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MARS FM 103.1 circa 91
*snifle*
Mars 103,1 FM (KSRF Santa Monica/KOCM Newport Beach) is the older cousin to Groove 103,1. Mars began as LA's only 24/7 techno alternative station on 21 May 1991 lasting about a year and a half. The station played new wave artists like Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys, dance artists such as Rosalla, Londonbeat and lots of early electronica/techno music including L7 and La Tour. Mars 103,1 was an unique station from the day it began...
DJ Lineup from Mars 103,1 FM (taken from Mike Ivankay's post)
Weekdays
0500-0900 Rachel Donahue
0900-1200 Swedish Egil
1200-1500 Holly Adams
1500-1800 Freddy Snakeskin
1800-2200 Rob Francis
2200-0200 Don Bolles
0200-0500 Mike Fright (Mon nights/Tue morn.)
Christian B. (other nights)
Saturday
0600-1200 Remy Martin
1200-1500 Mars Top 30 with Swedish Egil
1500-2000 Christian B.
2000-0000 Saturday Night Mix Show with Tony Largo
0000-0500 All Night Truck Driver Show with Don Bolles
Sunday
0500-0800 Mike Fright
0800-0830 Public Affiars with Jon Copps
0830-1300 Planet Reggae with Swedish Egil
1300-1700 Christian B.
1700-2100 Remy Martin
2100-0000 Planet Polyester with Tony Largo
0000-0500 Mike Fright
Sample Playlist from Mars 103,1 FM
2 Unlimited- Get Ready For This/Twilite Zone
Bigod 20- The Bog
Channel X- Rave The Rhythm
Digital Boy- Give Me A Fat Beat
DJ Dick- Weekend
Draga Khan- Kick Back For The Rave Alarm
Dyewitness- Observing The Earth!!
Eon- Spice!!!
Gary Numan- Cars
Hairspray- Pacemaker
Intellect- Throw Your Hands Up
LA Style- James Brown Is Dead
Latour- People Are Still Having Sex
The Movement- Jump
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult- Sex On Wheelz
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
NJOI- Mind Flux*!
Nymphomania- I Want Your Body
The Orb- Little Fluffy Clouds!!
Quadraphobia- Quadraphobia(im sure this was quadraphonia)!!
Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Give It Away
REM- Losing My Religion EWW
Rosalla- Are You Ready To Fly
Rosalla- Everybody's Free
RTZ- Dance Your Ass Off
T99- Anastasia!!
Voodoo Child- Voodoo Child
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(article from 91-92?)
Orange County Register
SHOW section
Cover Story
New Rave Music
All-night parties rise from ashes of disco's past
Stories by Cary Darling
The Orange County Register
Richard Schroeder was in Compton looking to party, The
Placentia resident had heard about an unauthorized late-night dance
in a local warehouse. And, with Any luck, Schroeder and the other
young people wouldn't see the outside world until the sun was
peeking over the horizon.
But Schroeder never stepped inside. What he believed to be
gunshots echoing in the neighborhood unnerved him. "There were
gang-bangers all over," said Schroeder, 21, a California State
University, Long Beach, student. "We just took off."
Schroeder had been in search of the latest "rave," an
all-night party pulsating to the latest hyperspeed musical
descendents of disco.
Beginning illegally in the late '80s in abandoned warehouses
or other atypical locations, raves boast high-tech, psychedelic
lighting and laser effects, art installations, trendy
surf-and-skate-inspired street fashions, and a multiracial crowd of
up to 4,000 people who like to underscore the "unity" of their
scene.
But Schroeder no longer has to put himself in danger to
indulge in one of his favorite pastimes. Raves are emerging from
the back-alley underground.
Inspired by warehouse parties in Chicago and popularized by
trend-hungry British youth who turned them into a pop cultural
phenomenon, raves are quickly moving into the Los Angeles and
Orange County mainstream and establishing their own subculture.
