Following up on Friday's post about two recent Los Angeles pirate radio stations, I contacted the people behind 95.1 Renegade Underground Radio to get more details.
The guy behind the pirate station, DJ Buddy Love, emailed back and filled me in on a few things: First and foremost, the station has changed its name and is still finalizing plans to get on the air. It's now called Red Zone Radio -- check out their MySpace page here.
More from my interview with DJ Buddy Love:
What kind of music do you guys program?
To tell you the truth we haven't run any programming under "Renegade Underground Radio" yet..we are still finalizing things.. and if anyone has noticed we really haven't done much info on the web. Because yet again before we proceed we have had another change. We will broadcast under Red-Zone Radio 95.1fm.
How did you get involved with pirate radio? Were you inspired by other legendary pirate stations, like KBLT?
We used to broadcast under the name Radio Underground Los Angeles in the mid 90's at the same time (funny you
mentioned it) KBLT was on the air. Our focus was on the Los Angeles club, rave & the urban underground dance scene. We focused on the drugs, laws, music and the DJs of the scene -- with local and international DJs doing live shows and sets. In all and all it was just about the music and the DJs. We never got into politics too much.
We were radied by the FCC on April 22,1999 and told to shut down opperations, which we did not put up a fight. Luckily they didn't take any of our equipment, which included our transmitter (100 watt L.D. Brewer special). So we went dormant. I took it upon myself to relaunch our broadcast again, now with better capabilities we didn't have before (like) live interaction with our audience, thanks to Stickam. That's something we could never afford back then.
When will you broadcast?
We will probably be running our programming 7 days a week, not 24 hrs though, reaching the masses with a newer version of our old broadcast. Still focusing on the dance community -- music, DJs, drugs, politics.
Aren't you afraid of getting caught by the Feds?
No, never worried about the Feds. I have learned a lot from the last experience, so I've learned a lot of new tatics of not getting caught, or at least if I do I know how to get around it.
As for legendary radio stations that inspired me..well, I can't say I knew of any before i started. I knew what they were but never heard one. I was just a DJ never getting noticed or a chance to play at any parties or clubs until one day I decided to learn more about pirate radio. I wanted to start my own (mostly to get noticed and get chicks) and did a hell of a lot of web
investigation -- till I got ahold of Brewer and got my start! (And yes I got noticed, and chicks -- PLUS FEDS HAHA!)
DJ Buddy Love tells us that Susan Carpenter of KBLT fame dropped by his original pirate station soon after KBLT was finally cut for good by the FCC. Will Buddy make it to air before the FCC finds the antenna he has posted on his old MySpace page? Stay tuned.
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