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MaL is a Japanese DJ, artist, and music producer based in Tokyo. He has been active in the dance music scene across Japan and worldwide since the 90's, and he is one of the core members of the bass music crew PART2STYLE. An album "Primal Dub" is MaL's first solo work in his long musical life, consisting only of his own sound source and his compositions. Here, a mellow and gentle dub music reflecting a personal side of MaL is unfolded, and music fans who know him of PART2STYLE will be surprised.

In June 2021, MaL was severely injured for nine months and was hospitalized for 80 days. This album consists of songs produced during that time. As for MaL, nightclubs surrounded by deep bass sound was his everyday life, and so, being detached from it and having had to spend numerous days in the calmness, the theme of a 'soundtrack of an ordinary life with a keyword dub' emerged.

The eight songs contained in the album "Primal Dub" beautifully blend in with our daily lives in an ambient-chill-out mood setting. The deep and sinking bassline is very unique to MaL, and such deep bass sound shall invite the listener into the calmness and tranquillity. "Primal Dub" is not only a 'soundtrack of an ordinary life' but is an album that can have a unique healing effect.

The charming and delicate artwork of the album was designed by an artist BEST MATCH CORNER. "Primal Dub" is the first album to be released from HOODISH RECORDINGS, a label runned by a music pub KUSUDAMA in Takadanobaba in Tokyo, the hometown of MaL. In this regard, the album "Primal Dub" may be described as a collection of local music that is connected to MaL's daily life. I want to take a closer look once again at the meaning of his album title "Primal (primary, first, primitive, principal, fundamental) Dub". (HAJIME OISHI / Music writer)

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Primal Dub

Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Taiwan • TOP 1 • 10 Mar 2023 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP ALBUMS • Japan • TOP 1 • 19 Jan 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Hong Kong • TOP 4 • 3 Aug 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Italy • TOP 4 • 25 Jan 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Korea, Republic of • TOP 5 • 20 Jan 2024 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Malaysia • TOP 6 • 14 May 2023 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • China • TOP 8 • 16 Aug 2023 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Japan • TOP 11 • 22 Jan 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Poland • TOP 92 • 9 Oct 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Albums • Russian Federation • TOP 101 • 1 Jul 2023

Feel the rain

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United States • TOP 87 • 5 Mar 2024 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 87 • 23 Mar 2023

Unrequited Dub

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • Poland • TOP 1 • 26 Nov 2022 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • Taiwan • TOP 2 • 30 Oct 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Saudi Arabia • TOP 48 • 26 Mar 2024 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 68 • 23 Mar 2023 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United States • TOP 86 • 5 Mar 2024

I'm in Dub

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United Arab Emirates • TOP 3 • 4 Jun 2023 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • Taiwan • TOP 9 • 19 Oct 2023 iTunes Store • All Categories TOP SONGS • United Arab Emirates • TOP 25 • 4 Jun 2023 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 68 • 24 Mar 2023

Night on the Sidewalk

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • Taiwan • TOP 10 • 28 Jan 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 60 • 23 Mar 2023 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Saudi Arabia • TOP 89 • 28 Mar 2024

Sivextro Riddim

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United States • TOP 85 • 5 Mar 2024 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 94 • 23 Mar 2023

Powder snow Dub

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • Taiwan • TOP 1 • 30 Oct 2022 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 73 • 23 Mar 2023 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United States • TOP 84 • 5 Mar 2024 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 86 • 21 Jun 2023

Let me Dub you

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United Arab Emirates • TOP 2 • 4 Jun 2023 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • Taiwan • TOP 9 • 28 Jan 2022 iTunes Store • All Categories TOP SONGS • United Arab Emirates • TOP 24 • 4 Jun 2023 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United States • TOP 83 • 5 Mar 2024 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 125 • 23 Mar 2023

In a different style

iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United Arab Emirates • TOP 1 • 4 Jun 2023 iTunes Store • All Categories TOP SONGS • United Arab Emirates • TOP 23 • 4 Jun 2023 iTunes Store • Reggae TOP SONGS • United States • TOP 82 • 5 Mar 2024 Apple Music • Reggae Top Songs • Taiwan • TOP 124 • 23 Mar 2023

Artist Profile

  • MaL

    [MaL] A Track Maker and DJ of the Japanese leading bass music crew PART2STYLE. MaL is the resident DJ of the largest bass music festival in Japan "OUTLOOK FESTIVAL JAPAN", and he has also performed at the "OUTLOOK FESTIVAL" held in Croatia for 9 consecutive years. He has DJ'd at numerous DJ parties and festivals around the world, and has been highly acclaimed by many domestic and international bass music fans and top notch artists and DJs. While extensively doing song writings and remixes for domestic and foreign artists, and for commercials, as a DJ, MaL has a wide range of play styles from large venues to chilling venues. Literally he is a heavyweight in both sound output and in his physique. MaL is also active as the member of the producers unit "ZEN RYDAZ" with J.A.K.A.M. and MACKA-CHIN, endorsed by many younger generations.

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