Joey Negro’s 2008 Dub Mighty Bloody Real (Free Download)
Way ahead of it's time, Better Days Records featured some of the most beautiful and most versatile bootleg disco edits in the world. Better Days also published some of the most hilarious tongue-in-cheek pseudonyms...
Joey Negro & Sean P’s Supafunkanova Vol 2
There was a moment in the documentary Muhammad And Larry, captured with the usual calm and steady cam the Maysles Brothers were known for, in which heavyweight champion Larry Holmes is driving his car...
Four Play Sessions vol 22: Go BANG! with Sergio Fedasz & Steve Fabus
Sergio Fedasz and Steve Fabus mount a Go BANG! takeover of Four Play Sessions, a monthly mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music curated by Andrew Emil exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Go BANG! (SoundCloud) is...
Listening Room: Marcel Vogel on Doin It (Intimate Friends)
There's a story behind every track. Or at least the good ones. Listening Room is our (somewhat neglected of late) music feature devoted to discovering new music and learning the story behind the tracks...
The Essential George Duke Playlist
Crazy P, Daft Punk, Cajmere, Stanley Clarke and Michael Jackson make an appearance in DEL's Essential George Duke Playlist, compiled for his column Foundations.
Related: Foundations: George Duke: Master of the Game
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George Duke: Master of the Game
George Duke was the Master of the Game - a creative force that applied an academic and theoretical knowledge of music composition to pop music and a wide array of dance music's foundations.
DEL's Foundations...
JT Donaldson’s 7 Inch Adventures
The restless adventurer has found a new calling. One-time Chicago resident JT Donaldson played twice in as many months in the city this summer, with something new in his bag.
Or sort of new. They're...
The Essential TK Disco Playlist
Peter Brown, Kat Mandu, Gino Soccio and Ralph McDonald join Anita Ward and KC and the Sunshine Band in DEL's essential TK Disco Playlist, compiled by DEL for Foundations.
Related: Foundations: TK Disco: Ray Caviano...
TK Disco – Ray Caviano and the Lost Art of Record Promotion
The signature bamboo, blue skies and palm trees meant this was a record worthy of the name TK DISCO. Ray Caviano made sure DJs played it.
DEL's Foundations series searches through the roots of modern...
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Luaka Bop
In the six months since Luaka Bop's reissue album Who Is William Onyeabor? was released, the obscure, reclusive Nigerian funk and disco musician has been acclaimed...
Joey Negro Mix: Live at Goldfish in Sydney February 28 2014
Update: Our man Joey Negro just sent us an exclusive mix ahead of his date this Friday, March 21, 2014 at Primary Nightclub in Chicago.
Here we go now: Joey Negro (who we interviewed for...
How I Play: Joey Negro on the Culture and Craft of DJing
DJs today are confronted with an astonishing number of choices, from vinyl to digital media, controllers, mixers, and the unending stream of more music being released for consumption than at any time in history.
It's...
Giorgio Moroder to Play Pitchfork Music Festival
Pitchfork announced the first wave of acts headlining at this summer's Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park. Among the names is Don Giorgio Moroder.
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Hunee: The 5 Magazine Interview
In contrast to the sterile one hour sets that are a by-product of the computer age, Berlin-based DJ and producer Hunee is known for his adventurous, extended sets, dropping disco with techno, acid with...
Z Records’ Attack the Dancefloor Vol 6
In so many words and in so many ways, House Music has been about fucking over the vocalist. It's tradition. It's old school to fuck over the vocalist. It's the Italian production team behind...
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...
The Essential Sylvester Playlist
Dimitri from Paris, Kon, Theo Parrish and more make an appearance in the essential Sylvester playlist, compiled by DEL for his Foundations column.
Related: Foundations: Sylvester Fabuloso!
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
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I recently did a lecture and DJ'd a party for Brian Cassidy's Cave Cast series where I discussed some of the foundations of philaDELphia music.
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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...
The Essential Gino Soccio Playlist
Tom Moulton, Greg Wilson, Prince Language and more make appearances in The Essential Gino Soccio Playlist, compiled by DEL for Foundations.
Related: Foundations: Whatever Happened to Gino Soccio?
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