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| Son Raw: The Wyld Stallyns most excellent adventure | March 11, 2012 |
Son Raw is there for you with some Sunday afternoon listening. Because I’m a sucker for Bill & Ted references (see our sidebar) and funky party beats. Also because the Wyld Stallyns are liable to pour tequila down your girl’s throat, take her home, never call her again and say questionable things about her mother. […]
| Son Raw: Redlight – Get Out My Head (Joker Remix) | March 6, 2012 |
Son Raw is out his head Whoa, what’s gotten into Joker? Apparently the middling reviews for The Vision have lit a fire under the young producer because he’s been knocking tunes out of the park recently with this remix of Redlight’s latest rave revival being no exception. In an interesting twist, he appropriates Brostep’s stuttering […]
| Son Raw: Odd Future – NY (Ned Flanders) | March 6, 2012 |
Son Raw is off his meds. We didn’t post Rella to this site because frankly, it wasn’t worth your time. Trolling Centaur-Tyler and a Pitchfork-annoying bitchslap weren’t enough to cover the fact that Hodgy and Domo aren’t the two guys you want holding down a crew album and the whole thing felt depressingly D12ish. The […]
| Son Raw: Chef & Pokes on Rinse.FM | March 3, 2012 |
Son Raw wonders how many blunts he needs to smoke to get a voice like Pokes Some laid back vibes for a laid back Saturday courtesy of Chef’s last Rinse.FM show. For those that don’t know, MC Sgt. Pokes has a voice so fit for radio that he could probably read the phone book over […]
| Son Raw: Jam City meets the Main Attrakionz | March 2, 2012 |
Son Raw is collaborating with a bassoonist. This was bound to happen sooner or later. London label Night Slugs’ love of street wear and rap music knows no limits even as the squad spends most of its creative energy transmuting those influences into a twisted version of urban house. Meanwhile, the Main Attraktionz have been […]
| Son Raw: Seun Kuti and Falty DL get funky | February 24, 2012 |
Son Raw wants more Afrobeat in his bass music And here’s a piece of music that falls squarely within this site’s scope of interest. The fear whenever a band as organic as The Africa 80 enter the electronic realm is that no computer could match the unhinged energy of the original rhythm section but thankfully […]
| Son Raw: Mike Paradinas vs. Traxman | February 23, 2012 |
Son Raw wants to thank Low End Theory for the hospitality. From the outside looking in, Planet Mu impresario Mike Paradinas is carrying Juke on his shoulders, pushing it to a world that perhaps isn’t quite ready for a sound combining minimalist sample flips, high speed dance moves and bewildering rhythms seemingly designed for octopus […]
| Son Raw: Lone – Crystal Caverns | February 22, 2012 |
Son Raw didn’t know it was cool to use the word crystal in regards to music again. This is retromania I can ride by although I can’t really give you a valid reason why beyond the rather subjective fact that it kicks ass. Updating the classic early 90s rave profile without indulging in cheese or […]
| Son Raw: Skream – Dark Keys | February 20, 2012 |
Son Raw could always eat another shrimp burrito. I get it. After chilling in LA with the homie Jeff, I’m forced to admit that Dubstep can only make so much sense in a city that rolls at a medically induced 85BPM tempo. Cruising Angeleno streets, Curren$y, Spaceghost, Kendrick, Lotus, those are the names one draws […]
| Sach O: Burial – “Kindred” EP | February 15, 2012 |
Son Raw’s going, going, back, back to Cali, Cali. Burial is an anomaly. You get the impression that the Mercury Prize for Untrue and the adoration from the Aphex Twin crowd were more bother than reward for a shadowy producer who grew up on Jungle and Garage on UK pirate radio and just wanted to […]
