Midland, Lone & more remix Tom VR’s Please Keep Shimmering
Box-fresh futurist techno with remixed tracks from Tom VR's Please Keep Shimmering album.
True to the roots: Hector Ram drops vinyl cut Midnight Sounds
Bouncing basement thumps and the unapologetic love for the motherbeat carries through across all four original tracks on Midnight Sounds, a vinyl-only cut from Hector Ram and Short Attention Records.
MAL.E emerges with a new techno identity on Something Manufactured
Fixed Rhythms drops this crash between high tech and low tech soul from MAL.E, the new alias of Mali Mase.
Electro Cherry – RISE mix vol 25
Wake up with a new set from Brooklyn-based DJ Electro Cherry for 5 Mag's weekly RISE series.
DJ Skull: Don’t Look Back
One of the most versatile producers to come out of Chicago in the 1990s, DJ Skull is back on the scene and working at a more prolific pace than ever.
Consider it making up for...
In Residence with Housepitality, San Francisco
The poet Allen Ginsberg called them the "classic stations of the earth" - the points on a map where people seemed to gather, quite spontaneously, to celebrate life and create a scene. We're calling...
Leigh Morgan vs Lucatwana: Made In Jupiter
Leigh Morgan sends his greetings. The founder of what had been one of my favorite labels, Urban Torque, has reappeared with a new release on a new label, Fancy Human. That hiatus was always...
Occidental: Pariah Dreams
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There was a time when Acid could be sleazy, when Techno could be something other than "angry" or "ponderous" or sound like the soundtrack for a silent film...
Jeff Derringer on Seven Years of OKTAVE
Chicago DJ Jeff Derringer celebrates seven years of his Oktave residency and playing Techno in a House Music town.
Various Artists: Discordian Dreaming 8
Discordian Dreaming takes in the full breadth of the label's output, from terse, borderline-sinister late night tech house moods to meditative, goose-bump inducing electronica.
Static Music Releases Phutek’s Make You Rain
Phutek makes music that just cries out to be played loud.
Nathan Surreal’s Star Dust
Nathan Surreal's Star Dust is a buzzy, ravey adventure with some deft edits from Adesse Versions and Neville Watson.
D’Marc Cantu: A Spiritual Thing
Reigniting a pure love for music: Lauren Krieger sits down for a fascinating talk with D'Marc Cantu for 5 Magazine's cover story.
Pearl Vision: Clair Obscur
The choice cut from the Storm EP, the debut release from Dany Rodriguez and Tindra's Pearl Vision project on EPM Music.
#ListenUp Upfront Techno Action from Jason Patrick on TimeFlex
Jason Patrick offers up four tracks of sonorous, steely and atmospheric techno, out now on DJ Hyperactive's 4 Track Recordings.
Compost 25 – Michael Reinboth on a Quarter Century of Compost Records
Will Sumsuch talks with Michael Reinboth, founder of Compost Records — the most important electronic music label of the last 25 years.
Cosmic Trax: The Electronic Sutras of Scape One
Kurt Baggaley is a techno producer born for the Bandcamp age.
#Rejuvenate – inside the new 5 Mag
Franck Roger, Ed Nine, Rodney Baker, Berlin under lockdown and more in the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
30D to reissue two Gerald Donald Arpanet tracks as Hydrostatic Equilibrium
Single sided vinyl release on Hydrostatic Equilibrium focuses on Gerald Donald's first Arpanet tracks since 2006 on ExoPlanets.
Homegrown 21st Century Beat Smuggling by Bootleg Contraband
Chicago noise corps called Bootleg Contraband collect nine energizing tracks for a new album.
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Chicago DJ and producer Elbert Phillips pays tribute to the late, legendary Frankie Knuckles with this extended and thoroughly dope classic tribute mix.