Kerri Chandler is Coming to Chicago!
After years of trying to bring back the highly esteemed King of '90s Deep House - the true master of all things soulful and garage - the dream has come to fruition.
Kerri "Kaoz"...
Ron Trent at This Week’s Wired Fridays
Downtown Chicago comes alive with the sound of House Music first and third Fridays throughout this Winter and Spring. That's when Wired Fridays, presented by the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and...
Kim Ann Foxman: The Firehouse Rules
The alumni of Hercules and Love Affair are legion, and none has stepped out quite so far and quite so fast as Kim Ann Foxman. After collaborations with Maya Jane Coles and Nick Anthony...
Jeremy Newall: A 5 Mag Mix vol 19
When you've spent some time immersed in underground music, it can start to feel like the real tastemakers almost never get their props. In the 1970s and 1980s, radio jocks in New York, Detroit...
Spencer Kincy Mixes: South of Da Border (Complete)
This is a DJ mix from Chicago House legend Spencer Kincy aka Gemini. This was ripped from cassette tape from the 1990s and retains the Side A/Side B split formatting.
Our complete archive of Spencer...
Gemini Inc: The Second Act of Spencer Kincy
The hottest producer in the underground hasn't made a record in more than ten years. There's an old line that comes up in Hollywood that the most in-demand screenwriter of the moment is William...
Spencer Kincy Mixes: Live in Bonn 1995
This is a soulful and jazzy mix (beginning with the epic Chuck Roberts vocal "In the beginning there was Jack and Jack had a groove, and from this groove came the groove of all...
What Happened to Gemini? A Spencer Kincy Update
(This article about Spencer Kincy was originally published at the now-defunct housemusicdaily site. Since a few other things I've written reference this, I thought it sensible to reproduce it here. I wrote something else...
Spencer Kincy Mixes: Experiments (Complete Mix)
This is a mix from Spencer Kincy aka Gemini from the late 1990s called "Experiments." It is split into Side A and Side B as the original mix was distributed on cassette tape and...
Spencer Kincy Mixes: Live at Staple, San Francisco May 2000
This is another live recording and DJ mix in the files sent to us related to Chicago House Music producer and DJ Spencer Kincy, aka Gemini. Unlike the previous mix (Live at Deep in...
Spencer Kincy Mix: Live at Deep In The Flowers
This is one of two mixes sent to us in the mysterious missives leading to this month's story on Spencer Kincy called Sign of the Gemini. Like the other mix, Live at Staple, this...
Sign of the Gemini: The Strange and Beautiful Music of Spencer Kincy
FOR FOUR YEARS I've been chasing a ghost, and his name is Spencer Kincy.
I've been told by some people to leave the ghost alone, while others have all but berated me for not pursuing...
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Message From Our Founder: 5 Mag Turns 20
Back in 2005, we never dreamed this little labor of love would still be here in 2025...
