Name: Machinedrum B2B The Librarian @Bellingham Exit Festival - October 2023 by Machinedrum
Duration: 2 h 1 min 25 s
Description: This is a 2 hour B2B set with The Librarian and I that was recorded live at Bellingham Exit Festival in October 2023. I wanted to share this set in anticipation of the upcoming Bass Coast Festival basscoast.ca in Canada this July, where The Librarian and myself will be performing.

This set is legit, two of my favorite artists going B2B, love to hear it

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This is a 2 hour B2B set with The Librarian and I that was recorded live at Bellingham Exit Festival in October 2023. I wanted to share this set in anticipation of the upcoming Bass Coast Festival basscoast.ca in Canada this July, where The Librarian and myself will be performing.

Machinedrum B2B The Librarian @Bellingham Exit Festival - October 2023

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.

@jokerkapsize

Read more at ra.co/podcast/962

RA Podcast

RA.962 Joker

Machinedrum with dBridge, Om Unit + Fracture - 31st March 2015

“The mix is a nod to the more percussive sound I’ve been listening to

There’s an interesting cohesion between garage swing and techno that’s infiltrated the sound and I’m all for it.

It’s not just big snares and bass faces anymore. There’s a delicate balance of things which I hope the mix translates.” - V.I.V.E.K.

062 - V.I.V.E.K. - fabric podcast

Addison Groove - 10 September 2025

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. 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 appetite for low-end has been a central storyline lately. Tells were there in the form of 2025 highlights like Introspekt's Moving The Center and Tracey's "Sex Life." 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, whose loyal fandom 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 a warmth for ribbing their leader.)

But Mala's banner 2025 hasn't relied on the heads alone. Those fissuring basslines and barrel-chested vocals draw people into his orbit, and that's without mentioning qualities like pacifism, reinforced on DMZ's 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, we're told: he just gets spooked by the reaction.

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

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

@maladmz
@deep-medi-musik

RA.1016 Mala

by popular demand here is my wobble mix for the international crew! 

comment for IDs and i will get back to you right away 😘 

Listen live to my BBC Radio 1 show every Tuesday 11pm UK via this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_one
and catch up here [UK] : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h6fm6m

The dubstep wobble is created by modulating a synthesizer’s low-frequency oscillator to rhythmically open and close a filter on a sustained, distorted bass note.

In dubstep, the wobble has been fairly controversial over the years as exaggerations of the sound became almost caricatures in the brostep era, with many of the wave’s originators and pioneers rejecting the international movement in favour of stripping things back to dubstep’s roots.

Today, i am delighted to be hearing the deep echoes of the wobble in the hands of a new generation of innovators, so I’ve made you a mix that layers seminal tracks from across dubstep’s history alongside new voices to give you an idea of how creative, seismic but also subtle the wobble can get

Ode to the Wobble

Download

Mala Boiler Room London DJ Set

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (April 13th, 2013)

Tracklist:

01 Mark Pritchard - ?
02 Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
03 Little Roy - Hurt Not The Earth
04 Dennis Brown - Promised Land
05 Bob Marley - Running Away
06 Rhythm & Sound - Friend
07 Aly & Robbie - Shabby Attack
08 Mala & Aimbad - Noche Suenos
09 Ballaké Sissoko & Toumani Diabaté - Bafoulabe
10 Mala - Body Clock Delay
11 Mala & Sgt. Pokes - Answer Me
12 Quest - Dubfoot
13 Mala - Lean Forward
14 Silkie - Neckback
15 Mala - Blue Notez
16 Coki - Intergalactic
17 Loefah - Punisher
18 Mala - Torn at the Roots
19 Coki - Serious
20 Coki - Coral Reef
21 Fat Freddy's Drop - Cays Crays (Digital Mystikz Remix)
22 Compa - Alpha
23 Pinch - Swish (Distance Remix)
24 Mala - Miracles
25 Las - Tic
26 Mala - Changuito
27 Mala - Cuba Electronica
28 Loefah - Disco Rekka
29 Tunnidge - Twenty12
30 Kromestar - Jedeye
31 Kode9 - 9 Samourai
32 Swindle - Last Minute Googie
33 Mala - Anti-War Dub (VIP)
34 Mala - Changes (James Blake Remix)

Mala is a founder member of dubstep pioneers Digital Mystikz and the legendary dubstep night DMZ. He released some of the very first dubstep records on his DMZ label and Hatcha's Big Apple Records and was a key player on Mary Anne Hobbs seminal Dubstep Warz radio show in 2006, alongside a young Skream & Benga!

He remains as vital as ever to bass music, releasing one of 2012's best albums 'Mala in Cuba' on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings, a dubstep-meets-live-cuban-rhythms soundclash.  
Pete Tong - BBC - 2013

NEW MUSIC & MERCHANDISE
► https://maladread.net

ONLINE:
► https://www.instagram.com/maladmz/
► https://www.facebook.com/malamystikz/
► https://twitter.com/mala_dmz

Mala - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

XLR8R Podcast 200: Mala [31st May 2011]

The second half of our two-part 200th podcast comes courtesy of another musical heavyweight, dubstep kingpin Mala. Whether operating solo or as one half of legendary outfit Digital Mystikz, the man helped put dubstep on the musical map in the mid-’00s, not only as a producer and DJ, but also as the co-founder of the genre-defining DMZ label and club night with Coki and Loefah. Along the way, he also found the time to start up his own Deep Medi imprint. His work has undeniably influenced an entire generation of bass-loving artists, including a large swath of those folks who regularly appear in XLR8R. These days, when he’s not travelling the globe and reminding people of the power of sub-bass, he’s still turning out new music—most recently last year’s Return II Space album—and now he’s kicking off a new mix series, Sound*System*Musik, the first chapter of which is this podcast for XLR8R. Over the course of its 45 minutes, Mala drops one low-slung, speaker-rattling tune after the next, many of them DMZ dubplates, and almost all of which seriously emphasize the dub end of the dubstep equation. He’s a true master craftsman, someone who manipulates and massages low-end sonics with the precision of a surgeon, making his contribution to the XLR8R podcast series to true pleasure to behold.
Shawn Reynaldo - XLR8R Magazine 

Tracklist:
01 Mala – Digital Mystikz “Livin’ Different VIP” (DMZ) 
02 V.I.V.E.K “Feel It” (Deep Medi) 
03 Goth-Trad “Seeker” 
04 Coki – Digital Mystikz “Ironshirt” 
05 Mala “Enter Dimensions” 
06 Kryptic Minds + Youngsta “Arcane” 
07 Dark Tantrums “Unborn” 
08 V.I.V.E.K “Big Bang” (Deep Medi) 
09 Mavado “Dem A Talk (TMSV Refix)” 1
10 Coki “Revolution” 
11 Jack Sparrow “Afraid of Me” 
12 Mensah “Gambia” 
13 The Dub Mechanics “The Clash” 1
4 Mala “Bad Spirits on Shoulders” 
15 Digital Mystikz “Dun Stinky” 
16 Commodo “Saracen”(Deep Medi) 
17 Coki “Duppy Sour Sap” 
18 Johnny Osbourne “Fally Rankin (V.I.V.E.K. Dub Version)” 
 19 Mala “Education”(DMZ)
20 Old Apparatus “Untitled Intro” (Deep Medi)

Thank You for listening! 

NEW MUSIC & MERCHANDISE
► https://maladread.net

ONLINE:
► https://www.instagram.com/maladmz/
► https://www.facebook.com/malamystikz/
► https://twitter.com/mala_dmz

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