On Repeat: Futuristic Sonics for the Soul on rRoxymore’s “Juggling Dualities”
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, starting with French artist rRoxymore’s "Juggling Dualities."
![Premiere: Richard Earnshaw & Sabrina Chyld - Better For Me (Original Mix) [Artworx]](https://5mag.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/richard-earnshaw-better-for-me-324x235.jpg "Premiere: Richard Earnshaw launches a new label with the irresistible “Better For Me” ft Sabrina Chyld")
Premiere: Richard Earnshaw launches a new label with the irresistible “Better For Me” ft Sabrina Chyld
The irresistible soulful house jam "Better For Me" is out now in promo release on Traxsource and available worldwide on 19 December 2025.
“Inside My Love” is one of the overlooked soulful house gems of 2025
Santonio, the Echols Brothers and Makeda Rose with an incendiary cover of the Minnie Riperton classic "Inside My Love."
“La Torre Ibiza Volumen Cinco” is one of this year’s better Ibiza compilations
The fifth installment of the "La Torre Ibiza" compilation series continues to document the Balearic sounds championed at Hostel La Torre, lovingly selected and carefully programmed by DJ Pete Gooding and DJ/producer Mark Barrott
Say Who: Exquisite deep house from Luca Olivotto & Small Great Beats
Luca Olivotto creates blissful, euphoric deep house music - everything you want in an EP, four times over - on Say Who?! released on vinyl by Small Great Beats.
Crooked Man turns a disco classic to the dark side
From the excellent Vicious Charm label comes a typically bold musical statement from Richard "DJ Parrot" Barratt aka Crooked Man in the form of a mid-tempo dark, distorted, deep house remake of disco classic "Don't Leave Me This Way."
Detroit’s Jon Dixon drops the sublime Paradise Valley EP
Bad ass tracks on black wax from Jon Dixon and No Speakers, featuring remixes from LA Synthesis and El Prevost.
Deep house maestros Abacus & Haf S collab on Analogue Stories Vol 4
The unmatched "Analogue Stories" series jumps back home to Re/Think on this four track EP of gorgeous deep house tracks.
Jevon Jackson signs a two track EP to Chicago’s Fresh Meat Records
Veteran of Chicago house's golden age Jevon Jackson is surfacing with two tracks of stripped down and manically addictive house music on Fade / Turnin' for Chicago's Fresh Meat Records label.
“Structural Disruption”: Five tracks of esoteric techno from Ground16
Structural Disruption is an EP of five tracks rooted in the underground and then branching out into the cosmos, crafting deeply physical dance music for esoteric heads.
Ralph Session & Juliet Mendoza go Mad Deep on Quintessentials
Following up on their sensational 2024 Freaknik EP on Freerange, Ralph Session and Juliet Mendoza return with Mad Deep, a four track EP marking the latest release from Quintessentials.
Matasuna reissues the ultra rare Latin Funk gem “Miami”
Explosive 1970s Latin funk from Dominican / Venezuelan bandleader Porfi Jimenez. If you're the type that digs for old soul and funk records, a near-mint condition copy of Miami might be the crown jewel of your collection. If you don't, this reissue by the soul survivalists at Matasuna might inspire you to start one.
Demuir reissues TruSkool on black wax for Purveyor Underground
Demuir's album, first released in 2016, gets a double vinyl release and it sounds better than ever.
House Again: Ten City introduces The Next Generation
The new album from Ten City opens a new chapter in the original house band's four decade history.
Teklife reissues the DJ Spinn juke classic “Bounce N Break Yo Back” on vinyl
Nearly twenty years after its debut "Bounce N Break Yo Back" can still snatch the oxygen out of the room.
Before leaving, Ron Carroll blessed us with this disco house gem
Andrew Emil, Red Eye and Ron Carroll chopped it up on "Can't Stop" on Salted Music.
Demi Riquísimo & The Trip drop kinetic party music “Don’t Go Away”
Heavy action rave anthems from Semi Delicious and Tessellate, who have pushed a huge number of dope tracks down your gullet over the last five or six years and here are four more.
2 Jahre Dazwischen: Nodding melancholica from Lesterr
Ornaments releases some beautiful music, most of it deep, some of it dub, and some of it ambient, or downtempo, or with a generally chill sort of vibe. 2 Jahre Dazwischen by Lesterr contains just about all of above.
Borrowed Identity & Mechanical Soul Brother storm back with “Set It All Free”
Pure life-affirming house music marks a return (of sorts) from one of our best-loved duos.
Techno titan Molecular Recordings launches the Covalence series
Four tracks from Esilum, Heliosphere, Shaun Moses and Azogiar mark the first installment of the Covalence Series, a "curated collection of molecular-level sound works, where artists from diverse backgrounds converge to form new sonic bonds."
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