Functions Of The Now XIV: DJ NJ DRONE
DJ NJ Drone has been occupying precarious borderspace for some time, tip-toeing around genre in his production of frantic, hi-speed abstractions. Overdriven, overloaded, NJ Drone is like déjà vu, an anomaly simultaneously familiar and distant. Travelling through his ‘mind club’ at 150+ bpm gives the sense of breaking through space-time, of continuous momentum accompanied by […]
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Truancy Volume 125: Neil Landstrumm
With more than two decades of releasing and producing music under his belt, Neil Landstrumm’s long-term appeal has been a well documented one. Preferring to be an outsider and on the fringes of many scenes rather than directly in the centre of one, his unpredictability within techno and the broader fields of electronic music has […]
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Recommended: De Leon – /\\08
In an interview with French site Hartzine, the body behind the excellent US tape label Aught said: “This series of tapes is finite, one will soon be able to deduce the remainder of our release schedule for the time being.” Looking at its releases now it appears that that finite number is 10, with the second […]
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Premiere: Maejor Ft. Jeremih – Get You Alone (Florentino Remix)
We were first made aware of Florentino only recently. Pretty much an unknown entity, he played his debut show earlier in the month at Truants’ favourite Swing Ting as a special guest. We’d also heard his remix of Maejor and Jeremih’s ‘Get You Alone’ on Bok Bok’s excellent Fader mix. It’s easy to see why […]
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Truancy Volume 124: FaltyDL
A regular to labels such as Planet Mu and Ninja Tune since 2009 and 2011 respectively, FaltyDL has managed to carve himself a robust discography where quality rarely dips. His most recent outing, a return to Planet Mu, saw him adopt his own name Drew Lustman for The Crystal Cowboy, an album that he describes as […]
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Recommended: F.T.F. – 000666
Tape Archive have quietly been sharing murky, anonymous techno on YouTube for some time now: abstract oddities like the undefined gone with the noise (part1) and floral party numbers like DJ G.O’s sorrylarry. For their first foray into the physical world of objects, they’ve put together three tracks from F.T.F. — another mysterious techno project, […]
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Truancy Volume 123: Volte-Face
For those who consider themselves regulars in the electronic music club scene in London or have lived here at any point in the last eight years, there is a remarkably high chance you’ve attended a night put on by, or in someway associated with, Casper Clark. In the last year alone he has managed to […]
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Recommended: FP-Oner – 5
“Real art is judged against an inner standard, not what’s out there.” So said Fred Peterkin, aka Fred P, to Richard Brophy of Juno Plus recently. He was speaking on identity in music, or a certain lack thereof in the promo hamster wheel. Fittingly, his own album as FP-Oner, released on Japanese label Mule Musiq, […]
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Truancy Volume 122: Cindy Looper
We are very excited to share with you the latest Truancy Volume, by Hamburg-based DJ Cindy Looper. A resident at the famous and much-beloved Golden Pudel Club, her DJ sets and mixes are evidence of an adventurous and ever-curious selector. Here she weaves together industrial, electro, acid and some – to borrow a phrase, “emotional bangers” into […]
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Premiere: Spencer Parker – Silly Club Song No. 3
Once a regular mainstay on Radio Slave and James Master’s Rekids, the last four years have seen Spencer Parker concentrate his productions on his own label Work Them, whilst also releasing a furore of music from artists such as S:VT, Young Male and Dana Ruh. This however changes later on this month with Parker returning to Rekids […]
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Truancy Volume 121: Art Crime
For our 121st Truancy Volume we’re excited to have landed our first venture into Russian territory in the form of a mix by Moscow based producer Art Crime. Tapped by the always on point Willie Burns last year for a stellar debut on his label WT Records, the release became somewhat of a sleeper hit, gradually […]
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Editorial: Everything I Am, An Appreciation of Kanye West
SWISH. This discussion serves as a celebration of all that we know, all that we love and, of course, all that we debate about Kanye Omari West. It started as a roundtable discussion through direct messages on Twitter between the two of us because we hated everyone else’s opinions. While that was (maybe) a joke, there […]
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