We first came across Jordan Poling’s production when he shared a split release on L.A.G with the Point Break guys back in 2014. Prior to that, he had already contributed a track for Fred P’s Soul People Music label under the name JD, but the Jordan alias seems to be what he’s devoted his attention […]
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William Gibson has long inspired the landscape of electronic music. Most recently, Mumdance, Logos and Shapednoise named their collaborative project The Sprawl, after his mid-1980s trilogy of sci-fi novels. References to his imagined universe litter music writing and criticism, an easy shorthand for dystopian menace. Now, Italian artist Morkebla has named his latest release Ono-Cendai […]
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Following on from premieres from Guy Andrews and Samrai & Platt earlier this week, we’ve got another artist who has previously mixed a Truancy Volume for us since we started the series. Having teamed up with fellow producer and past collaborator Cromie for an hour long mix for us back in 2013, Sage Caswell has […]
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If you hadn’t guessed by now, we’re big fans of the Swing Ting crew here at Truants. Samrai & Platt have already provided us with a Truancy Volume and a premiere of their track “Bad Riddim“, and Florentino served us up his edit of “Get You Alone” last year. In 2015, Swing Ting fully established their label arm to run […]
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Having tapped Guy Andrews for our 28th Truancy Volume in 2011 on the brink of his first Hemlock release, we’ve been following his career closely and excitedly. This looks to begin a new chapter with the release of his debut album Our Spaces, which shows his maturity as a producer. Produced over a period of two years […]
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Long time purveyors of the underground scene in their home city of Stockholm, Henrik Bergqvist and Noah Gibson’s productions, be it under their own names or their collab project HBNG, have provided much consistent quality when it comes to club-ready house and techno. Having debuted their HBNG project with the brilliant EP 1 last year on […]
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Based out of Athens, Mario Naris set up his label Trial&Error in 2015 as an outlet for his own music, which he describes himself as machine music for the mind and feet. Starting the label with his collab project .message which he works on with fellow producer Stratos Bichakis, the pair had previously had a small run […]
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For those of us who have never had the pleasure or the privilege of attending the fabled Freerotation festival in Wales, the glut of live recordings that have surfaced over the past few years merely provides a taste of what’s on offer. Ambient sets recorded in the yurt from Jane Fitz and Surgeon sit alongside […]
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For producers, it must be fairly difficult to look back at your early productions or debut release and be able to have a critical stance on them, especially in contrast to where you’ve possibly come from since then. In a small chat with this week’s Truancy Volume mixer, Happa, he is comfortable in admitting his early productions […]
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In some ways, the sound of John Howes, who makes music simply under his surname Howes, is a fair reflection of Manchester where he resides having moved there from Newcastle for university. It’s pretty much always overcast or raining, but within its sodden, post-Industrial shell lies a heartbeat of culture and a city bound by its […]
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If there is to be any overt or ulterior goal of bubbling-up rap crew Goth Money’s music, it’s a convoluted one; interviews of the six members frame their project as a form of positivity achieved through organic, artistic union, while the group’s material is most often somewhat a literal incarnation of their name. Either way, […]
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Our latest Truancy Volume comes from producer and DJ, Henrik Koefod (aka Erosion Flow), an emerging talent out of Copenhagen. Erosion Flow first grabbed our attention in 2014 with his electric debut EP on George Fitzgerald’s ManMakeMusic label. Garnering quick support, tracks like ‘Bedroom Jam’ saw airtime on Ben UFO’s Rinse FM show and George Fitzgerald’s BBC Radio […]
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