Mix: Piu Piu – Vitamins
Today we have a little treat in store for you by songstress and DJ Piu Piu, who has been taking over European dance floors for a few years running now. We first heard of Piu Piu through her affiliation with the the late Youngunz (notorious for launching the very site you’re reading now) and she’s come a long way since then, although […]
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Truancy Volume 95: Korma
Hailing from the rainy Pacific Northwest, you may not have heard much about Korma aka Tommy Mertens, but get ready for that to change. We’ve had our eyes on him for a while now and others are starting to take notice. Last month he released his Bootlegs EP on Hush Hush Records full of remixes and […]
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Recommended: Rules – Free
The D.C. producer sprang Rules up late in 2012 with a self-released, eponymously titled EP, attached with it the sort of experimental, alt-R&B pastiche that that particular year perhaps began to see too much of at the time of release. From looking at SoundCloud statistics, EP cut “I’m Patient” provided the biggest splash for Rules […]
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Interview: Winter Son
When you come from a background that mainly involves instruments, fellow band members and Slayer and Pulp covers it’s always interesting to see how the venture into straight up electronic based music might pan out when working solo. Enter Winter Son, a Manchester based producer who cut his teeth playing in a series of successful […]
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Recommended: Octo Octa – Cause I Love You EP
We find it kind of hard to believe it’s been nearly three years since Brooklyn’s Octo Octa‘s debut effort Let Me See You was brought into the world in all its euphoric 90s steeped glory. It even managed to get dropped in the middle of Move D’s outstanding Boiler Room Berlin set, a testament to […]
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Recommended: Samuel – Groove Therapy / Numberuma
Bristol’s house label for only rough-edged, local produce — homegrown and organic, if you will — readies two cool and casual house cuts from a newly-arrived artist on the city’s jostling production scene. Samuel‘s simple identity fits well with the rest of the no-frills label’s roster, this new release following the debut records by Shanti […]
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Review: Mo Kolours – Mo Kolours LP
“Different feelings… this is doing one feeling, this is doing another feeling, or is this maybe doing a sad feeling, this may be doing, like a happy feeling!” So professes an excited voice at the beginning of the Black Is Beautiful-esque “Say Word”, summarising the potent duality of Mo Kolours’ self-titled debut. Even the artwork’s […]
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Mix: Gym Full Of Truants
Are you looking to get shredded or add mass for the summer and normal supplements aren’t working? Or are you looking to just get a bit leaner or healthier? Look no further! Following our previous crew mixes Club Full Of Truants (our favourite club tracks), Room Full Of Truants (a recap of last year), and Tomb Full Of Truants (the most harrowing tracks […]
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Announcement: Subbacultcha! X Tri Angle X Truants – Waterfall Party
Hold up, hold up! Our friends over at Subbacultcha! invited us to co-host Evian Christ‘s and Mssingno‘s Amsterdam stop of their Waterfall tour, which will happen on Easter Sunday. We are thrilled to welcome the two producers to MC Theater as we have been huge fans of both Evian Christ and Mssingno from the start. Though Evian Christ’s sound has evolved into something […]
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Seven Plays II
For Seven Plays, each week one of our contributors will keep a personal music diary for seven days, then hands the feature over to another Truant at the end of the week. The idea is to keep sharing great music with our readers, but with a more individual touch than our more objective posts and […]
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Interview: Black Acre Records
The always excellent, pigeonhole-transcending Black Acre Records, quite simply, keep releasing so much heat that we thought we should catch up with the instigators behind this slew of goodness. Laying foundations back in 2007/08 with a string of sturdy dubstep records, they have since handed debuts to a heady selection of our favourite artists – Blue […]
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Truancy Volume 94: Slugabed
Slugabed gifts us our 94th Truancy Volume. 2012 was a busy year for the Bath-born, London-based producer: his debut album, Time Team, was released on recently diversified label, Ninja Tune. Meanwhile, he was laying the foundations for Activia Benz, a label that coolly promotes the music of a splash of artists from around the globe. […]
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