Tag: pirate radio
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Free Radio – Pirate Low Power FM
Thanks to Brian Greene for directing me to Free Radio (over an argument over the term Pirate Radio vs Free Radio) – I had heard about Free Radio Berkeley but didn’t know they had a site, and were still going teaching people how to make their own transmitters. You see Pump up the Volume wasn’t…
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Amen! A Little bit of bass, little bit of drum – Suburban Base 91-97
Sorry – mix is GAWN! Really digging this mix by GYBO and 72 regular Tizwarz, an audio history of Suburban Base records from 1991-1997 – a journey from rave and ‘ardcore to darkcore, ragga jungle and what eventually became what is now known as drum and bass. Suburban Base were right in the centre of…
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We’re living in a police state
Well those in the UK are – and should be concerned because Orwell’s predictions (and even Alan Moore’s in V for Vendetta) are seemingly comng true. With The Fear this time being terrorism – despite a terrorist attack happening last nearly 4 years ago – they are clamping down on a variety of things. They…
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Transmitting on Pirate Satellite! No really, Network 21, Pirate TV circa 1986
Something I missed probably because I was either in deepest Shropshire or deepest Surrey…but the only ever London pirate tv station Network21 transmitted in 1986 just under ITV for a year in 1986…and the program was arts based and they lobbied (unsuccessfully, although nighttime TV and cable/satellite probably answered some of those needs) for community…
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RC 149: Where Were You in ’92? (Rave – Hardcore pt 2)
Part 2 of the Rave mix; the beats get faster 92-95, and we’re sorted, nice one, wicked, larging it on the pirate airwaves…watch yer bassbins I’m tellin’ yer…with a few interruptions from Heart FM (not that one, the pirate from 1995). Pirate Radio Will Never Die (41Mb, 53mins) M. D. Emm – Got any Hardcore…