MARS-FM debuted on May 24th, 1991, following the purchase by Ken Roberts of two stations which broadcast at 103.1 FM. This marked the first time that stations broadcasting on the same frequency had been simulcast in the Greater Los Angeles / Orange County Metropolitan Area.
MARS-FM, the "New Music Invasion", consisted predominately of music not previously heard in Los Angeles and Orange County. MARS-FM blended Alternative, Dance, Rock and Pop to create a fresh, unique music mix. Other Alternative-Rock and Dance-Pop Stations did not break new artists with such regularity. For example, not only was MARS-FM known for Techno, but MARS-FM were the first station to play Nirvana!
MARS-FM filled the hole for listeners looking for a dance station which drew from a Rock Base. MARS-FM was the reflection of a life-style born in the clubs of Western Europe, which exploded in the United States in the late 80s / early 90s.
Weekdays Mike Fright - Midnight to 6am (Mon) Don Bolles - Midnight to 2am (Tue-Wed) Holly Adams - Midnight to 2am (Thu-Fri) Christian B. - 2am to 6am (Tue-Fri) Big Ron O'Brien - 6am to 10am Raechel Donahue - 10am to 3pm Freddy Snakeskin - 3pm to 6pm Rob Francis - 6pm to 10pm Don Bolles - 10pm to Midnight (Mon-Wed) Holly Adams - 10pm to Midnight (Thu-Fri)
Saturday Holly Adams - Midnight to 2am Don Bolles - 2am to 6am Don May - 6am to 10am Swedish Egil - 10am to Noon Swedish Egil & DJ Spinn (MARS FM Top 30 Countdown) - Noon to 3pm Christian B. - 3pm to 8pm Tony Largo (Saturday Night Mix Show) - 8pm to Midnight
Sunday Don Bolles - Midnight to 5am Mike Fright - 5am to 7am Big Ron O'Brien - 7am to 8am Jon Copps (Public Affairs) - 8am to 8:30am Swedish Egil (Planet Reggae) - 8:30am to Noon Swedish Egil - Noon to 2pm Christian B. - 2pm to 7pm Don Bolles - 7pm to Midnight
Phase 2
Weekdays Raechel Donahue - 5am to 9am Swedish Egil - 9am to Noon Holly Adams - Noon to 3pm Freddy Snakeskin - 3pm to 6pm Rob Francis - 6pm to 10pm Don Bolles - 10pm to 2am Mike Fright - Monday, 2am to 5am Christian B. - Tuesday - Friday, 2am to 5am
Saturday Remy Martin - 6am to Noon Swedish Egil & DJ Spinn (MARS FM Top 30 Countdown) - Noon to 3pm Christian B. - 3pm to 8pm Tony Largo (Saturday Night Mix Show) - 8pm to Midnight Don Bolles (The All-Night Truck Driver Show) - Midnight to 5am
Sunday Mike Fright - 5am to 8am Jon Copps (Public Affairs) - 8am to 8:30am Swedish Egil (Planet Reggae) - 8:30am to 1pm Christian B. - 1pm to 5pm Remy Martin - 5pm to 9pm Tony Largo (Planet Polyester) - 9pm to Midnight Mike Fright - Midnight to 5am
Listen To Classic MARS FM Recordings
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00:00 - The Dancehall Children - Once Upon Your Lips
04:24 - BREAK
05:10 - commercials (Fantasia w/ Tony Largo, Exotic Tints, The Cure at the Rose Bowl Sat Jun 27th - Tix on Sale Sat)
08:20 - Inspiral Carpets - Dragging Me Down
13:00 - Top of the Hour into Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
17:30 - Interactive - Who is Elvis
23:38 - BREAK
24:40 - Concrete Blonde - The Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man
28:30 - MARS i.d. promo into Adamski featuring Seal - Killer
33:05 - BREAK (riot news)
34:28 - commercials (Battle Of Armageddon)
35:40 - Nitzer Ebb - Ascend
39:15 - Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic (playing on the roof Monday)
46:45 - Ministry - Jesus Built My Hot Rod
54:51 - BREAK
55:37 - 808 State - 10 x 10
59:45 - T-Series - Hasta La Vista Baby
1:06:20 - BREAK ("what a weird and stupid night")
1:07:10 - commercial (Rozalla show May 2nd)
1:08:10 - Riot News Update
1:10:00 - Sonic System - Operation Desert Storm
1:14:00 - TOP OF THE HOUR into The Cure - High
1:17:50 - Messiah - There is No Law
1:21:45 - BREAK
1:23:00 - Chimo Bayo - Asi Me Gusta Mi
1:30:00 - Station Promo into Faith No More - Epic
1:35:30 - Fax Promo / BREAK
1:36:15 - The Jam - A Town Called Malice
1:39:00 - BREAK (Riot stuff, Peaceful Rally at UCLA)
1:40:00 - The Mission - Never Again
1:46:00 - Trilathon - Children Of The Future
1:49:50 - Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
1:53:45 - BREAK (Riot update)
1:55:44 - Recoil - Edge To Life
2:01:40 - Red Electric featuring Inga - Red Summer
2:05:46 - BREAK (end)
00:00 - Pet Shop Boys - Losing My Mind (partial)
05:35 - Listener ID
06:01 - Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy
12:01 - BREAK
12:38 - Promo Fax Contest
13:05 - Don and Don
13:30 - Fluke - Pan Am Into Philly
18:53 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
23:14 - Andy McCluskey Mars ID into OMD - Pandora's Box
27:09 - BREAK Tickets for Fierce Ruling Diva - Sat April 4th
27:35 - Celebrity Skin - S.O.S.
