Chez Damier: A Revolutionary Life
Most interviews with Chez Damier are about the past - about Prescription and Balance Records; about The Music Institute in Detroit; about KMS and the Belleville Three and Chez's role, seemingly everywhere that electronic...
Hieroglyphic Being: Music is Mathematics
A sound artist, an experimental composer, a music-making savant with analog machines - this is Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, the next in a lineage of Chicago's electronic producers driven by a vision to...
Kelly Sylvia Interview
It seems that everywhere I look these days I see something that has to do with female DJs or female producers in the electronic music industry. Females in the music industry have always been...
Tevo Howard: The 5 Magazine Interview
5 Magazine's interview with Tevo Howard: the true hero of the underground.
City Beat: The New World of Ron Trent
Ron Trent has surveyed the House Music landscape in our town & beyond. He hasn't liked what he's seen.
Label Profile: Eddie Leader and Hudd Traxx
Curiously in-depth overviews of some of our favorite House Music labels and the people behind them. This month: Eddie Leader and Hudd Traxx.
Aki Bergen: Black and Light (Remixes)
This is a fast turnaround for Aki Bergen: the Black & Light album was released worldwide in May and this remix selection arrives via special delivery scarcely a month later. This is not a...
Hector Moralez: The 5 Magazine Interview
Known as a solo artist, for his Fries & Bridges collaboration with Phil Weeks and as the impresario behind Minority Music & The Factory, Hector Moralez (facebook, soundcloud, discogs) is that rare producer whose...
Dubbyman: The Spanish Deep Explorer Touches Down in Chicago
Jose Manuel Alvarez - also known as Dubbyman - is gracing Chicago's sonic territories this week with gigs at SmartBar and this Saturday at Darkroom
Phil Weeks: So… Who Is Rob Soul?
No label has a better grasp on surviving and thriving in the digital age than Robsoul. Many contradictions, so many questions, starting with...
Dave Pezzner: The 5 Magazine Interview
Tagged as a newcomer the electronic dance community, Seattle's Dave Pezzner proves to be everything but "green" to the dance scene.
Swirl People’s Raoul Belmans and The Porcelain Anniversary
From Belgium, Raoul Belmans of Swirl People (facebook, twitter, soundcloud) has cut more than 70 EPs under a variety of crazy aliases, including Cosy Creatures, Dandruff Truckers, Different Noodles and his disco alter ego,...
Rich Medina: A Man For All Seasons
There are few nightclub DJs that have accomplished as much, across as many genres, as Rich Medina (facebook, twitter, themarksmen.net, afrobeatles.com, crazylegsworkshop.com). He has worked with music legends like De La Soul, Erykah Badu,...
A Taste of Honey Dijon
High fashion and House Music used to go together like vodka and vermouth, and for Honey Dijon, they still do. From Chicago, Miss Dijon (facebook, twitter, soundcloud) got her groove on as a DJ...
John Morales: The Return of the Disco Legend
In music, and especially in underground music, the word "legend" is thrown around to the point where it loses all meaning.
What is a legend? It's someone who broke the mold - someone whose sounds,...
Label Profile: Mazi, Nathan Drew Larsen and Fresh Meat Records
5 Mag's Label Profile series continues, with curiously in-depth overviews of some of our favorite House Music labels and the people behind them. This month we're featuring Mazi (aka Audio Soul Project), Nathan Drew...
Riva Starr: The 5 Magazine Interview
Riva Starr is that quirky, sassy, tongue-in-cheek producer with a savoir-faire that screams original! His sound is refreshingly unconventional to say the least.
In 2010, people stood up and paid attention when his critically...
Cover Story: Grant Nelson
I don't know of many other producers that have run the gamut of sounds like this man has. From early breakbeat techno, rave and hardcore jams as Wishdokta (among others) to pushing 2 Step...
Alton Miller: Light Years Away (Mixed Signals Music)
I'll tell you what: No matter how many sub-genres there are of House Music, you can always tell when a particular song or sound comes straight from the source. It's like making a single...
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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.
