Flaix FM

Flaix FM is a radio private musical Catalan which emits on all the Catalan territory which belongs to Grup Flaix.

History

Beginnings

Flaix was born from a perfectionist Vocation, will to make a professional and private radio; a Radio station which occupies a special place, with holy a devotion for the frequencies, the Publicités, the jingles and the codes, with the objective to mark an indisputable style so much in Musique as in Animation. This was the vision of Miquel Calçada and Carles Cuní when all two exerted like organizers with Catalunya Ràdio.

At the time of the bridge of Immaculada of the year 1986, the program has punt neu - pioneer with Catalunya Ràdio, then in Flaix - moved its masses of fanatics, approximately: 5000 skiers at the French station of Ski of Tignes. Carles and Miquel were with the current that over there there was a radio station which had only 2 employees, and they asked whether they could leave them a few minutes per day to connect itself with the audience of the skiers.

This local station their yielded the Studios pleasantly so that they can speak with the their one moment. At the end of 5 days of cohabitation with these 2 men who made free Radio and which was organized as they wanted, Miquel Calçada dared to put the question to a million dollars: “But, actually, the station is managed by you? ”. The answer was not any other than: “Yes, one will seek publicity and one saw that”. A product makes hand by two people who do not depend on anybody.

Return to the house, they discuss. “There is not towards here, a ski station which has a radio station? ” That of Baqueira Beret. All was a question of days. They were presented on the tracks and proposed to take again the radio station which until now did not have any substance. From there, they worked to prepare a project which was finalized in 1987: Vaquèira their left the management of its radio.

Between 1987 and 1991, each Weekend of Winter Carles and Miquel went up until Vielha to advance the project. And in the week they left the station to the hands of two organizers.

In all this brawl occurred a key element: the second process of concession of radio stations authorized by the General information of Catalonia. One could not say if they were going to decide to add a radio.

They had enabling to ask Terrassa with the assumption that with Barcelona they would not have had anything. They gave them the frequency of Embanked, which was legally authorized for only part of the city…

First steps with Terrassa

This frequency that one conceded to them has Terrassa depended on an antenna who was to be placed, literally, at the bottom of a chasm. Miquel and Carles had carried with them much hours of youth to the microphones of Ràdio Terrassa and wanted to start elsewhere like professionals. It is thus, which they rented an old named factory of textile Hilabor, and with Justo Molinero, the ace of the radio Flamenco, which left to them a space to its tower of antenna, on one of its grounds of the road Terrassa- Martorell. Thanks to this the waves of Flaix left the suburbs and arrived timidly in all the town of Embanked and in the neighborhood.

The daily noise on the fact that the Cuní-Calçada pair founded a new station attracted curriculums of all kinds and cassette S of future organizers seeking a radio. They started with two craks of Ràdio Valira - Ajo Casals and with Joan Arenyes, then with Carles Davó - coming from RKOR, with Xavi Serrano - newcomer of Ràdio Ciutat de Manresa and with Marcel Gorgori - the man of the opera with Canal 33, which from now will animate the news bulletins of the station.

The radio was born on June 1st 1992. With their manner, and as of the beginning, they were alternate: by the vocation to explore musical territories still not devastated by the radiophonic cloning; to program American negro music, of absolute importation and absolutely anticommerciale.

Flaix FM not wanting to transform itself like all the other radios into a radio-formula. I.e. a machine which is charged to make connect disc on disc. Flaix FM wants to be to be a radio of avant-garde, different from the other radios, against the programming of the other radios. The founders transmitted this feeling to all the team as of the beginnings.

The secrecy of this great resistance in front of the adversity this finds in all the iniciale team of Flaix. In this radio, one wants or one does not want, everyone implied oneself in the company and is suitable for it, until in becoming insane. Because by hoping for the promised land they lived thin, dry and arid years where only the illumination of all made it possible to believe that this radio was not only viable but, that actually, it would be the radio which all the other radios would copy. Dogma of faith that everyone assumed since the first day.

Consolidation

The signs of the imminent change followed one another as from the moment when Flaix entered to Barcelona, thanks to a concession which we had in Sant Feliu de Llobregat and which enabled us to emit with the capital. In addition to these four organizers pioneers was added, at the time of the year 1997, a new generation for the changing with: Lluís Farmhouse, Txell Aixendri, Vador Lladó, Jordi Boxes and Oriol Carrió to train a team without complexes nor confusions.

