Son Raw is Passion of the Weiss’ resident expert in Urban Electronic sounds, which means that he specializes in music with a lot of air horns, gun shots, broken beats and laser sounds. Having written about Hip-Hop, Rare Groove, Bass Music and Grime and having DJ’ed everywhere from Los Angeles’ Low End Theory to Paris’ Rinse France and London’s NTSLive – we figure he knows what he’s talking about.
When asked to describe his musical philosophy he mumbled something about musical viruses and “searching for the next fix" before concluding that sunshine does indeed play a major part in the daytime.
12 1/2 songs that influenced Son Raw
1. Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M
2. Portishead – Sour Times
3. Skream – Midnight Request Line
4. Ruff Sqwad – Future
5. MF DOOM – Dead Bent
6. The Bug – Skeng
7. The Diplomats – DJ Enuff Freestyle
8. Wiley – It’s Wiley (Royal-T Remix)
9. Nas – Project Window (Original Version)
10. DJ Rashad ft DJ Spinn – Drank Kush Barz
11. Logos – Ex101
12. Freddie McGregor – Tomorrow is like Today
13. The second half of Erykah Badu’s Master Teacher
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Currently Listening:
Mumdance & Logos - Proto
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Mr Mitch - Parallel Memories
Coyote Records - Coyote Kings II
Rick Ross - Hood Billionaire
Yamaneko - Pixel Wave Embrace
Lil Herb - Pistol P
Wayne Shorter - See No Evil
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Son Raw - Conscious Wave Mix
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Currently Watching:
The Imitation Game
Blade Runner
Guardians of the Galaxy
Adventure Time
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Currently Reading:
Brian Coleman - Check the Technique II| Baauer on Rinse.FM | September 21, 2012 |
Son Raw beez in the office Voted “most likely to outlast music’s all-trap-everything phase,” Baauer makes the leap from having a hot single on Mad Decent to playing with the big boys on Rinse and signing to Scottish purveyor of all things beat related, Lucky Me. This is everything you’d expect: laser synths, claps galore […]
| Mellowhype launch decoys | September 14, 2012 |
Son Raw’s teeth grind like a skater do Could Odd Future make a comeback in the second half? After a mediocre compilation album complete with the worst videos since D12 and The Internet’s soporific Chillwave reheat, the once shocking group seemed in danger of becoming a permanent asterix in rap – the kind of entity […]
| Danny Brown x Johnson&Johnson change | September 12, 2012 |
Son Raw sees no changes, all he sees is racist faces…wrong song. Just when you thought Danny Brown had gone off a molly fueled deep end in his recent Darq E. Freaker and Araabmuzik collaborations, comes this throwback jam (from 2009? 2010) over this Blu & Mainframe beat. It reminds you that he’s always been […]
| Son Raw: Mala Goes to Cuba | September 10, 2012 |
Son Raw could use a rum punch “Thank You, I’m just a guy in South-London making tunes.” They say you should never meet your idols. It’s with this cliché in mind that I first spoke to Mala, possibly the most revered and idolized producer to have emerged out of London for the past decade. While […]
| Soap Dodgers – Trouble in Detroit | September 4, 2012 |
Son Raw is still adapting to full-time work. Another new one from Dubstep and/or Bass music troublemakers The Soap Dodgers. This one includes a picture of a cat and references to Detroit which suggest some sort of kinship with Techno music (and/or Tyler, The Creator’s daydreams) although I’d be damned if I see it. Who […]
| Master Faders: also masters of puns | August 31, 2012 |
Son Raw is heading out for the weekend. Lots of talk about Trap music these days. I won’t bore you with anymore details here (I have a tumblr for that) but it turns out that Americans who are into Dubstep shockingly ALSO enjoy Hip-Hop beats. Who’d have thunk it? Thankfully, while the Master Faders’ “It’s […]
| August Grime Round up | August 30, 2012 |
Son Raw just got back from NYC. Here’s some recent listening from his ride back up state. Elijah Vs. Shiftee: USA meets UK mixtape This kind of cross-cultural meeting of minds rarely ends up as anything substantial since the gulf between what’s going on in the UK and the US rarely allows for any direct […]
| Gunplay – M1 | August 22, 2012 |
Son Raw doesn’t smoke M39. I wanted to start this post by saying that Gunplay never appearaed on a song with Drake but the Internet debunked that. Thanks a lot Youtube, some things are better left forgotten. This shouldn’t matter though because Gunplay is still the anti-Drake: loud, insensitive and a 150 proof distillation of […]
| Raw Records gonna bring it to ya. | August 21, 2012 |
Son Raw: reppin MTL since 1984 but is not affiliated with this label. Montreal label Raw Records’ free debut compilation is a couple of things: a collection of sick up to the minute beats, a major step up for the local bass music scene and a perhaps a tipping point for a couple of talented […]
| Hot City & eye candy 4 Eva | August 16, 2012 |
Son Raw is NSFW At the risk of getting this site blocked at your place of employment, here’s another fairly NSFW video, this time from booty-house purveyors Hot City. I’d write some pseudo-intellectual justification for this one but frankly, I just like watching Japanese girls on exercise equipment while listening to booty-house. Don’t blame me, […]
