Dimitri from Paris presents Nightdubbin’
You don't have to ask yourself if Dimitri From Paris loves what he does. His name is on so many productions, comps, remixes and other projects these days that you can tell this guy...
Tim Zawada: The 312 Mix Vol 19
5 Magazine's Chicago-centric podcast series features half (Side A!) of a new cassette tape mix and interview from our town's Tim Zawada (Tugboat Edits, Star Creature).
John Carpenter’s Lost Themes Remixed
Silent Servant, Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley and more have their remixes of maestro John Carpenter's "Lost Themes" pressed to wax.
Alexander Robotnick: The Italian Mad Genius Digs Into His Archives
Twenty eight years after cutting the proto-electro classic "Problemes d'Amour" - a staple at clubs like the Box, the Loft & the Garage - the Italian mad genius Alexander Robotnick (aka Maurizio Dami) is...
Eternity: 거룩한징조 (Sunset Recordings)
Sunset Recordings drops a new release every Friday at 5pm, and as far as I know all or nearly all of them have a free/pay-what-you-can price point.
Two guys & a room of analog gear: The Analog Session return on Seven Textures of...
The new album from the Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky side project.
Shiro Schwarz: Together/Boogie Ghost
Chicago's Star Creature releases another magical platter of synth boogie from duo Shiro Schwarz.
Tycho Returns to Chicago April 28
Grammy nomination be damned: Tycho's Epoch tour continues as the Scott Hansen-led band criss-crosses North America through the Spring.
Louis and Bebe Barron: Forbidden Planet at the Dawn of Electronic Music
Editor's Note: This was originally published in May 2012. In honor of Women's History Month, 5 Mag has decided to republish a substantially revised version of this piece to highlight the (far too often...
Rediscovering Trees, the Best ’80s Synth Band You Never Heard Of
Dane Conover was San Diego's answer to Prince. Working nearly alone and playing everything himself his album Sleep Convention as "Trees" is a synthpop masterpiece.
Sleazy Bootleggers Cash In On Classy (Legit) Reissues of Italo Classics
Casco: Cybernetic Love
BWH: Livin' Up/Stop
Blackway With Helene (BWH): Music For Us
Decadance: On And On
'Lectric Worker's "Robot Is Systematic"/"The Garden"
Thirty two years too late (or too late to save anybody we lost and left...
Review: Kai Alce Remixes Alexander Robotnick’s “You Have Time”
Kai Alce takes on Robotnick and Robotnick takes on the zeitgeist on this new remix/reissue vinyl from Adeen.
Italo Classics by KASSO Get Re-Edited by Jellybean Benitez
An Italo classic, New York and Chicago House staple from Best Record worked over by Jellybean Benitez with a magic that never loses its touch.
Marvel83′: Downtown Sunset EP
In less than three months, Marvel83' has released five EPs of glistening, groovy synth-heavy records that sound like they fell off the soundtrack of Cobra, or at least Drive.
A Lost Italo Album Finally Gets Some Play
To call this record a pleasant surprise is an understatement the size of Vesuvius. House of Music was the greatest Italo Disco label ever, and it's not really up for debate in my eyes....
Naked Lunch & Other Bands They Never Play On The Radio
Songs too weird to make it on classic rock radio with '80s synth pop cult band Naked Lunch.
Review: Matthew Dear in the Gloam on “Modafinil Blues”
Evoking David Bowie & Iggy Pop in Berlin, Modafinil Blues is a milepost on the way to the next Matthew Dear album, painted in surreal colors.
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.
Various: Midwest Collective Vol 7
Enduring a sad hiatus, one of the best synthwave labels returns with a new compilation for 2017.
Satin Jackets: Panorama Pacifico
A year ago I walked into a club. A year ago less five hours I walked out of that club enamored with what I'd heard. A Satin Jackets performance is one of the best...
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Beloved: Inside the new 5 Mag
An oral history of Freerange Records with Jimpster, Tom Roberts, Matt Masters, Pezzner, Manuel Tur and Fred Everything, plus Chicago house with Black Sjuan, DJ Paulette's welcome to the club, Elbert Phillips on Tears, Dark Heaven and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
