House Music All Stars Come Out to Support Boyd Jarvis
The Music Got Us Too: Timmy Regisford, Merlin Bobb, Francois K, Joe Claussell, Kevin Hedge, Barbara Tucker, Eli Escobar and Mark Francis lead a fundraiser in support of Boyd Jarvis.
Kyle Kim: Lean On Me
With remixes from Richard Earnshaw and Luyo, Double Cheese sexes up the darling Lean On Me from Kyle Kim.
Nicky Siano: Conversations with 5 Magazine
Credited with founding the very first disco, Nicky Siano talks to 5 Magazine about why the term disco sucks and what makes a good DJ.
DJ Rush: Classic House & Disco Mix 1990
Peering back across three decades of tape hiss and magnetic smut to find DJ Rush bangin' tracks in 1990.
KON! The 5 Magazine Interview
The King of Nothing: Will Sumsuch profiles Kon for a 5 Magazine cover story.
Disco Demolition Night: A Drunk History
Season four of the Comedy Central Show Drunk History will feature a slightly misremembered history of Chicago's infamous Disco Demolition Night.
Tear The MF’ing Roof Off!
New documentary on the wild and dangerous times of Parliament Funkadelic Tear The Roof Off debuts in Chicago.
SanFranDisko Edits Stephanie Mills & The Weather Girls
Supreme slow jams edited by veteran rumprouser Paul Goodyear from SoundCloud and HearThis.at.
Ron Hardy Photographs: Back To The Music Box
Ron Hardy photos and pictures of the Music Box, the legendary nightclub in Chicago from the personal collection of Robert Williams.
Eurodisco Forever: An Essential Voyage Playlist
12 essential tracks from VOYAGE, four French Eurodisco heroes that ruled the discotheque.
Horse Meat Disco at Smartbar June 25 2016
“I guess kids and people in general need love and happiness, so they try our party and go home with a smile and a feelgood vibe.” That’s from Severino, one of four resident DJs...
Al Kent: Disco Love
Scotland might not be the first place that springs to mind when you think of Disco music. But just as surely as it spawned the inventors of hypnosis, deep-fried Mars bars and television, old...
Aimes: Pleasure Cruise/Acid Dreaming
Aimes - Pleasure Cruise b/w Acid Dreaming by Aimes
When I was younger I used to walk around strange neighborhoods and imagine that everyone behind the shuttered windows was busy writing symphonies or novels or...
Foundations: Voyage and “An Absolute Timeless Dance Classic”
Music has always been a journey. The journey to our modern dance music had many foundations that have been shared in this column. Soul, funk, R&B, jazz, and rock all have played a key...
Z Records’ Under The Influence vol 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRd_QsJTM3Q
Let no smartass tell you that the mix CD is dead. It's changed, like everything else has changed, and the ubiquity of DJ mixes in the internet era has probably dented the market significantly....
The Best of Lumberjacks In Hell
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I think I've written about most of these, some in the context of calling Lumberjacks In Hell "the best Chicago dance music label not based in Chicago." I'm...
Dimitri From Paris Remixes “Kill The Lights” from TV Show Vinyl
I haven't watched a minute of Vinyl, HBO's supposedly polarizing series, so whatever promotional juice they hope to squeeze out of their musical offerings (a track a week, or so they say) is probably...
Disco Refugees: Dan Hartman, Loleatta Holloway and the Day After Disco Died
It was supposed to be the deal of the century, and in retrospect - if you count art rather than commerce - it was. It was a project bringing together the most talented songwriter...
Reflections on Frankie Knuckles
Symbolically and appropriately, 5 Magazine, a Chicago publication (in origin and spirit), was and is intricately tied to Frankie Knuckles.
Without pause, Frankie Knuckles not only lived the "roots of modern dance" - he personified...
Remixed with Love By Joey Negro Vol 2
Behold: a twenty track double LP/double CD with a tracklist that reads like one of DEL's Foundations columns. From one of the most eclectic and vast record collections in the world, disco archaeologist Joey...
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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.
