Review: Roc Marciano – The Pimpire Strikes Back
Substantive technical skill can often be the foundation of cinematic rapping, and on The Pimpire Strikes Back, Roc Marciano contends to be New York’s resident adept. If the Long Island MC’s first release on Man Bites Dog Records is any indication of his forthcoming album Marci Beaucoup, then we can likely expect it to be […]
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Interview: Surgeon
It is almost an unworkable mission to write a befitting preamble to a conversation with Surgeon that encompasses everything the frontiersman of techno has done in his career. It is not because we do not want to write a circumstantial opening statement, but rather because there is an inordinate deal of to his back catalogue and […]
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Recommended: Mr Beatnick – The Synthetes Trilogy
We first covered Mr Beatnick upon the digital release of his Synthetes EP in the summer of 2011. A late pass, indeed, but we’ve been watching him and Don’t Be Afraid, the label he calls home, very closely ever since. He was even kind enough to give us our 42nd Truancy Volume. Over the past […]
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Mix: Tomb Full Of Truants
Tomb Full Of Truants is the third instalment in our Truants crew mix series. Following the same concept as Club Full Of Truants and Room Full Of Truants, the crew were asked to imagine themselves in the most harrowing environment they could think of and pick one or two songs that would soundtrack that experience. As […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 83: Silk 86
The London-centric producers Finn Casey and Thomas L have been making music and throwing parties together for half a decade, and emerged as Silk 86 at the start of the year. With the intent of exploring a housier direction under their new alias, they proved their adeptness at making dancefloor primed and melody infused grooves with their debut […]
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Recommended: Night Slugs Club Constructions 2013
Although it began as a club orientated label in 2010, the evolution of Night Slugs had taken it to more abstract territories of late. Last year, to ensure that at least one of the label’s feet was firmly on the dance floor, the founders Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990 inaugurated the Club Constructions series with […]
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Chronicles: Robb Bank$ – Tha City
From the swamps of South Florida comes rapper Robb Bank$ with his second solo mixtape Tha City. Over a year after the Tumblr-fever of his debut Calendars has died down, Bank$ returns with a dark mixtape firing shots at all posers, exes, and cliches. With a library of references that cover Breaking Bad to Norman Bates to […]
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One on One: Even Tuell & Midnightopera – Workshop Special 02 B2
It’s hard to ignore the proliferation of toughness in dance music at the moment. Hard, gritty, noisiness seems to be where it’s at. Truants – the collective and the blog – is a product of its time, and our focus, if you can call it that, is kaleidoscopic. We want everything, we’re interested in it […]
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Functions of the Now III: Murlo
I’ve probably had one of Murlo’s tunes stuck in my head for the majority of 2013, his fluttering melodies set up shop in the brain and refuse to leave. Working mainly in the crevices between grime and dancehall, he has carved out a sound truly his own. Romantic, wistful and primed for a sunny day […]
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Recommended: Druid Cloak – Return To The Grove
Druid Cloak is taking giant leaps in the game. Rapidly becoming amongst the most prolific of producers, the man billed from Moonstone Grove, United States has been making waves with his bootleg series, Club Cosmos, and recent EP for Bad Taste Records, Bastion Of The Sterling Thrones. In addition to this, there is the inception […]
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Interview: Mamiko Motto
Mamiko Motto is never idle. Between Hepcat Radio, her weekly show for NTS, her regular DJ gigs and her full-time university studies, she’s constantly busy, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s just about to drop Amada, a 14-track compilation full of exclusive material for Dublin’s All City Records, and we caught up […]
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Review: Cam’ron – Ghetto Heaven Vol. 1
Ghetto Heaven Vol. 1 is spectacularly late. Originally slated for a July 4th release, Cam’ron’s first mixtape in nearly a year and a half opens with a peanut gallery of voicemail grievances bemoaning the lack of new material from the Harlem rapper. The messages complain about being “tired of listening to “soft ass rap…I woke […]
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