Norm Talley: Analog XTC (Minimood Extra)
I am trying to hold my shit together here and I don't think I'm doing too good a job of it. In "Analog XTC", Norm Talley simply goes beyond what Deep House is supposed...
Franck Roger’s Extensions of Yesterday (Circus Company)
I don't always agree with Franck Roger's pronunciamentos about the state of dance music, but at least he's approaching the debate with some honesty. Start a thread on Facebook with the question "What's wrong...
Brodanse featuring Cari Golden: Activate (Danse Club)
Of all the self-declared archivists sifting through the silt and sand of classic Deep House, Danse Club established itself right quick with several cuts remixed and reissued with a degree of respect you'll never...
No Dial Tone and James Curd: Standing Still – Gentle Help (Classic)
Split EPs are an endangered species - a victim of The Great Unbundling that began with dubplates, test presses and short runs and devoured them one-by-one like a horde of locusts. Whether it's for...
Stripped and Chewed: Love for the Gang
I've had nothing but good things to say about this label and everyone involved in it. This is more of the same. In an era in which everyone looks out for themselves and appears...
In the Studio with James Curd
In an expanded edition of Man & Machine, we talk to James Curd of Greenskeepers fame. Formerly of Chicago, James takes us into his new studio in Australia, walks us through a collaboration with...
Pittsburgh Track Authority: Strenf (Work Them)
Fuck what the prelates have to say: many good things are coming out of Pittsburgh, the Nazareth of the Eastern Seaboard, and these guys are making almost all of it. "The Standard" is the...
Sean Haley: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday Sets #172
Sean Haley: Deep House DJ from Chicago. Need more? Okay: he's one half of Windimoto, a collaboration with Scorpeze founded in 2007, which released the full-length Sinister Beauty LP two years later and the...
DJ Jus-Ed: Dum Jams (Underground Quality)
It's been awhile since we've had an old school dis track. Last December, Brooklyn record shop Dope Jams published their annual blast, a "best of/worst of 2012" list with an emphasis decidedly on the...
Chuck Daniels: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday #171
Chuck Daniels has been DJing since 1988, and has performed across North America and Europe. A native of Detroit, he's DJed or hosted at nearly every club in the city, including his Love the...
DJ Jes: Four Play Music Sessions vol 9
Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each month exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Hand-picked by curator Andrew Emil, this...
E-Smoove, On How One Makes 400+ Remixes
5 Magazine meets with Chicago producer and Grammy nominated remixer E-Smoove, aka Eric Miller, and talk about his 400 credited remixes and multiple #1 hits, working at Steve Hurley's ID production house, "Freedom Train"...
DJ Moppy: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday Sets #170
Moppy is part of Cutz on Cuts, which airs every Wednesday from 4pm to 8pm Central time on Ustream. (We also featured Shazam Bangles, also from Cutz on Cuts, in our January 21 2013...
Samann: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday #168
Traxx Underground's Samann from Italy chips in with this week's New Mix Monday set - volume 168 in our weekly guest mix series, published here new, every Monday.
Born in 1990, Samann first came to...
Alex Agore: Mizz Honey EP (Say Ahh)
It was once said about the Velvet Underground that while they never sold a million records, everyone who bought one went out and started their own band. The same applies to MK. It's not...
Rick Wade: Night Addiction (Hold Youth)
You have to respect the cheek of a label that titles their very first release Classics 01. That's what Hold Youth, a French vinyl imprint overseen by Le Loup and Seuil, did, and if...
Change Request: Four Play Music Sessions vol 8
Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each month exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Change Request is the new project...
MK Recreates a Remix on Camera for Native Instruments
File Under: Educational. Promoting Native Instruments' Maschine, MK walks us through the process of creating his remixes for Storm Queen's (aka Morgan Geist) 2010 smash "Look Right Through".
Rick Wade: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday #165
This week, we're very proud to present an exclusive mix from Detroit Deep House master and Harmonie Park's own Rick Wade.
Rick has been on a tear, with no less than four records on black...
Cottam: Dawn Walk (Audio Parallax)
It's amusing to see the flavors-of-the-month rise and fall - no names, but seven publicists on retainer can only get you so far for so long. I'm a jaded and petty enough man to...
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