Jay Daniel: Scorpio Rising (Sound Signature)
Years ago, I knew this crazy Serbian poet/philosopher. With his flowing beard and hair and world-weary grimace, give him about ten years and a few more misfortunes and he'd look like Zeus. He showed...
In the Studio with Victor Simonelli
Every month 5 Magazine's Man+Machine features talks about musical machines and the men & women who love them.
This month, ahead of his date headlining 5 Magazine's Eight Year Anniversary Party, we talked about the...
Giorgio Luceri: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday #183
Giorgio Luceri is from Italy. He makes fantastic tracks. And these two statements - lately at least - appear to be completely redundant.
I first heard about Giorgio Luceri from Mathematics, Jamal Moss' Chicago label,...
When Guetta Was Underground: Up and Away by David Guetta and Robert Owens
Beating up on David Guetta at this point is about as fun as slapping around a middle aged accountant in a leather mask and gimp suit: it's not really that satisfying and you get...
Love Train and the Lost History of a Chicago House Classic
Four thousand, five hundred and twenty eight miles from Chicago - in Milan, Italy, the town he grew up in and which he still lives in today - Roberto Corinaldesi found himself at a...
Detroit Swindle: The 5 Magazine Interview
When the term 'overnight success' is bandied about for an artist, there can often be raised eyebrows. But when it turns out that that there's a perfect fusion in the cosmos of talent and...
Marasco: Need EP (Nordic Trax)
There is no denying the therapeutic capabilities embedded in good music. When I'm in the middle of a DJ set and I'm in the zone, it's like I'm in my own little world and...
Rick Wade: Equivalent Exchange (Quality Vibe)
5 Magazine risks becoming, in essence, Rick Wade Monthly, but I can't pass on a good record because an artist is on a roll. And Rick Wade is on a fucking roll - at...
Shaun J. Wright and Alinka: New Mix Monday vol 182
Shaun J. Wright and Alinka of Twirl! mix Volume 182 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix series.
Shaun J. Wright and Alinka: New Mix Monday vol 182
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Chicago Service and Body To Body
Updated Apr 13 2015: The phenomenally popular Chicago Service was just repressed.
As much as anyone on the outside knows, Marcel Vogel is doing most of this business himself - making songs, DJing parties, and...
Luke McKeehan: New Mix Monday vol 181
5 Magazine favorite Luke McKeehan of Nordic Trax mixes volume 181 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix series.
Luke McKeehan is the founder of Nordic Trax, our favorite label from...
Rick Wilhite: ‘There’s Too Much In Detroit For Me’
DETROIT - born and raised and residing in - that's the first and the second and the last thing you need to know about Rick Wilhite. The music says the rest, decades of accumulated...
Rissa Garcia: How Many Times (Cosmic Disco)
Thousands of people woke up this morning, opened a SoundCloud account and decided to call themselves producers. Rissa Garcia is not one of them: she's been on the scene for awhile now, and her...
Brawther: Remixes (Reissue) (Balance)
Out of print and fetching upwards of fifty bucks a copy, this four track collection of remixes from French supremo Brawther received a limited 12" reissue in May... and promptly went out of print...
Jason Hodges Mix: New Mix Monday vol 180
Jason Hodges (Junction Style Music, Sampled, Apt Entertainment, Organized Music) mixes volume 180 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix series.
Canadian-born Jason Hodges first arrived on the scene in late...
Todd Howard: Four Play Music Sessions vol 11
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.
Curated by Andrew Emil, this month's...
Alinka and Shaun J Wright to Release Their Fantastic New Twirl EP on Classic
"It's the thing with Derrick being in Chicago and me being in London and traveling the world and meeting assorted weirdos along the way. There's this spider web of the Classic misfit family that...
Disclosure is Coming Back to Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTed_S_NUkA
It's been rumored for awhile, and know it's official.Chicago promoters React and Silver Wrapper are bringing acclaimed UK duo Disclosure back to Chicago coming this Thursday, October 24 at House of Blues.
So far...
Marcel Vogel: New Mix Monday vol 179
Marcel Vogel (Lumberjacks in Hell, Intimate Friends) mixes volume 179 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix series.
Marcel Vogel describes himself as a "bearded lumberjack from rural Germany chopping soulful...
Boo Williams: Crying Black Man / Changes (Reissue) (Noble Square)
Some of the best Chicago House Music of the '90s was released on what have essentially become "ghost labels", existing in some limbo between a lost youth and legal opportunism (watch, for instance, the...
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Dedication: To Juan Atkins
There was never a moment before today that Juan Atkins was not a vital part of the American electronic music scene.
