Last week, Dro Carey, the hyper-talented Aussie with releases on Templar Sound, Hum + Buzz and The Trilogy Tapes, stepped up for us with a Truancy-themed mix inspired by the structure of Dre’s tapes from the ’80s: techno followed by rap followed by his own productions. Before RAMP Recordings puts out his debut album later in the year, Dro will self-release […]
Read moreTruants readers will be familiar with Dro Carey thanks to his impossibly good 12″ release on Templar Sound last year, which Simon Docherty reviewed here. “N.R.”‘s take on steely grime tropes summed up the essence of Eugene Hector’s approach to production, either as Dro Carey or Tuff Sherm. He delights in playful subversion, his take on the sacred totems of dance music simultaneously reverent and […]
Read moreThe last few years saw a deluge of mediocrity in a scene describing itself as “UK bass music”, which drew together the politest bits of house, techno, garage and dubstep for a depressingly vanilla sound. Thankfully, the scene also yielded some real original talents, one of whom is Damu, an artist with releases that include an […]
Read moreYou may not be familiar with CLAUDE SPEEED yet, but we guarantee that by the end of this year, you shall know his velocity. Part of the always-brilliant LuckyMe label/collective/crew (also home to Eclair Fifi, whose own Truancy Volume is one of our finest), he’s so far released an EP with his band American Men, […]
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“Quarantine”, Laurel Halo’s debut for Hyperdub, was one of the most polarising, uncompromising records of 2012, with its gruesome, weirdly vibrant hara-kiri cover art and themes of sensory deprivation and torture. Perhaps its divisiveness was partly due to its location at the precise intersection between pop and experimental – tense and uneasy, it made no […]
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To say Stroboscopic Artefacts boss Lucy has had a pretty good couple of years is an understatement. His debut album “Wordplay for Working Bees”, was one of the strongest techno full-lengths of 2011, with its broad spectrum of moods and styles and impeccable sound design, and a subsequent EP, “The Banality of Evil”, was a […]
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