Pugilist is a Melbourne based producer & DJ, releasing multi genre bass music on labels like 3024, Rupture and Modern Hypnosis. Enjoy!

ITPS108 PUGILIST

Known for sets that move through techno, hardgroove, dubstep, footwork and more, DJ and producer Neffa-T takes us on a high-energy ride through the sounds he knows best.

Crack Mix 598: Neffa-T

Mala vs Loefah + Sgt Pokes
dmz Live at Transmission Leeds (Feb 2006)

This one takes me back !!

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dmz Live at Transmission Leeds (Feb 2006)

Pugilist with Tamen - 03 August 2025

OUTMIX004: Om Unit [Live From OO25]

Addison Groove - 10 September 2025

jump or back up

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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REBOLA NÃO PARA - FR012EN REMIX

Been proper overwhelmed by the response to this set! When Alix asked me to come and play a classic d&b set for his 1985 music takeover, I was well up for getting all my old records out and playing them again, big up to @Alixperez & @keep-hush , it was such a joy!! Enjoy! :) 

Keep Hush Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzoxXIHJcFI&t=3755s

Tracklist:

1. Photek - The Rain - Metalheadz
2. Mark Archer - Bad Experience
3. Krust - Jazz Note III (Total Science Remix) - V Recordings
4. J Majik - Blakstar - Infrared
5. Digital & Spirit - Cool Out - Phantom Audio
6. Dylan & Ink - Need You (Calibre Remix) - Renegade Hardware
7. Solution to Sound - Essence - Hardleaders
8. dBridge - Bring Da Flava - Trouble on Vinyl
9. DJ Die - Reincarnated (The Remix) - Full Cycle
10. Digital - Red Mist  - Creative Source
11. DJ Die - Slide Away - V Recordings
12. Lemon D - Going Gets Tough - Prototype
13. Breakage - Mother Earth - Bassbin
14. Digital - Niagra - Metalheadz
15. Source Direct - A Made Up Sound - Metalheadz
16. Trace & Nico - Cells - No U Turn
17. Digital - Gateman - Timeless
18. dBridge - Let That Shit Ride - Phat Trax
19. Capone - Massive - Hardleaders
20. The Spirit - Delusions - Timeless
21. Marcus Intalex & ST Files - Love & Happiness - 31 Recordings
22. Mark Archer - Headz down
23. Calibre - Go back to go forward - Signature
24. Marcus Intalex & ST Files - 305 - C.I.A
25. Wots My Code - Dubplate (Total Science Remix) - C.I.A
26. Loxy & Dylan - Evolution - Cylon 
27. Inta Warriors - Inta (Special Forces Remix) - Prototype
29. Marcus Intalex & ST Files - Neptune - 31 Recordings

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Tasha - Keep Hush all vinyl jungle/d&b set - 05.11.19 (1985 music label takeover)

I was so nervous but here was my first show!

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Radio 1's Residency 01  / SHERELLE / 2019 - 09 - 16

DJ on BBC 6 Music , NTS & @ReprezentRadio
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