31:02 - Toni Haliday Mars ID into CURVE - Fait Accompl
35:15 - Micro Chip League - New York
41:47 - BREAK
43:02 - Sugarcubes - Hit
46:53 - Top of the Hour (7AM)
47:03 - David Bowie - Sound and Vision (808 State Remix)
51:00 - Inside Treatment - Naked (I Can See You Dancing)
54:45 - BREAK
55:30 - Presence - Act of Faith
59:25 - Listener ID
59:55 - Voice of the Beehive - Monsters and Angels
1:03:21 - Depeche Mode - Strangelove
1:09:38 - BREAK
1:10:12 - James - Born of Frustration
1:14:37 - 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone
1:18:45 - Andy Bell and Vincent Clark Mars I.D. into Erasure - I Love to Hate You
1:24:43 - Ian McCulloch - Proud to Fall
1:28:50 - Rozalla - Ready to Fly
1:32:44 - New Order - Blue Monday (Reordered DMC Mix)
1:42:50 - BREAK
1:43:46 - Lush - For Love
1:47:07 - Nirvana - Come As You Are
1:50:49 - Top of the Hour (8:02AM)
1:51:04 - Army of Lovers - Crucified
1:55:16 - DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
2:00:37 - BREAK
2:00:55 - The Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man - Concrete Blond
26:30 - MARS MIX with Raving Roger (Guest DJ Techno Flight Aug 8th)
27:17 - MIX START (Sonz Of A Loop De Loo Era - Far Out, MI7 - Rocking Down The House, Pagnall - Madness, Urban Hype -Trip to Trumpton,Modular Expansion Unit 2 - Cubes...some of the songs)
54:02 - Announce songs in the mix
55:15 - commercials (Club UFO at the Palace, Wriggley Gum, Warts Duofilm)
57:40 - Seven Red Seven - Thinking of You (playing Sat Electric Ballroom) cd skips at end
1:01:41 - Inner Circle - Girl I Want to Make You Sweat
1:07:10 - ID into The Beastie Boys - Pass the Mic
1:11:38 - Love Drops - Super Hero
1:16:59 - Sound Factory - Understand This Groove (Pick of the Week)
x:xx:xx - Beastie Boys play Irvine Meadows Mon Aug 3
1:25:00 - commercials (Fifth Ave Nightclub, Dominos, Pro Beach Volley Ball Tour
1:28:12 - Rob phone call about getting on Club UFO list
1:29:22 - Channel X - Rave the Rhythm
1:34:00 - TOP OF THE HOUR with DON BOLLES
1:34:35 - David Bowie - Real Cool World
1:40:09 - Cabaret Voltaire - Hypnotized
1:46:03 - BREAK
1:46:30 - Los Lobes - Kiko and the Lavender Moon
1:50:01 - Curve - Horror Head - Curve (with Toni Halliday intro)
1:53:39 - Lords of Acid - Hey Ho
1:58:22 - BREAK Talks about the return of Techno
1:59:45 - 2 Bad Mice - Hold It Down
2:05:08 - L7 - Pretend We're Dead (Partial)
First part of tape is Egil air checking breaks. Go to 10:28 for continuous interview, music and commercials
00:00 Intro to Swedish Egil's show
00:23 clipped The Wild Horses Funky Poodle
00:48 BREAK ticket giveaway, sell 808 State coming in
01:45 Museum of Devotion - Sunshine clipped (just intro)
01:57 clip of the end of Siouxie and the Banshees - Fear of the Unknown
02:13 BREAK back announce into 808 State, Planet Reggae,Reggae Boat, Top 30 sell
03:57 Mars I.D. (The Martians are Coming)
04:24 clipped Xymox - Wonderland
04:53 BREAK into Loudhouse - Smoke on the Water (clipped immediately)
5:13 clipped into end of Baby Ford - Children of the Revolution 05:50 BREAK back announce, weather (mid 70's) into Massive Attack- Blue Lines contest to go to England
07:03 clipped St Etienne - Filthy , North Side - Chicken Rhythms
07:21 BREAK back announce, sell 808 State arriving (just called from the car phone in the Mike Jacobs limousine), Top 30, ticket giveaway for Reggae Boat Cruise
8:43 out of Prime Ticket commercial
09:08 Mars I.D.
