Terry Matthew
I'm the Managing Editor of 5 Magazine. You can reach me by email.
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There was a time when Acid could be sleazy, when Techno could be something other than "angry" or "ponderous" or sound like the soundtrack for a silent film about black and white landscape...
Aimes - Pleasure Cruise b/w Acid Dreaming by Aimes
When I was younger I used to walk around strange neighborhoods and imagine that everyone behind the shuttered windows was busy writing symphonies or novels or planning great literary or intellectual...
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Describing themselves as "the gayest band since The Village People," Stereogamous are a production/DJ duo from Sydney, Australia. Making their debut on Alinka & Shaun J Wright's brilliant Twirl label, if there's any...
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"Grit Grime" and that says it all. Chicago's T. Mixwell's EP (really a single and a remix) on Sugar Shack Recordings is streetwise and whip-smart, operating somewhere way down in the BPMs and...
"Music Is The Key" was a bully of a track, demanding so much attention that it starved others of oxygen and became one of those records that despite the demands of fashion remains one of the dozen or so...
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Let no smartass tell you that the mix CD is dead. It's changed, like everything else has changed, and the ubiquity of DJ mixes in the internet era has probably dented the market significantly. But in place of grim...
Comp For Andreas Gehm by Comp For Andreas Gehm
I have three records by Andreas Gehm that I'll never part with - U Don't Love Me Anymore, What's On Ur Mind and My So Called Robot Life, all from Jamal...
I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which is a pretty young age for a thief or for a Prince fan. I don't know what prompted this act of petty criminality, but this was still a time when cassette tapes existed...
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I think I've written about most of these, some in the context of calling Lumberjacks In Hell "the best Chicago dance music label not based in Chicago." I'm feeling a touch of anxiety...
There have been a couple of relevant pieces published in the last few days about Beatport, by knowledgeable people who have some skin in the game regarding the fate of dance music's largest download shop.
The first - a bizarrely...
Movement is coming up, and some have been waiting the whole year for Memorial Day madness in Motown. But another Detroit festival has been gathering steam over the last few years and it's about time it got more shine.
Charivari...
You try to be tactful, you don't want to hurt anybody but in the moments after a tremendous tragedy or world-changing event, you sort of have to put your feelings aside and drive where the story takes you.
When TMZ...
There's an earnestness about Ralf Gum, and aside from the music it's one of his most attractive qualities as an artist. Here's a guy that would stay true - did stay true, in the face of the temptations of...
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Has it really been this long? I looked through all of my records and write-ups and when that failed I fell back to Googling, and it seems it's been quite awhile since I've...
A week ago, a rumor spread through the industry press that Apple planned to "stop selling music by 2018." It was bullshit (not least of all because the incredibly secretive company would sooner set the company on fire before...
Earl Smith, known in the dance music community by the moniker DJ Spank-Spank from the legendary Acid House creators Phuture, suffered a stroke on Saturday and is currently in recovery following surgery.
A post from the Phuture Facebook page revealed...
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This is "evocative of the era of French Touch," according to the 1000 blogs that Cntrl+C/Cntrl+V'd directly from the one-sheet for Miguel Campbell's forthcoming album, Memoirs.
They're not wrong, but it'd be nice...
Sebastian Doering (aka Lovebirds) has something new in his workshop and has invited you in for a sneak preview. I first read about this project back in the Fall and his (first?) collaboration with MINAKO appears to be finally...
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Lay-Far's How I Communicate LP propelled a tidal wave of acclaim from DJs and publications, including two reviews submitted by the staff of the magazine you're reading.
Buried beneath the avalanche of silly...
I haven't watched a minute of Vinyl, HBO's supposedly polarizing series, so whatever promotional juice they hope to squeeze out of their musical offerings (a track a week, or so they say) is probably wasted on me. From what...
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