Roberta comes home to Night Moves with the stellar “Your Touch”
It may be cheapening the art and coarsening the discourse when all we have to say about a record is mf, this is dope but mf, this is dope. When it comes to her public discography, Roberta has not missed.
Nachtbraker drops “Capichone” on vinyl for Peach Discs
Nachtbraker's tracks are often a subtle hybrid of elements of deep house and classic Detroit techno with echoes of '90s Dutch house, all filtered through a highly detailed sound design process. So it is here with four tracks of futurist hybrid 4/4 on Capichone.
Screen Play: Phil Kieran on the making of The Strand Cinema
Phil Kieran's latest album is a vibrant tour de force inspired by the old movie palace where it was made.
Moodymann, Move D, Inland highlight AWAY’s 10 YEARS celebration
Three weekend-long events for the Berlin event will follow a ten track compilation from some of the friends, family & honored guests from the label out June 23.
Kick’n’snare astrology from Snad on Bootlickerz
Another 12" deep house record that's all about the groove and how to cook with it from Chicago's Snad.
New Digital Fidelity makes an auspicious debut on Detroit’s Moods & Grooves
Fred P "reshapes" this four track deep house groover on Mike Grant's legendary Moods & Grooves label.
Photonz makes 12 house cuts about nothing
Photonz drops an album of spares, rares and sketches as a yummy bandcamp only release for diggers and DJs seeking ultra deep cuts.
Time Capsule: Inside the new 5 Mag
Joyce Muniz, Fred Everything, LF System, Conrad Colson, How to Save a Landmark, the AI botnet eating streaming platforms alive and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
Moodymann, Carl Craig remix Alexander Robotnick’s seminal “Problemes D’Amour”
The surprise sleeper hit of an illustrious career - Alexander Robotnick was already working on video art, soundtracks and world music when it began to gain a cult audience - "Problemes" has been reissued many times but never quite like this.
Beyond Heaven: Discovering the hidden history of Chicago house music
In Beyond Heaven, Mario Luna and publisher Brandon Johnson collect artwork from more than a decade of Chicago house music history, from the early days of legendary pioneers to lost icons of dance music.
The Delivery Men
"It's not possible to be indifferent when someone died for delivering a hamburger." Maxime Dangles' new album takes on the exploitation of France's gig workers.
Dez Andrés comes alive on Back In My Space
313 Business: For a certain type of DJ and digger a new record from Dez Andrés is a present for your birthday, whenever your birthday happens to fall. "Back In My Space" is Christmas and your birthday all in one.
Four cylinders of sweaty funk’n’jazz on Thierry Tomas’ Tomat EP
This record is so good that record producers are going to hate Thierry Tomas and still make him a bit of coin when they buy two copies of it. Tomat is an album of jazz, funk, smoky lounge and hazy afterparty music, tied together under the theme of "rethinking the soundtracks of Soviet cinema and Polish jazz of the second half of the 20th century."
Premiere: Ilana Ariella & Shmoo – Go On Do It [Cheap Talk]
5 Mag is thrilled to share "Go On Do It" by Ilana Ariella & Shmoo, the debut release from a new Chicago indie label called Cheap Talk
Turbojazz – “Putting out a record makes me feel like I’m saying something to the universe”
Celebrating two decades of deep diving through dance music, Turbojazz delivers an all encompassing album that reflects his years of exploration & passion with the release of his album Whateverism.
Earl Jeffers, Gerd Janson and Tatyana Jane remix Marina Trench’s “Imperméable en été”
Marina Trench's Sweet State label kicked off 2023 with a solid EP and this remix EP based on it, featuring Gerd Janson, Earl Jeffers and Tatyana Jane.
Sunny summertime jazz from St. David on the Timeless EP
Groovin is responsible for some of Italy's best reissue records, often with a Chicago house focus. Timeless by Italian producer St. David is what it says: two tracks and two remixes that could have been lifted from a Strictly Jaz Unit EP because they sound that good.
Local Talk makes a lovely tribute to Soulphiction on “Live @ Bix”
Live @ Bix is lead by a live version of "Bizzness" recorded by Soulphiction and Netzer in 2018 - bass that jumps out of the mix like a boogeyman and chunky guitar makes this maybe an even more essential version than the extremely well-regarded original.
Legendary Runway has a story that compels and a bassline that wants to eat you alive
One A pays tribute to iconic model Pat Cleveland, the Girls from 7th Avenue and the birth of voguing on Legendary Runway.
Classy deep house from S. Hoellermann on “Pressure”
Classy deep house from S. Hoellermann gets a cosmetic makeover for the '90s and, weirdly, the '20s too.
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made.
