[HCDX] Aventure FM

[aurel chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Warm greetings to all of you !

I'm looking for Aventure FM airchecks...

How I came to know this station... Back in the late 80s, the quality of Romanian radio was full-clock jammed with awful propaganda such as the strenghts of the socialist progress when you could barely sleep at night, during the winter, because the heat was turned off in order to grasp money for the Ceausescu's travels around the world. My family just couldn't stand it.

They came accross a guy who had his brother maried with a French woman in Paris. They had recorded a tape for us on 105.9 MHz Aventure FM which was a wondeful station. While very young I wasn't so hooked on French culture and music, it was always special to get threated to the highly rhythmic pattern of that French FM operation.

What hooked me to Aventure FM was our immigration to Canada, back in 1997. We took Air France and stayed for one night in Paris. Everything was gorgeous: the food, the streets, the radio inside the hotel, etc. !

When I came first to Canada I awaited a connection to Internet to enjoy Romanian (which I missed) as well as French radio (to which my heart was open up by our 1-night stay in Paris)... After a few months, we had Internet and I must say I was quite impressed by the refreshing set of music stations such as RTL 2, Fun Radio and Europe 2 were playing.

But this was ALMOST superficial when compared to Aventure FM. My mom knew I was hooked on French radio and decided to sent me a few tapes included that special Aventure FM tape to Canada (I didn't had it when I first came in)...

EVERYTHING WAS GORGEOUS ! The music played which ranged from californian soft-rock to melodic punk-rock while passing through the French variety, Dance Music and World Beat territories... The jocks intead of waiting for the song to finishing were talking back-to-back with the music popping in and out every few seconds at a time during the last 30 minutes of the last song played. This is called TALKOVER ! But wait for the jingles: highly harmonic industrial driven harmonies that were complex, yet quite catchy with each second a new musical tone blending over the last musical tone like NO OTHER JINGLE I'VE EVER EVEN HEARD OF... Unfortunatly, I do not still have even 1 Aventure FM jingle because of this damned vaccine that made me hyperactive in order to delete the whole tape. But let's just get back to Aventure FM: they featured very serious subjects that were discussed in a quick, effective and dynamic way such as acomoclitism, anthropology and...HORROR MOVIES... I don't know of any other station that featured such an emotional-driven acomoclitism feature in the 80s when acomoclitism was very tabou.

What to say more about Aventure FM ?????? It's the station that has turn my life into the nightmare when I accidently deleted that tape back in January of 1999 !

I did a lot of things. I wrote to the SIRPA (Service de l'Information et des Relations Publiques de l'Armée de terre) and someone answered thay didn't had any sound bites of Aventure FM anymore. I wrote too to the INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) and I didn't received any answer, positive or negative.

Among the "postive" things, back in december of 2000, on the RadioActu messageboard, someone called Thierry contacted me in order to talk about his airchecks collection, but my damned father ended up the Internet on that day for a few months and when I got back to RadioActu a couple of months later, Thierry was gone... Thierry is my only REAL hope, but I do have at least SEMI-FALSE hopes for the crew on Hard-Core DX and for the rest of us regarding Aventure FM !!! If any of you is having any airchecks, please let me know. I can give half my DX recordings collection or anything else to receive even 10 to 20 minutes of an Aventure FM aircheck !!!

I badly miss this station and I don't have nothing from it to live on (oh yeah, a friendly Belgian guy gave me a poster L'AVENTURE JUSQU'AU BOUT DES ONDES - maybe I should walk along the Montreal streets and ask anyone if they have family in France with airchecks out of "Aventure FM") !

Please if you heard AVENTURE FM back in 1988 when they were well or alive, or even back in 1989 before the switch to "maXXimum" (RTL2 nowadays, although MaXXimum took the Aventure FM's spot on the dial at 95.7 in Lyon, 90.5 in Reims, 105.8 in Grenoble and 105.9 in Paris) via sporadic-E layer skip or tropospheric ducting, please, be kind to tell me how could I taste that DX aircheck of the best station the Earth ever saw !

May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds / Montreal
Btw.: Last night, I heard RCR-750 with promos and at least two R-C-R mentions with a fair to weak signal SIO 221, not that bad though. With more and more IBOC hash going on, the next step would be to try to find a good LONGWAVE radio, because MW TAs would gonna be hard to find. With LW so quiet (in terms of IBOC "hash") and MW so jammed by ugly monsters such as WFAN-660, trying to find Trans-Atlantics on MW instead of trying to listen to them on LW reveals of masochism ! What's your opinion ?
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