Avalon Attractions, the Encino-based concert promotion firm,
has allied itself with rave promoter Les Borsai to stage legal
raves - featuring live bands as well as recorded music - in such
locations as the Spruce Goose in Long Beach and a rodeo ring in
Pico Rivera. Promoters are talking about large-scale outdoor raves,
possibly in Orange County, this summer,
Rave music acts such as the Shamen, Quadrophonia, N-Joi, and
LA Style are being snapped up by major record labels. Elektra,
Atlantic and Profile have either recently released or plan to
release rave music compilations.
Fashion firms such as Stussy and Sjobeck, both with roots in
Orange County, are capitalizing on the rave look of baggy jeans,
baggy shirts and baseball-style caps.
Rave fans now have their own radio station (MARS-FM/103.1),
magazine (Urb), and a network of one-night-a-week clubs playing
rave musical styles such as techno and house music, the 120 to 140
beats-per-minute disco descendents that" are ravecrowd favorites.
Some on the scene even say this generation has its own illicit
drug: MDMA, a so-called designer drug also known as Ecstasy.
The new visibility makes Schroeder happy- He can go to Deep
Shag, a Friday night rave at the Kona Hawaii restaurant in Santa
Ana, and not fear the police will show up to shut it down.
"It's a cool scene. It's not a scam scene," he explained. "And
lately, some of the underground ones have been bogus. You take
a risk every time. With (the legal raves), you know what you're
going to get."
"It's huge. It's not just in the warehouses anymore," said
Kevin Nakao, marketing director for MCA Records. "It's really
phenomenal and now, from a record label's perspective, we're
starting to see the impact in terms of sales."
"It used to be there was one rave a month. Now there are four
on Friday and four on Saturday," observed MARS-FM music director
and DJ Egil Aalvik, best known as "the Swedish Eagle."
Even dance-music experts far from California acknowledge the
spread of rave in the Los Angeles area. "LA is the rave capital of
America," said Matt E. Silver, vice president of A&R (artist &
repertoire) for New York's Invasion dance music label and a rave
columnist for DMR, a dance music magazine. ' `It's the entire West
Coast for that matter, we're talking from British Columbia to
Mexico."
Various explanations are being tossed around for why rave -
which mixes up the hard electronic beats of '80s hip-hop and
industrial music and the dance aesthetic of '70s disco with the
peace and love sentiments of '60s rock - is appealing to young
people of the '90s.
"A lot of people are just tired of mainstream artists,"
reasoned Scott Brown, manager of Record Reaction, a Long Beacb
record store that has become a major source for rave releases.
Borsai, the former underground rave promoter who has teamed
with Avalon Attractions, puts it in economic terms. "Kids get more
for their money than when they see a concert," he said. "They get
to dance, they get to see special effects. It's a lot smarter to
see a band that way, especially a dance band. Sitting down in a
venue is kind of boring."
Others stress the scene's egalitarianism. Rave fan Alonzo
Jones, 22, of Huntington Reach say's this is what separates rave
from disco. "This is come as you are and do what you want," he said
while visiting Deep Shag.
"It's a unity event," said Invasion Records' Matt E. Silver.
"There is no violence. I relate it back to the '60s- I wasn't a
flower child, but this is where everyone is coming together."
The throwback to a previous generation is no accident. When
British DJs and fans latched on to house and techno - forms of
dance music spawned in black Chicago and Detroit clubs - in the
mid-80s, they overlaid it with a veneer of psychedelia. Smiley
faces - those smiling yellow buttons of optimism that disappeared
in the '70s - made a roaring comeback.
In addition, the English added a bit of their own chemical
engineering. While the American house scenes were not known for
drug use, British fans began to extol what they claim were the
virtues of drugs such as Ecstasy.
The clothing look was a mix and match of retro sensibilities.
The scene took off in Manchester, England, at a club called the
Hacienda, a nightspot operated by members of the band New Order.
Many Manchester rock groups, such as Happy Mondays and Stone Roses,
incorporated rave elements in their style.
In the late '80s, the scene returned to American shores and
word about illegal raves began circulating among the dancefloor
cognoscenti. "There were warehouse break-ins," recalled Aldo
Bender, an Orange County DJ who now resides in Los Angeles and
works at the Happy Wednesdays rave in Redondo Beach.
