Preview: First Serve – Pushin’ Aside, Pushin’ Along
The forthcoming album teaser track “Pushin’ Aside, Pushin’ Along” from New York natives First Serve (produced by De La Soul’s Plug 1 & Plug 2) is resplendent in staccato ivories, sumptuous bass hooks, spectacular vernacular and classic flow from back in the day. Those with your fingers on the pulse will recall the track featuring […]
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Recommended: Dark Sky – Black Rainbows EP
For their next EP, Dark Sky is set to return to Black Acre, the label that put out their debut “Something to Lose / Ghost Notes” in 2010. Following their most recent release, the “Radius” EP on Modeselektor’s 50Weapons, things took off and it was hard to hit a club without hearing the instaclassic “Neon” […]
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Recommended: Nneka – Shining Star (Joe Goddard Remix)
I would really love a mini-Joe Goddard to keep in my pocket. I could take him out and wind him up, and he would make me personalized soulful house tracks. Wouldn’t that be grand? Like all the best genre-spanning electronic music, Goddard’s remix begins with a deceptively simple hook that has you reeled in before […]
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Review: Ital – Hive Mind
Daniel Martin-McCormick of Mi Ami, Black Keys, and Sex Worker introduced us to Ital, an outlet for his more dancefloor orientated house music, last year. With the sonically diverse 12”s he released on 100% Silk behind him, he’s decided to break in 2012 with his debut album, Hive Mind, on Planet Mu. The album is […]
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Download: Seun Kuti – The Good Leaf (Spoek Mathambo Remix)
And now for something completely different – the new cut from Seun Kuti (son of Fela Kuti and therefore heir to the afrobeat throne), as remixed by the formidably excellent Spoek Mathambo. Mathambo, if you’re a little late on this, is a South African DJ and producer, and a boundary pusher par excellence. Ever heard any […]
Read moreTruancy Volume 40: Behling & Simpson
Our fortieth installment into our Truancy Volume series comes from a long time friendship of two guys from Bristol making giant leaps forward with their new production alias Behling & Simpson. Having released tunes together since 2004 under various guises and stacked up more than a hundred releases between them on an array of labels […]
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A Very Truants Valentyne
Today we woke up and convinced ourselves that it’d be just like any other day, but then we had to face the truth. How can you really escape Valentine’s Day? Luckily for us we found a sweet gift in our mailbox, a Valentine’s mix dropped off by a secret admirer/friend of Truants to share with […]
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Recommended: Deemphasis – The Loss of Gravity EP
Deemphasis is a producer from Clermont-Ferrand in central France, a town known for its tyres, rugby, and a big statue of Vercingetorix. But that snapshot doesn’t really get you any closer to the music this guy makes. “The Loss of Gravity EP”, released this week on the London-based Shameless Toady label, is made up of […]
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Introducing: Josh Sixty
When an artist gets asked to do a revered Essential mix, not only is there the highly daunting and challenging task in choosing a selection of tracks you’ll be happy to look back on in the future, but also finding the certain right tracks that will open and close the first and last ten minutes […]
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Recommended: Timbah – Can’t Love Without You EP
In the revivalist quagmire we’re all stewing in, hearing something as crispy fresh as Timbah’s “Can’t Live Without You” EP is like being served a plate full of tropical fruit after a decade of microwaved Supernoodles. Love it or hate it, “maximalism” is here to stay. In the quest for the elusive sound of the […]
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Review: Gangrene – Vodka & Ayahuasca
Gangrene, made up of Oh No and The Alchemist, were quick to follow up their all too brief and very excellent “Greneberg” EP with Roc Marciano with another stoner rap odyssey in “Vodka & Ayahuasca”. Being under the influence was a big part of the theme to the duo’s first album “Gutter Water” and they have explored that […]
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Review: Shlohmo – Vacation
Since the release of his debut album Shlomoshun a couple years ago, LA’s Henry Laufer, aka Shlohmo, has demonstrated a seemingly infinite reservoir of creative inspiration, allowing him to maintain his incumbency as a leading figure in electronic music without becoming too intrinsically tied with any particular genre. His constant artistic evolution thrust him to […]
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