This year has been a non-stop affair for Bill Salas, the Brooklyn based artist who goes by the name Brenmar. With an EP apiece on Discobelle and Sinden’s Grizzly, a video of the much loved “Taking It Down” and an endless stream of peerless mixes – there was even time to contribute to a certain […]
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Hailing from Philly with roots in Maryland, the digital-dwelling, performance-minded sound art and music duo SCRAAATCH load their knapsack of self-determinative songs onto the platter for Truancy Volume 208. Their series of numbered performances each possess unique character thanks to a consciousness and deliberation in their concept and implementation, often through abstract electronics, noise, glitch […]
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It’s no secret that we’re big fans of the Her Records stable. In fact, our only complaint (dictated through greed) is that we don’t hear enough from them. This goes especially so for the Danish component of the crew, the Club Prince, Kid Antoine. The snippets we’ve heard from him, whether on his Soundcloud, Her […]
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It’s time for the 96th installment of our Truancy Volume series and we’re ecstatic to have secured the services of 22 year old Canadian Rook Milo for the task. A celebrated maestro in the more emotional circles of Soundcloud, Rook first came to our attention when he was earmarked by previous TV-contributor Ryan Hemsworth as […]
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“Ya should be glad I pushed my mixtape back,” is a line from Mykki Blanco’s “Join My Militia” and it’s the truth – we are. Mykki is the feminine alter ego of Michael David Quattlebaum, the New York based poet, lyricist, and rapper. It’s been a hectic year for her full of collaborations and studio […]
Read moreFESTIVAL GUIDE: BLOC 2012 – DAY 1 It’s the evening before Bloc and unsurprisingly all social medias are alight with the excited joys of the lucky people who managed to bag a ticket. With stages and times all announced we continue with our second part to our Bloc Festival Guide. As with most festivals there’s […]
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We’ve decided that we want to die and be reincarnated as this song, but we’ve listened to it so many times that we’ve probably imparted a good portion of our souls into it already. We’re not particularly interested in the Pet Shop Boys – who is? – but we’ve got a lot of time for […]
Read moreUsing just one word, Edinburgh native and resident LuckyMe deejay Eclair Fifi once described the prolific Glaswegian label she calls home as colourful. It’s only fitting that this word, though abatedly, also perfectly describes her immense talent as a master selector where she comfortably hops between myriads of genres and auras like it ain’t nothing. […]
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Aubrey Drake Graham’s come up has been a strange one. Some of the same pitchfork-holding haters that were spewing fire at the Canadian rapper-come-singer about twenty-four months back have gradually been transformed into those fans that now DIY owl chains and whisper YOLO before job interviews. Somehow Drizzy’s charm is quite irrefutable at the end […]
Read moreChhavi Nanda alias Chippy Nonstop is the Queen of the Internet. We first got to know of her a few years ago when she was making moves with the Trap House collective, mainly as a designer and writer. A little bit over a year ago Chippy stepped up as a vocalist with her first single being […]
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Lando Kal, production pseudonym of San Franciscan-turned-Berliner Antaeus Roy, is not the first person you’d expect to be behind such dancefloor burners as last year’s top tune “Further” or his most recent “Rhythm Sektion / Inquisition.” From our first impression at SXSW, he seemed rather quiet and composed – a musician who takes his craft […]
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Stream: New Material by Grown Folk. Grown Folk showed up fairly early on Truants’ radar, and were even included on our first-ever Truancy Compilation in early 2011 alongside artists like NGUZUNGUZU, Teeth, Teki Latex, Brenmar and more. They’ve continued to impress us since then and have come a long way in only a year. The […]
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