Jeremih’s “Late Nights with Jeremih” set the internet ablaze when it dropped a few weeks ago, and, like everyone else, we couldn’t resist the guilty pleasures found in the R&B posterboy’s relentless and unabashed carnal pursuits. If you read our August’s Best feature last Sunday, you know that we particularly enjoyed “773 Love” for the way that […]
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To represent our attitude going into the last quarter of the year we’ve chosen the brutal yet tender stylings of the latest ItaloJohnson mix. As a trio they’ve already proven that they see eye-to-eye with the dance floor, just have a listen to their last 10-inch “ItaloJohnson 05”. It’s slice of pure & stripped back […]
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As you all know, we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus for the past month. But we’ve all returned from our island hopping and Moët popping to get back on the Truants grind, and we have a lot of exciting features coming up in the next few weeks and months! While the dog days […]
Read moreFor our 50th Truancy Volume we wanted to take stock in our values in what we have built here at TRUANTS for the past few years and stay true to the artists we hold dear the most. Our Truancy Volume series is something we hope you all love as much as we do, each and […]
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We’re leaving our beloved Truancy chateau for a few weeks as the sun is out and we have festivities on dwarf planets, pittoresque cities and seasides to attend as well as a lot of mixtapes to catch up on. However, we’ll share our 50th Truancy Volume with you soon (TBA) as well as a lengthy conversation […]
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Three-Peat is our feature spanning genres and labels to bring you three select releases from the past – whether the past month or the past year – that still deserve your attention. 1. Makam – What Ya Doin’ In May, Amsterdam-based record label Dekmantel – which recently commemorated its five year anniversary with a stellar five-installment […]
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There’s a lot to be said for music that simply does what you need it to do. We all have a song we turn to when we need music for the 5am bus home after a miserable night, the song that softens the strip lighting illuminating your crushed heart. And then there are the songs […]
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“Sunday my off day, I ball all day, smoke all day and then stuntin’, all the Truants boys and girls gotta get up off the corner” – Gucci Mane. Another rest day and another couple of musical affairs we’d like to open to your view and hearing. How to simply describe the artist behind the first […]
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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 […]
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Three-Peat is our feature spanning genres and labels to bring you three select releases from the past that still deserve your attention. 1. Octo Octa – Oh Love The past year has certainly been a good one for Brooklyn’s Michael Morrison, aka 100% Silk mainstay Octo Octa. A largely unknown producer prior to the release of […]
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So what, you though May had given it all you had to offer? Think again. Just when you were about to toss May aside like a rinsed can of Rubicon Mango, this absolute dream of a mix pops up, offered to us by the excellent bilinguals over at Playground Magazine. Of course, being Truants we’re […]
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1. In anticipation of Forward Strategy Group’s brilliant debut full-length “Labour Division” – an astonishing full-length definitely worth your consideration – out today on Perc Trax, the two Scotsmen took care of the label series latest podcast.The outcome is a little over an hour of granular and forthright techno: racing through a selection of tens of […]
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