It was one time of transitions, one moment criticizes and of waiting. There was a potential base new listeners, but the market of the dance was, at first sight, a limited territory, a too limited territory, although one could sail there without direction defined between four cuts of funky and recent hits. One could not, one did not want to convert Flaix FM into a " RAC 105" miniature. Elsewhere there was a whole range of electronic musics, of innovating style, experiments in dance. One started to have the intuition that there was a potential of audience.

All these new styles of musics were to manage to make their space in large the panorma radiophonic. The travaill was hard for the radio station which was going to seize these new innovating styles. Flaix FM was to be this radio which was going to open an inevitable historical cycle.

With this consolidation, a new batch of organizers made share their own musical knowledge. A new network of specific customers appeared: the macrodiscothèques which every weekend accommodated thousands of people. Then the installation of the night coaches, which crossed all the geography of the Catalan country. Coaches with Mataró, Fraga, Girona or Igualada. But this movement night bird obtained only one unhealthy or marginal echo. One did not speak about it solely in the various facts. They are the years when the spiral of drug, the sex and violence increased quickly.

Separately the exception of the Sonar, no Catalan emission had been concerned with affect a market which claimed has horn and with cries a radiophonic loudspeaker. While the gust of the years 1980 had filled the department stores with discs in Madrid, the managers and the companies of the most important discs were maintained in Barcelona. Blanco there Negro, max Music, Ginger Music and, more recently, Tempo, Vale Music and Divucsa, wanted and could to be invested in a negotiation which would be reflected directly on their own basis of purchasers, and better than any intermédiare, the potential of Flaix FM.

The secrecy of Mégaradio

The key of the turning of the history of love between the interests of the public and of Flaix FM comes exactly from the absolute conformity of the tastes between the organizers and the listeners: those which resisted the extremism of the machines. Sofistiquées the morning sessions were launched, so that all those which rise early can do it on the sound of the house and an emission very diverting: “Flaix Matí”. And with final, with this emission which accompanies you as if it were your friend, a whole mass flotante of public began with us in this phenomenon which will take the name: “estil Flaix” (Flaix style).

During the day, one énergétiquement bombards you while penetrating in your ears to make you listen to electronic music: large the remix and cds the most listened at the rate/rhythm of the seasons in immutable cycles. In the ears of a consumer who wants to listen to his music preferred in the car or at the office, with the computer as if it were about a samplor.

You do not know, you know neither the name of the group, nor of the remix in question. One knows, one knows, in exchange, which is this organizer which not seulment present the discs but which in more made caustic comments, with personal details, a whole style which causes truly the interest of the listeners

When somebody puts the question how is called this organizer which he listens to each day, when this somebody this worries to memorize these interventions and cannot avoid repeating them with the other people and wishes one day to find one-to-one to know how it is, if this somebody interress with knowing which is the day when its dj preferred will make a session in a discotheque… one is speaking now about a clean style, of a team of people, noticing absolutely all individualities, which gets a feeling of media family. Flaix FM does not have, certainly, anything to see with a conventional radio, but it is all the same about a radio-formula.

If, on assumption extravagant, Flaix had erased the sound effects, the advertizing breaks and the other elements without organizers, at the end one would have obtained a permanent session of music dance, nights maquina, house days. Can be some specimens would have continued to listen to it. But actually what made the glory of Flaix it is the absolute conviction that all the team speaks each day with her listeners as if they really knew each other, provocant a long-lived association with a type of festive music. The personality of each organizers, which guarantees only with its voice the quality and the sincerity of what he wants to make you listen. The final effect, the result of this cycle, is not other than “the estil Flaix”. Each element - organizers, music, listeners and the publicity - combines the chart of an effect of communication cathartic which gives, with the end, the esthetic key.

In Barcelona

The 1ier June 1999, the president of Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Pujol, inaugurated the amplification of the studios of the Flaix Group, coinciding with the 7th birthday of the station.

Three new studios of recording, and the duplication of space available to its central seat of Passeig de Gràcia, in the middle of Barcelona. The single private radio station which emits completely as a Catalan since his beginnings receives at it the maximum of institutional representatives with the innovation of a small great change in its corporative image. Of another with dimensions, the staion of radio corrects its name inicial, Flash FM, by that of Flaix FM, a linguistic adaptation which will now use to introduce new logos, colors and a descriptive news of the station.

