🔴 When musicians and artists talk among themselves, any discussion about the impact of AI becomes a discussion entirely about AI.
That’s what happened when we spoke to Rick Wade. It was a conversation initially about an album and then a mix. And then AI was mentioned and we talked about nothing else for the rest of that day.
The result: 5 Mag Issue 215, featuring Rick Wade on AI, art and the future of making music; Tilman, James Chance, a Chicago House history primer and more, out now from 5 Mag.
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🔴 CONTENTS — INSIDE 5 MAG #215:
🔴 5 Mag Cover Mix: Rick Wade — Sanctify vol 10. This issue started with this mix. It was during our conversations around this mix that Rick Wade got on the subject of AI and the cover story for this issue was made. The mix was too good to hold and the story was too NOW to put on ice. So this time around, you get them both together.
🔴 5 Mag Book Club: A People’s History of Chicago House. In the poetic and robust Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite L. Harrold captures the history of house music with the eye of a scholar and the passion of a true believer.
🔴 RepeatAll: Tilman — The Spirit Continues. Album of the Month: Drop the needle on The Spirit Continues and Tilman will take you back in time.
🔴 Radio Dazed: American Broadcasters Will Never Pay Performers. Faced with another push from the US Congress to close a billion dollar loophole, the AM/FM industry is fighting hard to keep performance royalties from artists.
🔴 The RunOut: Game of Chance. The confrontational and sometimes brilliant musician James Chance passed away in June. Chance invented the future — and had a lot to do with making people dance again.
🔴 Future Shocked: Rick Wade on Art, AI & the Future of Making Music. The future is not AI but AI will be a part of it. When it arrives, Rick Wade plans to be here for it.
🔴 Heavy Machinery: The DJ That Makes Midi Controllers. Designed with the lover of analog machines in mind, Viper Synth’s ROBOTRON transforms the cold, back-lit MIDI controller into a tactile piece of pseudo-vintage hardware.
🔴 AI Comes for Music Mastering. Ravenomics: Cheap AI mastering from distributors is pricing out a modest but important side hustle in the music industry.
🔴 SYNC: Cajmere. The first of 10 mixes Mr. Curtis A. Jones, aka Cajmere, aka Green Velvet, released in collaboration with 5 Mag starting in 2011. Once lost, now found.
🔴 Generating Dreamy Delta Waves with Skyridge. Screengrab: Ed Martinez generates gorgeous, sculptured atmospheres with vocal samples with ZAK Sound’s latest plugin.
🔴 Music Reviews 215. Your home for longform reviews of new and reissued dance music tracks from Joseph Malik ft Digital Liquid: Only Fans Remixes (F*CLR), Wallace: Tanzanite (On Loop), Dennis Quin: Treat You Right (PIV), Session Victim: Screen Off (Delusions of Grandeur), Void Complet: Their Idea Of Fun (Chobu), DimSum: Stars In Your Eyes (My Cup of Tea), Manakinz (Model Citizens), Blaze: Lovelee Dae (Seth Troxler & Franck Roger Remixes) (Slip N Slide), Brisa with Jon Dixon and Byron The Aquarius: Stir (Cosmocities), Jordan Gardner and Martyn Bootyspoon: Doubletap (Outlier), System of Survival: One-o-One EP (Fventi), Suburban Knight: 3 EP (Detroit Techno), Lay-Far: True, Necessary, Kind Remixes (In-Beat-Ween), Glo Phase: Manifesto, Jon Delerious: Deepest Hour (Nordic Trax), Crooked Man (Vicious Charm) and Tevo Howard: As We Are.
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