Rockie Fresh, we like this Rockie Fresh. Sweet, ha ha ha! The Chi-town native Rockie Fresh, born Donald Pullen, has been doing a great deal of things right over the past three years. The young rapper, who now rightfully deserves the underground king prefix, runs with a calm flow, often evened out by heavy instrumentals, […]
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There’s a lot to be said for music that simply does what you need it to do. We all have a song we turn to when we need music for the 5am bus home after a miserable night, the song that softens the strip lighting illuminating your crushed heart. And then there are the songs […]
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We love to blame music platforms for enthusing a dangerously fast-spinning carousel of hype and short-lived careers by the use of the cyberspace and its social networks. One thing we shouldn’t forget is that we’re part of a special era as the music industry is changing right in front of our eyes. We live in […]
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Courtship, Patric Fallon’s playful side-project for writing sluggish, lo-fi pop music, has been unusually silent over the last six months and in a digital world where people move from project to project at an unholy rate this may have led some to believe it had reached its end. Thankfully this is not true, Fallon is planning to give […]
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If, like us, you’ve been wondering what Lucid has been up to lately, Triple Lucid Life is your answer. The hotly tippled Melbourne producer became a sensation last year with his “Thy EP” on the party-starting Pelican Fly imprint, demonstrating an uninhibited, self-assured style that brings together grime, house, dubstep, and hip hop in irreverent and unseen […]
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“Sunday my off day, I ball all day, smoke all day and then stuntin’, all the Truants boys and girls gotta get up off the corner” – Gucci Mane. Another rest day and another couple of musical affairs we’d like to open to your view and hearing. How to simply describe the artist behind the first […]
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If you’ve heard anything off of Svengalisghost’s debut release, “Mind Control“, it’s apparent this is the work of an experienced producer with a refined palette of sounds. Don’t get it twisted, he’s in no way content with using the same sounds over and over, as he states, “What’s the new sound? That can’t be it, […]
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So what, you though May had given it all you had to offer? Think again. Just when you were about to toss May aside like a rinsed can of Rubicon Mango, this absolute dream of a mix pops up, offered to us by the excellent bilinguals over at Playground Magazine. Of course, being Truants we’re […]
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“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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1. In anticipation of Forward Strategy Group’s brilliant debut full-length “Labour Division” – an astonishing full-length definitely worth your consideration – out today on Perc Trax, the two Scotsmen took care of the label series latest podcast.The outcome is a little over an hour of granular and forthright techno: racing through a selection of tens of […]
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Spring is so beautiful. It’s all about long, sunny days and even longer, sunnier house remixes. Right now anyone who’s anyone is sacking off work to laze around in the park and tweet about drinking alcohol before the big yellow thing in the sky goes down. And any afternoon spent in the great outdoors (or […]
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Aubrey Drake Graham’s come up has been a strange one. Some of the same pitchfork-holding haters that were spewing fire at the Canadian rapper-come-singer about twenty-four months back have gradually been transformed into those fans that now DIY owl chains and whisper YOLO before job interviews. Somehow Drizzy’s charm is quite irrefutable at the end […]
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