Son Raw
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

 
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Welcome to No Country For Old Men – a (hopefully) regular column in which a 40 year old DJ turned music writer turned musician grapples with the state of music journalism and how to age as a music fan.
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