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- This is the full freeze fm documentary directed & produced by Ashley J featuring over 60 DJs Mcs & Artists originally on freeze fm a West London pirate radio station that started in 1999 and continued to broadcast up until 2009. playing most genres but was mostly known for uk garage D&B and then grime. this is the story please subscribe to the channel as we have many more videos coming and unseen footage and interview from 20 years ago featuring Acts Like Wiley, Kano, Bashy, Chuckie Online, D Double E, Chunky Sunship, Spin E B,
Nasty Jack, DJ Mak 10, Marcus Nasty And many more.......
Ashley J
Love to my son Ashley, so very proud of you and what you have achieved over the years with your music. Congrats for a brilliant documentary, well done 😘.
1999?...You best tek a rewind back 10 years prior...1989 was when pirate radio was hi jackin' the airwaves proper. I was a pirate radio dj on three of the main players back then. 1989 Medina Fm and Centerforce Fm and 1991 Pulse Fm..From House to Hardcore all across London. It was an absolute privelege to hang over a tower block at 2:00am in the morning with my backside freezing up to rahtid whilst trying to put an aerial up because the day before the DTI mash it up. It really was a lifestyle back then...Nuff shakers and movers but yeah, we got the job done. Pirate radio is the heartbeat that keeps the ridims pumping to the dance public because commercial radio ain't playing what we playing you understand. We are the first stop to all underground music released everywhere. i tell u now, i had the time of my life choppin n runnin from feds trying to link up with my tunes after a raid. gimme a fine but under no circumstance confiscate my tune...thats world war 3 right there u get me lol. Big up to all Pirates out n around now and way back then...Gimme some signal!
@Tambian - Big up bruva!! You should document what you did through a series of chronicles like this lot have done!! You can't let those stories or history get lost. I know there's some stuff out there but there's never enough and we can't let the commercial lot whitewash our history and rewrite it to suit their own gains.
they got over being raided by a slick set up
Best days of my life, locking in to freeze with my pals, getting shouts out and listening to the best DJs and MCs.
Innit lol txting into the station for shout outs used to get us gassed
Proud to be part of it well done Ashley j 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Big up the freeze fm ....fond memories of my adolescence...watching from ibiza now ...back in the day in my bedroom in west London ... well done Ashley j for this 👌
Thankyou Sophie x
Remember these days! Wish it was still like that now for our younger generation!
People from previous, flex, juice, rinse too omgooooooowsh ahhh maaaaaad the history 😍🔥🔥 Freeze carried the underground to the main and brought us the best! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Remember the Watford days like they were yesterday, so glad to of experienced all this when I was younger ♥️♥️
The best days. We used to have a link up in Nottingham basically forwarding the London Freeze FM on a pirate frequency here lol
This was so good used to listen to freeze a lot
Ice Fm & Freek was the ones but freeze was good too. Liked the documentary 👍🏿
The original ones who paved the way were Dream, Don, Kool, Ice, Freek, Flex but yes Freeze was good. So many good pirates and some shit ones too haha
@@paulrydzinski9995 TOTALLY agree with you with those name. For me Flight FM too I know its not well known but for west and for its time it was sick, mainly dnb but had Stevie A and the MC from Flowers as regular MCs on garage
Literally grew up in South harrow/Rayner's lane, remember the old under-18 raves at cine bar it late 90's. Miss these days man, stations like ice and freeze got me into dj'ing and still doing it today, vinyl of course ❤️ Good old days for real 🔥
Wow, few faces I ain’t seen in years! Freeze was my youth! Thanks ash for taking me back! Love ya freeze
Really enjoyed this documentary. Long live pirate radio 📻
Living outside LDN... It was a madting picking up a private station good times still ....
Echoing everyone else: proud to have been a part of the Freeze family. Simon (DJ Getaway) Big up!
When I was visiting one of the queens establishments🤣🤦🏾♂️. I used to listen to this station religiously. 2004 . Alongside many others. Nostalgia. 💯👊🏾
DeJaVu and Rinse FM was still the biggest and best pirate radio stations.
Ahhh I miss listening, the shout outs 🥰 word had it that it was right where I lived too. Thank you for it!
This brings back memories of being in high school in Acton recording sets onto tape and listening to it on the 207 bus every morning and afternoon 😂
Well the stories you relay are what my dad also mirrors when he talks abt his old one supreme fm 96.1, based in brixton. so this is a good documentary
Finally got round to checking this out.. a very good, well constructed, in-depth tale of Freeze FM. Could never pick em up on my radio but heard a few sets here and there. Big up AJ and all involved - pirate radio was a religion.
