Quevedo, Omar Courtz, Yan Block, Anuel AA, De La Rose - Mala Mía

Ahead of his Bristol debut at The Island on Nov 29, 2025, Ostad launches Seasoning's new mix series, giving a space for our community of friends and fellow travellers to present narrative-led sets... drifting between moods and half-forgotten ideas. 

Having learned to play and presenting his first mixes at our Stroud-based Seasoning Festival, Ostad's palette runs close to a lot of artists and labels we see pushing the sound forwards. 

Asked about this mix, he said:

I wanted the set to include all of my favourite sounds. Hazy percussive grooves, crunchy highs, swampy dubstep. Sounds synonymous with labels such as Mojuba, ILIAN tape and De la... je l'espère. Sounds I associate with seasoning.

Happy listening!

Tracklist: 
1. 62	Muskila,	Ok, Fatma
2. Bandprobe Dub	Skee Mask	ISS009 - ISS009
3. Rolling Stock (Beatrice M. Remix)	Om Unit	Acid Dub Versions III
4. Spiral's Leap (DJ Plead Remix)	Tristan Arp	Spiral's Leap
5. Cut Off	Tighe	Empty Units EP
6. Polygonia - Repeat	Polygonia & Shoal	Limping on Clouds
7. Aluminium Liquid	Seta Loto	Partial Pressure
8. Season Seven	Carré	Meltdown
9. Lean Forward	Mala	Benji B presents Deviation Classics
10. Orgasm Addict	Boy In Nature	There Is A World
11. Los Aras Alertan	William Arist	La Selva De Cemento (Perseverancia 12. Records)
13. Midnight Swim	Beatrice M.	Midnight Swim EP
14. Delicate Senses	Sepehr	Genesis Domain
15. III Equipped	Adlas	Convergence EP
16. Shrub Lyf	Polytunnel	The Word for World is Forest

Bristol - Nov 29

ˢᵉᵃˢᵒⁿᶦⁿᵍ₀₀₁ ⋆˚ Ostad

LEMONS - The 2025 Harvest

Created with 2x XDJ-1000MK2 & a DJM-750MK2

1. J. Sparrow - Back Roots [Navy Cut]
2. Rareman - Power Ballad [Juan Forte]
3. Josi Devil - Restless Sleep [Hessle Audio]
4. NINA & How Du - Year of the Snake [Chord Marauders]
5. Dagga x Manao - Desaparecido [SPE:C]
6. Beatrice M. - Poison [Tectonic Recordings]
7. WZ - Blaze Up [Innamind Recordings]
8. Hijinx - Romance [Innamind Recordings]
9. DE-TÜ - Dancehall [White Peach]
10. Ago - Eight Times Eight [System Music]
11. Pinch - Tectonic Sound [Tectonic Recordings]
12. Beatrice M. & Jan Loup - Safe [Naff Recordings]
13. Ila Brugal - Moths [Woozy]
14. Ninety - Pessimist [Infernal Sounds]
15. Ila Brugal - Vienna Blend [Self Released]
16. Mia Koden - Come Again [Self Released]
17. V.I.V.E.K - Gone W3st [Tectonic Recordings]
18. ARtroniks - Vitamin [Black Teeth Records]
19. Carré & Danny Goliger - Tricky One [Fast At Work]
20. Tighe - Cut Off [Bait]
21. Mala x Magugu - MILITANT DON [Deep Medi Musik]

LEMONS - The 2025 Harvest

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Rayla, Yk It's Junaa, Navy - Una Mala

TU ERES MALA REMIX - Valero, Noriel, Neutro Shorty, Jeeiph, Eguita, Cesar, Yoni

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UVA_freestyle (Prod. 808AD)

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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Hope you all like it! Just drop me message if you need something from me!

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