Listen to Mystic Bill’s Ferocious Throwback “U Won’t C Me”
Nothing sensitive or subtle about this one. Mystic Bill - the man who DJ'd for your favorite DJ's DJ - teams up with German label Snuff Trax for the forthcoming EP U Won't C...
Tribe Records Celebrates 100 Records with Optimistic
Zepherin Saint hits upon classic territory with the 100th release of Tribe Records: a cover of 'Optimistic' with Sounds of Blackness alum Ann Nesby.
Zepherin Saint's Tribe Records, purveyors of fine Soulful House records, passes...
DJ E-Clyps Tell The World I’m Here
Tell The World He's Here: DJ E-Clyps new LP drops October 2 2015 but the first single is available now.
Twenty three tracks is quite long for an album (especially if it's not juke). But...
Atjazz, Opolopo, Daz-I-Kue Remix Mark de Clive-Lowe’s Church
Mark de Clive-Lowe has announced a new remix album based upon his critically acclaimed 2014 LP, Church.
Church Remixed features nine remixes (and five bonus tracks on the Traxsource edition) featuring the talents of...
Listen: Disclosure Slaps Together a Caracal Album Mix
Disclosure dropped today a rather bizarre album promo for their forthcoming LP Caracal. The highly anticipated album (which might well be the buoy that measures whether at least one of the Dance Music Bubbles...
Foundations: 14 Essential Disco Mixers
DEL combs though his collection to bring us 14 of the best of these curious, often anonymous and sometimes unloved Disco mixer records.
Previously:
Big Apple 2
('91) ('82-'83) - Post-disco "Prelude-era" with some of my favorite...
Lost Astronaut: The Last Records of Tranquility Bass
Michael Kandel was many things to many people at different times, but his musical career can best be summed up by the fact that he was the first electronic music artist to cover a...
Closer To Truth Launches With Three Free Alex Agore Tracks
Closer to Truth is a new label project brought to you by Alex Agore (of about five thousand reviews here) and David Nicol of Hustler Trax.
To launch the label, Closer To Truth is...
Chicanismo: The 5 Mag Interview with Santiago Salazar
"Chicanismo is a concept that integrates self-awareness with cultural identity, a necessary step in developing spiritual consciousness. Therefore the term is grounded in a philosophy, not a nationality. Chicanismo does not exclude anyone, rather...
Listening Room: Bai-ee and Ed Nine’s Heavy House
It seems like Bryan Bai-ee has released more Chicago House records since he moved to the Bay Area than many Chicago label owners that ain’t gone anywhere. Following up on the uplifting "How Deep"...
Metamorphic Reissues Titonton’s Classic Embryonic
The Midwest massive gets better with age - just glance at any credible chart from week to week and you'll see new records from House Music and Techno producers who came of age in...
What We Love: MISC Brings Pittsburgh Center Stage
Oh man is this the truth. More good music from Pittsburgh - hotbed of American electronic music that it is - with a comp put together under the banner of a new imprint, “MISC,”...
God’s Co-Producer: The Wacky World of Bobby O
What if the most prolific dance music producer in history staged a comeback and nobody noticed?
That appears to be the case with Bobby Orlando, also known as Bobby O, and also...
Terry Grant Joins Spiritchaser for “Dancing In My Head”
Terry Grant is one of the most unique vocalists working in electronic music today - pretty much everything that he sings on (and/or writes) is worth a listen and probably an impulse buy. The...
Foundations’ Essential Guide to Disco Mixers
DEL's Foundations on the rise and fall of the quintessential vehicle for '70s dance music - the disco mixer.
Strangely Engrossing Psychedelia for Dusky’s “Skin Deep” (Video)
It took a minute, but a couple of months after the release of their EP Ordinary World, UK duo Dusky have released a bizarre new video for a single off the release, the melodic...
Kid Enigma: He’s Different
When people say Chicago has the history but not the future, they're probably not tuned in to the fierce undercurrent of hardworking artists that have been diligently plowing away at their craft.
Keith Rafael...
What We Love: Dave Clarke’s White Noise Retrospective
After 500 episodes of his White Noise radio series, Dave Clarke has put together an eclectic collection of ferocious techno and scrapyard electro for your enjoyment.
Dave Clarke Presents: A White Noise Retrospective is out...
Kill Frenzy & the Dirtybird BBQ Come to Chicago
Belgian born and Berlin based producer Seba, or as most of us know him, Kill Frenzy became a DJ's favorite after he released 2012's ghetto anthem "Booty Clap." His career has been in hyperdrive...
What We Love: Amp Fiddler’s Bassmentality Vol 3
Bassmentality 3 by Amp Fiddler
Few artists in the underground have worked Bandcamp better than Amp Fiddler, whose releases on what is probably the only digital shop that doesn't aggressively fuck artists over are among...
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Dedication: To Juan Atkins
There was never a moment before today that Juan Atkins was not a vital part of the American electronic music scene.
