“No one had a bad dream, it was all very good”. So ends the title track on the “Rooted” EP from newcomer Locked Groove, with eleven words that sum up the dark yet uplifting theme threaded through the latest release on Hotflush Recordings. After a magnificent year that saw stellar releases from Sigha, George Fitzgerald, Joy O […]
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Late last month we featured an extensive interview with Bob Bhamra, founder of the consistently impressive and increasingly canonized West Norwood Cassette Library imprint (check it out here if you haven’t already). Among other news, he announced an upcoming release from Canadian producer Knowing Looks (also known as Jason Hopfner), whose first release for WNCL […]
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Something possibly a little different to show you on this fine Sunday, from Turkish producer Onur Engin. We’re not exactly sure if we’ve ever had the pleasure of featuring a producer from Istanbul before on TRUANTS, but if we have we can safely say they are not in the majority. For those of you who […]
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After his Kazaduon EP was featured and reviewed here a couple of months back, the news that Kentucky based beat maker Milyoo would be releasing a debut album titled “Archeology” on Subeena’s label Opit Records was received to glowing grins and open arms from everyone at TRUANTS. While it may seem soon to put out […]
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With Southern hip-hop mixtapes, albums and releases in general being excessively present and apparent in the past few years, at the end of the day there are really only a handful that yearn for repeat-listens over a long timespan. Fortunately, artists like the Alabama duo G-side have found this formula, and most importantly are consistent in […]
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It’s been a busy year for Juicy J, he released a sequel to the original Rubba Band Business not to mention quite a few guest appearances, and managed to make some relevant friends along the way. “Blue Dream & Lean” is twenty-eight tracks of Lex Luger style 808s and slap. It’s as loud, intense, and […]
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“It cannot be understood, only experienced.” These words are spoken in “The Ballad Of Martyn Bootyspoon”, which features on #blessed Sinjin Hawke’s “The Lights EP” on Pelican Fly. It’s an awesome EP, eight tracks of booming bass and ethereal horns. These same words can be said of the three collaborations that Sinjin has kindly given […]
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Young Dro Carey has been making quite a name for himself this year. Following a release for Templar Sound and then one for Hum + Buzz, not to mention the hot-off-the-presses (and decidedly chirpy, by his standards) remix for patten, the Sydney producer has returned to Templar Sound for the “Night Raid EP”. Opener “Scanline […]
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Let’s take a moment to talk about Kevin Gorman; a man whose name might not initially click with a lot of readers but whose productions should be heard by anyone remotely interested in techno. Having put out his first 12″ in 2006 on DJ Hell’s label International Deejay Gigolo, Gorman has had a small but steady flow […]
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“They say I’m old news/ well who the new star?” might just be the perfect opening line for Drake’s latest album “Take Care” due for its much anticipated release this Tuesday, serving as a state of the union sort of address to its listeners. As a sophomore effort “Take Care” serves us a completely comfortable […]
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If there’s one track that got us all excited about being in the latest Truancy Volume by Riffs, it would be the ‘deep, dark and deadly’ sounds of “Surface” by Blackwax. Having had our eyes on the duo for a while, we’ve seen their output gradually evolve and garner huge interest from the likes of Dusk […]
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Fatima Al Qadiri has already released one mind-expanding EP this year, “WARN-U” under the Ayshay guise on Tri-Angle Records. Now releasing on the excellent new UNO imprint (barely seven months old and already responsible for stellar releases from Jacques Greene, Eddie Mars and CFCF), Al Qadiri is delivering us a “Genre Specific Xperience”. Opener “Hip […]
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