Nice one spooky 👍🏻 👍🏻 Thankyou
Got to big up the whole family full stop bless Ashley J for putting such a major part of radio history together
Was a pleasure to be apart of, I was on the station for a few years Mc sez & Jpr show, loved it! Meant so much to us 👍 remember the phone crashed on us where it was so busy! 💪
Well done. Brother. 👌👌
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this is history right here listen in and take notes!
In my 40 years +, I have never seen a 1210 without a start button, until today. Underground.........................
Massively nostalgic watching that. Iv always had decks and a studio from a young kid to now. Was involved with radio in north london what a time. Id be at work on site with the boys banging out the airwaves all day shouting me out from my own house mad times 🔊
Sad to think we will never get these days back
Spin EB and Sharkey P on Sundays. Iconic 👍
dom da bomb professor t caliber dj Biggar
Really well constructed documentary. So many fantastic memories of Freeze, it really is crazy how much of a movement Freeze was at the time and now a part of music history. Shouts to all involved.
Ikon
Thankyou for that comment loads more unseen footage coming in next few months
Bruv not gonna lie, I been waiting for this documentary since you first put the word out way back when, I gotta send mad love to all the production team cos you all done an amazing job. Fucking brilliant watch
Gwan Ash 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🔥
Well done. I enjoyed this. Greetings from a pirate in New Mexico, USA.
Yes Thankyou 🙌🏻
Loved the documentary! Brings back serious memories! Nice to see some of my college man dem getting the recognition for being part of such a big movement! I’m going to bang out some tunes- I’m feeling nostalgic 👊🏽👊🏽😉
Nice one for this comment 👍🏻
Excellent watch . . Well done Ash 👏
Big up all my pirate mandem and blessings to all my ganja crew!
Miss these days big time :(
Would love to see an upfront fm 99.3 documentary.
Best in the south east.
Great to be involved in this. big up Ashley and the team, sick insight.
I've got a question..
Back then, was there any social media? Nobody says anything about it in this video
That exact statement is said at least 3 times 😂 👍🏻
Pop pop and you know we woz there without a care 😁🤛 respect #goodmemories
Freeze fm was the best radio station back in the day 🔥 big up Ashley for the documentary on it ?👍🏽👍🏽
My Freeze show was always one of my favourites, Saturdays straight after Chunky and before Bario.
Great documentary...shouts to Sharky...Ultra...Larner...Spin E B, Krystal K
Very good documentary....Thanks
Defo was needed , good work guys
Wow twenty year ago. Great days. Big up bario n spin e b
I enjoyed that a lot those freeze fm days were 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Absolute legend for making this..Thank you!!!
Thanks for watching and leaving this comment 👍🏻
This is BIG !
This was a lot of fun to watch. Not living in London back then was stress. Had to grab downloads from Napster and Kazaa for my fix 🤣. Thanks for creating this 🙌🏾
Thanks for watching Sam 👍🏻
Well done for putting this together 👏 I was involved in pirate radio as well back in them days and have great memories and stories but we didn’t have videos or camera phones then (feel old 😂) so great to watch this and remember the great times. Would be good if you could show the day to day running a pirate radio station it’s not easy from lead’s letting you down someone always on call to sort things out. Dti would take down areal down I would say once a month the black op putting it back up.
Had a great 3 and a bit years on freeze doing Sunday mornings. Great insight into what it was like. Look back with fond memories.
big up all freeze family was a wicked era back in the day i got so many recordings on tapes like boxes full ,oh how things have changed :)
Bristol had some brilliant Pirate radio stations 1986 to late 80s.
