During the next edition of the annual Amsterdam Dance Event, Truants will be co-hosting a room at Boycott in collaboration with Guerilla Speakerz (event link). This event will take place on Saturday the 22nd of October in Club Up. The line-up is one that stays true to Truants’ ongoing thematics of combining settled favourites as […]
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Sinjin Hawke is a #blessed individual with an ear for binding emotions within hip-hop and R&B. With an extensive output through the waves of his Soundcloud he’s a producer that is versatile to say the least, drawing his inspiration from a range of mixed sounds from mainly R&B, rap and hip-hop to the further likes of […]
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L-Vis 1990 has always been an exciting producer to follow. As co-founder of Night Slugs and slightly different from his family there in terms of collaborations and associations outside their familiar circles, it seems like a logical and much-anticipated step for him to be one of the first from the NS subdivision to come out […]
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It’s been a while since Two Inch Punch self-released his captivating white label 12” in April. The West-London based producer garnered a lot of attention for his compact and soulfully approached tracks and both “Love You Up” and “Luv Luv” acted as a perfect introduction to this artist and his unique sound that he has […]
Read moreWe here at Truants have an exciting weekend ahead of us, as we’re looking forward to co-hosting the upcoming mid-summer edition of the incredible Amsterdam-based clubnight Audio Culture this Friday in the Club Up! For the line-up, we’ve invited over two artists whose output we’ve continuously loved to extremes over time and that have contributed […]
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The continued anonymity with which Shabazz Palaces operate their unit was confusing at first, but its intentions have been making a whole lot of sense as the Seattle-based group released more of their excitingly abstract work over time. Main man Palaceer Lazaro, previously known as Butterfly of Digable Planets in another parallel universe, perpetuates the […]
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By now, every single semi-popular track beloved by the radio has a ton of remixes to its name, which usually includes an ocean of edits that belong in a club that even members of the Jersey Shore house would side-eye. As a result, entering the unknown realms of the likes of Rihanna, Gucci, Soulja remixes […]
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Although it’s always a great thing to be out in the club and jam out to unknown music that you haven’t heard before, it’s an even greater thing if there are tracks that never lose their charm despite having busted your moves to them an infinite number of times before. London-based Optimum was responsible for […]
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If there’s two artists that I would never have linked up in my mind it would be The Beach Boys and Jay Dee, but somehow Bullion proved that seemingly mismatched names can work out into a perfectly balanced sound. It’s been a couple of years since Pet Sounds: In The Key of Dee was released on […]
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Between releasing another one of his mindblowingly mindfuck videos, the announcement of his second album release on XL Recordings, omitting the comma from his alias, reaching ridiculous statistics on iTunes and YouTube and more of that exciting jazz, Tyler the Creator has a lot going on for him right now. Yonkers is getting well-deserved recognition […]
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The end of the year is a lovely time when everyone decides to share their Best Of lists that usually end up looking like the same and all, but I do love it for all of its great end-of-the-year mixtapes and releases. So here’s another edition of Five Mixes Are Better Than One to celebrate! […]
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The first thing I had ever encountered by Montreal-#based brainchild Lunice was a Everyday I’m Hustlin’ meets Final Fantasy 7’s victory anthem mashup on YouTube that I still can’t get tired of to this day. As if that Rick Ross = Barrett Wallace link wasn’t genius enough to keep me hooked, Lunice keeps the standards […]
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