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Recommended: Offshore

Londoner Offshore cuts quite an elusive figure against his Big Dada compatriots. Alongside the likes of Roots Manuva and Wiley headlining the bill and youngsters like Dels gaining the majority of attention, he’s happily doing what he does best. With 2 EPs already released to the label, one on Numbers, one on the inventive Disboot […]

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Introduction: Lee Stevens & The Beautiful People

There are two monikers you have to take into account when dealing with a certain Austrian who goes by the name of Stefan Schauppenlehner, they are: Burnin Tears and Lee Stevens & the Beautiful People. Both concentrate on House music, yet the Lee Stevens alias takes him into the depths of wonderful disco whereas the […]

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Preview: Two Inch Punch – Up In Your Mix

It’s been a while since Two Inch Punch self-released his captivating white label 12” in April. The West-London based producer garnered a lot of attention for his compact and soulfully approached tracks and both “Love You Up” and “Luv Luv” acted as a perfect introduction to this artist and his unique sound that he has […]

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One On One Vol. I: Norma Jean Bell – Fun Coming On

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. The ‘baddest bitch in the room‘ Norma Jean Bell has played quite an observable role in the Detroit music scene, but as low-key as she is it almost seems like she’s indeed a bit of a myth. Not only a momentous vocalist, but also an excellent saxophonist and pianist at […]

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Stream: BYNC – Crazy in Luv (Pional Rework)

This isn’t our first post on the Spanish producer Pional. We wrote a post on a certain Frank Ocean edit last time, whereas this time he takes control over the one and only Beyoncé and her immortal track “Crazy In Love.”  The way he pitches down Knowles’ vocals seems somehow familiar, yet its the back bone of […]

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Stream: Depth – Self Like Ocean

Londoner Depth is a captivating talent, coming across his soundcloud was one of those chance encounters that leave you feeling like you’ve listened to something rather brilliant. This ability to charge his productions with emotion and soul is for all to see in his magnificent “Self like Ocean” that you find all his well placed […]

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Recommended: Submotion Orchestra – All Yours

“Jazz, it goes into my coffee in the morning and my wine in the evening,” was an epigraph I’ve lived by for a considerable amount of my life. All-jazz-everything, and a great amount of cheesy pop. The jazz votarient in me slowly started getting into dubstep after hearing Loefah’s Jungle Infiltrator 12″, which held “Jazz Lick” […]

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Stream: Ghostpoet – Survive It (Koreless Remix)

Ghostpoet is an artist who we follow closely at TRUANTS, from his EP to LP, from solo work to collabs, we’re captivated by the Coventry born and London based MC Obaro Ejimiwe. So when it popped up on twitter than Boiler Room had uploaded a remix of “Survive It” by the brilliant Glaswegian Koreless to Soundcloud, we were […]

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Releases, Sunday's Best, Various

Sunday’s Best Pt. XV

We might have been in bed all day every Sunday since the launch of Truancy Compilation One, but Grown Folk who brought us the introduction to our compilation (“Steady Moving” – ‘jewelry, chrome and stones’) haven’t. Neither did LOL Boys, who teamed up with Teki for our release. LOL Boys released a scroled up video […]

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Stream: John Talabot – Families (ft. Glasser)

As of late it’s becoming apparent that Spaniard John Talabot‘s quality will probably never drop, as he’s just that consistent. House is taken to its highest levels when he’s at the helm. Recently he transformed Teengirl Fantasy’s “Cheaters” as a vocal refix on Hivern Discs’ latest release, remoulding it as a wonderful old school styled […]

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Introducing: Supreme Cuts Are Troublemakers

R&B in some form or another continues to hold sway over our conscious here at TRUANTS, we really can’t get enough. Originals, bootlegs, edits, remixes, samples, it’s all fair game to us. So when the heard the first few bars of Chicago based Supreme Cuts we were mightily impressed. To be fair, there isn’t a […]

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Chronicles, Various

Truants: The Hip-Hop Collection

Every magazine has it’s own history behind their name. The name TRUANTS was one that kind of breezed in at the right time when we were looking to change our name a year ago – it was catchy and it described the team of writers. We had no idea however that ‘truands’ means gangster in […]

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