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5 Mag Book Club 📚

Guide to books about house music and electronic music history, creation, and cultural analysis from 5 Mag’s staff.

TRiP MAGAZEEN Tampa Rave Zine archive book

Inside the Tampa Rave Revolution

A new book reproduces every issue of the seminal Florida rave zine TRiP MAGAZEEN, spotlighting an overlooked chapter in dance music history.
Feels So Surreal: Moby's Porcelain is among music's finest memoirs

Feels So Surreal

Covering the years before his breakthrough into the mainstream, Moby's witty, funny and provocative Porcelain is one of music's best memoirs.
Cover of Dan Sicko's book Techno Rebels

Renegades of Electronic Funk: Revisiting Dan Sicko’s Techno Rebels

25 years after its debut Techno Rebels still shines as a love letter to techno and the city of Detroit where it was born.
Marguerite L Harrold - Chicago House Music history book

A People’s History of Chicago House Music

In the poetic and robust Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite L. Harrold captures the history of house music with the eye of a scholar and the passion of a true believer.
5 Mag Book Club: Join The Future by Matt Matt Anniss

5 Mag Book Club: Join The Future

Harold Heath on Matt Anniss' newly revised & expanded "Join The Future: Bleep Techno & The Birth of British Bass Music."
Once In a Lifetime Crazy Days of Acid House by Jane Bussman book cover

5 Mag Book Club: The Crazy Days of Acid House

"Like a 1989 UK illegal rave in book form": Harold Heath looks back on Jane Bussman's Once In A Lifetime, one of dance music's finest books.
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