Eko of the garrigues

The Eko of Garrigues is an associative radio noncommercial Frenchwoman of category A. Alternative, avant-garde, it was born in Herault and diffuse on Montpellier, Nimes, Sète and the area since 1975.

With the menu, an explosive musical cocktail with the variable proportions of furia Latin, binary violence and melancholy of synthesis but also of the regional specialities where current mobilities and the new horizons make their entries. Rock'n'roll, punk, alternative, techno, electronic musics and experimental, but also of the musics of the other with dimensions of the Mediterranean and the whole world.

A little history

Eko of Garrigues, pirates from 75 to 81, associative since 77, diffuse since the scrubland and under the threat of the authorities, the hours and the hours of alternative programs recorded via portable and mobile transmitters of house manufacture.

The authorities becoming more menacantes it creates GRRRRR , the group determined to re-emit in gust the radios erased, which will on the occasion to diffuse the radios of the area whose material was confiscated or who did not have any, like Radio Wire with Oneself (Ales), Radio Occitania (Toulouse), Radio Saint-Affrique (Aveyron), Radio Sun (radio green of Montpellier), Radio Clapas (Montpellier) and even Radio Blue Wire (Montpellier).

It is the first to be emitted without stopping as of the advent of Mitterrand in May 1981, from Montpellier. Resolutely anti-commercial, it emits since without no publicity never polluting its programs.

Before guard

Associative, alternate, curious, attached to the Mediterranean and the area, it upsets the musical codes, the “radio” tone so, if insipid, if insipid of the local stations of Radio France, the commercial radios, the networks and good of others still today. It diffuses continuation the regional creators, the independent groups, thepunk one bubbling of the Spanish “movida” into 82, the electronic music into 87… It helps also the groups of the area by publishing several individual compilations vinyls, LP and, as well as cassettes, first regional at the time. It creates into 86 a free monthly magazine, the Coke International, the diary of the musics, arts of street, festivals, from Bordeaux to Nice, distributed in the bars and concert halls. She invents the concept of the radiophonic weeks with topic where all the programs of the station decline a subject, each one with its way. First radio Languedocien with being diffused on the Net, first starting from free computing systems, open source, it uses today all the formats of diffusion, streaming MP3, the participative system Peercast and also the open format Ogg Vorbis.

Selected moments

Eko, always very mocker, in one unforgettable moment, definitively buries the rock'n'roll into 93 by inviting each visitor to acknowledge his misdeeds in a confessional drawn up for the occasion at the entry of the General states of the Rock'n'roll on Peyrou of Montpellier.

Eko of Garrigues for its 10 years, in front of the megalomania of the initiating mayor of Montpellier of the Antigone district which envisages the arrival of the sea located at 10 kilometers by tiny Lez, proceeds to the ceremony of the sardine jet Media: eko-jet-of-sardines-1987.ogg in front of the hotel of area of the same district.

Eko opens its antennas every night of 94 in EkoMobiles, kinds of teknotes free-parts, and invites the listeners to meet in nature to dance together around a fire for example, in collective listening.

Today

More than ever Eko wants to be to be a radio of discovery. To clear, to seek artists who titillate the ear… it functions much with the very favorites, with passion. Passion of the radio, the music, arts in general. The programming is turned towards the electronic musics, industrial, experimental, pop-rock'n'roll, post-rock'n'roll, punk, hardcore… The whole animated by a team of voluntary committed and mad. Eko opens its waves with associations, the structures, with the groups, in the fields cultural, social, with those which always do not on the occasion to have a media relay. Eko also invites on its waves and in its buildings artists and performers which can be expressed on line. One will quote for example the Dandy-Freaks (St Etienne)

Frequencies

Nimes, Montpellier, Sète: 88.5 MHz

External bond

Official site

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