Our fortieth installment into our Truancy Volume series comes from a long time friendship of two guys from Bristol making giant leaps forward with their new production alias Behling & Simpson. Having released tunes together since 2004 under various guises and stacked up more than a hundred releases between them on an array of labels such as Tectonic, Burn Recordings and Earwax, the duo decided to take on the challenge of crafting their own fresh take on house music. With a debut release on Rippertons label, followed by some heavily championed edits and joining the likes of fellow Bristolians Julio Bashmore and Waifs & Strays on Futureboogie Recordings, the pair have cemented themselves as big ones to watch in the ever growing and evolving house scene. There’s also the little fact that Appleblim has picked them up for a release on Applepips sometime this year, no biggie. Asking them for a mix couldn’t feel more appropriate and they kindly delivered. The fortieth Truancy Volume takes shape as a showcase of more than an hour’s worth of tunes featuring Truants faves Ciara, Drake, Cassie and a whole load more. Whilst we continue vibing out, have a little read on what they had to say on the mix below:

Faith Evans – Love Like This (B+S Edit) by behlingsimpson

Behling & Simpson – Left Behind by behlingsimpson

Behling + Simpson: ‘Truants asked us to do an R’n’B mix, I guess after hearing our Faith Evans edit (the obvious choice) or possibly after spotting the chopped-up Trey Songz sample in Left Behind (the impressive choice!), surmising, correctly, that we are fans of that world. In the event, the mix took a slightly different shape as it came into focus – as usual, we concentrated more on those songs with interesting drums, and we threw in a few instrumental hip-hop numbers, to keep it moving. We also ended up with some more straightforward hip-hop cuts in there – one of us has a side line in playing crunk under a different alias, and thoroughly enjoys the raging 808s of UGK and Three 6 Mafia.

A couple of the tracks in there we’ve reworked into edits for our sets, but we can’t tell you which ones – you’ll have to come and see us to find out – and the Jeezy tune ‘Circulate’ is based around the Billy Paul track ‘Let The Dollar Circulate’ which we used in our influences mix for Red Bull so that kinda ties in nicely. Anyways, hope you enjoy the mix!’

VOLUME 40: BEHLING & SIMPSON

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Tracklisting:
Ciara – Like A Surgeon
B Bravo – Computa Love
Kelly Roland ft Lil Wayne – Motivation
Omarion – Ice Box
Drake & Lil Wayne – Miss Me
Young Jeezy – Go Crazy
D’Angelo – Devil’s Pie
Clipse ft Slim Thug – Wamp Wamp (What It Do)
Llloyd ft Mystikal – Set Me Free
Z-Ro ft Just Brittany – Murderer
Darkhouse Fam – Tartan Paint
Celly Cel ft UGK – Pop The Trunk
Brandy – Afrodisiac
Nelly – Flap Your Wings
Young Jeezy – Circulate
Ciara ft Petey Pablo – Goodies
J Cole – Who Dat
Cassie – Skydiver
Rustie – Hyperthrust
Kirk Franklin – I Smile

Futureboogie 10 Compilation with two solo tracks between them is out on the 26th February. Have a listen at the previews over at Juno and don’t forget to pop on over to their Facebook, Soundcloud and Booking pages.