Premiere: Know V.A – Echoes
Having contributed the second instalment of the Digital Dubplate series on DJ Shadow’s Liquid Amber label in 2015, the Know V.A guys now return with a follow-up to their previously released Lowriders Recordings release from the year before. Since that first O Horizon EP they’ve been slowly making their mark in the city of Amsterdam; hosting […]
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Interview: Duckett
Duckett is an artist who has been around for some time. Between 2001 and 2007 he released a number of records on Grimes Adhesif’s Mind Your Head Records, as well as appearing alongside Tom Demac on labels such as Disappear Here and the latter’s own Electronique Audio imprint. Several years later, following regular slots at the fabled Freerotation festival, he popped up again in 2015 on […]
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Premiere: The Last Trip to Gandahar – R136a
With five years since the label’s inception, the Leicester-based label City Fly marks the 13th release in their catalogue with a specially curated package featuring its label founders alongside some special guest collaborators. Having grown from a small club night into a much-championed outlet for quality house music, names such as Fred P, Basic Soul Unit, Red […]
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Interview: DJ Deep
Recent years have seen a wealth of musical talent emerging from France. Producers like Voiski (who delivered our 82nd instalment of the Truancy Volume series back in 2013) and Antigone, as well as labels such as Construct Re-Form and Syncrophone have helped to re-establish France – and Paris in particular – as one of techno’s current […]
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Premiere: B.A.D.S – Hous-O-Matik Hom-O-Patik (Spencer Parker Remix)
Late last year, Rekids head honcho Matt Edwards (Radio Slave) teamed up with Francesco de Nittis aka Mr Ties and Spencer Parker for a new alias project titled B.A.D.S. (Berlin Amateur Dramatics Society). Made especially in conjunction for an appearance at de Nittis’ Homopatik party at Berlin’s About Blank last year, they debuted a track called “Hous-O-Matik […]
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Truancy Volume 141: Sassmouth
Samantha Kern aka Sassmouth has been spinning records for a while now. Her residencies at Planet Chicago in Chicago’s renowned Smart Bar as well as As You Like It in San Francisco have made her a well-regarded selector in dance music circles in the US. Outside of DJing, she also runs her own label, god particle, which […]
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Sunday’s Best Pt. XXXV
Established in Manchester in 2008, the meandyou. collective of Andrew Lyster, Herron, Alexander Taber, Joy Orbison and Juniper began hosting parties throughout Europe before launching a label in 2013. Their latest release, the Bookbinders EP, marks the young label’s fourth instalment, with meandyou. once again bringing together artists with unique approaches to house and techno. […]
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Premiere: D-IX – 144.22 (Long Version)
Three years in and Berlin based label LACKREC have slowly carved themselves a set of 10 quality releases, ranging from an open approach to house, techno and electro. Headed by Claudio Banti, the label has had an assortment of releases from producers such as Jonas Palzer, 7 Citizens and D-IX, all whom make up the LACK […]
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Truancy Volume 140: Xosar
Xosar operates on a different plane to the rest of us. The US-born, Berlin-based artist has drifted beautifully through different strands of house and techno for labels such as Rush Hour, L.I.E.S., Crème Organization and Black Opal, and last year started her own label Gyrocore. While earlier iterations of her sound included the irreverent jack of […]
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Premiere: Rolling Ones – Faded Delorian
We first came across Jordan Poling’s production when he shared a split release on L.A.G with the Point Break guys back in 2014. Prior to that, he had already contributed a track for Fred P’s Soul People Music label under the name JD, but the Jordan alias seems to be what he’s devoted his attention […]
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Recommended: Morkebla – Ono-Sendai Cyberspace
William Gibson has long inspired the landscape of electronic music. Most recently, Mumdance, Logos and Shapednoise named their collaborative project The Sprawl, after his mid-1980s trilogy of sci-fi novels. References to his imagined universe litter music writing and criticism, an easy shorthand for dystopian menace. Now, Italian artist Morkebla has named his latest release Ono-Cendai […]
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Premiere: Sage Caswell – House Of Jeans
Following on from premieres from Guy Andrews and Samrai & Platt earlier this week, we’ve got another artist who has previously mixed a Truancy Volume for us since we started the series. Having teamed up with fellow producer and past collaborator Cromie for an hour long mix for us back in 2013, Sage Caswell has […]
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