Static Bloom
with Sable Ortega
New, unproven and slightly damp records, played loud before anyone else believes in them.
- Slot
- Mon–Fri · 18:00–21:00
- Palette
- Post‑punk / dub / no‑wave
On air Carrier Wave
Independent radio, still on air.
No algorithm. No ad breaks worth skipping. Ninety‑six hours a week of hand‑picked sound from a back room with good speakers and worse coffee.
Drag the dialThe dial
Tune the signal.
Grab the needle and drag across the band — or use the arrow keys. Every resident program lives at its own frequency. The waveform re‑tunes, the card below changes, and the schedule follows you.
98.3
MHz
The week
Seven days,
ninety‑six hours live.
Everything outside these blocks is the Carrier Wave — our overnight automation, chosen by a very tired committee of one. The lit cell is on air right now.
Residents
The people
behind the desk.
Six residents hold the week down. No playlists handed from above — each one builds their hours by hand and answers for every track.
The sound
A signal is a promise
that someone is listening.
We started in 2009 with a transmitter the size of a shoebox and a licence we still can't quite believe they granted.
Frequenz runs on membership, not advertising. That means the person choosing the next record answers to you and to their own ears — nobody else. When a show ends, the host stays to reply to the request line by hand.
We think radio is the last warm medium: one signal, going out to everyone at once, made by a human who could be wrong. We'd rather be occasionally wrong and always alive than smooth and forgettable.
96live hours / week
41countries reached
0%of it is a playlist
3,100+members keep us lit
The request line
Ask for something.
The line is open while a resident is on air. Song, shout‑out, or a mood you can't name — a real person reads every one. We can't promise to play it, but we promise to consider it seriously and then judge you gently.
Studio line+1 (555) 098‑3333