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| Taking Trap out of the trap. | June 22, 2012 |
Son Raw might take on Grimes tomorrow. Don’t look now but Mad Decent affiliates are actually releasing music that’s umm…decent. Now I refuse to apologize for bashing Diplo because that dude is a carpetbagging bumbahole who’s never seen a trend he couldn’t exploit for 5 minutes but for once, this rape-n-pillage attitude towards music may […]
| An open letter to rappers. And singers. And everybody. | June 21, 2012 |
Son Raw had to say it. Don’t work with Skrillex. I know it’s tempting given the guy’s sudden popularity and I’ll give A$AP Rocky a pass on the basis that even Method Man once worked with Fred Durst and it came out OK, but you don’t want to be associated with that little rat faced […]
| Alchemist gets trippy on Russian Roulette, comrade. | June 20, 2012 |
Son Raw is trading arms in countries whose names you can’t pronounce. According to conventional wisdom, Alchemist should be in the twilight of his career. After all, by the time they’d racked up this many years in the game, his mentors Muggs & Premier were settling into comfortable lives as established producers, trotting out well-worn […]
| LV & Okmallumkoolkat return to Hyperdub | June 13, 2012 |
LV feat Okmalumkoolkat: Sebenza (Hyperdub 2012) from Hyperdub on Vimeo. Son Raw slam boom bang like African drums. Fun fact: I’ve interviewed more Hyperdub artists than any other label (Kode9 interview dropping soon). You’d think that would make me unable to critically assess the their output and maybe that’s true: I get unnaturally defensive or […]
| LHF – The Lost Rinse.FM session | June 11, 2012 |
Son Raw shouldn’t be blogging at this hour Some say that when LHF visited Rinse.FM’s studios for an in-studio album release party, the converging pirate energies proved so strong that they created an electrical storm which immediately shut down the studio’s recording equipment. Others say claim an ordinary hard drive crash. I prefer the first […]
| Champion’s on some heavy drugs | June 11, 2012 |
Son Raw is too busy saying yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Another Wot you call it moment? Possibly, but regardless, UK Funky outlier Champion’s latest single for Grime label Butterz is his speediest and most intense yet – good track title, champ. With little more than warping bass lines and syncopated percussion, Crystal Meth serves as a potent reminder […]
| Clams Casino delivers the goods. | June 6, 2012 |
Son Raw thinks those seapunks are bound to dri-zown. Snarkier rap fans occasionally dismiss instrumental versions as background music or rapper food and for once they’d be right: Clams Casino’s latest instrumental tape is EXCELLENT background music and rapper food. That’s partially because his samples often sound like chopped n’ screwed whale songs but also […]
| The origins of Danny Brown | June 5, 2012 |
Son Raw blows big blunts on his way to brunch. The best rapper rapping (yeah, I said it) delivers the video to his Party Supplies produced summer anthem. Though he doesn’t carry the great one’s commercial clout, Brown’s come-up narrative and Spike Jonze inspired video treatment recall none other than Biggie and given his proclivities […]
| Becoming Real and Translatlantic R&B | June 4, 2012 |
Son Raw is a pirate on the Black Atlantic. As Abe so eloquently put it, R&B kicked Hip-Hop’s ass in 2011, even as the seeds of rap’s triumphant revival were already paying off like a fast-growing weed plant. In terms of outside influence however, a completely different strain of urban vocal pop continues to have […]
| Terror Danjah & Riko Dan run tings. | May 30, 2012 |
Son Raw lick shots pon ya bloodclot ‘ead. While The Bug wets our appetites for his forthcoming Angels & Demons album via promises of Acid Ragga, Terror Danjah is mining the same fertile territory in a less conceptual manner. Of course, Grime’s potent mixture of Jamaican vocalization and electronic aggression has been around since its […]
