Truancy Volume 299: Sputnik One
With a new year comes new mixes and for our first Truancy Volume of 2023, we’ve headed to Dublin to bring on a producer pushing heavy percussive experiments to new levels. With releases on the likes of Well Street and Wisdom Teeth over the last couple years, Sputnik One’s pool of production ideas impressively spans […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 298: Jackson Ryland
For many regular Truants readers and speed-seeking techno connoisseurs, Jackson Ryland of Washington, DC hardly needs an introduction. Beyond the sounds and insights shared in his past Superabundance interview and Seven Plays takeover, the artist’s particular brand of electronic music, marked by driving rhythms and ethereal melodies, has continuously captivated artists and dancers worldwide. Displaying […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 297: Fio Fa
We first caught wind of Fio Fa back in 2019 with the release of his You Think EP on Radiant Love, an infectious and playful two-tracker backed with a trippy remix from D.Tiffany. With the title track “You Think” clocking in at almost 11 minutes, it’s a clear testament in his want of creating rolling […]
Read moreFestival Guide: Le Guess Who? 2022
Autumn’s gig schedule is always packed beyond reason, so we’re thankful for festivals like Le Guess Who? where so much must-see music is cultivated in one convenient place. A significant portion of the Utrecht festival takes place in a grand venue of venues, TivoliVredenburg, though the city’s myriad churches, museums and theaters also play host […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 296: Jennifer Loveless
Jennifer Loveless’ diverse cultural background has brought her to a few places across the globe. Raised in Toronto to a family of music lovers, she had a small stint in Guangzhou, China where she discovered Ableton Live and started to channel her early foundations into learning music production. A move to Australia in 2012, where […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 295: Maara
Four stand-out releases in two years is no mean feat but Montreal-based producer Maara has taken to releasing propulsive proggy delights and ethereal downtempo steppers of high quality with absolute ease. Following her debut EP Ultimate Reward on Priori and Ex-Terrestrial’s label NAFF, she’s dropped releases for Isla and Radiant Love plus, more recently, hypnotic, […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 294: Diskonnected
If you’ve spent any time scouring the web for new techno mixes, you’ve probably come across Smoke Machine in one way or another. The Taiwan-based record label, mix series and events platform has become one of Asia’s finest purveyors of quality techno, largely due to the meticulous curation of their podcast series and their annual […]
Read moreInterview: Manchester Collective
It’s December 2021 and chamber group Manchester Collective are on stage at the Howard Assembly Room in Leeds, undercutting the pomp and posturing innate to all classical venues with their palpable enthusiasm and personable candour. They’re presenting a programme named Heavy Metal, looking to distort sound as well as the performance space itself. First on […]
Read moreInterview: Sky H1
Sky H1‘s sound is difficult to pin down, operating somewhere in the half-spaces between ambient, techno, trance and modern forms of “club” music. With releases on labels such as CODES and essential appearances on compilations from PAN and Astral Plane Recordings under her belt, the Belgian artist released her debut album, Azure, on AD 93 […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 293: downstairs J
Music’s intrinsic ability to transport its listener is perhaps one of its most admirable qualities. We strive to ‘get lost in the music’: to escape into a sound’s enveloping energy and, perhaps, forfeit sense of time and place. Giving form to this ineffable feeling, Brooklyn producer downstairs J explores sounds both fascinatingly strange and surprisingly […]
Read moreInterview: Civilistjävel!
Over the past few years, Civilistjävel! has released a series of magical records. Each 12” has featured a collection of untitled tracks that sit somewhere along a spectrum of ambient smudge. Sounds vary, with dank drones and shocking darts hinting at musique concrète and strange soundtrack or library music. Occasional forays into lumpy techno and […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 292: DJ Plead
The common thread running through DJ Plead’s career is tough, functional, percussive music, drawing on the rhythms and timbres of his Lebanese heritage for a sound that’s deeply personal yet one that can quickly alight a dance floor. It’s this genre-busting flair of club experiments, nurtured and supported by a crew of like-minded producers based […]
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