SELECT: 6 Acid Tracks with Rudosa
Prolific UK DJ and producer Rudosa shares his playlist of his six favorite acid tracks, past and present, new and classic.
Mystic Bill: The Lost Cassette Trax Vol 1
Rough and aggressive tracks from the future rescued from the past: something for your mind from the Chicago legacy of Mystic Bill.
Getting “Lost In The Wires” with LoFi Freq on Detroit Underground
LoFi Freq's Lost In The Wires is an instant classic 18 track album from Detroit Underground.
Review: Detroit’s Infolines returns with the V/A Under The Bridge
ADMN, Mister Joshooa and Remote Viewing Party make up Under The Bridge, the 3rd release from Detroit's new label Infolines and anchored by a lush Delano Smith remix.
JEM’s Daisy Cutter Celebrates the History of the Bronx. In Techno Form.
Daisy Cutter by JEM is one of the most slickly produced experimentally inclined records I've heard in all of 2018.
OKTAVE returns to Chicago this Friday with Jeff Derringer and ANNA
All of our favorite residencies are coming back.
Groove Slave/Thomas Barnett: Visillusion 10
Thomas Barnett is Detroit - that simple statement is a mantra, it's a well-worn cliche by this point but when it comes to Barnett it's also true
The Future Is Noncompliant, and The Future Is Today
Noncompliant aka DJ Shiva on Midwest electronic music's roots and what sets DJs from mid-America apart.
With Love for Detroit: Inside the New 5 Mag
The making of God Said Give Em Drum Machines, plus Rees Urban on Dam Swindle & 10 years of Heist, Lauren Krieger on Nala, Ultra Naté, Steve Mill and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
Shawn Rudiman: Out of Time
Pittsburgh's Shawn Rudiman makes hardware-heavy techno that's both serious-minded and seriously good, Bruce Tantum profiles Shawn for this issue's 5 Mag cover story.
Ali Berger’s Phone Calls EP
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Years ago, one of those crazy wizards that study Brian Eno with a focus that could cut diamonds gave me a simple chart to navigate Eno's vast and...
Deep Club Drops Occidental and Grey People’s Cop Watch/Trespass
Occidental and Grey People anchor Deep Club's latest 12 inch, Trespass/Cop Watch and it's another revelatory experience.
Donnell Knox & Mark Hawkins search for the 12th Planet
Kalamazoo's Donnell Knox and Wales' Mark Hawkins team up for the 12th Planet EP, awash in subterranean vibrations and the kind of kickin' tracks it takes a whole lot of digging to find.
Area: Where I Am Now
Where I Am Now is the debut LP from Chicago-based producer Area (aka m50) released on Francois K's Wave Music imprint. Featuring 12 tracks of pulsing, adventurous electronic music, of moody lows and exhilarating...
Faceless Junkies Deluxe: TR-909+TR-606 TRAX
March saw the release of 34 tracks spread out across 7 EPs and albums by Faceless Junkies Deluxe, which is pretty intense even by his standards.
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...
London Modular Alliance is “somewhere between a shop and a cult”
London Modular Alliances breezes through 30 years of techno, electro, IDM and breaks in about 5 minutes and 15 seconds on "Stray," the title track of their new EP on Cultivated Electronics.
Forever Punk: Locked Club & RLGN
What is going on in Russia right now? Four tracks of smoldering electronics and swagger on wax from Locked Club, RLGN and Private Persons.
DVS1 Named Artist In Residence at SmartBar
Every so often, talent and character come together in the same person. And while nobody will pay a $15 cover to hear a DJ's character, it's nice to know that the people you admire...
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.
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WYSER mix ☀️ RISE vol 21
Wake up, stay up and don't stay in: new mix from WYSER, aka Matt Wyser of Custom Vibes, the DJ duo REDUX and part of Shfft Chicago.
