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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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Hodgy Beats - Crap (Featuring Left Brain)

04 Blak Tha Map - Dope Dealers (featuring Tyler, the Creator)

06 Hodgy Beats - Diggin in My Pocket (Produced by BeatBoy)

01 Hodgy Beats - Sky High (Produced by Marz)

08 Mike G - Welcome2LA (Produced by Weird Eye)

12 Hodgy Beats - Superhero (Produced by Sol Starz)

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Hodgy Beats - Crap (Featuring Left Brain)

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