Chronicles, Releases, Various

Chronicles: Kevin Gates – The Luca Brasi Story

Everyone needs to get familiar with Kevin Gates right now; happily he’s abandoned the awful ‘KVN’ moniker and has reverted to the bravely-boring ‘Kevin’. The Baton Rouge rapper has been putting out quality, persona driven mixtapes for a couple of years now and this latest, “The Luca Brasi Story“, is his best yet. Apparently there’s a bidding war […]

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Releases

Recommended: Mangetout – If It Wer EP

Last year we wrote about Orquestra’s Final Expedition, the star-gazing effort from the Dublin producer who runs the Meles Meles label. The latest release from this outfit is Mangetout’s “If It Wer” EP. Described as ambient and melancholy, it’s an emotional journey that takes you from the Irish countryside to the big city lights of […]

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Interviews

Interview: Gifted & Blessed

For a decade Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker has released music on labels such as Sound In Color, his own Gifted & Blessed imprint, Eglo Records, and more recently Wild Oats. On every record and with a multitude of names his work ethic and ability to carve out ear-perking synthetic melodies has shown through. Ahead of his appearance […]

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Releases

Three-Peat Vol. XX: Zed Bias

Three-Peat is our feature spanning genres and labels to bring you three select releases from the past – whether the past month or the past year – that still deserve your attention. Dave Jones has been a mainstay figure in UK electronic music since his first release on Public Demand in 1999. Whether his music has been […]

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Downloads, Interviews, Truancy Volumes

Truancy Volume 65: October

There’s always that sense of hesitant laziness when asking someone what sort of music they’re into, only to have them reply with the slightly frustrating old “you know, a bit of everything.” However with Julian Raymond Smith, otherwise known as Bristol based producer October, a bit of everything seems like quite a fitting phrase to […]

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Releases

Recommended: Wen – Commotion EP

“Sounds and scenes are cyclical, as much a re-action as an action, and so the further the colour intensifies the more interesting an absence of light feels fresh again.” Blackdown, July 2012 The London based duo Dusk + Blackdown have long been a touchstone for evolution in London/UK-based electronic music with their label Keysound Recordings and […]

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Downloads, Releases, Sunday's Best, Various

Valentine’s Best Pt. XXVII

Happy ❤alentine’s day, dear Truants readers! To celebrate, we have gathered some of our favourite mixes and tracks to score your evening. To continue, please dial 7-7-3-TRUANTS. Listening to Mikky Ekko blurs the already jagged lines between indie, R&B, and pop, though his last single “Pull Me Down” may fall more into the latter there’s no […]

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Downloads, Releases

Recommended: Pseudogeddon – Jungle Footwork Compilation

What a wonderful symbiosis jungle and juke are. Their similarities are well documented yet, whether tempo, bass pressure or sampling philosophy, are rarely as well executed as on this Om Unit-curated collection. The original proposal for the marriage of the two genres was supposedly formed independently but at around the same time by Machinedrum and […]

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Downloads, Interviews, Truancy Volumes

Truancy Volume 64: Iron Galaxy

The democratization of the music industry should make it easier for talented artists to gain an audience, but if the last few years have shown us anything it’s that this was a blessing and a curse. There seems to be a constant flow of questionable and plain terrible music hitting the web daily, making it […]

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Releases

Recommended: Wolf Cub – Love High EP

As one third of blog/label/collective Transmission Collective, Wolf Cub has been making waves as of late by working within the throwback style of house music that appears to be all the rage at the moment. As much as we’d like to disparage such a blatantly self-serving trend, artists like Wolf Cub, Bicep and Ejeca are […]

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Downloads

Download: Oneman – Solitaire Vol. 1

It’s well-documented, almost to the point of redundancy, how Oneman has built his reputation as a DJ and selector organically. Though despite having never dabbled in production, the Standard Place ringleader and Rinse FM veteran has managed to carve out a comfortable niche for himself. His sets are renowned for throwing up surprising little sonic […]

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