Emerging on to the UK Bass scene, Justin Reid-Simms aka Whole Sick has held down residencies at some of the Midlands best parties; Fresh out of Death, Dollop, Bigger Than Barry, not to mention Tomb Crew’s longstanding monthly party My City Is For Pimps. He’s also a resident at Southend’s Kool Kids Klub, which is […]
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Goodness gracious, Kansas City! Perhaps we all should have realised earlier that the American Midwest sticks out like a sore thumb as a prime candidate for number one breeding ground of turgid punk rock? Separated from the white water scenes of L.A, Boston, New York and Seattle, it’s inhabitants seem to have congealed together a […]
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Altered Natives, aka Danny Native, aka Danny Yorke, is a name that has been bubbling away on the dance music scene for a while. Making a drum heavy mix of broken beats, house and hip hop, in 2009 he released the massive “Rass Out”, which crossed genre boundaries to end up on Ministry UK Funky […]
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“In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song.” – That’s what Wikipedia tells us about sampling. Sampled songs are all around us these days. I don’t know the exact figures but I’m pretty […]
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“A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.” Sunday, my oh my, how quickly you have returned to us. I’m not exactly sure if a hangover Sunday counts as a day well-spent though. In case it’s not, here’s another edition of Sunday’s Best to balance out the laziness and get you pumped on some of […]
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Fun Fact – I’m an Aries. If you’ll indulge me a moment to delve into such frivolous astrological larks, you may or may not know that Aries the Ram and the Gemini twins supposedly can’t get enough of each other. The plural of anecdote is not evidence but as a typical Ram, I’ve found I’ve […]
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It’s only been a week or two since I last posted but it seems like so long ago. So it’s only fair I right I talk about someone really special and whose musical output is just as special. Well there is only one artist that I can think of who can fit the bill. Percee […]
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Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Despite our busy schedules, being pressed for time and wishes for more than twenty-four hours in a day, we always find Sunday the perfect day to kick away all the obligations and take some well-deserved me-time. Even though […]
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is a good as dead: his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein This Einstein character, […]
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Part of the beauty of being a part of a merry band of musical scoundrels as we are is that you can stake your trousers on the fact that if there’s one thing we do well here, its diversity. As a beloved reader of TRUANTS, (and we do love you, you know – real, actual […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt.I. German philosopher Albert Schweitzer once said, Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. Albie, we feel you man. Sunday is the only day that somehow justifies all of our procrastinating, postponing and lazing around because of the simple excuse that we need […]
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Ahhh, Belgium. Belgium, Belgium, Belgium, you foxy little swine. Not only do you seduce us with your waffles, your chocolate and your, er, moules et frites, the country that gave the world of electronic music the precious gifts of Aeroplane & Villa continues to provide us with irresistibly decadent temptations – this time in the […]
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