It’s hard to ignore the proliferation of toughness in dance music at the moment. Hard, gritty, noisiness seems to be where it’s at. Truants – the collective and the blog – is a product of its time, and our focus, if you can call it that, is kaleidoscopic. We want everything, we’re interested in it […]
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I’ve probably had one of Murlo’s tunes stuck in my head for the majority of 2013, his fluttering melodies set up shop in the brain and refuse to leave. Working mainly in the crevices between grime and dancehall, he has carved out a sound truly his own. Romantic, wistful and primed for a sunny day […]
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Druid Cloak is taking giant leaps in the game. Rapidly becoming amongst the most prolific of producers, the man billed from Moonstone Grove, United States has been making waves with his bootleg series, Club Cosmos, and recent EP for Bad Taste Records, Bastion Of The Sterling Thrones. In addition to this, there is the inception […]
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Ghetto Heaven Vol. 1 is spectacularly late. Originally slated for a July 4th release, Cam’ron’s first mixtape in nearly a year and a half opens with a peanut gallery of voicemail grievances bemoaning the lack of new material from the Harlem rapper. The messages complain about being “tired of listening to “soft ass rap…I woke […]
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2013 has been a busy year for Leon Vynehall. Not content solely with working his way through a hectic touring schedule, the Brighton producer has also spent considerable time in the studio with releases on both AUS Music and Well Rounded Housing Projects this year. Coming courtesy of Martyn’s 3024 imprint, the Open EP forms […]
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From Lee Gamble’s decimated ‘ardkore to Rashad Becker’s alien teleportation devices, the past few years’ output from Bill Kouglias’ Pan has been singular in both quality and reach. Despite a uniform tendency towards the outer limits, the often restrictive dance music world has embraced Pan with open arms, even as far as takeovers of “bass music […]
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Often abbreviated as BAT, Best Available Technology is the alias of Portland based producer Kevin Palmer. First appearing in 2012 on Stephen Bishop’s now highly prolific label Opal Tapes as a split release with OND TON; BAT then went on to put out the impressive Excavated Tapes 1992-1999, Vol. 1 the following year on the always on point […]
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Since we featured the inauguration of Signal Life back in April of last year, instigators Teeth and Desto have steadily built an exciting outlet for those who like their beats low-down, broken and heavy. Their merry band of contributors has included LAS, Visionist, Last Japan, Zebra Katz, French Fries and Kowton, with each artist equipped with […]
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With the FabricLive series impressively about to hit its seventy first mix in the form of UK stalwart DJ EZ, Notting Hill Carnival pictures still floating around on Facebook and September seemingly giving us our last blips of sunlight in exchange for rain, we’ve recently found ourselves drawn to the music of past FabricLive 12 […]
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Last September we spoke to Don Froth about his approach to producing music and general outlook on life. At the time he was on the cusp of two releases for Uno and West Norwood Cassette Library’s WNCL Recordings. With those records behind him and a relatively quiet 2013 (so far) we thought it’d be nice […]
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Seattle-based Hush Hush Records recently released the third full length from duo Cock & Swan “Secret Angles” and they’re currently prepping a collection of remixes from the album, a couple of which we’re excited to premiere here on Truants. Cock & Swan is the product of a 10 year relationship between musicians Johnny Goss and […]
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Italian producer Raw M.T’s self-titled EP, set for release at the end of the month on Ukrainian label Wicked Bass, comprises four serious selections. Wicked Bass have been releasing some hot stuff – we were 100% down for that Innershades EP a few months back, and of course we’re big fans of your boy Huerco S […]
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