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12″ alert: Kai Alcé drops Luv Fantasy on NDATL
Kai Alce makes some of the deepest soul and the soulfulest deep house known to man. Here are three more servings of the good stuff.
Services announced for DJ/producer Tim Baker
A public viewing in Ann Arbor will be followed by a Chicago celebration of the life for techno DJ/producer Tim Baker.
New Chicago multi-day ARC Music Festival coming Labor Day weekend
Seth Troxler, Nicole Moudaber join DJ Pierre, Derrick Carter, DJ Heather and more in Union Park for ARC Music Festival over Labor Day Weekend 2021.
Services announced for DJ/producer Tim Baker
A public viewing in Ann Arbor will be followed by a Chicago celebration of the life for techno DJ/producer Tim Baker.
Features, Profiles & Interviews
Brawther on the Start of the End
The French DJ/producer and 5 Mag friend on surviving and maybe thriving in the post-COVID music industry.
Monty Luke on BLM, climate change & making the catalogue of...
5 Mag's latest cover story with Monty Luke, founder of Black Catalogue on racial justice, the effect of the music industry on climate change and preventing the erasure of Black artists from electronic music.
Space Oddity: the weird history of the Soviet ANS synthesizer
The sound of Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker was generated by a strange machine that created sounds with drawings.
Space Oddity: the weird history of the Soviet ANS synthesizer
The sound of Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker was generated by a strange machine that created sounds with drawings.
Private equity keeps stabbing Guitar Center but it still won’t die
Music gear is selling at a record pace but Guitar Center is broke. It's not the pandemic that's screwed it up.