WITH LOVE: Announcing 5 Mag’s 20th Anniversary Vinyl Release
WITH LOVE from Chicago: 5 Mag celebrates 20 years with 3 foundational Chicago house music producers on our first vinyl release, featuring tracks from foundational Chicago artists Mike Dunn, Roy Davis, Jr. and Jamie 3:26.
Sophisticated vocal house action from Spencer Parker on “Better Days”
Spencer Parker makes a quality return to Rekids on Better Days featuring Tee Amara and an utterly danceable Radio Slave remix.
Hands Up! Cinthie returns to 803 Crystal Grooves with four tracks of gorgeous deep house
Rarely do you get a 12" with tracks you all play in one set without sounding samey or repetitive as you do on Cinthie's Look Mom! No Piano.
Melancholonica: A Man Named Phil Western
Afterflash is a remixed tribute album to the innovative Phil Western, who released electronic music on Harthouse and LA label Exist Dance as well as collaborating with cEvin Key, Download, Skinny Puppy and releasing a huge catalog of solo material.
Unity: Lavan drops a scintillating UKG-inflected house EP for +98
The Unity EP is a big bag of underground goodies, an EP characterized by jacking percussion ramping up to blissful peaks and valleys.
Jimpster remixes Franck Roger & Arnold Jarvis’ “Living My Life” in a kick drum heavy vocal...
I'm a big fan of Franck Rogers' crispy, club-friendly house grooves and he's done a good job here with this collaboration with NYC house vocalist Arnold Jarvis, the pads and drums of which have a distinctly '90s house old-school flavour.
Cosmic disco is alive & well on Manuel Costela’s remix of “Amalfi Drive”
A quality mid-tempo room-lifter on Rare Wiri finds Manolo's sophisto-cosmic-disco workout "Amalfi Drive" remixed by Manuel Costela.
Lose My Mind: Retro house vibes from Valerio Vaudano
Valerio Vaudano loves this retro house sound so much he reverse engineered it like a shaggy computer scientist hacking a ROM BIOS chip in 1982. The four tracks on Lose My Mind were apparently created "using a '90s sampler without using a computer." Can you tell?
Music For Dreams from downtempo power couple Kelvin Andrews & Balearic Mike
The third installment of "Down To The Sea and Back" collects a set of obscure tunes that are united only by their rarity and by whatever indescribable, indefinable quality qualifies them as "Balearic."
Bushwacka bringing some beautiful bassline business on “What You Want”
There's a comedy show in the UK called Peep Show, and at some point in season one, a character in an electronic music duo writes a bassline so good that he apparently couldn't turn it off. This is one of those.
Because: A universe of undiscovered vibes from Damian Rausch
Damian Rausch does 4am really well - that last pump of energy, that last song or the first last song before you give up whatever plans you had for a responsible life and an early morning because you're going to remember what happens here with much more tenderness than you remember waking up on time and having a sensible breakfast.
Lost Paradise: DJ Romain unearths more unreleased gems on The Lost D.A.T.S. Part Two
The hottest house tracks of 2025 were made in 1996. DJ Romain's "The Lost D.A.T.S." series evokes a time when Times Square was dirty and nightlife was a freaky wonderland.
Ron Trent remixes LA upstarts ASHRR on “Please Don’t Stop The Rain”
Signed to Ralph Lawson's 20/20 Vision Recordings, ASHRR is aiming one directly at the house scene with this remix pack featuring Ron Trent.
Saturated in soul: Abacus adds to a legendary discography on Analog Stories Vol 3
The world has gone wrong in every way we can measure but Austin Bascom is back and dropping tracks again and they're as good as they were back in the day.
For the People: Zed Bias remixes KiNK’s “Kazan”
It's dangerous to put two volatile elements together and madness to put this out. Zed Bias remixes KiNK's KAZAN on Hypercolour - just 4 minutes and 57 seconds of trippy DJ silly putty.
Suite for Chick: Reinterpreting the genius of Chick Corea
Nu Northern Soul drops a mini-album of "re-interpretations" of fusion maestro Chick Corea tracks by DJ Maarten Goetheer featuring Thai power-house drummer Pong Nakornchai.
Dam Swindle announce new album “Open”
Amsterdam deep house duo Dam Swindle have announced the forthcoming release of OPEN, Swindle's first album since 2018's High Life. Listen to the first single, "Girl," featuring vocalist Faye Meana.
Genius of Time concludes their vocalist spotlight with “You Make Me”
This is Volume 3 and the final part of Genius of Time's "Vocal Series," a collection of EPs built around vocal hooks and minimal and dubby but vibrant instrumentation.
Next Wave Acid Punx: ’80s Cold War club anthems revamped
Outré audio archeology on a 4 track compilation via DJ Curses and Eskimo Recordings,, shining "a blacklight onto the darker side of club music."
Patrick Wayne & DJ Threejay drop a beatdown for the underground on “Give It To Me”
There's a formula and Patrick Wayne and Threejay have it on lock: jackin' beats, disco vibes and a liberal use of samples, chopped up and put back together again in new forms.
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LOVEFOXY / The 5 Mag Cover Mix
A new 5 Mag cover mix and it's a gorgeous set from emerging DJ, producer and artist LOVEFOXY
