Terry Matthew
Managing Editor of 5 Magazine, Terry Matthew's first record was "Circus Bells." His first mixtape was from Armando Gallop. Aside from writing for 5 Mag, Terry has authored the liner notes for Jeff Mills' "Metropolis Metropolis" and the 20th anniversary reissue of Hardkiss' "Delusions of Grandeur." He lives in Chicago. You can reach Terry by email.
Panelists Norm Talley, Delano Smith, Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale and moderator Kai Alcé chart the formation of techno among Detroit's youth in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Fifteen years in the making, the documentary by Jeno and Martin O'Brien is available via VOD and for streaming for free on Tubi.
Listen to the latest 5 Mag cover mix from our brand new issue featuring Galen, co-founder of Sunset Sound System and an icon of the West Coast and North American dance music scene.
Valerio Vaudano loves this retro house sound so much he reverse engineered it like a shaggy computer scientist hacking a ROM BIOS chip in 1982. The four tracks on Lose My Mind were apparently created "using a '90s sampler without using a computer." Can you tell?
Damian Rausch does 4am really well - that last pump of energy, that last song or the first last song before you give up whatever plans you had for a responsible life and an early morning because you're going to remember what happens here with much more tenderness than you remember waking up on time and having a sensible breakfast.
The hottest house tracks of 2025 were made in 1996. DJ Romain's "The Lost D.A.T.S." series evokes a time when Times Square was dirty and nightlife was a freaky wonderland.
Lundstrom served jail time for his role in The Pirate Bay, not for financing three generations of insane Swedish politics.
After several successful crowdsourcing campaigns, French synth maker Aodyo crashed into bankruptcy. What went wrong?
Signed to Ralph Lawson's 20/20 Vision Recordings, ASHRR is aiming one directly at the house scene with this remix pack featuring Ron Trent.
The world has gone wrong in every way we can measure but Austin Bascom is back and dropping tracks again and they're as good as they were back in the day.
You gotta really think about this one for a minute.
It's dangerous to put two volatile elements together and madness to put this out. Zed Bias remixes KiNK's KAZAN on Hypercolour - just 4 minutes and 57 seconds of trippy DJ silly putty.
Amsterdam deep house duo Dam Swindle have announced the forthcoming release of OPEN, Swindle's first album since 2018's High Life. Listen to the first single, "Girl," featuring vocalist Faye Meana.
Nobody captured the energy and fun of house music better than DJ Funk.
This is Volume 3 and the final part of Genius of Time's "Vocal Series," a collection of EPs built around vocal hooks and minimal and dubby but vibrant instrumentation.
Started 15 years ago, the multi-day festival on July 11 through July 13 2025 remains free for everyone with world-class talent and a legendary afterparty scene.
DJ Funk, one of the pioneers of ghetto house music and a dance music icon, has been "bravely battling stage 4 cancer" but now "doesn't have much longer left," in an appeal released by his family. Funk is now "facing the heartbreaking reality of planning for his final farewell."
Outré audio archeology on a 4 track compilation via DJ Curses and Eskimo Recordings,, shining "a blacklight onto the darker side of club music."
There's a formula and Patrick Wayne and Threejay have it on lock: jackin' beats, disco vibes and a liberal use of samples, chopped up and put back together again in new forms.
SoundCloud invites their artists to make a ticketing giant even bigger with a new partnership.
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ANNOUNCE: The Legend of Paul Johnson
5 Mag's next issue is a big one: a special edition dedicated solely to the story of beloved Chicago house icon Paul Johnson.
