Rahsaan Patterson: House Music is Church
Welcome to 5 Mag #195.
The Power Within: Rahsaan Patterson on gospel, house music, and Heroes & Gods 2.0, his remix album with Quentin Harris.
Inside Issue 195 — the first issue of 5 Mag of 2022, also featuring Ka§par, Jeff Mills & Kraftwerk scoring Metropolis, Harold Heath on 2021: A Bass Idiocy, the extraordinary history of a fake synthesizer and more.
#CoverMix: An eclectic 2 hour live set for this issue from Ka§par.
Writing in a time of COVID. Until a few weeks ago, Omicron was a guy who makes bad techno, sells bad weed and keeps tugging on your shirt all night to show you his NFTs on his phone.
2021: A Bass Idiocy. Harold Heath reviews another tumultuous year in dance music.
Loumavox: The Extraordinary History of a Fake Synthesizer. A mockumentary made by French schoolchildren showed how our thirst for "secret histories" and alternative realities can lead us astray.
The Sound of Metropolis. The most influential techno film of all time was made almost a hundred years ago. Fritz Lang's Metropolis was mutilated by the Nazis, inspired Kraftwerk, and was scored multiple times by Giorgio Moroder and Jeff Mills — and through a quirk of copyright law, is about to enter the public domain.
Rahsaan Patterson: A Power Within. Lauren Krieger talks to the multi-talented artist Rahsaan Patterson on Heroes & Gods 2.0, his album "reimagined" by Quentin Harris and the deeply spiritual connection between gospel and house music.
Ka§par is an Artist for Our Times. An artist who works on their own terms is a dangerous person. 5 Mag's Terry Matthew speaks to Ka§par.
Music Reviews 195. New music and reissues from DJ Stingray 313, Cinthie & Revivis (Talman), KiNK, Hugo LX (Wonderwax), Stephane Attias (Visions Inc), Photonz (Naive), Malik Alston (Mother Tongue), Arpanet (Exoplanets), SE62 (SlapFunk), Tenderlonious, Tim Jackiw (Deeptrax), OPOLOPO, Niko Marks (Yore), Club of Jacks, GS Dubs, Move D (Smallville), Cellaroot, Anthony Nicholson & Lailah Reich, Matt Jam Lamont & Echelon, Franck Roger, Bryn Green (Planet Rhythm), Coflo (Ocha Records), DJ M-Traxxx (The DJ Hell Experience) and Dirt Crew.
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