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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Sunday’s Best Pt. XII
Try finding good music on Sunday. We’ve already posted one remix of Lykke Li’s “I Follow Rivers” by Tyler, The Creator here on Truants, but earlier this week Stephen Fasano a.k.a. The Magician, formerly of Aeroplane, gave away his version as a Valentine’s gift and took it in a completely unique path, creating an upbeat jam […]
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Climb Up the Walls Snoretex
Snoretex is a man of many talents. Part of both Allez Allez and WALLS, whose self-titled album on Kompakt was a delightful 30-minute journey into quiet post-shoegaze-electronica, Mr Sam Willis is taking a detour on his own in order to keep up his creativity in the wake of completing the aforementioned album. His first single […]
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Fashawn, Higher Learning…
.. Two, is the latest mixtape from Fresno rapper Fashawn. A follow up to his first Higher Learning back in 08, it works as a nice appetizer until we get another great full length in the (hopefully) near future. Not to sell the tape short! Fashawn can spit, and often gets compared to a younger […]
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Green Ova Taking Ova
In my last post I expressed my hopes that 2011 would be just as productive for Main Attrakionz as last year was, well with Squadda’s ‘I Smoke Because I Don’t Care About Death‘ album already released this month I’m encouraged to think it is. But I could never of guessed a collaboration with fellow Green […]
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Bullion Driving You To Plastic
If there’s two artists that I would never have linked up in my mind it would be The Beach Boys and Jay Dee, but somehow Bullion proved that seemingly mismatched names can work out into a perfectly balanced sound. It’s been a couple of years since Pet Sounds: In The Key of Dee was released on […]
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Canblaster is the Master of Complication
Before I get into this – does anyone else think that Canblaster looks like Paul Dano? Seriously though. Dude has been on some futuristic ’ish for some time now. He’s just put out the Master of Complication EP on Nightshifters, and if you ever imagined what would happen if he took all the different ideas […]
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