| Novelist enters the Yard | February 7, 2014 |
Son Raw hit you with TSSS TSSS! Zha, whose mixtape I recently shared, is starting a new Youtube series highlighting up and coming emcees. Now I usually wouldn’t post a freestyle video, lord knows there’s enough sites dedicated those if you want to trawl through gigs worth of aspiring rappers, but once he roped in […]
| 040 and Mumdance bring the funk | February 4, 2014 |
Son Raw’s bangin’ for the funk of it. Massive week for Grime singles. First, the almighty Butterz empire returns for their first release in nearly a year, teaming up with Kapsize Records for a collaborative jam between Swindle and Joker, AKA 040. It’s a match made in heaven, assuming heaven is place where P-Funk grooves […]
| The curious case of CasisDead | January 24, 2014 |
Son Raw sometimes listens to Zomby, never rocks Abercrombie London MC CasisDead spends a lot of time claiming he’s the real thing and not a gimmick, which is counter-intuitive for a guy who wears a skull mask and raps about everything from rape to guns with a healthy side of drug abuse and sales. While […]
| Kahn & Neek bumrush 1-Xtra | January 23, 2014 |
Son Raw no tek no bludclart backchat. Apparently if you’re English, a small fraction of your tax dollars goes towards late night BBC programming that involves Kahn & Neek’s ferocious blend of angry video game sounds, Jamaican chat and stomach-churning b-lines, which upsets me as a Canadian because all I get out of National public […]
| Thomas White – Grown Up Killah | January 20, 2014 |
Son Raw’s making loot like Marvel comic books, for his survival Montreal’s a hard partying city, a fact that keeps many a producer too exhausted from gigging to truly hunker down and create tracks of real value. There’s a reason you’re not likely to find Lunice or Jacques Greene out on the town too often […]
| Keysound and Butterz on Radio | January 13, 2014 |
Son Raw is the rap Bill Murray. No, this isn’t groundhog’s day – I wrote about this combination a few months back but like The Low End Theory and Autonomic Podcasts, when these crews hit Rinse it’s always worth a mention. Dusk & Blackdown returned to radio after another extended absence, but while the irregularity […]
| Back in the mix – Son Raw Phi Sounds Podcast | January 10, 2014 |
Son Raw with the shameless self promo If I mostly keep my DJing off of this site, it’s not out of a sense of self-modesty, it’s that I hate writing about my own music. I’m still on radio Wednesday 1-3EST, follow the Twitter above for regular updates. Otherwise, I usually try to use this site […]
| Zha gives away That Pack of Remixes | January 10, 2014 |
Son Raw is back on his bizzy A tension between sonic variety and cohesiveness is the lifeblood of a music scene. Too much similarity and things get formulaic – think Brostep, Arena Drum & Bass or bone-dry Tech House. Open things up too much however, and you’re likely to hear artists writing concept albums about […]
| SD Laika – Idiot Thug | January 9, 2014 |
Son Raw scored like 10 on his IQ test I’m not entirely certain what to call this, but I like it. SD Laika makes riddims that sounds like dirt, broken electronics and bad dreams – perfect for Tri Angle, a label specializing in bringing richly textured nightmares to life, or at least to MP3. This […]
| Question in the Form of an Answer: Coyote Records | January 3, 2014 |
Son Raw on the interview tip for 2014 Nearly a dozen new Grime labels have popped up over the past 2 years, but only one capped off 2013 with a full-length compilation. Coyote Records is the brainchild of Mixmag Editor and Grime-advocate Tomas Fraser and is one of instrumental Grime’s most vital new outlets. Across […]
