Review: Outboxx – Kate Libby’s/Bertie’s Groove
I think we can all unanimously agree that good music is in abundance at this moment in time. The dumbfound selection of debuts coming out is staggering and they all seem to be astonishingly great. Glaswegian Koreless recently proved how much hype a first release can bring and I’d like to imagine Outboxx will reach similar […]
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Download: Big K.R.I.T. – Returnof4Eva
I wasn’t a huge fan of Big K.R.I.T’s first lp, “Krit Wuz Here“. Just being honest. Krit is talented and his production was doing him a lot of favors but I wasn’t drinking the kool-aid like some folks. “Hometown Hero” was the real standout track off that first album, even if that Adele song has […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 26: Broke One
Indulge me a moment if you will, and imagine the group photo of the Nu Skool Class of 2011 – the sparky young upstarts pushing through and poised to shake things up, the aural equivalent of a sharp slap round the face and a Red Bull shoved hastily down our necks. There he is, front […]
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Recommended: Frank Ocean – Novocane / The Weeknd – Wicked Games
The last few weeks have been fantastic. The mixtape “Nostalgia, ULTRA” by the OFWGKTA delegate Frank Ocean dropped, which was shortly followed by Toronto-bound singer The Weeknd‘s mixtape “House Of Balloons”. Although Frank Ocean’s relation to Odd Future may not lead to believe the following, both records are extremely soothing and unique debuts with incredibly tight productions, filled with […]
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Truancy Compilation One
Truancy Compilation One features fourteen tracks from a mixture of both upcoming and established artists based from all corners of the world, something we consider to be an important and essential venture with our first release as it embodies our ethos on music as a blog, having talked and written about DJs and producers from […]
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Interview: Bok Bok
Bok Bok the proficient DJ, designer and producer, as well as the co-founder of Night Slugs, is currently locked up in his studio finishing the first release that he’ll put out through his own imprint himself. We caught up with him to ask how that’s going, talk the past and the present of the label as well […]
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Interview: Optimum
Although it’s always a great thing to be out in the club and jam out to unknown music that you haven’t heard before, it’s an even greater thing if there are tracks that never lose their charm despite having busted your moves to them an infinite number of times before. London-based Optimum was responsible for […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 25: John Roman
After last weeks venture the Truancy volumes roll onto numero 25 and this time we’re proud to present a mix all the way from Canada. They’ve brought us Bieber, Egyptrixx, Drake, Neoteric, Jacques Greene, Milt Mortez and the beautiful Robin from How I Met Your Mother (small crush) but today steps up the enigmatic John […]
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Ossie – Tarantula
So whilst tuned in to the Boiler Room last night one track dropped by the ‘world needs to hear more of’ Jon Rust caught my ears in particular. The on point Boiler Room chat told told me it was a track named Tarantula by a London producer named Ossie and a with a little more […]
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Stopmakingme
Stopmakingme is really living the life right now – he must be, otherwise I can’t explain how he keeps churning out impeccable tracks, remixes and mixes. On the back of his Wrapped In Plastic release for Kill Em All last year, his scat-heavy remix of Hercules and Love Affair and his genre-gliding, inspirational Dollars to […]
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Recommended: Brodinski – European Introduction to Moombahton
The actuality that you are an admirer of Brodinski‘s DJ-ing is a given. But when it comes to Moombahton, it might be an entirely different story. People seem to either go wild to a bit of Dave Nada, whereas the other half tries to escape the club when the DJ slows down to 108 BPM, […]
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Model 500 – OFI
After a 11 year hiatus from R&S Records the ‘godfather of techno’ Juan Atkins returned along with Mark Taylor, DJ Skurge and Mike Banks for a ‘comeback’ EP last year under the infamous moniker Model 500. Having been out of the game for song, you could say that bars were set pretty dam high. So […]
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