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Do the Skanky

With Night Slugs winning best label of the month on Resident Advisor and Girl Unit’s Wut destroying clubs world wide, I think we can safely say that Future Garage/Dubstep is taking over at the moment and I for one am super excited to see where the genre takes us in 2011. One artist who should […]

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Baobinga, Mensah & DVA Anyone?

Collaborations are great aren’t they?  Great minds coming together, sharing skills and ideas, all contributing into making one final amazing outcome. I often have trouble sleeping at night at the thought of dream collaborations. Just imagine if in some off shoot parallel universe Obama and Lincoln are jamming in some garage, making some crazy acid […]

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Fifty On Our Foreheads

We here at TRUANTS are ever expanding, always growing and from a couple of humble writers the blog has grown immensely and now houses a wonderful group of 11 dedicated music lovers, all bringing something new and exciting to the table. Our newest writer Will, whom were extremely happy to have on board, has already […]

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Truancy Volumes, Various

Truancy Volume 17: Highbloo

It’s only been a week since Femme En Fourrure kindly did the last Truancy Volume but we here at TRUANTS thought we’d spoil you,  so we’re back with another special mixtape by one of the biggest artists to emerge from Belgium in the last twelve months! We’re talking about Highbloo. Creating the project right after […]

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Sucks that Daddy’s Gone

Seems like new producers are bursting out of every nook and cranny at the moment. Some may even think that there’s too many! In my opinion though, for every ten bad wannabe producers looking for limelight and fame, theres always 2 that shine through with top notch quality music. Now, I couldn’t write an intro […]

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Five Mixes Are Better Than One: Part III

I completely forgot I was doing these and I’m not even sure what part were on. Pretty sure it’s Part 3, so here goes. I recently bought a new external hard drive so I can now download mixes to my hearts content without worrying about filling my laptop up. First up is a new 90 […]

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Round & Round

So my new neighbours finally moved in yesterday and no unfortunately I didn’t get that amazing hot girl that I wanted but instead I got some old couple who have already complained about the music. I want my crazy party animal neighbours back!  They never complained once! I want to play Skipteque out loud! This […]

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Bottoms Up & Double My Dosage

Not going to lie, it’s hard to keep up with the amount of releases this week has had. LA Riots, Nom De Strip, Kid Kaio, Shortstuff, Edu K, Mightyfools, Sharkslayer to name a few. My iTunes has never looked so good and it looks like next week is set to be another big week, starting […]

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The Records On My Wall

I was supposed to go camping today but the rain hit hard in Brighton today, making this unfortunately a trip for another day. All was not lost considering a producer who’s been making big sounds along with fellow producers Myd and Sam Tiba this year, just dropped a debut EP titled ‘Jetpack’ on London based […]

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Lolli Lolli Pop that Body

LOL. Remember when everyone started using it? Must have used it at the end of messages like a thousands times in the good old days of MSN, lol. It’s kind of lost its touch on the way, replaced with new ways of showing that we find something amusing. Trolololol, anyone? Anyways, two guys proving that […]

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Moving On

Last month Stone Throw Records and Serato teamed up to deliver a super exclusive gatefold package of unreleased instrumentals by the one and only J Dilla, including unreleased instrumentals of productions for Busta Rhymes, Mos-Def and Q-Tip. Included in the package where two discs backed Serato Control Tones on the flip side of either one […]

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I Love Me

I first came across Andreya Triana whilst searching through my local record shop. I came across a track she did with Bonobo and it came backed with a Flying Lotus remix so I immdiately snapped it up. From then on I always gave close attention to the Ninja Tune lady and her new single is […]

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