SLOW860 is the latest chapter in Charlie Fieber, aka Fracture’s, celebration of pirate radio culture, merging it with his Chopped & Screwed-inspired Slow Astro world. This third “Slow” adventure pushes the concept further, adding another album to his critically acclaimed 0860 project. The result is a 60-minute, unbroken collage of 14 new compositions and 6 ‘slow ambient’ 0860 remixes, interwoven with pirate radio skits and fuzz. Drawing inspiration from The KLF’s Chill Out and his teenage experiences falling asleep to stations like Kool FM and Weekend Rush, familiar elements from Fracture’s work emerge, yet remain hauntingly just out of reach as he deconstructs and extends 0860.
Available on limited cassette tape, individual tracks and streaming platforms here: sq.lnk.to/SLOW860DDM
Staying true to pirate radio culture, the deluxe package comes in ‘The First Aid Kit’—a term used by stations to describe listeners’ stash boxes for enhancing the listening experience. The kit includes 0860 Astrophonica-branded rolling papers, stickers, and three cassette albums: SLOW860, the original 0860 Mixtape, and an exclusive cassette-only bonus, Ambient Signal Test—a 90-minute album of degraded Jungle breakdowns, originally broadcast to test the signal from the accompanying pop-up station, 0860.fm.
01 – London Tonight
02 – 0860 (slow ambient mix)
03 – Get Next To Your Radio
04 – First Aid Kit (slow ambient mix)
05 – Return To Regular Programmes
06 – Kinda Late For A Sunday Night (slow ambient mix)
07 – From Redsands to Nightingale
08 – Keep The Calls coming
09 – Keep The Calls coming reprise
10 – Buzzing Crew (slow ambient mix)
11 – Telepathy (slow ambient mix)
12 – Cat And Mouse
13 – Back on the Other Side
14 – Booyaka Style (slow ambient mix)
15 – Artificial Stimulants
16 – Jungle Magic
17 – Camden Palace
18 – Jungle Magic reprise
19 – Ulimtate Hardcore
20 – Sounds of the Jungle
21 – Same Time Next Week