This year there, the department of Promotion and Communication created a complete package of activity named “Flaix Tour”, an interactive type of festival which included, with share the intervention of the djs of Flaix, all the spectacular alternatives which request these events of mass: gogos until the performances, decorations stratospheric and projections.

This year there too occurred the wildest event of Catalan broadcasting. A room with a capacity of 22.000 people, 4.000 mêtres square of surface, 75.000 kilowatts of sound potential and 600.000 Watts of light. The most perfect scene of Olympic Barcelona: Palau Sant Jordi. Met all the tribes of dance there to make reality the currency of this final meeting: “We transform Palau Sant Jordi into the largest discotheque of the planet Ground”. One speaks, obviously, of first MegaAplec Dance, which took place on Friday, May 14, 1999 and which lasted of 6:00 of the evening to 6:00 of the morning. The entry cost 1000 pessetes and one did not mark the hand if you wanted to leave supper. But all returned and returned, exalter and to stir up in front of such a musical intensity. 25.000 people passed by the counters during these 12 hours of frantic activity. Sant Jordi was really a total discotheque. All the central track was converted into a track of dance, in the steps, settled the spectacles multimedia.

One cannot say only the legions of students, accompanied, so minor, of parental supervision, did not resist to shout. This potential of call out of its limits showed up to which point the democratic revolution made its way. When all the eyes were fixed, waiting, the work which governed a room of mix and posing discs on 2 platinums and everyone wanted to see which was going to be the result. Times définitevement changed. And this MegaAplec was only the first! 3 others took place after, by which passed from the fibulas of world famous like: Erick Morillo, Funkstar De Luxe, Frank' O Moiraghi, Robbie Will rivet, Mauro Picotto, Joey Negro, Judge Jules, Ferry Corsten, Sven Väth, Frank T.R.A.X., Barthezz, and much of others which contributed to make of Megaaplec an international great event.

Some emissions

Current

Flax Mati
Formulated Flaix
Extra Flaix (2005 -)
Interactua (2005 -)
Flaix Club
Zona Oasi
Caliber 45
Flaix History
Matinee World (2006 -)
Résidence FG (2006 -)
Seleccio Basica

Old

Xavi Escolano House
Trance Techno Trax
NRG 4U (2005-2006)
Decibelia Flaix
Swing Flaix
Genesi Flaix
Extra Flaix (2003 - 2004)

History of the slogans

2004 : Mégaradio.
2005: The Radio DJ
2006: Del Ritme (radio operator ryhme) will emissora

The team of Flaix FM

Founders and administrators

Miquel Calçada | Carles Cuní

Director of programming

Didier Auzy

Its and production

Leandre Adrogué | Miquel Vílchez | Albert Parera

Organizers

Old organizers

Studios

passeig of Gracia, 55, 9th - Barcelona

Frequencies

A vast network which covers nearly 6 million inhabitants of the Catalan population.

Southern Catalogne Spanish

Barcelona 105.7
Girona 99.6
Tarragona 102.1
Manresa 105.9
Tortosa 102.9
Lleida 104.1
Northern Castelló 96.3
Vic 105.9

Catalogne French

Perpignan 92.9 (Perpinyà)
Makes-Romeu 106.6

Andorre

Andorra 93.8

Compilations

Shingles Oasi
Els Numbers 1 De Flaix FM (2001)
Flaix Matí vol. 3 (2001)
Decibèlia Flaix (2001)
Flaix History (2002)
Mega Aplec Dance 2002 (2002)
Mega Aplec Dance 2003 (2003)
Decibèlia Flaix Compilation (2003)
Flaix History vol. 2 (2003)
Shingles Oasi vol. 2.
Flaix Sessions
Flaix History vol. 3 (11/2004)
Flaix FM Compilació (04/2005)
Flaix History vol. 4 (11/2005)
Flaix History vol. 5 (11/2006)

See too

Sources

Web Flaix FM, Annuari Flaix

External bonds

the French site of Flaix FM
the site as a Catalan of Flaix FM
the site as a Catalan of Ràdio FlaixBAC, the sister of Flaix FM

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