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

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

DJ Flight on Rinse FM from Spring 2000. Recorded by DJ Neptune - we used to absolutely batter this tape! A hugely influential mix for me that really gave me a lot of direction as a young DJ. Large up Flight each and every!

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 #2 - DJ FLIGHT ON RINSE FM '00

This time we have the one and only Scratcha. He’s had a career in radio since 2001 on stations such as De Ja Vu, Rinse and currently NTS. He’s worked extensively with Kode9’s Hyperdub and is now setting trends with his undeniably UK take on Amapiano. We talk about his history on Pirate Radio and how it differs from his current show on NTS. He recounts many funny stories and anecdotes but we also talk about his love for radio and how he still has it on all the time, literally all the time. He somehow manages to make music with the radio on in the background. 


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 #3 - SCRATCHA

Today on 0860.fm we have Dextrous. A proper goosebumps one for me this - his Jungle tracks in the early 90s were always some of my faves. Including Kings Of The Jungle, Selector Roll and Time To Move. 

We talk about how Pirate Radio gave him insight and exposure to Rare Groove, a genre that he took influence from to create his Jungle tracks that would then go on to get rinsed on Pirate Radio and influence younger generations such as myself. We discuss his relationship with communities from Kool FM, to Music House, through to his work on the documusical ‘Feltham Sings’ in 2003 for which he won the prestigious Ivor Novello award. 

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 #4 - DEXTROUS

Another mix from the personal archives here. This one was recorded by my friend Matthew Campbell aka Qualifide in July 1994 from Kool FM. He recorded it especially for a camping holiday we went on with my parents in Dorset and we just jammed out in a tent with a portable tape player for a week blasting Jungle out into the countryside. It became known simply as the Dorset Tape and has gained mythical status in our lives. Shout out Matthew. This is the first side of the tape - It’s an incredible set from Pressure X of raw Jungle - a proper education. If you really want to know what 1994 sounded like… here it is. A real cultural artefact.

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 #3 - PRESSURE X on KOOL FM JULY 1994

In this episode we have artist and avid Kool FM listener Eddie Peake. As an artist his work includes performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. Across many of his works he has included Kool London, most recently in his 2018 Show ‘Concrete Pitch’ at the White Cube Gallery where he actually had Kool London set up and broadcast a live stream. His love for Jungle and Kool FM runs deep and he also recently reissued Gappa G and Hypa Hyper’s Information Centre - which was a Kool FM classic - on his label Hymn.

The listeners were as important to pirate radio as anything else and we discuss the feedback loop between broadcaster and listener that went on to create the rich culture of Pirate Radio. It was fascinating hearing his ideas behind working with Kool and we delve a little deeper into his relationship with the aesthetics of Pirate Radio and how they subliminally help to inform his work.

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 #5 - EDDIE PEAKE

Back with another Jungle artefect for you and this time I have the second side of a tape my friend Matthew Campbell recorded. You can go and check the first side in the archives but this is Tonic, Baby Face and a bit of Phase 3 on Kool FM from July 1994. Unbelievable stuff. Keep it locked . . . 

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 #4 TONIC, BABY FACE, PHASE 3 on KOOL FM JULY 94

In this instalment I’m going to be showcasing some of my favourite and most influential pirate radio tracks. By that, I mean tracks that I heard a lot or only on Pirate Radio and a huge effect on me as a listener and ultimately as an artist. It’s a very personal list and it is in no way meant be any kind of ‘best ever’ list. there’ll be some anthems but also some forgotten gems that didn’t get much club play . . .

Tracklist and discussion here https://0860.fm/fracture-pirate-radio-faves/

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 #5 - FRACTURE'S PIRATE RADIO FAVES

Wow, what can I say about this guest. This is the guy that sparked this whole project off. The legendary Kool FM founder - Eastman. I really can’t quite express how grateful I am for what he and Kool FM did for me growing up. My life would certainly be very different without them. In my eyes he certainly is a legend but he is so incredibly humble about the whole thing - it’s really very grounding. Kool FM started in 1991 and are still going. It’s without doubt London and the UK’s most iconic pirate station. There’s a great interview he did on Uncle Dugs Rinse FM show which I recommend you go and check out for details about setting Kool up but I wanted to dig in a bit deeper and find out about some of the studios they used and his recollection of the classic phoneline number . . . 0860 395 262



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 LINK IN BIO

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 #6 - EASTMAN

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

Very excited to present the next guest in the series - The unstoppable DJ Mantra. At this point she needs little introduction but if you don’t know she - along with partner Double O - is responsible for what has become London’s premier Jungle night - Rupture. They’re actually just about to celebrate their 16th year running. It’s a grass roots event and community and this extends to her work with EQ50 - a collective of women working towards fairer representation within drum and bass.

