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After having been gone for almost a year Fear.FM finally makes its return.
To give you an idea about how it all started we made an overview of the past and how it all came to be.
This story is twofold, with the radio on the one and the magazine on the other side. Below the two stories will finally converge as Fear.FM Community, Magazine & Radio.
History
The history of TW-Magazine.
On September 16, 1996 we started the chat channel #terror, along with some others (Sebastian van Dijk, Alex Walgreen and Marcel Blom). From that day forth, we were online in that channel almost every day and night.
More and more joined it and the need for a page where people could find information grew. To fulfill this need a small page was made called The Terrorworld, the predecessor of TW Magazine.
Two months later, on Saturday November 16 our first real big meeting was organized at Thunderdome 1996 at Antwerp. From all over the Netherlands people came and it grew into a great success.
After that we organized hundreds of meetings at parties, some small but others large but no matter what, they were always enjoyed by everyone. Hundreds showed up, particularly at our yearly Efteling meeting.
In part due to this success, and the wide demand for parties in the Netherlands we started organizing the famous "Hardcore Silence and Hardcore 90s" which sold out time and time again.
The history of Fear.FM:
Late 2005 there was a hype going on in Belgium, heard on a multitude of the radio stations in that area. This hype was Jump.
Said hype became the inspiration for us to start Fear.FM featuring only the harder electronic music. Early 2006 Fear.FM came into contact with the DoctorBass Forum which knew a lot of active DJs. A few of them ending up deciding to spin a set on a weekly basis for Fear.FM.
At that time it was also becoming increasingly popular in the Netherlands as well, making Fear.FM grow like the proverbial weed. Unfortunately, it quickly became obvious that Jump was only a hype and the decision was made to also make a radio stream available to the lovers of Hardstyle. This stream became wildly popular in a very short time.
Halfway through 2006 Fear.FM met an important sponsor (Qreative Design) that gave us a 'body' besides the radio. All these ingredients combined meant that Fear.FM was growing in a record pace.
That same year, Fear.FM gave it's first party cooperating with (the late) Club Zino, which showed that Fear.FM wasn't just something of the virtual world but actually had its place in real life as well.
It became obvious that the listeners wanted more - not just 150 BPM but more, and harder. Those feelings gave birth to the hardest stream by 2007. In that same year the first top 40/ 100 lists saw the light of day, first for Jump, then for Hardstyle and lastly for Hardcore. These lists were the hallmark of Fear.FM because everyone was rooting for their favorite track to reach number 1 each month.
During that time, the financial costs were carried on the shoulders of the hosts but because the costs quickly became larger and larger we went out in search for the financial means to survive.
In 2007 we had to ask for donations. With this money we managed to endure halfway through 2008, after which we continued paying everything out of our own pockets again - after all, it was our hobby and it was fun.
In 2009 we launched our first live show, the 2Dangerous show with Tony and Mitchel as primary hosts. With many famous and upcoming talents the show quickly became popular in a short period.
Unfortunately, 2009 was also a difficult year; the international financial crisis erupted and it became increasingly hard to find sponsors willing to invest into Fear.FM.
The unfortunate result was that in the end of 2009 Fear.FM had to ask for donations from the community for a 2nd time, this time with a negative result. On the fateful day of 01-01-2010 Fear.FM had to pull the plug.
Present day:
Halfway through 2010 the opportunity arose from a party willing to help Fear.FM in aiding them in the largest costs. That offer was too generous to refuse, and we decided to bring back Fear.FM. In addition to this offer we also established contact with TW-Magazine who encountered the same problems with similar goals.
We decided to fuse TW-Magazine and Fear.FM and join forces together.
From this day forth, we are now Fear.FM Community, Magazine & Radio. This is because we want to have our information reach as many as possible.