09:22 clipped Seal song into Top of the Hour and introduces 808 State is in the studio and will be playing songs
10:02 clipped Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe
10:28 BREAK Reintroduce 808 State and on the mic is Darren Partington, Graham Massey, Andrew Barker, DJ Chris and MC Alfonso) and into the first part of the interview
14:43 Bjork part
16:31 Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart remixed by 808 State and played for the first time "anywhere".
20:07 BREAK Part 2 of the interview ... what kind of show are you going to do tonight?
22:33 David Bowie - Sound and Vision - 808 State mix without vocals ... plea out to David Bowie before song to get him to work with them (that worked out :)
26:40 BREAK Part 3 of the interview ... more pleas to David, what songs do you like to mix, techniques...
30:08 into commercials (Lucky, True Colors and Married with Children, Park Newport,
33:12 808 State - Lift (with into and invitation to come to the rave)
36:38 BREAK into Rob Farris - Sunrise - 808 State Mix
39:36 808 State does the weather...
40:15 Fini Tribe - Detestimony
44:12 Moby - Go ... MC Alfonso inviting you to the rave on intro
48:32 on the turn table DJ Christopher ...
52:25 BREAK Band shout outs
54:10 commercials (Oc Register, Sunland Skiers, Prime Ticket)
57:12 BREAK into special mix of Cubik
00:00 - Tony Mix in effect...
digital domain (partial)
djs unite - volume one
2 bad mice - bomb scare
toy town - interface
tyke & crimson - let the music go
club zone one - softer heart
Back announced but not on this tape:
jungle people - it began in Africa
holocaust - experiments
night breed - delirium
16:25 - Tony break song back announce
17:07 - Promo for Fax Contest
17:39 - Tony
18:20 - Saturday Night Mix Show
mass order - lift every voice
frankie knuckles - work out
32:09 - commercial (avon rent a car, Sweet Sundays)
33:43 - Tony
34:39 - End of Mix Show (Happy Trails)
35:41 - Maurice Joshua - I Got a Hold on You
40:33 - announce song shout out to Stefan at Street Sounds
00:00 - Top of the Hour Don lets us know Genesis P Porridge of Psychic TV and Timothy Leary will be his guests on the All Night Truck Driver Show
04:07 - Front Line Assembly - Mind Phaser
11:00 - Timothy Leary and Psychic TV - Tune In (Turn On Thee Acid House)
16:44 - BREAK
17:53 - Skinny Puppy - Love in Vain
23:40 - Coil - Windowpane
29:57 - BREAK
30:26 - Humanoid - Humanoid (Stoner Mix)
36:13 - Chocolate Train Mighty Mouse weirdness
36:44 -
40:55 - more Mighty Mouse Chocolate Train
41:18 - Chem Lab - Black Radio (In the Neon Blur)
44:59 - Lehar featuring Rush Midnight - Number One Hero (Peter Pardeike Remix)
51:27 - Reggae Sunsplash 92 commercial
51:59 - BREAK introduces Genesis P-Orridge, Paula P-Orridge,Fred Giannelli, Jon Mark and Timothy Leary
53:04 - commercials (Sweet Sundays, Natta Ricci)
55:07 - BREAK
55:46 - System Zero One feat Timothy Leary - From Psychedelics to Cybernetics
1:01:10 - Top of the Hour INTERVIEW with guests until end
1:27:17 - end
00:00 - BREAK Christian talks to Donya from Anything Box about World Gone Mad rave getting cancelled by the fire marshall
04:35 - The KLF - Justified and Ancient
08:17 - Front 242 - Tragedy for You
12:54 - BREAK
13:30 - Chapterhouse - Mesmerize
17:45 - ID
18:07 - Faith No More - Epic
23:10 - Time Zone - World Of God
28:34 - BREAK - Ticket for Radioactivity (Mar 21)
29:00 - XTC - Senses Working Overtime
