DJ TOOL (MALA JUNTA)
RECORDED LIVE AT WHOLE
SUN, JULY 30, 2023
04:00 - 06:00
ARENA STAGE	
@dj-tool

DJ TOOL

The snack enthusiast and London based producer and DJ takes on the NTS airwaves. Stay tuned for mixes spanning the breadth of dance and club music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/peach/episodes/peach-17th-july-2024

Peach 061

Low Stakes

Monthly missives from a London club selector par excellence - expect anything from finger-on-the-pulse UK rap, to deep house and techno records, to jungle & UK funky.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ok-williams/episodes/ok-williams-19th-june-2025

OK Williams 190625

Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Plexus 3 (Bait, 2025)
Helixir - untitled (unreleased)
Beatrice M. - Oval (Tectonic, 2025)
Fluid Matter - Dancefloor Mindfulness Announcement (Virtual Forest, 2025)
Hot Wave & Pyrolysis - The Watcher (unreleased) 
Beatrice M. & Jan Loup - Si, j’adore (forthcoming)
Breez - You Only Move Twice (forthcoming)
Wintour - Thesis (unreleased) 
Borg - Frogman (Immerse, 2007)
Kloke - Aquarius (Entrada, 2009)
Tom Manzarek - SIDE EYE (self-release, 2025)
Mantra - Musclehead (forthcoming)
Om Unit - Usurper (Satoshi Tomiie Interpretation) (self-release, 2025)
Beatrice M. - Eurotrash (forthcoming Tempa)
Om Unit - Tracer (unreleased)
Biome - Constant (Deep Heads, 2015)
Ramadanman - Carla (Soul Jazz Records, 2008)
Ila Brugal - Tamraght Dub (SPE:C, 2025)
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Sonar (Pinch remix) (Bait, 2025)
Old Man Crane - Quork (Bait, 2025)
Pinch - Step Through (unreleased) 
Buckley - Introspective ('09 Mix) (forthcoming)
LFL - Coldsweats (Tactual, 2025)
Beatrice M. - Poison (Tectonic, 2025)
Soa420 - No Nerve VIP (Bait, 2025)
Conzi - Drakar (Ambit remix) (Bait, 2025)
Beatrice M. & Sub Basics - Slowly Drifting (Tectonic, 2025)
Thomas Jeffrey - Conked  (self-release, 2025)
ARtroniks - Tranced (unreleased)
Beatrice M. - untitled (unreleased)
WZ - The Way I Can See (unreleased)
Anecho - Aligned (amplitudes, 2025)
Kontext - Garlic Bubblegum (Absys, 2014)
ARtroniks - Mysticism (unreleased)
Asusu - Togetherness (Immerse, 2010)
K-Lone - Barbarossa (Wych, 2018)
not even noticed - Kura  (Gimme A Break, 2025)
Shed - Scapes (Tectonic, 2025)

The 6 Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs ~ 10.10.25

one hour of deep house and dub techno from my collection. all vinyl. a warm hug if you please x

pure water

Keep Sketch is a radio show dedicated to the music that inspires Neil Flynn and keeps him interested in club culture and DJing. 

Neil Flynn  - 25.10.17 - KEEP SKETCH EPISODE 5 W/ NEIL FLYNN

OK Williams - Live From Dimensions '25

One of the defining producers of the 21st century steps up for a rare, era-spanning mix.

We've been in a reflective mood lately: mulling emergent icons, modern classic and the cyclical nature of trends. All things bend around eventually, but if you lived through the mid-'00s the first time, it felt tricky to envision some specifics of those interim years making a second splash. More fool us. Amongst many other things, dubstep is well and truly back.

This resurged appetite for low-end has been a central storyline in 2025. Clear tells were there in the form of Introspekt's Moving The Center and Tracey's "Sex Life," two major highlights of the past 12 months. Alternately, cup your ear to the tremors rumbling across the world and you'd find Mala packing up crowds with gusto. Which makes closing out the year with a mix from the man himself serendipitous.

The South Norwood-born sub sensei has held an anchor role in the movement since its earliest days. A little like what Upsetter was to Black Ark, the principles Mala, Coki and Loefah's DMZ laid down have been expanded on by Deep Medi, a label that has cultivated a loyal fandom who watch over the catalogue like a hawk. (Six years of frothy debate and knowing in-jokes between MEDi 99 and MEDi 100 paints a picture of both steep expectations and an affinity for gently ribbing their leader.)

But Mala's banner 2025 hasn't relied on the heads alone. The adrenaline of his fissuring basslines and barrel-chested vocals have drawn people into his orbit, and there are rarer qualities at play, too—like pacifism, winked at by the demilitarized name and reinforced on their all-time greatest tune; or contemplation, inked on flyers beseeching the crowd to meditate on bass weight.

In that spirit arrives a mix we've asked after for years. Subtitled The Listening Session, it's rare on two counts. Despite his enduring popularity, Mala is a conspicuous absence on most DJ series. (It's not that he doesn't enjoy recording, just gets spooked by the reaction.)

A nearly-three hour studio set—spaciously paced and laced with a combination of 2025 highlights, freshly-cut dubplates and some of the biggest anthems in the genre's history—is unheard of. No tracklist for now, on Mala's request. Soon come.

RA.1016 is the kind of document that jogs the memory back to when dubstep was a discrete enterprise, something you could only fleetingly access by, say, dialling into Youngsta on Sub FM, ripping 320s of "Circling" off long-forgotten blogs or hugging the back wall of Mass. Which, in service of thinking the evolution of 21st century electronic music, is pretty perfect really.  – Gabriel Szatan

Find the interview at ra.co/podcast/1035

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RA.1016 Mala

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Dwayne "In-the-Mix" Bradley's (1955-1999) radio show on 98 FM WJLB was an influential part of the Detroit house and techno scene in the late 1980's and 90's. 

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