A real pleasure to talk to and we discuss how she was introduced to Pirate Radio by over-hearing her older brother listening to stations in his bedroom and how she started off her fascination with it all as a garage raver. She’s just someone who is so in touch with grass roots and the building of communities - and these are topics that come up time and time again in this chat.

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 #8 - MANTRA

Flipping it again slightly this time this guest - the first MC we’ve had on 0860.fm - and none other than the legendary and enigmatic Stamina MC. He’s the voice of the Rinse FM jingles and also has a show as DJ on there, in fact along with Slimzee he is the only original member from the Pirate Era still on the station. He was DJ Flight’s MC on Pressure and then Rinse and is incredibly humble about the whole thing. He’s a real connosure and purist and does music for music’s sake. We talk about our admiration for DJ Flight and the search for unknown music no one else is playing.

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 http://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 #9 - STAMINA MC

Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni ran an early online stream from their front room in Tulse Hill called La Maisonette Electronique from 2010 to 2013. It was a real community hub with artists from all over the world crashing at their flat while on tour and then playing on the stream. It was an incredible time of cross pollination of styles and really helped paved the way for me to make tracks such as Loving Touch and opened my ears to artists outside of my Jungle roots. We went off on a real deep conversation about music - Footwork Jungle and the LA beat scene, the effect of the internet and how community can continue to exist in an online sense.

Be sure to check out Om Unit’s new album Acid Dub Studies and Laurent’s book ‘BEDROOM BEATS & B-SIDES’

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 http://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 #10 Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni

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

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

Get ready people, we have an amazing episode up next on 0860.fm - The incredible  multi-award-winning rave historian - Uncle Dugs. Pirate Radio runs through this man’s veins. From his early days on Conflict in the mid 90s, through to time on Kool London and then with Rinse FM as station manager and now weekly Friday morning show. But, what makes dugs so great is that he comes from a listener background. He was as fascinated and infatuated with Pirate Radio as I was. He still gets excited at the mention of it and was very much into the idea of sitting down for a chat with me for the project. We’d never met but got on instantly due to our shared history - and I think that’s testament to the wide community the Pirate Radio created and nurtured. He talks about his love of Kool FM as a listener and about his time on various stations 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.

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

0860.FM INTERVIEW #12 - Uncle Dugs

Up next on 0860.fm we have a recording of DJ Wize & Boots Hi-Fi on Dream FM. 

The tape its self has no info on it but Boots Hi-Fi mentions the upcoming Dream FM 3rd Birthday Party at the Adrenaline Village which dates it at early November 1996. My friend Daniel went digging in his cellar to find this one and it is bringing back some mad memories. 

Dream FM is a station I haven’t mentioned that much on 0860 but it too had a big part in my life. They were huge in the mid 90s and I love how in this recording they’re constantly holding the phone to the mic while it rings to show how much it’s popping off. Dream provided the sound track to some of my early raving days. At that time we were too young, too skinny and too scared to go to the raw Jungle clubs we wanted to - most of the time they wouldn’t let us in with our fake IDs anyway - so we went to Happy Hardcore and Old Skool raves and thus got heavily into Dream FM as they primarily played that music. The Hardcore raves were a bit more loved up and they didn’t seem to mind letting us in at 16 years old. They played a very specific sound - it’s not like the Jungle that Kool FM played, but it does cross over and it’s not like the 4/4 Trancey Happy Hardcore that came a few years later - but again, at times it does cross over. It’s a wonderful blend of unashamed hands-in-the-air energy and rugged, moody Jungle. It really is quite special. A song that captures that vibe perfectly is Slammin’ Vinyl’s In Effect - it has an MDMA piano line and an absolutely rude and deadly breakbeat work out. Perfect. Krome & Time also nailed that sound with The Slammer - a track that faithfully recreates the feeling of being on a fairground ride that you’d often find at the raves - ups, downs and feeling a little bit sick. So here is DJ Wize & Boots Hi-FI on Dream FM from early November 1996…

0860.fm MIX #8 DJ Wize & Boots HiFi on Dream FM November 1996

Astrophonica

EU / World danny@earth-agency.com
North America s@icartists.net
MGMT: mark@sequenc.es

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.