33:39 - Promo for Fax contest
34:05 - DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
39:32 - Cabaret Voltaire - Colours
45:46 - BREAK winter of Radioactivity tix
46:00 - Curve - Fait Accompli
50:23 - BREAK
50:30 - commercials (Warehouse, Big Blue Bus, Doing Time on Mple Drive,
53:51 - The Sugarcanes - Hit
57:50 - Top of the Hour with DON BOLLES
58:01 - Anything Box - Beat of Life
1:02:20 - Latour - People Are Still Having Sex (partial)
1:04:10 - Last part of Rob Francis MIX SHOW (Yaz - Situation, Erasure - Love to Hate You, more)
1:16:25 - Top of the Hour MIKE FRIGHT
1:17:24 - The Beautiful South - Old Red Eyes is Back
1:20:56 - MC 900 Foot Jesus - The Killer Inside Me
1:25:13 - BREAK
1:25:33 - 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone
1:30:53 - ID new songs
1:31:30 - Ticket Giveaway/ Engineering Work
1:32:08 - Frank talking about synchronization tests
1:32:34 - Rob Francis Mix (Yaz - Situation, Erasure, 808 State, more)
1:44:38 - BREAK done with Engineering Test
1:45:50 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
1:50:19 - Ride - Leave Them All Behind
1:56:07 - Interactive - Who Is Elvis?
1:59:55 - BREAK
2:00:40 - commercial (Bauhaus - a club, not the band)
2:01:54 - More Frank Engineering Tests
2:02:19 - Rob Francis Mix again for Tests (partial)
00:00 - BREAK with Raechel
00:50 - commercial
01:56 - Urban Safari Commercial parade
02:28 - BREAK into
03:09 - King Missile - My Heart Is A Flower
06:30 - Moodswings featuring Chrissie Hynde - Spiritual High
10:54 - BREAK Lady in the Door Knob
12:13 - Fling Lizards - Money
17:55 - BREAK - Lady and the Door Knob winners
19:15 - Violent Femmes - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
24:15 - BREAK Read a fax David Wolf about a birthday
25:31 - Lou Reed - What's Good?
30:10 - Enigma - Mea Culpa
34:30 - BREAK into commercials (Recycler, Park Newport)
37:17 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
42:00 - Top of the Hour
42:19 - Fortan 5 - Heart On The Line
46:09 - Inspiral Carpets - Please Be Cruel
49:53 - Depeche Mode - Death's Door
53:30 - A Split Second - Firewalker
59:15 - BREAK into Die Warzau - Funkopolis (partial)
00:00 - Tom Tom Club - Sunshine and Ecstasy (partial)
04:33 - Chris Issak - Blue Hotel
07:50 - BREAK into Traffic with Paul Johnson
10:26 - commercials (Boom Factory, Visa Barcelona Olympics, Pacic Eyes and T's)
13:30 - call our request lines
13:58 - The Toys - Smoke 2 Joints
17:53 - Snap - Rhythm is a Dancer
23:57 - Mission UK - Never Again
29:42 - BREAK into Surf Report with Huntington Henry
31:55 - commercials (McDonalds,Arid Extra Dry, Trojan, Boomerang)
34:49 - The B52s - Good Stuff
39:03 - X - 4th of July
42:58 - BREAK into Traffic with Paul
45:25 - commercials (grand opening of D.O.A., In n Out, Ford)
48:30 - Top of the Hour
48:50 - Utah Saints - Something Good
52:30 - The Human League - Heart Like A Wheel
59:28 - BREAK
1:00:22 - INXS - Heaven Sent
1:03:37 - The Cure - Love Song
1:06:48 - Rosebud - Have a Cigar
1:13:30 - BREAK into Traffic with Paul
1:16:04 - commercials (The Edge, Greyhound, Denny's)
1:18:10 - Ticket giveaway for the L.A. Strings
1:19:17 - Charlatans U.K. - Weirdo
1:22:57 - Quick Break
1:23:00 - Annie Lennox - Why
1:28:06 - BREAK (5:40PM)
1:29:20 - commercials (Extra, Boomerang)
1:31:23 - congrats to winner
1:31:50 - Live - Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)