Various

Happy New Year from Truants

The last year was a good one for us: a lovely crew, two compilations (feel free to spend your Christmas money on a little donation to Save Darfur to download our last one here), the opportunity to do features on the artists we love, six events in five different cities and although some wiseacres beg […]

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Downloads, Interviews

Download: Sinjin Hawke Bootlegs

Sinjin Hawke is a #blessed individual with an ear for binding emotions within hip-hop and R&B. With an extensive output through the waves of his Soundcloud he’s a producer that is versatile to say the least, drawing his inspiration from a range of mixed sounds from mainly R&B, rap and hip-hop to the further likes of […]

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Downloads

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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Interviews

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 […]

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Downloads

Five Mixes Are Better Than One Pt. V

The end of the year is a lovely time when everyone decides to share their Best Of lists that usually end up looking like the same and all, but I do love it for all of its great end-of-the-year mixtapes and releases. So here’s another edition of Five Mixes Are Better Than One to celebrate! […]

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Downloads

Remixes & Blues Pt. VI: Brodinski Special

Merry Christmas! Our man Brodinski ends the year in a tasteful way, giving away his second Best Of Everything compilation for absolutely free. Some of these tracks might already sound familiar to you, such as the incredible French Fries remix of Amerie’s One Thing, or Bok Bok’s take on the Lil’ Scrappy single Look At […]

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Interviews, Truancy Volumes

Truancy Volume 19: Voltron

For our nineteenth Truancy Volume, we present you with the up and coming Voltron: a deejay trio hailing from Belgium that are emerging to be a promising talent for the coming year. Together with fellow Belgian DJs Ultravid, they run the young small label Silverback Recordings, which in their own words is “trying to define […]

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Downloads

Remixes & Blues Pt. I

Originally, the purpose of this post was to hand you over twenty-five R&B remixes. Listening to Mala’s Alicia for the 1000th time, which is probably one of my favourite tracks ever done by Mala if not one of  my favourite tracks ever, it occurred to me we needed a top list of good R&B remixes on here […]

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Chronicles, Downloads

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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Various

It’s Six O’clock in the Morning at the Studio

After their self-released free five track EP and tons of exquisite remixes in the past few months, NGUZUNGUZU are back this week with a full-fledged EP release called Mirage, out on Silverback Recordings on the eleventh of October. With tracks like Rec Loose and the title track of the EP being featured on mixes by […]

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Downloads

You’re Turning Heads Tonight

If there’s one producer that will undoubtedly get you moving, it has to be Brenmar. When Brooklyn based William Salas isn’t touring or writing with These Are Powers, he keeps himself busy creating the freshest club beats that are hard to keep from constant replay. He has some kind of Midas touch when it comes […]

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Various

They Been Talking About the Way I Do What I Do

These Are Powers‘ member Bill Salas is a multi-talent. Next to currently conquering Europe with his Brooklyn-based project, he produces his own tracks as Brenmar, a name given to him by his then two year old brother. Alongside his own creations from the scratch he is a true master of RnB remixes, and recently made a […]

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