Truancy Volumes

There are moments when you encounter a voice so alluring, so emotionally complex, that it fundamentally shifts your understanding of music. For countless listeners, that voice belongs to james K—an artist and composer whose deeply poetic sensibility bridges worlds between tumblr fantasies and avant-garde aesthetics, LiveJournal-style expressiveness and shoegaze nostalgia. Over the past decade, this […]

Over the past few years, Biocym has been quietly but powerfully shaping a sound rooted in hypnotic techno, weightless ambiance and fine-grained detail. His path into electronic music started over a decade ago, sparked by early exposure to deep techno and later catalyzed by formative releases from Hypnus Records. A move to Milan to study […]

A south-London native, Box5ive came up on a diet of FWD>>, Fabric excursions, and the spiritual gravity of early dubstep, citing DMZ, Skream, Benga as early coordinates for a deeper kind of bass music initiation. Deep diving further into electronic music he later veered into the more emotive  side of UK electronica, devouring ambient through […]

With a string of deeply textured releases on labels such as like Animalia, Salt Mines and Pure Space, Zara has spent the last two years ascending into a sphere uniquely her own. Her 2022 Reverie EP, released via Andy Garvey’s Pure Space, leaned into ambient mutations and IDM-adjacent introspection, while her Animalia outing layered rhythm, […]

A few weeks ago re:ni posted a photo on her stories of a record shop shelf at Rubadub, with the labels section neatly divided into Hessle Audio, Timedance, Blank Mind and re:lax. It’s a small but telling moment of hardwork for Lauren Bush, whose imprint, co-run with Laksa, has quietly cemented itself alongside UK dance […]

In a musical landscape where production often leans toward formula, Time Cow moves with deliberate purpose, simultaneously honoring and reimagining Jamaica’s rich musical heritage. As a core member of Equiknoxx, he helped introduce the world to Kingston’s experimental dancehall scene, but his solo work reveals an artist operating with even greater conceptual freedom—methodically deconstructing tradition […]

DJ Spit is the kind of artist where you’re immediately pulled into their orbit. Known for his fast paced, genre fluid approach, the Berlin-based DJ and producer has been whipping up high-voltage sets between bass, breaks, techno, house, and the obscure outer realms of club music for a good while now. Whether locked into a […]

Sleep D stand as pillars of Melbourne’s underground, their distinctive sound forged in the suburban fringes of Frankston and now resonating across global dancefloors. The duo of Corey Kikos and Maryos Syawish craft electronic music that defies easy categorization—hypnotic basslines and propulsive rhythms providing the foundation for explorations that merge the mechanical with the mystical. […]

Coffintexts’ relationship with the dancefloor exists somewhere between calculated game and pure instinct—each track selection a deliberate move to guide the room’s collective energy, yet flowing from an intuition born of deep immersion in Miami’s club culture. It’s a perspective that emerged from formative nights around 2010, where house parties blurred into warehouses, and continues […]

Originally from Mexico City, but now transplanting her musical endeavours in the bustling nightlife of New York city, Viiaan wears many creative hats. Serving as a DJ, producer, and the visionary steward of Voragine, a label she founded eight years ago, she’s managed to build a platform, with help from Turning Torso, that works at […]

For the last eight years, Hamburg-based duo Space Drum Meditation have been steadily carving out their own distinct sonic identity, finding comfort in a sound rooted in ceremonial techno, tribal rhythms and deep atmospheric textures. Their own self-titled label, has become a platform for their productions, having hosted five records, a remix EP, and more […]