| Slam on the CDJ: The Best DJ Sets of November, 2024 | December 8, 2024 |
For the last edition of Slam on the CDJ of 2024, Michael McKinney highlights the best new sets from DJ Antepop, DDWY, Petre Inspirescu and others.
| “I’m Always Looking for a Singular Sound”: An Interview with Joker | September 22, 2017 |
Son Raw chats with Joker about his new EP, 'Kapsize,' synths, and studio spaces.
| Midnight in a Perfect World: Joker Stays Purple | November 24, 2014 |
Beware the Internet hype machine. That’s probably the best advice to give to young artists, those recipients of a deafening wave that inevitably leads to a (temporarily) crippling crash. Joker saw the tsunami hit hard circa 2009, when his purple variant of dubstep, became the ballyhooed mutation. If you’re keeping track, it was right around […]
| 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 […]
| Son Raw’s Grime Top 30 for 2013 (#30-#16) | December 24, 2013 |
Son Raw wrote up this damn list himself. Duh ha, duh ha, you never thought that this weird instrumental Grime music I started writing about in 2010 would take it this far! And to be honest, neither did I: 2013 was an outstanding year for Grime and Grime-related music, so much so that it’s been […]
| Sega Joker Drive | September 3, 2013 |
Son Raw‘s smoking on that purple kush. You can call it a comeback. Joker’s first run of tunes in the late aughts was truly special, injecting a heavy dose of funk and color into a scene that was on the verge of drowning in its own darkness, but his subsequent pop-ambitions didn’t quite hit their […]
| Joker X Swindle Rip Butterz’s Third Birthday Party | February 27, 2013 |
“If you don’t know, check out the bass,” toasts JME on this mix from Joker and Swindle, honoring the third birthday of instrumental grime kings, Butterz. With the honorable Son Raw, somewhere in Southeast Asia, smoking spliffs and enjoying a long sabbatical from the madness of the Internet, there’s a void for fire alarm-frantic and […]
| Joker: Dubstep Road Warrior | October 12, 2012 |
Son Raw is draped in mauve. Motorbikes? Check. Angry robots set to buzzsaw synths? Check. The color purple? Check. Sci-fi apocalypticism and funky futurism? Double check. Joker’s latest video meets all of the basic aesthetic requirements for a Mad Max reboot while keeping true to the Bristolian’s own analog-powered vision of life after a GOP […]
