Truancy Volume 61: Kid Smpl
If you ask 22 year-old Joey Butler, also known as Kid Smpl, what to call his music, don’t expect a straight answer. “Super introspective, isolated and wondering, but there are a lot of other people that could probably explain it better than I could”, he says. Like many other producers in the post-Burial soundscape, Kid Smpl’s […]
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Recommended: Damu – If You’ve Got Nothing To Hide / You’ve Got Nothing To Fear
Talented Manchester-based producer Damu was first brought to our attention back in 2010 when his productions were championed by Dusk & Blackdown on their revered Rinse FM show. Initial records on Local Action, Silverback Recordings and Swing and Skip Records soon followed but – such was the support Damu received from these two luminaries in the […]
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Mix: Room Full Of Truants
We’re only one week into the New Year and everyone’s bubbling with excitement from the continuous stream of album and show announcements. The year’s shaping up to be one for the record books already, especially at Truants Mansion where we’ve started enlisting the help of some our favourite artists and new contributors to bring you […]
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Announcement: The New Year
Happy new year! Before we return to sharing music with you, we wanted to take a moment to look back at some of the articles we published over the last twelve months and thank everyone who got involved with Truants in the last year. Whether it was through contributing to our site, collaborating with us […]
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Recommended: Maxmillion Dunbar – Woo EP
Andrew Field-Pickering is a busy man. Not only is he responsible (alongside various collaborators) for the peerless Future Times Records, the universal grooves of Beautiful Swimmers, and a not to miss NTS Radio show, he’s about to put out a new album. Throughout all these excursions Field-Pickering, donning his Maxmillion Dunbar moniker for this latest release, is anything but […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 60: Bookworms
When a debut release finds its way into almost every year-end list, it’s hard to not take a little notice of Brooklyn-based producer Bookworms. Having been taken under the wing of Ron Morelli and the L.I.E.S Records crew since his move from San Francisco to the Big Apple around a year ago, the young producer made […]
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Three-Peat Vol. VIII: Haleek Maul, Call Super & Bloom
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. 1. Haleek Maul – Oxyconteen Haleek Maul‘s debut EP, “Oxyconteen”, strikes a wonderful balance between the weed-smoke fogginess of so-called “cloud rap” and genuine, bleak […]
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Chronicles: Chief Keef – Finally Rich
Chief Keef is seventeen years old, but that hasn’t stopped him calling his first album “Finally Rich”, or from sounding and acting like a fully grown man. By now everyone who cares knows the RSS feed version of Keef’s sudden rise to rap celebrity: a viral WorldStar video of crazy pre-teen celebrating Keef’s release from […]
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Exclusive: Archie Pelago & Helix Mix
Here’s one we’ve been waiting to share for a while: Brooklyn trio Archie Pelago’s filmed mix for Mary Anne Hobbs was one of the most captivating things we’ve seen in a minute, and we’ve been hoping since that they would one day grace the pages here. They produce together as a group and perform live, with […]
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Recommended: Phil Gerus – Based On Misunderstandings 05 EP
Here at Truants there’s nothing we love more than a tune with sex appeal. Phil Gerus is an artist that seems not to sit and compose this sound, but it’s as if it oozes from every orifice, as easy as breathing almost. The sound is so effortless, and it’s not surprising considering his musical background. […]
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Recommended: Levon Vincent – Stereo Systems EP
Levon Vincent really does make it look effortless. Head of not one, not two, but three record labels, he contributed one of the finest Fabric mixes in the series in April and has an extraordinary knack for bridging the gap between soulful New York house and industrial Berlin techno (unsurprisingly, his home and his home away from home, […]
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Download: Isaac Tichauer – I Forgive You
Over the last few months Isaac Tichauer has given his listeners something brilliant. Not only has he spent the summer with the likes of Flight Facilities, Goldroom, and Todd Terje, he also made a 9-track album (1 hour and 13 seconds worth of listening) of beautifully atmospheric, majestic, and at times even tribal house music. […]
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