Is the Vinyl Bubble About to Pop?
The vinyl boom may be about to crash, but it never had much to do with dance music anyway. Boomer Rock makes up most of vinyl growth and it always has.
Discograph: Lumberjacks In Hell
Lumberjacks In Hell is, without exception, one of my top 5 labels. A profile of their history and aesthetic with founder Marcel Vogel.
Disco Nirvana: Six Edits with Nick The Record
Welcome to the world of rare record dealer, esteemed DJ and producer, font of knowledge and the man responsible for some of the finest disco re-edits of the last twenty years, Nick the Record.
Boogie Nite: Do Your Thang
If you ever wondered how a city like Chicago stays relevant in the dance music scene for 35 years, it's thanks to people like Boogie Nite - a DJ who makes records with the ear of a musician and the honesty of a craftsman.
Dr. Packer: The Doctor is in the House
Harold Heath meets Greg Packer, aka Dr. Packer, a former drum & bass producer who switched to his first love, soul and disco, and hasn't looked back.
500 Edits: Danny Krivit & the Birth of Re-Edit Culture
How it all began with one bad edit and an engineer wasting everyone's time: Harold Heath meets Danny Krivit for our disco issue cover story.
Joey Negro Selects Disco Classics and Rarities on Remixed With Love Vol 3
Another gorgeous collection of disco classics and rarities on the third installment of Joey Negro's Z Records Remixed With Love series.
Shining Star: The Impossible, Wonderful Life of Linda Clifford
DJ- and producer-centered culture often overlooks the role of the amazing men and women who gave voice to disco. We do not. Lauren Krieger talks to one of the tireless, talented First Ladies of Disco, Lady Linda Clifford.
For Discos Only Collects the Disco Swerve of Sylvester, Fantasy & Vanguard
Backed by some 5,000 words of liner notes by Bill Brewster, For Discos Only documents when venerable jazz and counterculture labels Fantasy Records and New York's Vanguard "went disco."
DC LaRue: Do You Want The Real Thing?
Bruce Tantum in search of the artist behind disco classics like "Cathedrals" and "Do You Want The Real Thing?", the story of his lost masters and how he brought them to Joey Negro for the amazing record Resurrection.
Tom Moulton & Dimitri from Paris Remix “The Way You Love Me” from Ron...
Glitterbox drops two searing remixes by Dimitri from Paris and disco legend Tom Moulton of the 2006 track Ron Hall & The Muthafunkaz track "The Way You Love Me" featuring Marc Evans.
Disco Legend Linda Clifford to Reissue Four Classic Albums
Blixa Sounds will be reissuing four classic LPs from disco and soul icon Linda Clifford from Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label, including I'm Yours, Here's My Love, Let Me Be Your Woman and If My Friends Could See Me Now.
Joey Negro: Backstreet Brit Funk Vol 2
Joey Negro compiles the best Brit Funk tracks for Backstreet Brit Funk Vol 2, the UK's finest underground Soul Jazz-Funk and Disco.
Watch: New Documentary on “The Disco King of Skokie”
New film The Disco King of Skokie sheds new light on Carey Weiman and Chicago's '70s disco scene through House Music to EDM.
TK Disco Re-Edited Vol 1
Dimitri from Paris, Todd Terje, KON, Danny Krivit and Late Nite Tuff Guy bang on a double vinyl issue of TK Disco's burning disco heat.
Louie Vega’s NYC DISCO is a New Classic
When I heard Louie's confirmation that he was indeed going to release a disco album, I knew it would be good. Everyone did. But the usual pre-release hype aside, NYC Disco is a new classic.
Best Record Italy Found an Unreleased Edit of Klein & MBO’s The Theme
Klein + MBO was Chicago House before there was Chicago House. Best Record is reissuing The MBO Theme with an instrumental edit previously only heard on quarter inch tape.
Cranberry & Vodka – A 5 Mag Mix 62
New mix from Chicago DJ Cranberry & Vodka, recorded live at Remedy at East Room in Chicago.
KORT – A 5 Mag Mix vol 61
Tropical Velvet's DJ KORT takes over for the 61st volume of A 5 Mag Mix, 5 Magazine's signature DJ mix series.
“Ghetto Disco” Is the Quintessential TK Disco Song
A former blues singer named Ted Taylor brings all the soul and pathos of a modern day electric troubadour to the disco smash GHETTO DISCO, just reissued from TK Disco.
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HYPERACTIVE – Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag
Chicago techno godfather Hyperactive, plus Red Rack'em, Manuel Tur (5 Mag Mix), Ten Trax and more in the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
