5 Things Nobody Told Me About Making Music
"Get your mixes heard! Learn to produce your own tracks!! Boost your social media presence!! Start your own label!!!"
Motivational blog posts (often from otherwise respectable sources) giving out tips on how to build your...
Freaks, Ravers and/or Geniuses: Hardkiss’ Delusions of Grandeur at 20
It may surprise you to read this, but "House Music history" has never been that interesting to me. I just like stories - narratives as big and epic and sloppy as Creation itself -...
What It Takes: The Chosen Few Picnic Turns 25
It was 25 years ago this July that someone got the idea of adding turntables to a family reunion and the Chosen Few Picnic was born.
From those humble beginnings in a field behind the...
Derrick Carter and Chez Damier: Live at the Apple Store
We promised a night of education, laughter and inspiration and we hope that's what you got from 5 Magazine's first moderated panel at the North Michigan Avenue Apple Store last Friday, June 12, 2015...
Primary: Chicago’s Little Club That Could
When today’s music insists that bigger is better - whether it be festivals with multiple stages set in massive fields, or mega clubs that brag about their size as if the music scene were...
Justin Martin Is All Over The Place
JUSTIN MARTIN AND HIS ENTIRE DIRTYBIRD CREW are a jolt of adrenaline, with them there's never a dull moment. But behind all the partying and the spontaneity he projects, Justin is actually a very...
MK, Strider and the Most Expensive Dance Music Acetate In The World
"IT'S STRANGE," MARC KINCHEN says. "A lot of people have been asking me about this lately."
Marc Kinchen of course is MK, and what people have been asking him about is a song you were...
Tortured Soul: The Band Will Go On
It's been a tough time for everyone. We've been losing people in our House community at an alarming rate this past year, and each one is completely unexpected. Last month we mourned the sudden...
Meet New York’s Songstress Jasmine Clemente
Jasmine Clemente has been on our radar for a while. This Puerto Rican songstress has been making beautiful noise in the New York nightlife, debuting her first soulful House single, "Free My Spirit" in...
Love, Italian Style: The House of Frankie
While basking in the paradise which was the UK's final Southport Weekender, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet two likeminded individuals: Giordano Fracasso and Alessandro Mele from Italy. They were like me, first...
A Conversation with Eats Everything, Mostly About Food
How much can a DJ who goes by "Eats Everything" talk about food? We tested those limits but managed to get a few words in about other matters with the UK-based DJ and recording...
The Best Track Dusky Never Released
It's one of the hottest tracks of the last two years, and it's never been released. "Sunsets & Dolphins" is the "lost" single from UK duo Dusky (Nick Harriman and Alfie Granger-Howell). It had...
Recorded In Heaven: Remembering Michael Kandel of Tranquility Bass
THE LABELS ON HIS RECORDS SAID that these songs had been "Recorded In Heaven," though after listening you never needed to be told.
Tragically, the man that made those celestial tracks - American Trip Hop...
This is the Disco Documentary We’ve Been Waiting For
For the public at large, it's all about KC. For people who really love music, it's Gino Soccio, it's T-Connection, it's Boris Midney and Queen Samantha and more.
Behind these artists was TK Disco, and...
Duke Dumont Is Working on a Dance Album “In the Old Fashioned Sense”
Duke Dumont's "Need U (100%)" is one of those records that marks the end of one thing and the beginning of another.
It was the first time in more than a decade that a...
MJ Cole: The 5 Magazine Cover Story
MJ COLE HAS A STYLE ALL HIS OWN. It's the kind of musical hybrid that combines the roughness of a broken beat with the beautiful melodies of a lush piano chord. He has made...
The House That Johnny D Built: Henry Street Music Turns 20
"I had the feeling that if I could take a groove that is 20 years old and if I could flip it, I could get another 20 years out of it. It’s that simple."
Hard...
Inner Balance: Jorge Caiado Launches New Balance Sublabel
One of the most iconic labels in House Music is growing...
Balance - the venerable Deep House label run out of Chicago by Chez Damier - has begat "Inner Balance," a new sublabel in the...
Retrospect: Andy Compton from The Rurals
After 20 years of putting out music, Andy Compton from The Rurals has the hard-earned reputation for being a connoisseur of all things soulful, jazzy, with a groovy downtempo vibe. He's about to release...
Brame and Hamo on The Parish Rumors
STRAIGHT OUTTA SLIGO, Ireland, Brame & Hamo have dropped two EPs in 2015 and both of them have been stellar.
#001 for Splendor & Squalor (sometimes called Clockwerk for its A side track) was...
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elevate: Nico Lahs, Dam Swindle, Heist in the new 5 Mag
Nico Lahs on the cover, Dam Swindle cover mix, 100 releases of Heist Recordings, Point Winona and the LA underground and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