"We did a couple of break-ins in Orange County," said Bender,
who noted the buildings' owners often were completely in the dark.
"They'd come to show the building (the next day) and it was
trashed."
Borsai says his illegal raves were held with the permission of
the property owners, but that didn't help with police and fire
officials. Now, the illegal raves are being overwhelmed by those
with the correct permits and papers.
"The problem with (illegal raves) now is a lot of kids are
losing their money because you can't hide 3,000 kids anymore," said
Borsai who says he has staged past raves in burned down racquetball
courts, underground parking garages and refrigerator companies.
He concedes legal raves might not have the forbidden charm of
their illegal counterparts, but says "When (the kids) pay their
money to get in, and the event gets shut down, it's a toss-up
between losing a little bit of atmosphere and getting your money's
worth."
"Those days are over now," said Bender of his break-ins.
"Those were days of irresponsibility, and that was part of the
scene that made it appealing to a lot of people and now it's not
that way."
Yet, for all the talk of rave being a unity scene, the
ascension to legal status and the explosion in the number of raves
- both of the underground, yet legal, and advertised variety - has
caused a rift. "It's totally out-of-control and cutthroat right
now," said Bender. "It's a combination of Avalon being involved and
promoters who've been doing it for awhile feeling threatened."
Some argue that a big companies such as Avalon Attractions and
the major record labels know little about rave culture. They say
that at least some of the high-profile LA rave events - such as
those with the bands 808 State, the Farm, the Orb and the Shamen -
were not really raves. An Avalon sponsored concert with rave
elements, featuring the band Primal Scream, plays the Hollywood
Palladium on March 7,
"Shamen was not a real rave- That was an alternative band
posing as a rave act," said Silver. "Rave is a large dance party,
so technically that would come under rave. The concept was there,
not the music."
Avalon general manager Moss Jacobs says there's room for
various approaches. "There will always be an underground thing
happening in every major city," he said. "But so many people who
would like to go and have a good time would like to have a little
more access."
Jacobs admits one of the reasons Avalon is getting involved is
because the company realized a large segment of young people isn't
attending rock concerts anymore.
"I immediately liked what I saw in terms of the energy," he
said. "But the second most motivating thing for me was that there
was a group of people out here, who I think of in terms of being
the demographic who would come to concerts, but were not."
ESSENTIAL RAVE DISCS [according to the Orange County Register]
_Adamski_, "Live and Direct," "Doctor Adamski's Musical Pharmacy" (MCA)
_808 State_, "Utd. State 90," "ex:el" (ZTT/ Tommy Boy)
_Human Resource_, "The Dominator" (R&S single)****!!!!
_Inner City_, "Big Fun" (Virgin)
_Isotonik_, "DifleFent Strokes" (FFRR single)**** DOPE TRACK!
_Kraftwerk_, "The Mix" (Elektra)
_LA Style_, "James Brown Is Dead" (WATFS single)
_LFO_, "Frequencies" (Tommy Boy)!!!!!!!!
_Lords of Acid_, "Lust" (Caroline)
_Messiah_, "There Is No Law" (Kickin' single)!!!!!!!!!!!
_Quadrophonia_, "Quadrophonia" (BMG single) DOPE TRACK!!!!!
_The Prodigy_, "Everybody in the Place" (XL single)
_Rozalla_, "Everybody's Free" (Buzz single)
_The Shamen_, "En-Tact" (Epic)
_Donna Summer_, "l Feel Love" (Casablanca single)
Various Artists, "Acid Jazz: Collections One and Two" (Scotti Bros.)
Various Artists, "Best of House Music" "Gotta Have House, Best Of Vol. 2" (Profile)
Various Artists, "Order to Dance, Vol. 3" (R&S)
Various Artists, "Street Jams: Electric Funk, Parts 1 and 2" (Rhino)
Various Artists, "Techno Glub Vol. 1 & 2" (Techno Club)
Various Artists, "Techno Tracks, Vol. 1-3" (ZYX)
Various Artists, "Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit" (10)
Various Artists, "The First Chapter," "The Second Chapter" (XL)
Various Artists, "The History of the House Sound of Chicago" (BCM)
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