A trait of the cyclical nature of this beast we often refer to as ‘music’ that rules you and I with an iron fist is this – a song, genre or artist that at one point was at the bleeding-edge of a new sound , pushing boundaries and setting our hearts ablaze from the first […]
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“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.” I’m unashamedly trying to put another Irishman on the map here, Dublin-based DJ/producer/promoter/renaissance man Frankie Grimes. Yes, that’s his real name, yet unlike his unfortunate namesake in The Simpsons, everything seems to be going his way right now. The young student of History is a resident in […]
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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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Emerging on to the UK Bass scene, Justin Reid-Simms aka Whole Sick has held down residencies at some of the Midlands best parties; Fresh out of Death, Dollop, Bigger Than Barry, not to mention Tomb Crew’s longstanding monthly party My City Is For Pimps. He’s also a resident at Southend’s Kool Kids Klub, which is […]
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For a precise duration of seven minutes I panicked when someone linked me up to the Soundcloud of Glass Actor without giving me any names – looking him up didn’t give me any accommodating results either, so I consulted my last resort (Twitter) and found out that the man behind this project is the one and only Greg from Acid […]
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I had a weird time the one summer I spent in Chicago. I couldn’t get proper work so I had to do a lot of manual labour and ended up so tired that I wouldn’t go out proper, I’d just drink Ice House or going to the worst clubs imaginable that were only full of […]
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If you haven’t tempted yourself into giving a listen to the leaks of N*E*R*D’s new album Nothing yet, you’re either straight up lying or have an incredibly strong subconscious telling you to resist the urge to do so anyway. I’ll admit that will power isn’t exactly my middle name and have been giving the album […]
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It’s Halloween this week, so everyone’s in the mood for spooky dark music that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Resident Advisor were quick off the mark with an exceptional podcast from Alan Howarth, frequent collaborator with John carpenter on the soundtracks for the latter’s films. It’s a gorgeously chilling […]
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Originally, the purpose of this post was to hand you over twenty-five R&B remixes. Listening to Mala’s Alicia for the 1000th time, which is probably one of my favourite tracks ever done by Mala if not one of my favourite tracks ever, it occurred to me we needed a top list of good R&B remixes on here […]
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“A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.” Sunday, my oh my, how quickly you have returned to us. I’m not exactly sure if a hangover Sunday counts as a day well-spent though. In case it’s not, here’s another edition of Sunday’s Best to balance out the laziness and get you pumped on some of […]
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Fun Fact – I’m an Aries. If you’ll indulge me a moment to delve into such frivolous astrological larks, you may or may not know that Aries the Ram and the Gemini twins supposedly can’t get enough of each other. The plural of anecdote is not evidence but as a typical Ram, I’ve found I’ve […]
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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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