“I would say a lot of my inspirations comes from walking around London at certain times of the day and night” stated London based producer Toby Ridler, otherwise known as Becoming Real in an interview back in 2010. From his debut outing on Tough Love in 2009 to his most recent release, it’s almost a given […]
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Stream: Dan Mela – I Don’t Know Why (Nothin’s Gonna Change) (What Ever Not) Now, the vinyl release of this new Dan Mela record has been out for two weeks now, but with the digital recently dropping we thought it still would be worthwhile reviewing these stylish, left-field house productions from the producer born in Canada. Having […]
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Having kept themselves busy and us entertained with a string of edits and remixes of Rihanna, Ester Dean and Usher the last couple of months, prolific London trio Funkystepz get set to finally drop their highly anticipated “Royal Rumble” EP next week on F.L.Y Recordings. Now these four tracks have been doing the rounds on […]
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Whilst the words ‘new label’ are often met with a grain of salt these days, there’s the select few that manage to breeze past that big initial hurdle and capture that all important attention from listeners. New label Amadeus Records, a sister imprint to Southern Californian blog/label Rebel Magazine, is one to not only have […]
Read moreOur fortieth installment into our Truancy Volume series comes from a long time friendship of two guys from Bristol making giant leaps forward with their new production alias Behling & Simpson. Having released tunes together since 2004 under various guises and stacked up more than a hundred releases between them on an array of labels […]
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When an artist gets asked to do a revered Essential mix, not only is there the highly daunting and challenging task in choosing a selection of tracks you’ll be happy to look back on in the future, but also finding the certain right tracks that will open and close the first and last ten minutes […]
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Last year London based Deadplate Records inaugurated the start of the label with a release titled “Booty Call”‘ from Cardiff producers Lung & Maxx Roach. Backed with a remix from Randomer, it propelled the young label ran by Synamatix into one of the most prosperous new additions to look out for in 2012. Support from the […]
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Something possibly a little different to show you on this fine Sunday, from Turkish producer Onur Engin. We’re not exactly sure if we’ve ever had the pleasure of featuring a producer from Istanbul before on TRUANTS, but if we have we can safely say they are not in the majority. For those of you who […]
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After his Kazaduon EP was featured and reviewed here a couple of months back, the news that Kentucky based beat maker Milyoo would be releasing a debut album titled “Archeology” on Subeena’s label Opit Records was received to glowing grins and open arms from everyone at TRUANTS. While it may seem soon to put out […]
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Let’s take a moment to talk about Kevin Gorman; a man whose name might not initially click with a lot of readers but whose productions should be heard by anyone remotely interested in techno. Having put out his first 12″ in 2006 on DJ Hell’s label International Deejay Gigolo, Gorman has had a small but steady flow […]
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After our last One on One feature on the wonderful Norma Jean Bell, we thought it was time to pull towards those long lost classics that are still begging to be played out once again in this current climate. Cue the work of man like Grant Nelson; born in London 1971 and heralded as one […]
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If there’s one track that got us all excited about being in the latest Truancy Volume by Riffs, it would be the ‘deep, dark and deadly’ sounds of “Surface” by Blackwax. Having had our eyes on the duo for a while, we’ve seen their output gradually evolve and garner huge interest from the likes of Dusk […]
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