“Another one I’m going to have to talk over – No IDs yet, just to say it’s new” interjected Bok Bok on the Night Slugs Rinse.fm show during August of last year, to the frustration of eager YouTube-rippers worldwide as he dropped a mysterious new cut. He was smart (and entirely correct) in predicting that […]
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“I can’t seem to separate music from the rest of my life. It’s all intertwined,” says Canadian band-member-turned-electronic producer Kuhrye-oo in an interview posted yesterday. Surely this must be the case for many of those who are lucky and daring enough to call music their career, but one has to wonder from artist to artist how […]
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We seem to be living in an age where the remix to original content ratio on certain releases continues to rapidly separate – not to say that it’s a bother, but sometimes it makes us wonder why it’s necessary. The latest example is the second release from London’s Southern Hospitality label, the “Blueberry” EP from […]
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Bristol-based producer Artifact has made it on the Truants radar before, and he hasn’t drifted too far since then. Last time we checked in he’d just released his “Archaic Line” EP on Deadplate in January, which was well-received on this end. This time he’s back and he’s brought a friend, though we’re not quite sure […]
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Surely we’ve all heard more than enough praise showered over Machinedrum’s outstanding 2011 album “Room(s),” and some of us have ended up with the LP memorized back to front. We weren’t sure what to expect when an extended re-release of the album was announced for 2012’s Record Store Day, but the new installment actually delivered […]
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While a lot of you may be out taking advantage of special Record Store Day releases (and if you aren’t – hop to it!), we wanted to make sure this digital release didn’t get overlooked. American label/creative collective/purveyors of bass Astro Nautico put out a very generous compilation yesterday for free download, all in the […]
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Poland might not be the first place you’d expect to find a producer like Kixnare, whose beats sound like they’re straight out of California. After falling in love with tracks like “Knockout” and “Tomorrow” (which you can stream below), we were entranced by the rest of his hiphop beats that we dug up on YouTube, […]
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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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Truth is, we probably should have been introducing you to Xosar a while ago. The mystery behind this emerging producer is, however, part of her charm. Breaking through in an industry that tends to focus so much on the visual when it ideally should be all about the aural can be difficult especially for a […]
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For their next EP, Dark Sky is set to return to Black Acre, the label that put out their debut “Something to Lose / Ghost Notes” in 2010. Following their most recent release, the “Radius” EP on Modeselektor’s 50Weapons, things took off and it was hard to hit a club without hearing the instaclassic “Neon” […]
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Peverelist’s Punch Drunk label has, until now, been one of those labels you can always count on for a certain level of quality without putting itself right in the spotlight. The Bristol-based imprint had a growth spurt with a handful of releases in 2011, most notably with Kahn’s “Like We Used To / Helter Skelter,” […]
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