🔴 Longevity: DJ Slugo, Michael Gray and more inside 5 Mag Issue 226, out now!
Chicago ghetto house and juke pioneer DJ Slugo on defying the odds and keeping it moving in a revealing 5 Mag cover story, legendary DJ, producer and remixer Michael Gray with out latest cover mix and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag!
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🔴 CONTENTS — INSIDE 5 MAG #226:
❇️ DJ Slugo: Longevity.
Through addicting rhythms, audacious wordplay, and a constant ear to the ground, DJ Slugo has built a career that defied the odds. A 5 Mag cover story by Jorge Iván Soto.
❇️ Michael Gray: You & Me.
It would be a sin to write a history of dance music without devoting a big chunk of it to the music of Michael Gray. 5 Mag meets the legendary producer and DJ on the release of his third album.
ASSEMBLY —
❇️ Michael Gray: The 5 Mag Cover Mix.
As half of Full Intention and as a solo artist, Michael Gray is responsible for some of the greatest club remixes of all time. If you know anything about his music and its impact, you’ll know that it’s a huge honor for 5 Mag to have him take over this issue’s cover mix.
❇️ SYNC: Paul Johnson.
There is no credible masterlist of Paul Johnson’s discography, and making a list of the mixes he released would be hopeless. But one-by-one we’re adding some new entries to the catalog with some of the great Chicago DJ’s mixes that have slipped out of public for one reason or another.
❇️ Pitchforks and Guillotines.
Music platforms, like most tech companies, initially welcomed the era of AI. Now many of them are in retrenchment. An overview of how music platforms are coping with a burgeoning anti-AI backlash.
❇️ On Spotify Everything Is an AI-Generated Remix.
Labels are lining up for a cut of Spotify’s latest scheme with questionable listener interest.
❇️ Still No Fix for Pioneer DJ’s Rekordbox Vulnerability.
Two weeks after a demo showed how an attacker could access a laptop’s entire drive, Pioneer has yet to patch.
❇️ Pressure Mounts on Industry As StubHub CEO Outed as “Scalper.”
The courts take notice after StubHub CEO’s ticket scalping side hustle.
FUSE —
❇️ Trip to the Moon.
Experiments with Landscape’s unique drum/synth made of equal parts poetry and electronics.
❇️ The Soul of a New Machine.
The super-powered drumDING promises a new way to work with a percussion instrument: a drum machine, synth and sequencer all in one.
❇️ Steinberg Touts Audio Tech Bonafides with the Classics Collection.
The venerable audio enterprise offers a free pack of 5 vintage VSTs from the company’s early period reworked for modern systems.
❇️ Very Superstitious: Rhodes Designs a Digital Clavinet.
The iconic sound of funk and the electronic clavichord captured as a premium plugin.
TRACKS —
❇️ Music Reviews 226.
New music, recent discoveries and classic reissues from Francis Harris, Frank & Tony and DJ Sprinkles (Scissor & Thread), Medlar (Delusions of Grandeur), Ed Nine (Four Framed Music), Riva Starr, Close Counters and Andre Espeut (Heist Recordings), Earthly Measures, Sam Paradise (Paradise Traxx), John Beltran (Intrinsic Rhythm), Michelle (Kalahari Oyster Cult), Inner City (Definitive Recordings), Cheek Ink (Pittsburgh Tracks), Abacus & Nigel Hayes (Guidance Recordings), Marion Poncet (Fuck Reality), LOVEFOXY, Dance System and Sasho Uzon (HOTLORD Records), Finetune (Sengiley Wax), More Ghost Than Man, Nico Lahs (Mistress Recordings), Black Girl / White Girl (Hybrid Spasm), and Dimitri Andreas and Deetron (Move Recordings).
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