Rinse FM is a London-based community radio station, licensed for "young people living and/or working within the central, east and south London areas".

[1] It plays garage, grime, dubstep, house, jungle, UK funky and other dance music genres popular in the United Kingdom.

[7] For a three-year period in the early days of the station the Rinse studio was hosted in DJ Slimzee's house.

[5] Into the early 2000s, the station became critical for emergence and development of the genres grime and dubstep,[3] and was managed during this time by DJ Uncle Dugs.

[12][13] In April 2005 Ofcom disconnected a Rinse FM radio transmitter[2] and Dean Fullman, known on air as DJ Slimzee, received an ASBO, believed to be the first of its kind, banning him from every rooftop in the borough of Tower Hamlets.

[16] Rinse FM created a petition which received hundreds of supporters within less than a week, including some from countries other than the UK.

[17] At the time, the station's owner DJ Geeneus said: "We don't want to be legal to play stupid adverts and make loads of money from advertising.

[24] In January 2023, Rinse announced that it was taking over management of London drum and bass station Kool FM.