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New House Music and Classic House Music reviews, free tracks and charts from 5 Magazine’s team of editors, writers, reviewers and DJs.

The Carry Nation: Still On The Line

The Carry Nation have come far since their humble beginnings at Z-Man's legendary happenings.
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Jeff Mills Reissues Four Catalog Classics on the Remastered Director’s Cut Chapter 2

Technical and musical mastery preserved on the latest Jeff Mills Director's Cut reissue - Chapter 2.
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UKG Revival: Obstacle Gets Lively with Moodswing’s Outbreak

With Outbreak from Moodswing, Obstacle is three records in and has shown the chops to be maybe the best UK Garage label in the business now.
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Surfing with the Aliens on Ellen Allien’s UFO Inc.

UFOx01 and UFOx02 dropped simultaneously as "very limited" white labels at ADE 2019 and more recently in digital format, and the combined 8 tracks makes for one of the strongest V/A compilations of the past year.
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James Solace Drops Atmospheric “Spectral” on LNOE

James Solace offers some solace for the grooveless with the Ghost Town EP from Sasha's Last Night On Earth.
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Tonina delivers perhaps the most beautiful vocal of the year on Bergsonist’s “Womankind’s Beauty”

The 4 track EP from Bergsonist and featuring a gorgeous, ethereal vocal from Tonina is out from Hypercolour.
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Trilaterals shake & stir Teena Marie on “Afro-LaTeena”

Adventurous 7" rework of a classic by Kristi Lomax and the Trilaterals.

Dam Swindle release first EP under their new name

Dam Swindle's "Spice Run" on Aus Music is drenched in soul, with Detroit vocalist Nikki O taking the spotlight on "Breathe."
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Black Loops returns to Shall Not Fade on “Circulation”

Black Loops and Shall Not Fade are releasing a 5 track EP he hammered together out of salvaged electro, acid jazz, deep house and Italo remnants.
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Andre Kronert releases diamond-cut “Purpose” on Kneaded Pains

Andre Kronert's drums hit with diamond-cut precision on "Purpose," the lead track from his new EP of the same name from Kneaded Pains.
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New York’s WTCHCRFT debuts on I Love Acid

SQLCHY: the soundtrack for an uprising on vinyl from WTCHCRFT and I Love Acid.
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Dave Lee reworks disco classic “Shake It Up Tonight”

Dave Lee and Prospect Park revamps the 1981 Cheryl Lynn classic "Shake It Up Tonight."
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Andrés + Moods & Grooves = Happiness

Detroit's Andrés returns for a deep & soulful encore on Mike Grant's seminal Moods & Grooves records with Back In The Open.

Ten Years Of Swindling: Dam Swindle’s Keep On Swindling Part 1

The first of three releases celebrating Dam Swindle's 10 year anniversary features two new tracks and two remixes from the Swindlers' back catalog.

“Good Hado” is spiritual MPC House from Detroit’s Kyle Hall

Four tracks of raw and real deep house from Kyle Hall on Good Hado from Forget The Clock.
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Tour-Maubourg releases the gently introspective Spaces of Silence

Different shades of deep house on the 2nd album from Tour-Maubourg, thematically based around the ideas of noise and silence.
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Roberta comes home to Night Moves with the stellar “Your Touch”

It may be cheapening the art and coarsening the discourse when all we have to say about a record is mf, this is dope but mf, this is dope. When it comes to her public discography, Roberta has not missed.

First Sight: Laroye’s first-rate four track Freerange follow-up

French DJ and Producer Laroye's second Freerange EP give you four tracks of melodic underground house.
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Hiroko Yamamura makes a festival-worthy Chicago house playlist

Chicago's Hiroko Yamamura selects 11 Chicago house festival tracks ahead of ARC Music Festival, coming this Labor Day Weekend (September 1 through September 3 2023) at Union Park.
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#TheTeardown The Making of Change Request & DJ Heather’s Stay With Me

Andrew Emil aka Change Request on the making of "Stay With Me," his new track featuring DJ Heather leading off Chicago label Aathee's Year 3 compilation.

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Chicago’s Secret Spot: One Year of Miyagi Records

From a pop up in a storage space to a brick-and-mortar record store, Hyde Park's Miyagi Records talks to 5 Mag on one year of building community and creating your very own secret spot on the Southside of Chicago.