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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Download: Salem Try to Win Our Hearts Again
Remember Salem? Last year’s blog heroes? It seems if you don’t put out an album or have a Tumblr with lots of crazy ish or appear on Fallon then you’re not going to hold anyone’s attention. They’re still around though, and have got involved in this whole Record Store Day business. They’ve decided to remix, […]
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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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Download: Lucid Bootlegs
It’s not often we are left speechless by an artist, but we were when it came to listening to Melbourne based producer Lucid who is becoming steadily becoming one of Australia’s biggest talents and was recently featuring on Aussie music site LOOSE JOINTS‘s Get Low series. When listening to his output the only comparisons that […]
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Truancy Anthems: Richelle – Mascotte
This is the start of a new feature here at TRUANTS that will go under the name “Truancy Anthems” that we see as our favourite jams that come from all genres and constantly come back day after day, week after week, month… you get the picture. Our first entry is one of the most recent […]
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Review: Erdbeerschnitzel Keeps it Suave
It’s time we revisit a firm favourite of ours who we featured last year; Erdbeerschnitzel, who in our humble opinion happened to make the best house EP of 2010 with ‘To an End‘. So now this article is going to feature another of his EP’s that was released back in December just gone, but is […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 27: Wildlife!
Our next Truancy Volume comes from Swiss producer WILDLIFE! whose ability on effortlessly mixing and combining dancehall and electronic music has garnered him huge support from the likes of Diplo, Sinden and L-Vis 1990 to many other musical connoisseurs. Having founded the now revered dancehall soundsystem Gold Rush International at the tender age of 19, […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt. XIV
We’ve all heard “Nostalgia, ULTRA”, I mean ya boy Frank Ocean has already been mentioned in two TRUANTS posts since the album/mixtape/thing came out. Now comes his third. Also getting a second mention of late is DJ Ayres. This time he’s done something effortlessly simple yet also perfect because of its simplicity. Taking the dramatically […]
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Mixes: Different Circles Launch Light
Now I know my fellow TRUANTS will think I should have better things to do than doing a post from a random hotel in Colombia but I’m jet lagged as hell, can’t get to sleep and the last thing I want to do is tune into some dubbed Gordan Ramsay show. Actually, now that I […]
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Download: Bling Like the Neptunes Sound
The Neptunes. Duff N*E*R*D albums and dodgy Daft Punk collaborations aside, their influence on today’s music is unmistakable. While preparing for a hip-hop set on Thursday night I read Immy’s post about Riffs and it put in mind Usher’s 2002 single U Don’t Have To Call, though I opted for the Ludacris-featuring remix on the […]
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Recommended: Groove Theory – Tell Me (George FitzGerald Remix)
Groove Theory’s “Tell Me” is perchance one of the biggest R&B hits of the 90’s. One of those tracks that deserve having the “unfeigned classic” label stamped all over them, without any further discussion. Then there is the graceful Amel Larrieux, the vocalist of the duo, who probably has one of the most beautiful voices ever; […]
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Introducing: Riffs
“Who is Riffs and where did he come from?” are questions I’ve heard often these days, and to tell you the truth – I don’t know too much about this 22 y.o. producer from Bristol myself. Stumbling upon him during one of my many intriguing digital explorations for new sounds, I had a heightened “mind blown” moment when […]
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