0860.fm Archive

I am extremely honoured to present to you V Recordings owner and Kool FM legend - Bryan G. We talk about his time on pirate radio in the 80s, his time on Kool in the 90s and his V recordings podcast that still runs today.

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://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 #1 - BRYAN GEE

Bryan Gee on Kool FM 1998 - This is from my own personal collection and it’s a bit fuzzy, so I’m sorry about that. But that’s all part of it, surely? Contains intense music from DJ Die, DJ Krust, Dillinja and more.

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 MIX #1 - Bryan Gee on Kool FM 1998

In this episode I’ll be speaking with Missing aka Sam Gordon. Sam had one of the biggest pirate radio tracks I can remember in 1995 with The Box Reopens on Kemet Records - A remix of a track originally by Noise Factory. Honestly, I heard this track so much on the airwaves back then and it got me thinking, did it get as much play in the clubs and thus did pirate radio offer a space for tracks to grow and gain an audience outside of clubs. 

This turned out to be a really fascinating conversation and we discussed his unique approach to expensive studio time in the 90s - which included literally writing out drum patterns on paper to save time. We talk about the political climate at the end of the 80s and into the 90s that may have been the breeding ground for the DIY and punk nature of Pirate Radio and we end up drawing similarities between Jungle and the current sound of UK Drill.

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 #7 - Missing

Welcome to Season 2 of the 0860 Podcast....

*****NEWS******

Fracture's new SLOW860 album ⁠is here⁠ http://sq.lnk.to/SLOW860DDM

Join the Astrophonica Discord ⁠here⁠ https://bit.ly/0860_discord

The 0860 Podcast is now an official podcast and available on Spotify, Apple and more here https://lnk.to/0860pod

⁠DJ Bailey⁠ is an important DJ in the history of Jungle and Drum & Bass, a resident at the legendary ⁠Metalheadz Blue Note Sessions⁠ in the mid 90s, a 10-year BBC 1Xtra DJ in the 00s and of course has a history in Pirate Radio on Energy 87.9 FM. He’s an experienced A&R and label owner with Instasound and the passion for finding and presenting new music runs deep. 


He was one of the first established DJs to support my early music and supported it in his DJ sets in the early 2000s and invited myself and Neptune on to his 1xtra show in 2011 so I was always going to have him up on the podcast. 


We discuss how his background in Pirate Radio shaped his career, being a Metalheadz DJ, streaming his own show ‘Straight From The Bedroom’ on UStream, and his move from cutting edge DJ to passionate archivist and story teller. Make no mistake, Bailey still has his finger on the pulse and continues to host a show on London’s Kool FM. This guy lives for radio and shows no sign of stopping.

For more information on the project, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠0860.fm

0860 Podcast S2 EP1: BAILEY

Straight from Bailey’s personal archive, a previously undigitised recording of his show on Energy 87.9 FM in 1993. Straight from a tiny broom cupboard a very young Bailey plays music from Metalheadz, Good Looking, Reinforced and a lot of tracks that I personally hadn’t heard before.  If you recognise any of the more obscure tracks, drop an ID in the comments.

Listen to Bailey discuss his history in radio, from pirate to BBC 1Xtra on the 0860 Podcast here: https://lnk.to/0860pod

Preorder Fracture's latest 2024 addition to the 0860 project, ‘SLOW860’ ⁠here⁠: https://sq.lnk.to/SLOW860DDM

Join the Astrophonica Discord ⁠here: https://bit.ly/0860_discord

SLOW860 is the latest chapter in Charlie Fieber, aka Fracture’s, celebration of pirate radio culture, merging it with his Chopped & Screwed-inspired Slow Astro world. This third "Slow" adventure pushes the concept further, adding another album to his critically acclaimed 0860 project. The result is a 60-minute, unbroken collage of 14 new compositions and 6 'slow ambient' 0860 remixes, interwoven with pirate radio skits and fuzz. Drawing inspiration from The KLF’s Chill Out and his teenage experiences falling asleep to stations like Kool FM and Weekend Rush, familiar elements from Fracture’s work emerge, yet remain hauntingly just out of reach as he deconstructs and extends 0860.

SLOW860 is presented as a 21-track, hour-long album available on cassette, digital, and streaming platforms, along with a 9-track unmixed version. Staying true to pirate radio culture, the deluxe package comes in 'The First Aid Kit'—a term used by stations to describe listeners' stash boxes for enhancing the listening experience. The kit includes 0860 Astrophonica-branded rolling papers, stickers, and three cassette albums: SLOW860, the original 0860 Mixtape, and an exclusive cassette-only bonus, Ambient Signal Test—a 90-minute album of degraded Jungle breakdowns, originally broadcast to test the signal from the accompanying pop-up station, 0860.fm.
Also included is a meticulously curated 64-page zine, Somewhere About Town, designed by Utile. The zine features photography of towers that housed the pirate stations Charlie first tuned into, portraits of contributors to the 0860 podcast, transcripts from broadcasts, police reports, and details of a notorious DTI raid. It’s a snapshot of the culture—a homage to zines like Ravescene and Atmosphere, which offered grassroots reviews and commentary ignored by mainstream press, capturing the DIY spirit of pirate radio.

0860.fm MIX S2 EP1 - DJ BAILEY ON ENERGY 87.9 FM in 1993

*****NEWS*****

Preorder Fracture's new SLOW860 album ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ https://sq.lnk.to/SLOW860DDM
Join the Astrophonica Discord ⁠⁠here⁠ https://bit.ly/0860_discord

The 0860 Podcast is now an official podcast and available on Spotify, Apple and more here lnk.to/0860pod

⁠Sweetpea⁠ is a Producer, DJ, Radio Presenter and Mentor from London who cut her teeth on the legendary ⁠Rude FM 88.2⁠ in late '00s. She is another guest on the show that has gone from humble Pirate Radio beginnings to ⁠hosting a show on BBC Radio⁠, and someone who has a deep respect for community and the uplifting of others via her work with ⁠EQ50⁠ - a mentoring initiative set up to address the imbalance of women in electronic music.
We get into her time on Rude FM and the legendary 'Rush Hour' shows. The clue is in the name but let's just say they were no rules all night back 2 back sessions. Sweetpea now has a show on Kool FM which she is very passionate about doing live as she still gets a buzz out of the interaction and possibility for mishaps and technical issues. I too have a a passion for live radio and in this age of prerecorded shows I think it's important to keep it alive. 
Follow Fracture on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Music⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Beatport⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


For more information on the project, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠0860.fm

0860 Podcast S2 EP2: SWEETPEA

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.