Absolute fire 🔥 Waiting this release for ages.

A dubstep legend roars back.

When dubstep ruled the roost in the late '00s, electronic music had no shortage of icons and spinoff variants to rally around. But one rumble from  Bristol stood out: the Purple sound. Popularised by Joker, AKA Liam Mclean, with Guido and Gemmy in support, it hit like a beam of bright light flooding through the basement dank.

When America cottoned onto bass quakes in the next decade, Mclean's taste for chiptune-coded synths and maximum intensity kept his vision alive at arena level, even while he retreated from view as an actively touring performer.

In 2023, "Tears," a collaboration with Skrillex and Sleepnet, helped remind the world just how much Joker's juddering sound could put us in a headlock. True to form, this year's gargantuan "Juggernaut"—Mclean's first solo single in six years—crashes through the speakers with as much glorious crunch as earlier classics like 2009's "Purple City."

Mclean has kept busy in the studio applying his perfectionist streak as a producer and engineer to many sound system anthems, which means his influence is never far from a dance floor being turned inside out. The fact that Joker had never laid down an RA Podcast before was, being honest, a blemish in our copybook. RA.962 fixes that in style.

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RA.962 Joker

Drum ’n’ bass shapeshifter gyrofield guides us through an hour of sounds they imagine us listening to late in the evening, packed in to warmly-lit basement rave. 

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Trips through the breakbeat portal with Tim Reaper, one of modern jungle's most vital talents. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/tim-reaper/episodes/tim-reaper-18th-december-2024

TIM REAPER w/ Ontology & Dope On Plastic 181224

Rinse FM Podcast

Woozy Presents:  dBridge Live @ Woozy - 20 December 2024

Sully - Carrier LP https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/3103349-Sully-Carrier

Dusk + Blackdown - Rinse FM - 12th sept 2011 (With Special Guest Sully)

Oblig - 07 January 2025

Burna ties a bow on his RTR2 residency by inviting renowned London-based DJ and Rinse FM resident Ila Brugal onto the show. For two hours the duo explore offshoots UK funky, global grime flavours and dynamic bass music. Gun fingers at the ready for this one!

Burna Ep. 4 w/ Ila Brugal

Guests Madam X (UK) + resident Beatki w/ the D'n'B monthly

+ new Lee Scott, R. Rebeiro, A.Fruit, Sam Link x Mummbls, Shadow Child & DJ Haus

Tracklist (soon):
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/the-blend/2025-01-13/22-00-00

The Blend

The Blend 13.01.25 w/ guest Madam X (UK) + reseident Beatski

Kicked off 2025 with Feral Sound's Recoil party at the 700 :)
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Tracklist
1. Young Muscle - Uber to Hackney
2. WRACK - Bamboo Shoots (Cassius Select Remix)
3. Shai FM - Heatsink
4. DJ Plead - DVE
5. Theorist - Runitbak
6. Doctor Jeep - Key Activation
7. Pearson Sound, Or:la - Chant (Pearson Sound Edit)
8. Pinch & Mumdance - Big Slug (Instrumental)
9. Crimewave - Redacted (Commodo x Crimewave)
10. Gantz - Lyrical Trick
11. Hebbe - Jah Seen Rastafari Dub
12. Jpeg - Bruk
13. Coffintexts - Suave ft Baby G (Florentino Remix)
14. DJ JM - Charge
15. Harba - Lakking
16. Laksa - LEO
17. Cardozo - Hurting My Feet
18. DJ ADHD - DL Underground (Jossy Mitsu Remix)
19. Shai FM - Snake Of All Points (Alloy Mix)
20. Shortage - Heavyweight (Phasmid Remix)
21. Toura - God Forgive Me If I Buss My 909
22. Kid Antoine - Recon
23. Toumba - Rashash
24. Ayesha - Ecstatic Descent
25. Biri - Upward Spiral
26. Pessimist - Danger
27. Human Movement - Yu
28. Ayesha - V7
29. Jialing & Farsight - Whistle Tip (Farsight Flip)
30. Toura - Salamander
31. Less-O - Last Mic Jack
32. Om Unit & James Bangura - Ruffneck
33. Debba - Just Wanna (Pluralist Remix)
34. RHR & Logan_Olm - Diagonal (Dub Mix)
35. LAS - Trippin
36. Tomás Urquieta - 32 Balas (Rhyw's Double Dribble remix)
37. Atrice - Chamber of Mazarbul
38. Fox - Deleted Scene

Shai FM @ Recoil [Feral Sound] 19 Jan 2025

Identified Patient - 21 January 2025

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