborations with Teklife regulars DJ Earl, DJ Spinn and DJ Taso. He is constantly experimenting and flipping the script and 2022 saw the release of the world building Ambient Electro album Omura with Sam Binga. Releases and affiliations have come from some of the UK’s legendary hardcore continuum labels such as Goldie’s Metalheadz, dBridge’s Exit records, where in 2016 Fieber was part of the mysterious Richie Brains supergroup with fellow experimenters Alix Perez, Chimpo, Fixate, Om Unit, Sam Binga and Stray, and more recently with Alix Perez’s 1985 which saw the curveball collaboration with Kenyan artist Nah Eeto. Fieber’s latest work is his most ambitious to date; '0860’ is an album, radio station and interview series that explores the history and legacy of Pirate Radio and its importance in the development of UK underground music.
As a DJ his sound has travelled with appearances on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Boiler Room, Fact Mag, Rinse FM, Keep Hush and multiple US, EU, UK and Asia tours. 
In 2009 the label, Astrophonica, was set up as an output for his own music with Neptune and has since become a home for other like minded and experimental artists such as Sully, Client_03 and Moresounds. Fieber’s impeccable A&R has led to a flawless and in demand back catalogue championed from Annie Mac to Sherelle and with multiple nominations in DJ Mag’s Best Of British awards.

0860.fm INTERVIEW #11 - NAINA & SHERELLE

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