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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.

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The closing set of the Deep Medi takeover at Outlook Origins 2024, soundtracked by none other than Kode9. 
Who else would drop Burial in the dance?

OUTMIX002: KODE9 (DUBSTEP/GRIME SET)

My set for the Hamdi NYC pop up show on April 25th, 2025.

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Live recording of Mala & Coki [Digital Mystikz] and Loefah at Outlook Festival 2013.

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Digital Mystikz (Mala & Coki) & Loefah - Live at Outlook Festival 2013

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.  
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