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16 years ago in basements and bedroom studio’s in south London, a new sound was born….
Mala was part of the music revolution which came to be known as ‘dubstep'.

DMZ, the label was created and 1 year later a bi-monthly event at Brixton’s Mass began.
Both label and event became pillars of the dubstep scene.
A scene built on dub-plates and vinyl only productions. played on heavyweight sound systems.

16 years later, Mala has decided to re-issue his back catalogue digitally for the 1st time.

All tracks have been re-mastered by the original engineer: Jason @ Transition Mastering, and still sound as heavy, warm & timeless as the initial vinyl only releases.

Misty Winter

get digital

Mala ft Crazy D - Misty Winter (remastered)

https://soundcloud.com/pugilistmusic

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PROXIMITY II, the second instalment of the annual Pure Space compilation series. Across twenty one different artists, the release finds synergy through surging electro, percussive techno and experimental breakbeat.

Together the artists put forward a collection of contemporary electronics that provide a wealth of complexity for the ear while shaping the sound of local music.

Devoted Pure Space listeners are joined by new producers, friends and some of our most aspired Australian producers to form this exciting release.

100% of proceeds will be donated to Aboriginal Legal Services; based in Redfern it is the first Aboriginal Legal Service in Australia and the first free legal assistance service in the country. www.alsnswact.org.au

Big thank you to Brendan from Cirrus audio and Mikaela Stafford for their contributions to this fundraising release.

Artwork: Mikaela Stafford
Mastering: Brendan @ Cirrus Audio
Format: Digital

Pugilist - Jade

A Real Romantic

Putting Out Fires

Watermark went through loads of different incarnations before it ended up how it did on the vinyl release in 2012. I was never happy with it.

The vocals were there as a place holder, until i found something I could use to fill the space.

This is a very rough early version with way too much reverb, badly EQed beat and an abrupt end. So apologies for that, but I thought people might find it interesting.

Watermark (early demo version from 2010)

Biome X Deep Heads

Tired

Our contribution to The Chikara Project's "Connections Vol. 2" LP.

Buy: 
thechikaraproject.bandcamp.com/album/connections-vol-2-ckra032

Stream:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1DUkfFUB6cM3Xh5OAvqepZ?si=a8377a23caa1448b

Grab it

Mystic State & Rowl - Alocasia [The Chikara Project]

Rolling, jazzy broken beat summer serenade ‘Lit’, is taken from the album The Deep. Calibre returns to his own label Signature for another fathomless LP exploration. Laced and spaced with the precision balance of sounds, speeds and styles he’s known for, and predominantly characterised by his own lyrics and vocal textures, ‘Deep’ once again reminds us of Calibre’s singular status as an artist whose creations transcend time, tempo and territory. Ranging from one of his most in-demand dubs ‘No One Gets You’ to poignant yearning introspection of tracks such as ‘Better Than Me’ ‘Deep’ is yet another accomplished, alluring and truly unique pieces of work from one of electronic music’s most consistent and prolific artists.

http://www.mixmag.net/music/exclusive/prem-djrum

Have a ganders of Djrum in The Lab LDN last year. It was fun, real fun.

The London selector treated us to an hour of delicious jungle riddims, upping the office lairy levels and setting off our Friday night just right.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Djrum 'Plantain'

A New Place 2 Drown

Any God of Yours

Burial - homeless

Burial is containing elements of  electronic music containing elements of dubstep, 2-step garage, and house music...

Burial-Archangel

Today marks exactly ten years since the release of Burial’s genre-defining album ‘Untrue’. In celebration of this iconic album, Dutch future garage producer Ecepta has created an entire remix album, with a brand new twist on each track in the original album!

Burial - Untrue (Ecepta Remixes):

01. Burial - Untitled (Ecepta Remix)
02. Burial - Archangel (Ecepta Remix)
03. Burial - Near Dark (Ecepta Remix)
04. Burial - Ghost Hardware (Ecepta Remix)
05. Burial- Endorphin (Ecepta Remix)
06. Burial - Etched Headplate (Ecepta Remix)
07. Burial - In McDonalds (Ecepta Remix)
08. Burial - Untrue (Ecepta Remix)
09. Burial - Shell of Light (Ecepta Remix)
10. Burial - Dog Shelter (Ecepta Remix)
11. Burial - Homeless (Ecepta Remix)
12. Burial - UK (Ecepta Remix)
13. Burial - Raver (Ecepta Remix)

Burial:
https://burial.bandcamp.com/

Ecepta:
@ecepta
twitter.com/eceptamusic
facebook.com/eceptamusic
instagram.com/eceptamusic
youtube.com/channel/UCUUj68hrYzW30pNKotea7RQ

Untrue (Ecepta Remixes)

Download

Burial - Ghost Hardware (Ecepta Remix)

Burial - Raver (Ecepta Remix)

Burial + Four Tet - Nova

Buy now: smarturl.it/portraitwithfirewood

‘Waters Rising’ is a collaboration with vocalist Lola Empire and was originally written around a piano sketch that was sent back and forth between the two artists until it became the fully realised song you hear now.  

"I really hadn't expected love to be a theme in the album, but I was chatting with Lola and she told me how she'd fallen in love. I sent her the initial sketch for this and told her i didn't think love was an appropriate subject for it. but she came out with this. 
'love is dark' she said."

Portrait With Firewood

Waters Rising

Presenting Melodrama from the forthcoming 140 bpm 'Last Rites' EP by Alix Perez. Out 3rd May on 2 piece vinyl and digital.

Pre-order: lnk.bio/pMhY

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