“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”- Julian Clary The latest Truancy Volume for you to feast upon comes steeped in glacial disco swagger from Bxentric – one of the most promising and hardest working duos to emerge in UK dance music over the past year, and who’ve now artfully […]
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Interview: Jacques Greene
It’s hard to pin-point what exactly it is about Jacques Greene’s music that’s able to consume you completely, but the immense emotions that his music is embedded with are surely a part of the equation. The Montreal-based producer has the ability to approach sound in a manner most down-to-earth and void of gimmick, resulting in purely […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 19: Voltron
For our nineteenth Truancy Volume, we present you with the up and coming Voltron: a deejay trio hailing from Belgium that are emerging to be a promising talent for the coming year. Together with fellow Belgian DJs Ultravid, they run the young small label Silverback Recordings, which in their own words is “trying to define […]
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Interview: Square Mode
A while ago we had the pleasure to giveaway Square Mode´s track Klezmer – see here if you missed it. The thing is, Square Mode are Anonymity itself. We didn’t really know who precisely we were writing about. As we can’t go on any longer writing about these two guys without knowing anything about the faces behind this project, […]
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Interview: O’Jay Boulevard
We are pleased to introduce you to the proficient Glasgow-based sound sculptor Calum MacRae, who is better known under his moniker O’Jay Boulevard. The producer caught our eye not too long ago after previews of his precious songs Scarlett and Cerulean House came forth. His output is staggering: it’s melodious and soulful but still keeps its fortitude. He was […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 18: Manaré
It is Manaré’s 19th birthday! And although it doesn’t make sense for the birthday boy himself to be the one handing out gifts, the Parisian does it anyway because he keeps it real. Alas, to celebrate his birthday, here’s Truancy Volume 18: Manaré! The first Truancy Volume ever was a gem of a Truancy volume, […]
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Interview: Altered Natives
Altered Natives, aka Danny Native, aka Danny Yorke, is a name that has been bubbling away on the dance music scene for a while. Making a drum heavy mix of broken beats, house and hip hop, in 2009 he released the massive “Rass Out”, which crossed genre boundaries to end up on Ministry UK Funky […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 16: Femme En Fourrure
[wpaudio url=”http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11615889/02.Femme_En_Fourrure-Dirty_Blonde%28Drop_the_Lime_Remix%29.mp3″ text=”FEMME EN FOURRURE – DIRTY BLONDE (DROP THE LIME REMIX)” dl=”0″] It’s that time again. To kick things off, I’d like to quote Milton Babbit, an American composer, who simply, purely said, “I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and […]
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Entrepeneurs Wants to Smoke Crack
ENTREPENEURS – REVENGE PLATTER (320 kbps) ENTREPRENEURS – HUNTING ROGER RABBIT (MASKS REMIX) (320 kbps) ENTREPENEURS – SIX SEVERED HATES (LAUREL HALO REMIX) (320 kbps) After remixing the likes of Turzi and Marina and the Diamonds, Hampshire-based musician Adam A. Crisp A.K.A. Entrepeneurs has now released his first EP Uv Been Robbed (Joking, But Not) through newfound […]
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Interview: Acid Washed
The French dreamy music duo Acid Washed (signed to Record Makers), released their self-titled debut album not too long ago, and it was fantastic. If their beautiful music wasn’t enough, we’d still love them for their trippy videos, directed by the equally talented Anthony Burrill – a match made in heaven. The play count of the […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 14: Neoteric
Different continents, different timezones, a parallel universe, nothing can even get close standing in the way of DJ Neoteric‘s dedication. The Vancouver-based music junkie paused his sleep and crawled out of bed at five in the morning to talk to us about Truancy 14, a record-breaking 80 minutes blend up of almost 40 tracks. There’s no […]
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Interview: Diplo
After missing out on Diplo‘s appearance at the Major Lazer show in Amsterdam and the interview with this versatile whiz that night, we got the chance to enrich our knowledge with the gifted artisan through the information superhighway of Twitter last week. Upon greeting us, Philly-based producer Diplo, who goes by the name of Wes […]
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