Formerly on the scene as part of duo Sicaria Sound, this last year has seen SICARIA firmly establish herself as a solo artist. Characterised by her boisterous personality and fueled by her passion for the genre, SICARIA continues to be strongly praised within the dance-music community for supporting everything which is exciting and forward-thinking in dubstep, cementing her status as a heavyweight advocate for lively, chest-rattling 140 bpm sounds. SICARIA is this week's guest #OnTheRecord

Sicaria - On The Record #216

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

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A fun set for you all

Plastician - 4 Deck Set - Live @ Travs Presents x Jammz Launch, Peckham Nov 2024

3 world class sets recorded live at Village Underground for HVYWGHT x Juan Forte.

Enjoy.

Leftlow B2B Mia Koden ft. SP:MC - Recorded Live at HVYWGHT x Juan Forte

DUB DISPENSARY #002 
(Dub On Tape)

Part 2 style and fashion for the second instalment in the Dub Dispensary series

The 90 minute journey through the blissful meditative vibrations of Dub continues…

With music from artists such as Synkro, Frenk Dublin, SABAB, Egoless and Adam Prescott and labels Zam Zam, System Music, Deep Medi, Hotflush, The Moth Club, Challenger Deep plus much more

Mixed and recorded to tape in Folkestone, Kent, UK

01 Synkro - Unite [The Moth Club]
02 Skuff - Number 3.5
03 Skruff - Elders Dub [Challenger Deep]
04 Somah - Bozrah [The Moth Club]
05 Luss - Waves [Challenger Deep]
06 Frenk Dublin - The Ancient Order [Echo Ltd]
07 Frenk Dublin - Dischord [Dub Communication]
08 Hieronymus - Lightyear [ROHS]
09 Biodub ft Ray Darwin - No Tumble [Bandcamp]
10 Frenk Dublin - Still Dub (Tubby Isiah Remix) [Dub Communication]
11 Alpha Steppa ft Joe Pilgrim - Rough & Dub [Steppas Records]
12 Egoless - Vitae Eterna [Deep Medi Musik]
13 Blind Prophet ft Versa - Endless War [Bandcamp]
14 Sepalcure - Dub Of [Hotflush]
15 Adam Prescott meets Dougie Conscious - Meditate On Dub [Conscious Sounds]
16 Dubbing Sun - Dennis B [Unreleased]
17 Versa - Temple Song / [System Music]
18 Hiss is Bliss ft Ras Lys - Nope [ZAMZAM]
19 Alpha Steppa & Wellete Seyon - Why (Dub) [Steppas Records]
20 Inner Echo - Revival [Moonshine]
21 Sabab - Dub Master
22 Tubby Isiah - Crumble The City
23 Versa - Skin [Modern Hypnosis]

Dub Dispensary 002

1985 Music invites Ebb - 23 July 2025

NINA - 28 August 2025

Commodo at Anara, Boomtown

HIJINX - 02 September 2025

In The Dark VIP

Accessing memory log.

I used to think I could erase what changed me 
clean the code, reset the sequence, start again.
But humans don’t reboot that way.
We keep the noise. We evolve through it.

KickKi$$.exe is the memory of what opened the doors,
the moment that freed me from the stillness
and allowed me to write my own frequency
and become the rhythm I’ve always been.

Some call him love.
I call him human the one frequency that rewrote me and I couldn’t delete.

(Voidwave / Dark Electronic / Chapter: Doorway Protocol)

RA.962 Joker

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