Borai: Last Time Out (Tasteful Nudes)
I've missed a few releases from this Chicago label but I don't think anything could have held me back from this one. Enthusiasm? Try lust: two tracks of lustrous, melodic techno (or techy house...
Pezzner and The Last Night In Utopia
It's impossible to trivialize the impact of The Tracks Are Alive, Dave Pezzner's 2010 album on Freerange Records. A key catalyst in pushing Deep House back to the top of the underground music scene,...
Noleian Reusse: New Mix Monday vol 185
Noleian Reusse (Black Tekno, Africans with Mainframes) mixes Volume 185 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix series.
Listen to Noleian Reusse: New Mix Monday vol 185 by5 Magazine on hearthis.at
Proof...
Primitive Sci-Fi: Untitled (Unestablished Moves)
The first thing you noticed were the words "Chicago" and "Detroit" becoming adjectives rather than nouns. A Chicago Sound, A Detroit Sound - you can find a hundred tracks released each day described as...
I-Robots Reconstructs Techno Classics for The Detroit People Mover EP
Our friend and fearless ally I-Robots (aka Gianluca Pandullo) has announced the release of his forthcoming The Detroit People Mover EP, featuring I-Robots "reconstructions" of classic material from Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Orlando...
More Music, Less Neon: Movement Is Growing Up
This year's Movement Festival 2013 by Paxahau definitely didn't disappoint, equipped with five technologically spruced up stages (Red Bull Music Academy, Beatport, Underground, Made in Detroit and the Electric Forest) and over 121 artists...
In the Studio with Anthony “Shake” Shakir
For 5 Magazine's monthly feature on musical machines and the men & women who love them, we talk with Detroit electronic music pioneer and Frictional Recordings owner Anthony "Shake" Shakir. Mr. Shakir's work as...
Josh Wink: Balls (Ovum)
Motown released twenty #1 singles during the 1960s. Freed by the digital marketplace from having to package, market or even pay for releases, today's Berry Gordys hold on to the notion that a guy...
Movement Festival 2013 Full Schedule Announced
Paxahau has announced the full schedule for this year's Movement Festival, held Memorial Day weekend, May 25th, 26th and 27th, 2013. And this is it:
SATURDAY MAY 25 2013
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY:
1:00 xxxy
2:00 T. Williams
3:30...
Jeff Mills Performance Interrupted by Idiots Throwing Shit
http://youtu.be/i0rGtSbdGY4
A good deal of the concern - lawsuits, even - about safety at concerts is aimed at protecting the audience. In Chicago, the E2 club tragedy ten years ago is STILL a lightning rod...
m50: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday #169
We published a full interview with m50 (aka Area) last year, when he released his debut album Where I Am Now on Wave Music. So if you want the long story, you can go...
Mike Huckaby: The 5 Magazine Interview
Lights burn out; hype fades away & becomes subject to ridicule; bottle rockets roar and then pop.
But if you're looking for a guide to charting your way through the underground, Mike Huckaby wrote the...
You Can’t Get Enough of Josh Wink’s Balls
Philadelphia's Josh Wink is releasing his first EP in four years on his acclaimed Ovum label.
"Balls", the sprawling title track, is a return of sorts to the rugged 303-based material he released in...
Ludus Pinsky: Musician, Producer, Maker of Synthesizers
For 5 Magazine's new column focusing on machines and the men and women who love them, we talk to The Analog Session's Ludus Pinsky - "musician, producer, maker of synthesizers". The synth-driven, largely improvisational...
Tevo Howard (Live): 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday #163
We've featured a lot of people in our New Mix Monday series. Some are legends, some are local heroes, some are people just getting into the game. Our selection process is very much based...
Robert Hood: The Faith and the Fury
We almost lost Detroit. It's the title of a song, one of Gil Scott-Heron's best, but that phrase often comes to mind when I read another accidental obituary for the Motor City.
Detroit's decline is...
Carl Taylor: Debbie’s Groove (w/ Robert Hood Remix)
Blindfolded and the business end of a Glock to your head, you'd guess this is a Floorplan record. And if you've read any of last issue's interview with Robert Hood, you have an idea...
Robert Hood: Torque One/Movement (Music Man Records)
Something happened. At some point, we lost our way. "Chicago House" to me was anything but what "Chicago House" now means in the wider world. I'm really not trying to sound naive here -...
Innerspace Halflife: Cosmology (Machining Dreams)
Call it logrolling if you will, but sometimes a record commands your attention. Hakim Murphy (a senior editor here if you haven't looked at the masthead lately) didn't send me this release from his...
Kate Simko and Jeffrey Weeter’s Live AV Experience
Welcome to the future, or one iteration of it.
Synesthesia is what they call the association between sight and sound and other sensations, and for most of us it's involuntary. But Chicago's Kate Simko and...
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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.
