From the dusty and damp home studio recordings to the amount of songs she gives away, everything about Shadowbox screams DIY. Coming from the seemingly endless stew of New York talent, Bonnie Baxter distinguishes herself through the heavy contrast in her music. Her music often pairs brash borderline noise sounds with light bleeps and lofty afterhours textures. […]
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There’s a lot to be said for music that simply does what you need it to do. We all have a song we turn to when we need music for the 5am bus home after a miserable night, the song that softens the strip lighting illuminating your crushed heart. And then there are the songs […]
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“Sunday my off day, I ball all day, smoke all day and then stuntin’, all the Truants boys and girls gotta get up off the corner” – Gucci Mane. Another rest day and another couple of musical affairs we’d like to open to your view and hearing. How to simply describe the artist behind the first […]
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We’ve decided that we want to die and be reincarnated as this song, but we’ve listened to it so many times that we’ve probably imparted a good portion of our souls into it already. We’re not particularly interested in the Pet Shop Boys – who is? – but we’ve got a lot of time for […]
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So what, you though May had given it all you had to offer? Think again. Just when you were about to toss May aside like a rinsed can of Rubicon Mango, this absolute dream of a mix pops up, offered to us by the excellent bilinguals over at Playground Magazine. Of course, being Truants we’re […]
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If you’d told me about a hot young Irish hip-hop producer a decade ago, I’d probably have laughed at you. I can definitely remember laughing when I heard wannabe rappers on radio using American accents and then talking in their normal Dublin accents in interviews in about 2002. But times have changed. Liverpool-based Portadown native […]
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Something a little different this Sunday. Some Bay area raps from Roach Gigz & Lil 4 Tay. Not gonna pretend to be on an expert on either (I came across Roachy Balboa browsing myspace last year) but I’ve been stepping my hyphy game up since. This is a new project from yet to be announced […]
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Another Sunday brings around another Sunday’s Best, and with it comes some of the finest downloads available selected by the TRUANTS fam. Kev Brown is back with a a brand new free compilation called “Classic Joints”, filled with his own selections, unreleased music and fan favorites. All tracks are produced by Kev Brown this past […]
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We might have been in bed all day every Sunday since the launch of Truancy Compilation One, but Grown Folk who brought us the introduction to our compilation (“Steady Moving” – ‘jewelry, chrome and stones’) haven’t. Neither did LOL Boys, who teamed up with Teki for our release. LOL Boys released a scroled up video […]
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We’ve all heard “Nostalgia, ULTRA”, I mean ya boy Frank Ocean has already been mentioned in two TRUANTS posts since the album/mixtape/thing came out. Now comes his third. Also getting a second mention of late is DJ Ayres. This time he’s done something effortlessly simple yet also perfect because of its simplicity. Taking the dramatically […]
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It’s Sunday, literally on the verge of Monday, but we weren’t going to to miss out on another Sunday’s Best! Here is the 13th edition consisting another collection of tracks that have been tickling our fancy the last week, starting off with the wonderful New York based Deniz Kurtel. Wolf & Lamb affiliate and lady of […]
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Try finding good music on Sunday. We’ve already posted one remix of Lykke Li’s “I Follow Rivers” by Tyler, The Creator here on Truants, but earlier this week Stephen Fasano a.k.a. The Magician, formerly of Aeroplane, gave away his version as a Valentine’s gift and took it in a completely unique path, creating an upbeat jam […]
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