Don’t Change for Me
The Danish word hygge, the German word weltschmerz and the Bantu word ilunga – what they have in common is that there isn’t an evident translation for it in English. 1: the complete absence of anything emotionally overwhelming and the presence of and pleasure from soothing things. 2: the kind of feeling experienced by someone who […]
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I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
What do you say when the tree falls? Oh shit… I’m not sure this should work. Timber, a single from Coldcut‘s 1997 album Let Us Play!, was a sort of cry out to the world about the violent destruction of forest areas across the planet. A clatter of grinding saws, electronic and manual, rattled against […]
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Red & Green Make Yellow
Some things in life we can rely on as fact; they are a given, they are pure truths. Just as we know night follows day, as we know the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West, and as we know toast, without fail, always falls butter-side down – we know that California […]
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Dust-Covered R&B Mixes
In an attempt to take fall cleaning to the ultimate next level, I’ve been excavating the depths of my old music folder on my very first desktop computer from years ago and it’s proven to be more than fruitful for me. Aside from an abundance of Nobuo Uematsu soundtracks and some Dashboard Confessional here and […]
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Pleasure Lingers, Treasure Fingers
Part of the beauty of being a part of a merry band of musical scoundrels as we are is that you can stake your trousers on the fact that if there’s one thing we do well here, its diversity. As a beloved reader of TRUANTS, (and we do love you, you know – real, actual […]
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Don’t Break It
So Mad Decent are making shoes now? I don’t know if I speak for all of the Truants, but these are not to my taste. That Mumdance fella, on the other hand, he’s delivering the goods. Champion of global bass, his latest Mad Decent EP came out just this week and if there’s one track […]
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You Did Try & You Always Try
I first talked to _mero the day the iPhone 4 came out in Dublin. We both got one that day, and I think we both got the last ones available in the shops we went to. I was a complete iPhone noob so he was able to tell me all the various different cool things […]
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Brewing Alternatives
Setting: A vast windy desert; nothing but pale sand for what seems an eternity. Dunes as big as skyscrapers and a never ending, cloudless blue sky. The sun is relentlessness and engulfs the world and everything around it in a white heat, distilling the scenery into it’s most basic and purest form. Out of the sand arises a […]
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It’s Not Like Water
Don’t you just love those grinding technoid tracks that sound like gurgling machines that are trying to somehow make contact with us inferior beings as we reach for the lasers on the dancefloor? Okay, so maybe that’s not the best way for me to start off my TRUANTS career, but I guess it’s a bit […]
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Don’t You Think I Do
Kamau Baaqi, the skilled Dubai-based, Detroit-born and Berlin-elect producer, who’s better known under his nom de guerre Darling Farah, has released his EP Berline through Civil Music earlier today. This release holds two tracks by his own handcraft; the title-track and one sweet club mix to go with it. The original version sounds big, in […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt. II
Sunday’s Best Pt.I. German philosopher Albert Schweitzer once said, Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. Albie, we feel you man. Sunday is the only day that somehow justifies all of our procrastinating, postponing and lazing around because of the simple excuse that we need […]
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James Blake Harmonimixes
It is always a bit of a task to not turn this platform into some sort of fan site for one certain artist or label, but I’m conscious about the fact that sometimes we write about the same producer about five times in a mere two weeks and turn out to be more of a […]
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