I was a delivery driver that worked around London in them days....blasting out rinse or freeze....even the public loved it....first time I heard pirate....was hooked for life...shame it didn't really last...main stream wasn't as good...vibe was totally different
Brilliant film, so important we archive our culture. Respect to everyone involved at every level
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ASSSS part of this music industry I must say Ashley Jay this covered my area I grow up in and with a lot of names on this documentary, freeze fm was a big part to play in foundation of garage n grime. I fully enjoyed this Ashley well done 👏
Thanks Bex xx
@@ashleyj2960 keep pushing let's get ITTTTTTT
Big tune to start this doc Templeton pek “down”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Such a sick tune for people who know
@@londonsounds6212 hundred percent I still bang that now on the 1210s
Remember tuning in and being gutted hyperactive was on. Some days slk, motraz manor, speical delivery or roll deep was on 😂
Our first pirate station in the eighties was based on two Sony Walkman's and a mic plugged into an impromptu retired 200w police transceiver. Boy were they pissed when they finally caught up with us! 🤔😂
Good watch
Ah so many great memories... i think freeze was also the first time i had ever seen scrolling rds signal!! Would love to see more of the studio , infrastructure etc
Tryed to source as much as possible check out the other videos at freeze fm
Freeze fm I remember
So mad! Big up Ash, top work
Big up Barney 👍🏻
Wish they got the iconic radio advert voice over guy on. Always wanted to know who he was lol
So many legends that were a big part of the scene
Still got freeze tapes in the loft. Memories, loved watching this. Feel fucking old now though 😂
Upload them tapes bro
Spent a fair amount of my youth on Freeze and Vybe. Best time of my life.
21 seconds came 1st to start the ball rolling
Big up Ashley J.. respect 💯
Never heard of this station until now
Same. I think this was after my time. In my day listening to UKG the big stations were Upfront, Taste FM, Delight, Deja Vu, Flex FM and Pure Magic. Upfront and Flex probably being the biggest.
Mondays on freeze dynasty musical mob roll deep
Great documentary. Good to keep adding to UK youth cultures history.
Nice one for that comment 👍🏻
Perfect 💪🏼
I miss freeze fm 😩😩
Well done on the production Ashley J & watch out for the new Mix It Up events........
With Ashley J on the line up.!!! 👍🏻
'50 missed calls and il pull it up'....'shout out to 694'
Freezefm my 1no station 👊🏻
RIP Stormin
A real talent
the under 18s rave was a mazza education in dance
fun times I. will never forget it - times now ???? they selling area nightclub, no wonder the youth of today getting ill. so true about every car, flat, van playing the best pirate staion at the time...
Nicely done. Bigups!
Nice one for the comment
Nice documentary 👌 Freeze was big in the day
ASHLEY J & EVO ON ICECOLDFM, Dj Dominator set after your show, You lads was alway's LIVE000 Pure Vibessssss 🔥
Yes bro nice comment 👍🏻
An interesting documentary .. I never liked garage growing up, but I always wondered why West wasn't as involved with the grime scene as much, but now I have some idea from this doc. Back in high school, I remember a lot of people were still stuck trying to emcee garage-style, & one day when I was in 6th Form, someone in my class corrected a teacher by saying "Oh its not garage anymore, its Grime .. Grime's the new thing" .. that was in 2005, I think. Infact, I swear I used to see a lot of youths within Ealing/Greenford who looked like they were from out-of-town, spitting bars outside my local Chicken Cottage .. that could've been D Double or Kano or something.
This is a brilliant comment mate Thankyou
@@ashleyj2960 Thanks man, yeh there were a lot things said on here that definitely reflected some thoughts I had e.g. West London being "underrated". Also laughed at some of it as well e.g. 1:11:35 "DTI would turn up, & they was taking a shit" LOL
purple gdouble e super k danger k even doneo when he use to spit with his split personality and melody from master steps was inspired by a busta rhymes tune fonti was the dan gorgan dj
Lmfao.
Masterstepz Melody was released in 1998.
Chuckie displaying zero knowledge of garage.
on repeat 💪🏼💪🏼
and martin larner carried the scene on his back for a good while
Wicked job on this bro 💥💥💥
The good old days
Salute to all the DJs and mcs freeeze🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love this doc! Im west all day (ealing) but its a MUAAD disrespect when you had EVERY person on the doc have their name stated on the screen who they was! Then DANGER'18'K comes on early without mans name on the screen!? Mad disrespect! Legend ina dis!
Freeze, deja & delight 💪
History is about the present itself in a major way! 🙌🏿 #freezedoc
Hey Ash that was epic mate 👌
Dj Scratchee is now Proffit and a big producer also Chuckie is a big presenter now so many big names from freeze. I also love jon e cash serious pioneers
Wtf I totally forgot about d vinyl record shop in Harrow that’s madddd. I lived right next to it and the trinity bar in Harrow
great doc big up everyone involved
Big ups
it would be nice to see the rig builders while they build the transmitters, tune them, use band pass filters and check how clean they are on analysers,
but they won't as that would prove they don't interfere with other services or users, or do they ??
Anyone ever checked a rig on an analyser ??
maybe a new video ?