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 – Live at Swing and Skip! | November 23, 2010 |
Sach O occasionally appears in public To be honest, I have no idea what percentage of this site’s readership lives in the Montreal area. General analytics indicate that the majority of the people who check out this blog reside on the East and West coasts of North-America (no love dirty south?) with a strong European […]
| Can We Get Much Higher? — A Round Table on Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (Sach O Reply) | November 23, 2010 |
Well allow Sach O to retort. So it’s officially Kanyemania out there today. Pitchfork gave the album a 10.0, Slate’s got it as album of the year and the mainstream press seems officially content to anoint Kanye as the superstar demigod he wants to be perceived as. On one hand, there’s an alarming conservatism here: […]
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I’d been avoiding getting caught up in the hype surrounding this thing in the goal to listen to it as a whole and to see how I feel about it as a complete album. Since dude thinks he’s a world-class artist making some genius shit, I figured I’d rate him to his desired standards: harshly […]
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Sach O’s never been to Bristol but Dan Love will vouch for him. Dubstep is a London ting: so goes the genre’s origin myth detailing how Croydon beatsmiths stripped Garage of its champagne and coke sheen, transforming it into something altogether darker. Though the genre still remains rooted in the metropolis, it didn’t take long […]
| Sach O: Scientist vs King Midas Sound | November 16, 2010 |
Sach O rain fire pon dem’. The OG plan for this piece was to slam Pitchfork for today’s Dubstep reviews but then I thought better of it (and then I wrote this intro anyways). Any mention that keeps the bearded and bespectacled masses of boring, late 20-something Vicemag fans away from music I enjoy is […]
| Sach O: D1, Chef & Coki in the mixes | November 15, 2010 |
If Sach O’s chest ain’t rattlin, it ain’t happenin. My brain is completely shattered from what will go down as one of the most epic music related weekends of my life so far. N-Type absolutely murdered Montreal with an all-vinyl set to an absolutely riotous crowd, I confirmed a couple of big DJ bookings which […]
| Sach O: Do or Die ft. Kanye West – Higher | November 12, 2010 |
Sach O thinks Kanye’s looking a little aggy in that picture. Words on Kanye’s coked-out opus to come eventually but in the meantime, here’s a spoiler: dude is batshit insane and shows a total lack of restraint but arguably manages to pull off this year’s great overblown pop album. It may not be the kind […]
| Sach O: P-Money – Slang like This | November 10, 2010 |
Sach O speaks in slang like that. A London rap song about London rap slang probably won’t get much traction around these parts but since the Hip-Hop internet has collectively decided to give Waka a pass based on energy and/or swag, perhaps they’ll do the same for P-Money who absolutely rips this one to pieces. […]
| Sach O: Slowly spinning in his grave | November 9, 2010 |
Dear Music Journos, I know it’s tempting to use the 10th anniversary of DJ Screw’s death to write puff pieces about Witch-House/Drag/whatever music. Please resist the urge. If you’re going to big up Screw, by all means, go ahead and do so: find the rappers he worked with, examine his releases, hell postulate on his […]
| Sach O: The Many Faces of Machinedrum | November 8, 2010 |
Sach O drums mechanical In adition to showcasing a (metric) fuckton of new producers to the public, one of the unexpected benefits of the bass music explosion has been the increased attention given to formerly orphaned artists. From Daedleus to Shadow to RSD, a large swath of producers working outside of the critical spotlight are […]
