Often abbreviated as BAT, Best Available Technology is the alias of Portland based producer Kevin Palmer. First appearing in 2012 on Stephen Bishop’s now highly prolific label Opal Tapes as a split release with OND TON; BAT then went on to put out the impressive Excavated Tapes 1992-1999, Vol. 1 the following year on the always on point […]
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With the FabricLive series impressively about to hit its seventy first mix in the form of UK stalwart DJ EZ, Notting Hill Carnival pictures still floating around on Facebook and September seemingly giving us our last blips of sunlight in exchange for rain, we’ve recently found ourselves drawn to the music of past FabricLive 12 […]
Read moreFor our seventy-first Truancy Volume we are excited to bring you a producer whose productions under a number of aliases, and with several fellow Bristolians, marked him as one of the city’s most promising newcomers of the last two years. As Hodge he DJs and produces predominantly quite dark and percussive tracks, but you can also find […]
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What’s incredibly great about Lost Trax is that the choice of remaining anonymous since 2006 has not once been a hype tool or more in the limelight than the actual music that is produced. Of course theories were brought forward and speculations were made but it wasn’t till 2010 where they stated in a small […]
Read moreThere’s always that sense of hesitant laziness when asking someone what sort of music they’re into, only to have them reply with the slightly frustrating old “you know, a bit of everything.” However with Julian Raymond Smith, otherwise known as Bristol based producer October, a bit of everything seems like quite a fitting phrase to […]
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After being introduced to the world with a collaboration with Ramadanman, Midland might have felt a certain pressure releasing his first solo outing “Play The Game” back in 2010. In a similar vein, Bristol based producer Borai may have felt an equal amount of pressure in releasing his first solo work after three collaborations with fellow […]
Read moreWhen a debut release finds its way into almost every year-end list, it’s hard to not take a little notice of Brooklyn-based producer Bookworms. Having been taken under the wing of Ron Morelli and the L.I.E.S Records crew since his move from San Francisco to the Big Apple around a year ago, the young producer made […]
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Consisting of three producers, Swedish trio Frak are often described as ‘Sweden’s best-kept techno secret’, yet despite their somewhat obscure relation and tendency to have unjustly remained under the radar over the years, it would be rather difficult to find a back catalogue as superb (and large) as this trio here. Having all grown up […]
Read moreFor our 55th Truancy Volume we take a little trip to Scotland’s third most populous city Aberdeen. Also wildly known as The Granite City, it is home to the busiest heliport in the world (little fact for you) and is also the birth place of Tuff Wax Records. Founded in 2009, the label originally stated […]
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It was in the first quarter of 2011 that Thomas Cox, of Infinite State Machine fame, teamed up with fellow producers Adam Ratana and Preslav Lefterov to release a debut record under their newfound Pittsburgh Track Authority moniker. With a comprehensive knowledge of house and techno that spans three brains, the trio were able to […]
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Anyone remember that Surgeon ‘Humanity Test’ mix from a couple of months back, that had the internet go into a small frenzy over the amount of exclusives and generally how great it was? If by some small chance you missed out on it the first time, we’d like to kindly direct your ears and eyes […]
Read moreThere’s no denying Canada has brought us more than a fair share of musical talent in the past couple of years. Be it the blissful and unadulterated sounds of Ryan Hemsworth to the more left-field dance floor movers of Kevin Mcphee, the amount of flourishing talent from an array of backgrounds has been an extremely […]
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