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Pirate Radio
The NMC Signal Lineage
Pirate radio has been broadcasting in the UK since 1964, when Radio Caroline transmitted from a ship in the North Sea because the BBC held a legal monopoly on UK broadcasting and refused to play what people were actually listening to. The pirates filled the gap. In the 1980s and 1990s, illegal FM stations in London — Rinse FM, Kool FM, Rush FM, before they were licensed — broadcast jungle, drum and bass, UK garage, and grime to audiences the mainstream had no interest in serving.
NMC Signal comes from that tradition. Not a ship. Not an illegal FM transmitter in a tower block. But the same principle: broadcasting music that existing gatekeepers will not play, to audiences those gatekeepers do not acknowledge. The Pirate Radio category on NMC is music that carries that spirit — raw, uncleared, uncompromising, made and broadcast outside the structures that decide what gets heard.
Who NMC Signal Plays
Artists who understand what underground broadcasting means. Who are not waiting for a label or a playlist curator. Who are making the music now and getting it out now.
Tracks on NMC Signal
13 tracks · Updated regularly · Full catalogue →
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