I discovered Arthur Russell last week. Let me rephrase that, I discovered how songs should be made last week. The act of making good pop songs is surprisingly hard to realise. At least, I have found it to be so. Arguably the greatest pop songs ever made were written by Lennon and McCartney. One only […]
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The Life & Death of Disco Music II
If you found the biggest disco fan in the world – a 60-something year old homosexual, African American New Yorker who spent almost every night of the early seventies at clubs like Haven, The Loft or The Gallery – someone who was there, who doesn’t just enjoy the music but was a part of the […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 3: Melé
My first post for Truants sees me under a bit of pressure. Instead of easing myself in slowly I decided to grab the bull by the horns and start off with a bit of impact. With already two Truancy Mixtapes under the belt from French wonder kid RiotKid and NT89 the third in the series […]
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Truancy Volume 2: NT89
The time has come for us to proudly introduce you to a brand new TRUANCY VOLUME! Italian-born producer Nima Tahmasebi has earned himself quite a few titles such as the studio assistant of the Bloody Beetroots and Lazy Ants, but is best known for his work as NT89. For those of you who have mysteriously missed out […]
Read moreYou Know I and I is Dynamite
It’s my pleasure to knock down the first weekly item of the blog. It has been baptized and named IMMY DI DANCEHALL. As the name implies, this column will be me, Immy, covering everything that has to do with dancehall culture. I’ll try to touch grounds with the history of dancehall, particularly the progress of the […]
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The Life & Death of Disco Music
ABBA, Bee Gees, The Jackson 5, The Village People; this is what most people remember when they look back on what was, ‘disco’ music. Granted, some of the music they produced, or performed, is excellent! And, fit quite snuggly into the description of the genre – but this isn’t disco, this is pop music. Soul-less, funk-less […]
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I Want to Learn the Ways of the Force
Hey kids, the name’s Sel and I’m the newest addition to the writing team here. I’m quite different to the rest of the team at Truants for a couple of reasons which I will go into in a moment, but first I think it’d be appropriate to introduce myself proper. So I said, I am […]
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Interview: Felix Cartal
Vancouver based DJ and producer Taylor Deitcher, who’s better known under his pseudonym FELIX CARTAL, is dropping his album Popular Music on Monday (through Dim Mak). It’s undoubtedly going to be smashing. Last week his exciting track with Johnny Whitney, Volcano, was released and included a notable remix by Felix himself. The track Popular Music was […]
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Interview: Drop The Lime
Drop The Lime/Luca Venezia’s pomade had been taken away on the airport the day he played Amsterdam, which was quite the issue as Luca won’t ever rest without a perfectly styled pompadour. The lack of slick luckily didn’t come with a lack of rapture and we had a moment with Luca to ask him about […]
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Interview: Teki Latex
TEKI LATEX (born Julien Pradeyrol) is the Godfather of everything that will ever matter to you. Firstly, there’s Sound Pellegrino and Institubes which both were carefully brought up by his joint efforts. Next to that he’s a part of the (electronic) hip-hop formation TTC, worked together with the likes of Lio and Alexis Week and […]
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