Live at Akaoda 07.05.23

Can we even call it dubstep any more? Both the consistently awesome Innamind label and maverick Turkish producer Emir Ongun aka Gantz have made their mark though 140bpm half-steppers with lung-crushing subs as standard – but both have constantly chipped away at the conventions of the sound, never ever getting locked into formulae. Now with the launch of Innamind's (even more) experimental offshoot, Blacklist, we're fully through the looking glass. Just one listen to Gantz's elastic tempos, sampladelic mischief and slip-sliding sound palette on this track tells you he's no longer tethered to anything but his own warped imagination. We're going to be watching Blacklist with anticipation (and a little trepidation!)

Gantz "Spooky Action From A Distance" - Boiler Room Debuts

LeBelgeElectrod - Tetris Requiem

Exctract JAM remastered , encore et toujours les instant de lachez prise qui prône !! 

Liberty

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Taken from our album 'IIII', out now on digital and vinyl.

VIER = Machinedrum, Holly, Thys and Salvador Breed.

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VIER - LOOK AT THE TREES

@ogazon digs into the deepest corners of her record bag for a hypnotic contribution to the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Claire Francis about her elegant vinyl mixing style, her refusal to play the social media game, her plans to start a label, and staying true to herself above all else.

Interview:  https://djmag.com/features/recognise-096-ogazon

Recognise 096: Ogazón

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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DUPLOC5YRS

Empathy

Sepia - Empathy [DUPLOC5YRS]

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Benitsuki - Moonlight

Full stream of @tsuruda's intoxicating "Kicking Wolf," from the new VA on @1985music1985.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/premiere-hear-a-heavy-intoxicating-cut-by-tsuruda

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Premiere: Tsuruda - Kicking Wolf

“I like to give space for inspiration, things that don’t come from the part of my brain that thinks.”

“I know because I experienced it many times in my life that sound has a Magical power, the energy that it can bring you is so powerful, (positively or negatively) and as I always said : I want to be a magician !” 

- Alix -

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