Raw Deal

Jim Robins AKA Raw Deal, was raised by a sound engineer father, in a house filled with music. It did not take long, for him to gain interest in instruments (piano, guitar, and bass) and the drum rhythms. While other children were playing Nintendo, Jimbo would have fun with the plates, collecting jazz and funk vinyl albums, bought at London’s Soho music stores. He is considered one of the most important nu jazz, soulful and broken beatz activists in the British capital, promoting his delicacies from the cabins of Groove Sanctuary, the Madame JoJos and the Rhumba Bar, which is a London club, which he started alongside Gilles Peterson.