Download: Mike Din Remixes
By now, every single semi-popular track beloved by the radio has a ton of remixes to its name, which usually includes an ocean of edits that belong in a club that even members of the Jersey Shore house would side-eye. As a result, entering the unknown realms of the likes of Rihanna, Gucci, Soulja remixes […]
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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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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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Download: Benjamin Flocka
Flockaveli blessed us this week with a pretty big mixtape of crunk and trap music. I’m assuming the title, “Benjamin Flocka” is a money reference and not some strange Benjamin Button, young nigga reference. I’m always grateful for new Flocka but a number of these tracks have been around for awhile. Some without dj drops (exception […]
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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 […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 28: Guy Andrews
For our twenty-eigth installment of the Truancy Volumes series, we are proud to have the Brighton based Guy Andrews in the mix, a producer who seems to have mastered the craft of filling the spaces in between his mesmerizing beat patterns with a soulful type of ambience, that stay embedded with your emotions for the […]
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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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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 […]
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