🔴 elevate: Nico Lahs, Dam Swindle, Heist, Point Winona and more inside 5 Mag Issue 225, out now!
At 170+ pages, this is our most colossal issue yet featuring our cover story with Nico Lahs, cover mix by Dam Swindle, 100 releases on Heist, capturing the sound of the LA underground at Point Winona Sound Labs, Rick Wade’s new powerhouse idea generating app, penetrating stories on AI slopwave and the reckoning of an online economy driven by cheap and ubiquitous bots and more.
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🔴 CONTENTS — INSIDE 5 MAG #225:
❇️ Dam Swindle: The Cover Mix.
Dam Swindle has been featured five times in 5 Mag, including on the cover, but never in a mix. One of the best, up now.
❇️ Nico Lahs.
There is something different about a Nico Lahs track and I knew it from the first time I heard one. In the new 5 Mag cover story, we dig in to find out why. Nico Lahs photos by @umbertolopez / total look: @scptmodalenta / stylist: @frnk.cpt / @caputoboutique / location: @fondazionepinopascali / management / coordination: @mynameissbam)
❇️ Heist 100: Building the House of House.
Heist Recordings hit the ground in a full sprint and hasn’t stopped to take a breath. Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets of Dam Swindle walk us through history to their label’s landmark 100th release.
❇️ Made In Heaven.
Point Winona Sound Library captures the sounds of the LA underground from a recording studio in the clouds.
❇️ Slopwave.
Galaxy Brain: AI is eating the world. It’s finally come for us.
❇️ The Internet Is Over.
They created a new version of beloved millennial site Digg. Bots destroyed it in just 60 days.
❇️ Deplatform.
As Juno Download laments the demise of music download platforms, Subvert launches as a grassroots alternative to all of them.
❇️ Rick Wade launches Harmonie Keys.
Screengrab: A powerhouse app generates ideas and deep, luscious chords, melodies, harmonies and sounds from right inside your browser.
❇️ Multitrack editing in the browser with AudioMass.
Free, open source and works offline: the latest upgrade to AudioMass, a top tier audio editor.
❇️ Look, Don’t Touch.
Heavy Machinery: Teenage Engineering and their mysterious record cutting machine.
❇️ Forever Beige.
Heavy Machinery: Akai introduces a special edition retro color MPC Live III.
❇️ Music Reviews 225.
New music, recent discoveries and classic reissues from John Silas (Love Injection), Demuir and IAmBrandon (Purveyor Underground), Henna Onna (Deeppa Records), Souldynamic (Exedo), Mike AgentX Clark (Collective Rhythm Network), Lay-Far Dance Orchestra (In-Beat-Ween Music), Geo Jordan (Aus Music), Natasha Diggs and Megatronic (The Jazz Diaries), Gilbert (Innate), Tonarunur (Citizens of Vice), Ackermann (Seven), Cee ElAssaad (Local Talk), Mira Lo (Nowadays Records), Jevon Jackson (Vizual Records), Emanuele Cisi (Right Tempo), Ka§par (Percebes Musica), Lumberjacks In Hell, Mar De Novo (Winding Road Records), Flexi Cuts, Juliet Mendoza (Spiritual Systems), Xclusiv (Phantasy Sound), Radic The Myth (Vibe Me To The Moon), S. Hoellermann (Realisat), Funki Cadets (Vega Records), Quintessentials, Private Chatroom (EELF), Harry Romero (Cecille Numbers), Dona vs. DJ Plant Texture (Mistress Recordings), Tim Deluxe (Classic Music Company), Revival House Project and John Morales (Revival Records), Rheji Burrell (Nu Groove), Demarkus Lewis (Stank Box), COD3 QR and more.
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