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...
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,”...
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...
Uncompromising Techno from Tunnel’s Diaspora EP
In a dance music landscape which seems to be becoming more musically conservative by the day, it's always hugely refreshing to hear something uncompromising and different. Chicago's own Tunnel has been steadily building the...
Marc King: Ever Forward (FXHE)
At a time when most American labels are having trouble getting records pressed, the greatest problem Omar S and FXHE are having is keeping them in stock. As of May 2015, Detroit's FXHE has...
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...
Dan Curtin’s “Deserted Station” on 10″ Wax for Melodymathics
Melodymathics consistently releases terrific records from some of my heroes and my heroes' heroes: Alex Agore is a frequent flyer by now, and had a fantastic Record Store Day release with the label that...
Various Artists: Deep Club
It's usually with a bit of embarrassment that I write about the records of ex-Chicagoans. The "brain drain" is real, it's been going on for decades now and it's never going to stop. Deep...
Hakim Murphy & Rev S: CPH Sessions
This right here - this is the good shit. CPH Sessions is the best work Hakim Murphy has done and I say that knowing just how many amazing records he's got under his belt....
Road Trip? Tec-Troit is a Free 3 Day Festival This Weekend in Detroit
This Friday, Tec-Troit - a free, three day, all ages festival - takes over Harmonie Park in Detroit and doesn't let go until Sunday night.
The festival features local talent from the city, ranging from...
Spirit of the Black 808: Invasion of the Black Bass
Sometime between Record Store Day and Summer, Spirit of the Black 808 will release at least an album's worth of material on two labels. Combined, the two EPs - Infroduction on Hizou and this...
Sequences: The World According to Tevo Howard
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Tevo Howard's Black Electro Orchestra: Holiday EP
Someone I respect very much - the rare man that got old without getting mad - once told me that how much you love something...
Robotnick and Pinsky’s Analog Session, Mark Two
We now join in on another exhilarating adventure with theoretically obsolete technology manipulated by two guys who know their way around a synthesizer and a 4/4 beat.
Ludus Pinsky has soldered his share of...
Robert Hood & Floorplan: Shaker/Ritual
Nostalgia is an illness, or at least that's what doctors once believed.
Today, it's less a communicable virus than a kind of collective mania. In times of uncertainty, frustration and personal and economic dislocation,...
Mistress 5 Is The Most Ambitious Record Released This Year
Amidst all of the doom and gloom of the music industry - as a few dollars are replaced with a few dimes and now a few dimes by a few pennies, courtesy of streaming...
Kate Simko & Tevo Howard Team Up for a New Album
Two of Chicago’s finest are collaborating together on a new album from Sasha’s rejuvenated Last Night On Earth label.
PolyRhythmic is the title of the forthcoming LP from Chicago’s Kate Simko and Tevo Howard -...
Dan Curtin and the Metamorphosis of Metamorphic
IT'S A GOOD DAY, TODAY AND EVERY DAY that one of the best electronic music labels America ever produced kicks up out of a slumber and gets back into the swing of things.
I'm talking...
Strong Souls: Deep Sensation
You know those mysterious black slabs you see in the shop with little ID other than a smudged stamp and a single fingerprint on the sleeve? Where do they come from? France, in this...
NERKKIRN: Obervolt EP (V-Records)
When you spend a lot of time going through modern techno music, you find a lot of stuff that sounds big and polished and clean, but lacks any sort of real energy, inspiration or...
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made.
