Son Raw is NSFW At the risk of getting this site blocked at your place of employment, here’s another fairly NSFW video, this time from booty-house purveyors Hot City. I’d write some pseudo-intellectual justification for this one but frankly, I just like watching Japanese girls on exercise equipment while listening to booty-house. Don’t blame me, […]

Son Raw is going to be spinning LIVE on Nasty.FM with Habit & Pivot from 7-9PM EST. Fun fact, the first record I ever owned as a kid was an Alvin & The Chipmunks compilation of 80s hits: think “Uptown Girl” as sung by squeaky-voiced rodents. My favorite track on the LP was a brittle, […]

Son Raw’s on the West side of Chicago looking for a bust down. It’s tough to keep up with the underground Juke/Footwork movement if you aren’t actually part of it. My homeboy Hesk (more on whom later) will happily name-drop half a dozen producers who’ve apparently made incredible tunes but I’ll be damned if anyone […]

Son Raw’s getting into some real bad things. It’s impossible to overstate the impact of Addison Groove’s Footcrab single. Previously best known for his slow, technoid Dubstep as Headunter, Tony Williams not only re-launched his career with his Chicago-London fusion piece but also helped ignite outsider interest in Footwork and synthesized a direction for Loefah’s […]

Son Raw has read his Stuart Hall, thank you very much. Only in America? So the saying goes, but in this case one would be better served looking in London because I doubt this record could have been made anywhere else. While The United States’ often tragic, often romantic history of racial conflict has spawned […]

Son Raw wants to thank Low End Theory for the hospitality. From the outside looking in, Planet Mu impresario Mike Paradinas is carrying Juke on his shoulders, pushing it to a world that perhaps isn’t quite ready for a sound combining minimalist sample flips, high speed dance moves and bewildering rhythms seemingly designed for octopus […]

  Son Raw can’t Juke in this weather. It’s safe to say that 2011 was good year for Travis Stewart. Even if you weren’t over the moon with the lushness of his Sepalcure project (I wasn’t,) his Machinedrum release caught the zeitgeist in a choke-hold, combining a nostalgia for old rave music with Juke’s avant-hood […]

From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House from Sonali Aggarwal on Vimeo. A quick but thorough history lesson straight from the horses’ mouths. Rightfully placing Ghetto-House in America’s storied tradition of urban music rather than in a more nebulous international dance music context, this documentary makes a strong argument for discussing Chicago, Detroit […]

Son Raw can’t be bought in cash. Maybe in strippers. For those who aren’t keen on my EDM writing, perhaps my close association with Hesk through ventures such as Project Sundays might seem like a conflict of interest – writers shouldn’t be dallying with artists and the such. Insiders will be quick to attest however […]

Son Raw is basking in the afterglow of Mala’s live set last night at Igloofest. Soundcloud snippets don’t usually warrant posts around here but Addison Groove’s upcoming release on Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label isn’t your usual release. As one of the few producers working in England equally adept at deep, sci-fi influenced Dubstep as he […]