Truants

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-266-zozo/ Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants Soundcloud: @zozo-on-soundcloud

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-265-soso-tharpa Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants Soundcloud: @sosotharpa

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-264-turtle-bugg/ Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants Soundcloud: @kamekameha

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-263-identified-patient Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants Soundcloud: @identified-patient Having formed a trademark sound that flirted between electro, EBM, acid, wave sounds, post punk and industrial, Identified Patient's penchant for club and genre experimentation always left the door open for a producer wan...

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-262-gabber-modus-operandi Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants Soundcloud: @gabbermodusoperandi As Gabber Modus Operandi, vocalist Ican Harem and DJ Kasimyn have spent the past couple of years raising hell across their native Bali and beyond. The duo connected over their shared love of disparate musics, includin...

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-261-thomas-martojo/ Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/truants Soundcloud: @dkmntl You will, of course, be familiar with the work of Thomas Martojo. The internationally recognised dance music brand, Dekmantel, continues to be a signature moment within a claustrophobic festival landscape. On the other hand, the...

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-260-shyboi Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/truants Soundcloud: @djshyboi Everything SHYBOI seemingly touches is delivered intuitively and with intent. Her sets may not be planned, but they feed off the crowd’s energy in a sort of unspoken symbiotic exchange. She may also casually mention a documentary she’s...

Interview + Download: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-259-doc-sleep/ Soundcloud: @docsleep Doc Sleep is an unsung hero. Low-key and understated, she's an accomplished DJ and producer, as well as being part of the two-person team behind the consistently excellent Jacktone label. The label has amassed an incredible 70 releases since 2013, putting out tracks from the likes of Gayphex Twin,...

Founders of Truants @riccardovillella and @soraya go B2B for an hour and a half in the first instalment of their quarterly mix series, taking you through an selection of house, techno and electro featuring the likes of Truants family and favourites ELLES, Jordan GCZ, Aurora Halal, 2Lanes, MoMa Ready and Fantastic Man. ㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡㋛㋡ Truants are hosti...

Interview + Download + Tracklist: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-258-hank-jackson/ Soundcloud: @hjacksonnn Hank Jackson's music has been notoriously difficult to pin down, as his shifting sound has stretched in simultaneous directions over the years. Nevertheless a constant thread in his productions are their explorative nature, defying genre conventions to forge a personalized path. O...

Interview + Download: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-257-channel-tres/ ‎ Soundcloud: @channeltres There’s few people who currently embody the confluence of modern music like Channel Tres does. On the one hand, the soulful heart of dance music lives at the centre of his music, taking us through from deep Chicago house to dub techno effortlessly. At the same time,  his West Coast synths...

Interview + Download + Tracklist: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-256-akua/ Soundcloud:@akua_b Raised in Los Angeles but based in Brooklyn since 2015, Akua has spent the past five years redefining and cultivating a sound within techno that has assuredly become her own. As one of the many talented DJs that makes up the Discwoman roster, her passion for research and recontextualization in...

Interview + Download: http://truantsblog.com/2019/truancy-volume-255-air-max-97 Soundcloud: @airmax97 An enterprising spirit that rose to prominence through the world of experimental club music, Air Max '97 has streamlined his sound and renewed his focus the last few years. Part-in-hand to the time he's put into the curation of his label DECISIONS, the release of his debut album Nacre last year al...

Interview + Download: http://truantsblog.com/2019/truancy-volume-254-dj-voices Soundcloud: @latenitesbookclub New York's DJ Voices is drawn towards the unexpected. We spoke at a Japanese restaurant in Dublin (where she'd later play to a crowd of Halloween revellers and well-dressed 20-somethings), and she pointedly said that she would play a whole set of up-tempo tracks slowed down using the CDJ's...

Interview + Download + Tracklist: http://truantsblog.com/2018/truancy-volume-208-scraaatch/ Soundcloud: @scraaatch @mhysa301 @lawdkn_ws Hailing from Philly with roots in Maryland, the digital-dwelling, performance-minded sound art and music duo SCRAAATCH load their knapsack of self-determinative songs onto the platter for Truancy Volume 208. Their series of numbered performances each possess uniqu...

Interview + Download: http://truantsblog.com/2017/truancy-volume-194-dj-lag/ Soundcloud: @djlaggqomking Over the past two years, the coastal city of Durban in South Africa has spearheaded the sound of the rapidly growing gqom scene. Throughout Durban townships, the percussive mixture of hip-hop and house elements had primarily spread through a series of file-sharing sites, with Facebook groups and...

Interview + Tracklist + Download: : http://truantsblog.com/2017/truancy-volume-184-foozool-8ulentina Soundcloud: @clubchai @foozool @8ulentina Hailing from the Bay Area, FOOZOOL and 8ULENTINA established a regular performance space for local interdisciplinary artists working beyond the paradigms of genres and unilateral approaches to sound through their night, Club Chai. Now, Club Chai has expande...

Interview + Tracklist + Download: http://truantsblog.com/2017/truancy-volume-183-ahadadream/ Soundcloud: @ahadadream A few months ago we asked some questions to London-based producer and DJ, Ahadadream, just as he got set to drop the second release on his own label More Time. We discussed his inspirations and mantras, his dream Boiler Room lineup and how he went about producing the tracks for that...

Download + Tracklist + Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2016/truancy-volume-146-iglew/ Soundcloud: @iglew92 Our 146th Truancy Volume comes from Iglew, a producer based in grime's square waved legacy and who caught our eye last year with a series of unreleased tracks, rips and his 'Urban Myth' EP released on Mr. Mitch's very own Gobstopper Records. Since then he's remained relatively quiet through...

Tracklist/Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xv-e-m-m-a Soundcloud: @oiiemma For the fifteenth edition of Functions Of The Now we're extremely pleased to present a long time Truants favourite: E.M.M.A. Although E.M.M.A’s release schedule has slowed since her debut album Blue Gardens landed, her Functions Of The Now mix hints at the wealth of dubplates waiting to be unleash...

Soundcloud: @r-i-p-dj Artwork: Joe Jackson @ deadgoodshit.com Read More: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xiv-dj-nj-drone DJ NJ Drone has been occupying precarious borderspace for some time, tip-toeing around genre in his production of frantic, hi-speed abstractions. Overdriven, overloaded, NJ Drone is like déjà vu, an anomaly simultaneously familiar and distant. Travelling through...