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The Life & Death of Disco Music

ABBA, Bee Gees, The Jackson 5, The Village People; this is what most people remember when they look back on what was, ‘disco’ music. Granted, some of the music they produced, or performed, is excellent! And, fit quite snuggly into the description of the genre – but this isn’t disco, this is pop music. Soul-less, funk-less […]

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I Want to Learn the Ways of the Force

Hey kids, the name’s Sel and I’m the newest addition to the writing team here. I’m quite different to the rest of the team at Truants for a couple of reasons which I will go into in a moment, but first I think it’d be appropriate to introduce myself proper. So I said, I am […]

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Truancy Volumes

Truancy Volume 1: Riotkid

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new and improved blog! As you may have noticed, our humble little abode on the world wide web is now located at TRUANTSBLOG.COM. On top of that, we’ve tweaked our layout to a simple and clean get-up and have created a newsletter for you to stay effortlessly updated on […]

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Interview: Felix Cartal

Vancouver based DJ and producer Taylor Deitcher, who’s better known under his pseudonym FELIX CARTAL, is dropping his album Popular Music on Monday (through Dim Mak). It’s undoubtedly going to be smashing. Last week his exciting track with Johnny Whitney, Volcano, was released and included a notable remix by Felix himself. The track Popular Music was […]

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Interviews

Interview: Drop The Lime

Drop The Lime/Luca Venezia’s pomade had been taken away on the airport the day he played Amsterdam, which was quite the issue as Luca won’t ever rest without a perfectly styled pompadour. The lack of slick luckily didn’t come with a lack of rapture and we had a moment with Luca to ask him about […]

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Interview: Teki Latex

TEKI LATEX (born Julien Pradeyrol) is the Godfather of everything that will ever matter to you. Firstly, there’s Sound Pellegrino and Institubes which both were carefully brought up by his joint efforts. Next to that he’s a part of the (electronic) hip-hop formation TTC, worked together with the likes of Lio and Alexis Week and […]

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