Releases

Recommended: Artifact – Cologne Tracks

Incoming heat from yet another UK producer who’s experimenting with footwork, Bristol’s Artifact. Releases on somethinksound and Rebirth displayed a flair for chunky house production, elements of which carry through seamlessly here. Local Action has already been responsible for dancefloor destroyers from DJ Q and T. Williams as well as Slackk’s criminally underrated “Raw Missions […]

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Interviews, Truancy Volumes

Truancy Volume 68: Samoyed

For our sixty-eighth Truancy Volume we are proud and blessed to bring to you the musical chameleon that is Samoyed. The Dundee based producer, otherwise known as Andrew Cook, will awaken your senses with harmonious sounds that flow through you with all the vigour of an electrical current. “I think I value emotional connection in […]

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Releases

Recommended: MYR14D – On My Mind EP

Oliver Keogh, also known as MYR14D, is the latest newcomer on Get Some‘s label. As a label that prides itself in showcasing the best in new underground bass music, MYR14D may find himself billed alongside names such as Darkstar, Joy Orbison, and Mosca to name just a few, but the Buckinghamshire based boy most certainly holds his […]

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Releases

Recommended: Torus – The Yard Sale EP

It’s not that long since we rhapsodised about Hav Lyfe’s eponymous EP on Sonic Router’s label, but we’ve reason to talk about these guys again. They’ve just dropped a surprise name-your-price EP from Torus, the Dutch artist whose EP kickstarted the label’s existence this time last year. The release of “The Yard Sale” EP marks […]

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Releases

Recommended: Glenn Jackson – Morning Swim EP

On first listen, if you thought Glenn Jackson’s “Morning Swim” EP sounded like it came from a certain Spanish coastal city starting with a B, you wouldn’t be too far off. The producer hails from what many like to call the Barcelona of the US, also known as the Bay Area. Though it’s his first release under […]

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Releases

Recommended: Anthony Naples – El Portal EP

At this point Anthony Naples has branched into many corners of the music spectrum, primarily off the back of last year’s “Mad Disrespect”. Circumventing the usual approach of banging out EP after EP while on the public’s good side, he’s taken a decidedly slower course. He’s held back on releasing any new material, and only […]

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Interviews, Truancy Volumes

Truancy Volume 67: Dro Carey

Truants readers will be familiar with Dro Carey thanks to his impossibly good 12″ release on Templar Sound last year, which Simon Docherty reviewed here. “N.R.”‘s take on steely grime tropes summed up the essence of Eugene Hector’s approach to production, either as Dro Carey or Tuff Sherm. He delights in playful  subversion, his take on the sacred totems of dance music simultaneously reverent and […]

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Releases

Recommended: Bookworms & Steve Summers – Confused House 001

New York is restless. After it’s club scene collapsed a decade ago under the weight of Mayor Giuliani’s thumb the city has just begun to regain it’s place as a force in underground dance music. An essential piece of this resurgence is the unique brand of analog jams popping up from local producers via labels like L.I.E.S., […]

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Releases

Review: DJ Rashad – Rollin EP

After years of ruling the battlegrounds of Chicago, DJ Rashad has, in a surprising yet hugely appropriate turn of events, stepped up for British superlabel Hyperdub and presented a set of the most forward-thinking footwork that you’re likely to hear in months. If you’ve experienced one of Kode9’s inimitable sets in the past year or […]

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Downloads, Releases

Recommended: Untzz – BDOH001

Another day, another label, right? You’ll hear a lot of heads, old and young, moaning about the over-saturation of the market, complaining about the proliferation of record labels run by just-come young guns looking to make quick cash money. Let yourself get comfortable in that state of smug knowledge b2b overstated ennui, and you might […]

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Releases

Recommended: Lockah – Only Built 4 Neon Nights

“Put back the sunroof, let the cool air breeze through the buttersoft leather upholstery.” Aberdeen’s Lockah casts us into darkness from the get go on his new EP “Only Built 4 Neon Nites”. Cicada’s sing, an engine roars, a hymn to Kraftwerk rises on the car radio and throws us onto the Autobahn as we […]

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