Live from Cz’s House: Big Love
New mix recorded live from Cz's House with 5 Mag's Czboogie playing soulful, deep house and '90s tracks.
Wahine mix ☀️ RISE vol 20
Oh look at the time - it's time2jack with Wahine in an elevated disco + house mix for 5 Mag's weekly RISE series.
Studio Savant: Remembering Mark Rubel
The acclaimed studio engineer drew thousands of artists to Pogo Studio in Champaign and taught many more the art of recording music.
Without You: Sparkling Athenian house from Lex on Delusions of Grandeur
More house excellentness on Delusions of Grandeur, this time featuring four cuts from Athenian DJ / producer Lex.
Sailing Away: Yacht Soul – The Cover Versions 2
The concept on Too Slow To Disco's Yacht Soul compilation is collecting soul and R&B cover versions that fit that nebulous, slick, smooth, West-coast soft rock "yacht" aesthetic.
Kanye West sued again for copyright, this time it’s Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”
The Summer estate denied use of the iconic disco song due to "potential degradation to Summer's legacy" and "wanted no association with West's controversial history."
Change My Mind: Space Disco & Italo-Balearica from Rollover DJs
Narcotic glitterball dancefloor fodder and a bonus alt-garage-core Bawrut remix from Milan's Rollover DJs on Change My Mind.
Strut Records celebrates 25th anniversary with a reissue of Disco Not Disco
Capturing the hothouse of leftfield disco in the early 1980s, Disco Not Disco gets a special edition repress as Strut Records celebrates their 25th anniversary.
Musical Paradise: Beppe Loda in Chicago
You can't write a credible history of dance music without speaking to Beppe Loda. Tommaso Conforti interviews the Italian DJ legend.
Resolution: Inside the new issue of 5 Mag
Welcoming the new year with Anané, Toribio, Italian DJ legend Beppe Loda, Black Eyes, Danny J Lewis and more inside Issue 211 of 5 Mag.
There is one true diva, her name is Kathy Brown and she needs our help
Legendary vocalist Kathy Brown's family has announced that her previously diagnosed lung cancer has spread to her brain. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support her.
Cz’s House New Year’s Eve 2024 episode w/ House, Disco & Garage
New mix recorded live from the crib with 5 Mag's Czboogie playing house, disco and garage to ring in the new year.
The Beat. The Scene. The Sound.
Harold Heath on DJ Disciple's inside look at "the rise, the fall and rebirth of house music in New York City"
Mapping 50 years of disco on a speaker circuit diagram
Dorothy's Disco Love Blueprint traces the history of disco through the people and places who connected one another.
Kokoro Disco San makes summer’s last stand on Brightest Light
Steeped in the sunshine soul where house, R&B and soul meet, Barcelona trio Kokoro Disco San shares "Brightest Light" on Rockafort Records.
There was a war on disco. Disco won.
A new documentary says the quiet part out loud: the disco backlash was a battle in the culture war against Black and queer Americans. But Disco won.
The Devil’s Disco: John Davis & the Monster Orchestra
The founder of disco's wildest orchestra, John Davis put in his time at Sigma Sound, with MFSB and his own Monster Orchestra. The once-prolific dance music artist passed away earlier this year in Ohio.
Super Star: Miles Away reissues cosmic soul rarity from Ruth Waters
Stepping away from cutting-edge 4/4 beats and bleeps, here's an interesting reissue: high-paced disco-soul from Ruth Waters, originally released in the late 1970s.
Earliest known recordings of Sylvester to be released
Dark Entries prepares an album of jazz, gospel and blues on Sylvester's Private Recordings: August 1970 in honor of legendary disco vocalist's 76th birthday.
Nini Nobless of Canadian electro disco pioneers Lime has died
A "dazzling innovator of this art form," Nini Nobless broke new ground in electronic music in the early 1980s with synth disco duo Lime.
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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.
