When I realised the first thing I would be writing about after holding sloths and being washed naked in rivers by old tribal ladies, since coming back from Colombia would be something from Saigon Recordings, I chuckled to myself profoundly. This may just be a joke between me and my brother but over the month we […]
Read moreOur next Truancy Volume comes from Swiss producer WILDLIFE! whose ability on effortlessly mixing and combining dancehall and electronic music has garnered him huge support from the likes of Diplo, Sinden and L-Vis 1990 to many other musical connoisseurs. Having founded the now revered dancehall soundsystem Gold Rush International at the tender age of 19, […]
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Now I know my fellow TRUANTS will think I should have better things to do than doing a post from a random hotel in Colombia but I’m jet lagged as hell, can’t get to sleep and the last thing I want to do is tune into some dubbed Gordan Ramsay show. Actually, now that I […]
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Came across this guy working under the name IL yesterday and it took me quite a while to find any information about the guy. All I know is that he hails from Illinois and this 17 track EP on Error Broadcast is his debut release. No idea how long it’s been in the making, but […]
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It’s Sunday, literally on the verge of Monday, but we weren’t going to to miss out on another Sunday’s Best! Here is the 13th edition consisting another collection of tracks that have been tickling our fancy the last week, starting off with the wonderful New York based Deniz Kurtel. Wolf & Lamb affiliate and lady of […]
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I think we can all unanimously agree that good music is in abundance at this moment in time. The dumbfound selection of debuts coming out is staggering and they all seem to be astonishingly great. Glaswegian Koreless recently proved how much hype a first release can bring and I’d like to imagine Outboxx will reach similar […]
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So whilst tuned in to the Boiler Room last night one track dropped by the ‘world needs to hear more of’ Jon Rust caught my ears in particular. The on point Boiler Room chat told told me it was a track named Tarantula by a London producer named Ossie and a with a little more […]
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After a 11 year hiatus from R&S Records the ‘godfather of techno’ Juan Atkins returned along with Mark Taylor, DJ Skurge and Mike Banks for a ‘comeback’ EP last year under the infamous moniker Model 500. Having been out of the game for song, you could say that bars were set pretty dam high. So […]
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With Ill Blu’s debut release on Hyperdub being one of the most anticipated releases on their label last year it’s no wonder their follow up has garnered a rightfully earned amount of hype. With remixes for Cheryl Cole, Shystie, Hot Chip, Roll Deep, production work for Princess Nyah and being one of the forefathers of […]
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Now we here at TRUANTS are major fans of Super Recordings having mentioned and posted about their releases on a number of occasions so it’s always a pleasure to find emails from them in my inbox. The 4th release on their label comes as a debut from London producer Photomachine whom you may have previously […]
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With S-X’s Woo Riddim and Spooky’s Spartan showing that Grime Instrumentals are as strong as ever at the moment it’s great to see a flourish of new producers breaking through. Step up a new release from the Oil Gang crew who drop a range of four different grime instrumentals from the likes of Darq E […]
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Sorry for the slight decrease in posts lately but sorting out university applications and graphic portfolio’s has seriously damaged my tired soul and made me incapable of doing anything else the last week. I also cut my finger on some glass. I almost died no joke (yes joke). Amidst all of this commotion in my […]
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