Every magazine has it’s own history behind their name. The name TRUANTS was one that kind of breezed in at the right time when we were looking to change our name a year ago – it was catchy and it described the team of writers. We had no idea however that ‘truands’ means gangster in […]
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It’s not often we are left speechless by an artist, but we were when it came to listening to Melbourne based producer Lucid who is becoming steadily becoming one of Australia’s biggest talents and was recently featuring on Aussie music site LOOSE JOINTS‘s Get Low series. When listening to his output the only comparisons that […]
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This is the start of a new feature here at TRUANTS that will go under the name “Truancy Anthems” that we see as our favourite jams that come from all genres and constantly come back day after day, week after week, month… you get the picture. Our first entry is one of the most recent […]
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It’s time we revisit a firm favourite of ours who we featured last year; Erdbeerschnitzel, who in our humble opinion happened to make the best house EP of 2010 with ‘To an End‘. So now this article is going to feature another of his EP’s that was released back in December just gone, but is […]
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We’ve all heard “Nostalgia, ULTRA”, I mean ya boy Frank Ocean has already been mentioned in two TRUANTS posts since the album/mixtape/thing came out. Now comes his third. Also getting a second mention of late is DJ Ayres. This time he’s done something effortlessly simple yet also perfect because of its simplicity. Taking the dramatically […]
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Oh my, it may be the sunstroke I’m experiencing from this sudden burst of summer we are having in Britain or it could just because this is one of the finest records I’ve come across in a long time. The pianos! Oh the pianos! This gem was released by Studio Barnhus in January of all […]
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More Frank Ocean related SWAG here, but this time the spotlight falls on a trusty favourite of many a truant, Pional. A man whose productions have me swooning with excitement for summer to hear his jams in all their sunshine basked glory. Part of the Hivern Discs stable along side other Spanish talents such as […]
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(Click image to enlarge.) $in & Soraya – Dat Nolla Promo Mix by $in & Soraya Jeeze. Truants don’t just write. We also like to play out the tracks we talk about in different duo’s, because we’re based in different countries. Our Dutch delegation, $in & Soraya, have been booked to play Femme En […]
Read moreIndulge me a moment if you will, and imagine the group photo of the Nu Skool Class of 2011 – the sparky young upstarts pushing through and poised to shake things up, the aural equivalent of a sharp slap round the face and a Red Bull shoved hastily down our necks. There he is, front […]
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Truancy Compilation One features fourteen tracks from a mixture of both upcoming and established artists based from all corners of the world, something we consider to be an important and essential venture with our first release as it embodies our ethos on music as a blog, having talked and written about DJs and producers from […]
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Try finding good music on Sunday. We’ve already posted one remix of Lykke Li’s “I Follow Rivers” by Tyler, The Creator here on Truants, but earlier this week Stephen Fasano a.k.a. The Magician, formerly of Aeroplane, gave away his version as a Valentine’s gift and took it in a completely unique path, creating an upbeat jam […]
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In my last post I expressed my hopes that 2011 would be just as productive for Main Attrakionz as last year was, well with Squadda’s ‘I Smoke Because I Don’t Care About Death‘ album already released this month I’m encouraged to think it is. But I could never of guessed a collaboration with fellow Green […]
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