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| Sach O: Leatherface’s Nightmare Juke Squad | September 16, 2011 |
Son Raw needs a dope DJ crew name. Suggestions? Don’t worry: this isn’t Footwoork mixed with dodgy Dubstep sounds…it’s just Footwork. While I’m not entirely sold on the iconography, Paris producer Leatherface’s take on the once-emerging-now-red-hot Footwork sound is proof that the subgenre is mutating and developing just as fast outside of Chicago as in […]
| Sach O: RIP DJ Mehdi | September 13, 2011 |
Sach O used to bump Princes de La Ville on a near daily basis in high school. Sad news for the world of beatmaking today as Parisian producer DJ Mehdi passes away. While his international audience knew him best as a new school electro producer affiliated with Ed Banger, I’ll always remember him for his […]
| Sach O: K Def X LL Cool J – Year of the Hip-Hop | September 12, 2011 |
Sach O‘s got an Eraserhead haircut. Classic K-Def & LL Cool J collabo that was apparently lost behind a radiator for 17 years before being unearthed and released on limited edition orange vinyl. Seemingly recorded after Uncle L got his Chronic induced gangsta-rapping out of his system on 14 Shots to the Dome but before […]
| Rustie – Ultra Thizz | September 8, 2011 |
Dear Future employers: Sach O disavows all drug references in this post. Sometimes, I think Hyphy was rap’s last, best hope for escaping the well-worn genre cliches it’s been wallowing in for the last forever. Say what you will about the random slang, goofy clothes and ecstasy: the records were fun and there was a […]
| Sach O: Teeth – Swarm/ Shift/ Sequence/ Spawn | September 5, 2011 |
Sach O is not looking forward to Winter. Hate it or love it, Dubstep’s sonic arc makes perfect sense in evolutionary terms. Born out of the UKG hangover into an era of skunk-fueled paranoia and empty clubs, its initial minimalism was custom made for the early days of the War on Terror. Gone are the […]
| Sach O: Distal Fact Mix | September 4, 2011 |
Sach O is really getting into the Footwork-Dubstep hybrid. And full on Footwork for that matter. In an era where genre counts for little and hybridity is key, you’ve gotta make like Wu-Tang financial and diversify your bonds ‘nuh. Atlanta producer Distal knows this, coming with a sound that cleverly merges London production values, Chicago’s […]
| Sach O: Floating Points goes to Brazil | August 31, 2011 |
Sach O needs to shout out Laura for pointing him towards this mix. It’s been over a year since Madlib’s last mixtape of Brazilian psych-funk and if you’re anything like me, that’s far too long. Thankfully, Eglo co-founder and Rinse.FM crate-digger extraordinaire Floating Points feels your pain and his last show on the station whips […]
| Sach O: The Weeknd – The Party & Afterparty (Kastle Remix) | August 26, 2011 |
SACH O CAN’T FEEL A DAMN THANG. Those prophets of Canadian urban-woe at The Weeknd had it right: Thursdays are a motherfucker. I may not snort lines like a hoover or drink Cris like Jagged Edge in 99 but yesterday featured more than enough whiskey to keep the ghost of Jim Morrison happy. As for […]
| Sach O: Kingdom goes back to the Future | August 25, 2011 |
Sach O is cool with 90s Timbaland. 00s Timbaland not-so-much. I regrettably missed Kingdom’s Shambhala set due to a lack of sleep/serotonin but by all accounts he killed it, bringing an urban-chic to a festival usually accustomed to pastoral funk. If it was anything like the previous night’s Girl Unit jam – think the latest, […]
| Sach O: King Midas Sound – Goodbye Girl (Kuedo Reversion) | August 18, 2011 |
Sach O wishes you luck with a capital F girl. In which the former Jamie Vex gets all spooky with King Midas Sound’s kiss-off anthem. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on in the backwards video but it fits the sonics like a glove and I’m convinced King Midas Sound are the most photogenic band […]
