It’s A Vandal Ting! Deep Dubstep And Dark Funk by Son Raw on Mixcloud  Sach O’s evil twin Son Raw has no respect for property values. Oh yeah, you didn’t think it was over, did you motherfuckers? You didn’t think you could get through another season without Son Raw dropping some more bassweight on all […]

Best remembered by North-Americans as one of those female British rappers your local alt-weekly forced you to vaguely care about pre-M.I.A (at least she was better than Lady Sovereign!), I was surprised to find that Ms Dynamite actually still holds weight across the pond. The combination of Garage-era nostalgia and Funky’s need for dancehall inflected […]

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVNFkGFMUE We usually try to save major posts for the work week but I’m getting ready to bounce for a month on some much needed R&R and felt compelled to big up the new Kingdom EP on Nightslugs before it becomes old news. Hailing from NYC (which apparently still produces music) via Boston, Kingdom’s sensibilities […]

Don’t get it twisted: any links to local MTL content on my part shouldn’t be construed as tokenism or back scratching. These days, I’m just as likely to be inspired by a local DJ throwing down tunes as the headliner he’s bringing in or the latest micro-genre to hit the net. Foodies love to talk […]

Part 2 brought to you by Son Raw and the healthy looking folks at DMZ. 10 – Doctor P – Sweet Shop (Circus) Much to the anger of purists, Doctor P’s Sweetshop finally removed any trace of bass from genre’s mutating, squelchy synth leads, transforming what was once “wobble” into pure screeching aggression. Paired with […]

Because I can no longer focus on pieces of music longer than 6 minutes or deal with rappers who didn’t come up in the 90’s. Also because I hate straight edge people, anything with a narrative arc and guitars but love beats and try to leave my computer as much as humanly possible. Youtube links […]

All Your Bass 3: Montreal Sunset Mix by Son Raw on Mixcloud While Jeff supplicates the Gods of coffee and cannabis in a heroic attempt to track down Stoney Jackson, I’m slinking around Montreal’s Mutek festival as Resident Advisor’s newest Canadian correspondent.  For those who don’t know, Mutek is North-America’s premier experimental Electronic Music Festival […]

All Your Bass Are Belong To Us Vol. 2 by Son Raw on Mixcloud Once again it’s on! After the strong reaction to my first official bass mix, I’m unleashing yet another hour of hard-hitting, international sounds on the unsuspecting world, this time with cover photography by the one and only Dan Love of FDB […]

Give Addison Groove (AKA Dubstep producer Headhunter) credit, “Footcrab” is far less annoying than the funny video snippet above would lead you to believe. Built around a vocal sample exhorting the titular crustacean, the track is a dark, jazzy flip on Chicago juke as seen through the lens of the Digital Mystikz affiliated Swamp81 label. […]

So far, we’ve kept our coverage of UKFunky at arm’s length here for a couple of reasons. In my case,  a severe aversion to four on the floor drums and “happy” party music explains my general antipathy for the style of post-House that took over London’s pirate airwaves in the wake of Dubstep. You can […]