Chicago House Music Festival 2026

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic music featuring driving 4/4 beats varying in tempo from 120 to 150 beats per minute.

Movement Festival Detroit 2024 daily set times

Just Announced: Movement 2024 Set Times – All Stages

Set times have been announced for all stages and all three days of the 2024 installment of Movement, America's most cherished techno festival taking place in Hart Plaza, Detroit on Memorial Day weekend, May 25 through May 27 2024.
Dominic Cappello Basement Philosophy album art

“Basement Philosophy” is a proper house debut album from Domenic Cappello

"An audio love letter to American 4/4" - Harold Heath on the proper deep house & techno debut album from Sub Club resident Dominic Cappello.
Black Eyes DJ photo

Black Eyes: This Is A Broadcast From The Future

5 Mag meets Black Eyes, the Mancunian producer whose label Lost Control 2097 is capturing a certain raw, sometimes psychedelic but viscerally rhythmic brand of techno and deep house.
DJ Aaron Chase dj mix

DJ Aaron Chase mix ☀️ RISE vol 19

Wake up man, new Chicago house mix just dropped from our guy Aaron Chase.
Movement 2024 lineup poster

Final line-up for Detroit’s Movement 2024 festival released

Richie Hawtin, Solomun, Goldie, Fatboy Slim, Masters at Work, Floorplan and more among 115 acts across 6 stages, 5 showcases and pop-up sets.
Cratan / Decoder artist photo

Decoder returns to Molecular with the techno tribalism of XX 15

For people who know what the term "Midwest Techno" means and love what it sounds like, Decoder has that whole aesthetic on lock on XX 15 from Molecular Recordings.
Vasco Ispirian Fata Morgana album art

Fata Morgana: live, hallucinatory techno from Vasco Ispirian

The sound of Fata Morgana I is stripped down, raw, playing out how you'd hear music in a live PA - which is how Vasco Ispirian perfected this style of producing techno.
Black Eyes DJ cover mix album art

The Cover Mix Black Eyes – Sanctify vol 8

5 Mag's latest cover mix from Black Eyes, featuring 18 tracks of "hydro-trippin house and aquatic techno from Atlantis."
The Monitors Redux John Tejada and Silent Servant album art

John Tejada announces The Monitors rerelease with Silent Servant

The secret project originally dropped on vinyl in 2011 and the rerelease was in the works for a few weeks prior to Silent Servant's death.
Normski The Man With the Golden Shutter

God Said Give ‘Em Apertures

Normski: The Man With the Golden Shutter captures two decades of Black artists in photographs, from NWA to Juan Atkins.
video

An Unspeakable Tragedy: Remembering Silent Servant, Simone Ling and The Soft Moon

Three artists with deep roots and human connections in this scene died last week, in what appears to be an unspeakable tragedy.
5 Mag Issue 211 Cover

Resolution: Inside the new issue of 5 Mag

Welcoming the new year with Anané, Toribio, Italian DJ legend Beppe Loda, Black Eyes, Danny J Lewis and more inside Issue 211 of 5 Mag.

Maxime Dangles: Les Délivrés Remixes

Remixes from Maxime Dangles and others of his album Les Délivrés, the soundtrack from a French documentary about the cheap and often brutal life of gig economy delivery drivers in contemporary France.
Kuiper Noise This Is Nothing Volume 2 artwork

Noise Complaints: This Is Nothing Volume II is a lot of something from Kuiper Noise

The Portuguese label launched by Holldën drops a three track V/A of blistering techno from R 417, Yoikol and Empath.

Dear Johnny: a V/A as lovely as its namesake from As You Like It

Pay attention, these are names you will hear again. Bay Area crew As You Like It drop a 14 track V/A compilation dedicated to the late Johnny Igaz.
Alinka 5 Mag cover story

The Cover Story: Alinka

Kyiv, Chicago, Berlin: three cities that Alinka has called home, in a life that's been marked by an artistic journey and a physical one. With the rebirth of Twirl we talk to DJ and producer Alinka - one of the people we love, on the people and things that she loves.
Bullfrog synth designed by Richie Hawtin and Erica Synths

The Bullfrog: a new synth designed by Richie Hawtin & Erica

The Bullfrog is an educational but fully functional hardware synthesizer retailing for €500.

House Music is a Spiritual Thing: Inside 5 Mag #210

Sacred beats: Levon Vincent, DJ Disciple, Gehno Aviance aka One A and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, house music from Chicago.

Momentum Shift: Noncompliant launches Giant Arm with a raucous 4 track EP

Giant Arm debuts with Momentum Shift, a four track techno EP that's as raw and uncompromising as it is clever and inventive.
Serenace Flying Guillotine 2 album art

Shaw Cuts drops a moving tribute to Jasen Loveland of Serenace

Jasen Loveland from Serenace and Infinite Refractions passed away in May of 2021; this rabid record that dismantles genres phrase by phrase represents a tribute and memorial of sorts by Serenace partner C. Cumby and the label Shaw Cuts.

MUST READ!