106.8 format music radio uk centric urban dance music webcast rinse player stream website rinse.fm rinse fm is a london based community radio station licensed for young people living and or working within the central east and south london areas . . 1 the station plays grime dubstep house jungle and funky and other uk centric dance music . the station was founded in 1994 and operated as pirate radio station until it was given a community fm broadcast license in june 2010 . rinse fm was described as london s biggest pirate radio station 2 3 and provided first exposure to grime artists dizzee rascal and wiley 4 and later provided a home for dubstep djs like skream kode9 and oneman . 5 dj geeneus is the station s head . 5 6 contents 1 history 1.1 early years 1.2 fm licence 2 influence 3 rinse recordings 4 internet radio 5 rinse france 6 financials 7 references 8 external links history edit early years edit rinse fm was founded as a pirate radio station in 1994 by a group of 16 year olds including dj geeneus and dj slimzee . 7 for a three year period in the early days of the station the rinse studio was hosted in dj slimzee s house . 2 8 in its early years the station played predominantly jungle music with a particular focus on mcs a direction which set rinse apart from competing stations . 5 the first broadcast was made at ingram house in tower hamlets london . 9 at the time the broadcasts were being made out of secret makeshift locations such as kitchens and bedrooms belonging to friends and djs constantly moving between these locations to avoid getting shut down by authorities . this continued to a lesser extent all throughout the 16 years during which rinse was a pirate radio station . 3 kool fm was the leading pirate radio station within the jungle scene and it wasn t until rinse changed its focus to the emerging garage scene around 1998 1999 that it became really popular thanks to the darker sound that it brought with it from its jungle days . 5 into the early 2000s the station became critical for emergence and development of the genres grime and dubstep . 3 the station was managed during this time by uncle dugs . 10 in 2005 ofcom disconnected a rinse fm radio transmitter 2 and dean fullman known on air as dj slimzee received an asbo believed to be the first of its kind banning him from every rooftop in the borough of tower hamlets . 11 12 fm licence edit as of august 2007 the station was seeking a legal fm licence . 13 rinse fm created a petition which received hundreds of supporters within less than a week including some from countries other than the uk . 14 the station s owner dj geeneus at the time said that we don t want to be legal to play stupid adverts and make loads of money from advertising . we want to be legal to say look at our scene look at what we re doing . we re a business we re not criminals . we re supplying something that no one else is supplying and we re professional . 3 rinse fm was given a community fm broadcast license by ofcom in june 2010 for frequency 106.8 fm . 2 3 the station is presently managed by sarah lockhart . 15 as part of its community broadcasting remit rinse fm is engaged in training young people in broadcasting skills who are considered marginalised even working with children who are in pupil referral units . these are units for persistent truants and people with special educational needs . 16 influence edit writing for fact magazine in 2007 simon hampson stated without rinse grime and dubstep would be very different indeed it s fair to say that they might not even exist at all . 5 the station has been described as london s biggest pirate radio station 5 13 and without doubt the world s leading grime station . 4 radio 1 dj john peel recommended the station in 2004 stating that when i m in london i listen to the pirates as much as i can . there s a station i like called rinse fm which is somewhere in the area banded by ie between the frequencies of kiss fm and classic fm . 17 rinse recordings edit the station first released music under the rinse recordings imprint in 2003 . 18 currently the label releases albums and singles from a roster of signed artists as well as mix cds from djs associated with the station 19 the label first saw chart success when katy b released katy on a mission with the label in 2010 . currently signed acts include p money katy b novelist roska and royal t. djs who have released mix albums for rinse recordings include skream skepta kode9 and elijah and skilliam . with the release of the 23rd mix cd mixed by richy ahmed rinse has stated that it broadens the concept to include non residents of the station . 20 the label went on to release katy b s chart topping album little red and route 94 s chart topping single my love in 2014 . list of rinse mix albums rinse 01 geeneus 2007 rinse 02 skream 2007 rinse 03 supa d 2008 rinse 04 skepta 2008 rinse 05 paleface 2008 rinse 06 plastician 2008 rinse 07 spyro 2009 rinse 08 alexander nut 2009 rinse 09 n type 2009 rinse 10 marcus nasty 2009 rinse 11 oneman 2010 rinse 12 kismet 2010 rinse 13 rinse 14 youngsta 2011 rinse 15 roska 2011 rinse 16 ben ufo 2011 rinse 17 elijah and skilliam 2011 rinse 18 mark radford 2012 rinse 19 icicle 2012 rinse 20 uncle dugs 2012 rinse 21 t.williams 2012 rinse 22 kode9 2013 rinse 23 richy ahmed 2013 internet radio edit rinse began broadcasting on the internet in 2006 . once broadcast all shows get uploaded to the website as podcasts . rinse france edit in early 2014 a sister radio station rinse france was opened in paris . 21 financials edit current assets of rinse fm rose from 2012 s 8 092 to 101 667 in 2013 . 22 references edit community radio licence key commitments a b c d michaels sean 18 june 2010 . rinse fm awarded broadcasting licence . london guardian.co.uk . a b c d e hancox dan 18 june 2010 . rinse fm finally gets the recognition it deserves . london guardian.co.uk . a b pitchfork feature column the month in grime dubstep . pitchforkmedia.com . retrieved 2011 08 23 . a b c d e f interview geeneus . fact magazine music news new music . webb adam 18 october 2007 . is garageband top of the pops . the guardian . london . miranda sawyer . rinse fm radio not the internet gave me my break says katy b . the guardian . archived copy . archived from the original on 10 september 2014 . retrieved 9 september 2014 . plastician interviews dj slimzee . 6 september 2013 via youtube . rinse fm artists uncle dugs . rinse.fm . asbo bars pirate dj from the rooftops news . thisislondon.co.uk . retrieved 2011 08 23 . news . ofcom . retrieved 2011 08 23 . a b quirke antonia . big shout out to the finland crew . new statesman . retrieved 2011 08 23 . http rinse.fm index.php petition sawyer miranda 30 september 2012 . rinse fm radio not the internet gave me my break says katy b . london the guardian . rinse fm london and worldwide . rinse fm . john peel my media . interview by katie shimmon the guardian 26 july 2004 geeneus vs wizzbit rinse recordings vol 1 . . discogs . label rinse fm . rinse fm . richy ahmed mixes rinse 23 resident advisor rinse paris . inverted audio . retrieved 20 august 2016 . full annual report for rinse fm https www.discogs.com label 384849 rinse series external links edit official website rinse fm on twitter matt mason pirate radio documentary london and uk rinse france v t e radio stations in greater london lw am stations 198 mw am stations 558 720 909 963 972 1035 1089 1152 1215 1305 1332 1413 1458 1548 1584 fm stations 88.8 89.1 89.6 91.0 91.3 91.8 93.2 93.5 94.0 94.9 95.8 96.9 97.3 98.5 98.8 100.0 100.6 100.9 102.2 103.3 104.4 104.9 105.4 105.8 106.2 106.8 107.1 107.3 107.8 dab multiplexes greater london i ce london greater london ii switch london greater london iii drg london defunct stations 648 mw united kingdom radio markets aberdeen glasgow london liverpool manchester northern ireland south west england west midlands west yorkshire worcester see also list of radio stations 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