Beloved: Inside 5 Mag Issue 212
An oral history of Freerange, House Music's most beloved label and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
Founded in 1996, Freerange Records is one of house music's most iconic and beloved labels. Unlike most of the peers, the label founded by Jimpster and Tom Roberts isn't just a going concern — they're releasing some of their best music ever right now, in 2024.
5 Mag profiles the label, which is approaching 30 years of history and nearly 500 records in their discography inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
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#CoverMix: Black Sjuan
Contents From Issue #212:
Freerange: An Oral History of House Music's Most Beloved Label. After nearly 30 years and 500 releases, Freerange is releasing some of its best records to date. This is how it happened and how it got this far.
The Cover Mix: Black Sjuan. A "very Chicago" mix from a seminal figure in Chicago house music.
DJ Paulette: Welcome to the Club. Will Sumsuch speaks to the legendary DJ about her memoir, what the club is and how welcome we really are.
Elbert Phillips: Tears. Elbert Phillips & Andre Espeut deliver a sensational cover of the Frankie Knuckles & Robert Owens classic.
Black Sjuan: Soul Assylum. Behind The Beat: 5 Mag meets Black Sjuan, one of Chicago house music's most inventive and inspiring figures.
Dark Heaven. Ecstatically raging through the city’s underground, Prov Krivoshey (aka Vorp) and Asha Rahaylia expand their event series into Chicago’s most exciting new label.
Galaxy Brain: Streamwashed. Big tech, little money and how music marketing went crazy.
Ravenomics: Piracy 3.0. Streaming, which once snuffed out much of the pirate economy, is leading a resurgence of it.
Revolutions Are Now Televised. Revisionist documentary Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution is coming to the US.
Heavy Machinery: The Omnichord Renaissance. Suzuki is bringing back their odd electronic harp.
Screen Grab: Kick Out the Drums, MFs. Drumless from AudioSourceRe takes audio separation out of the cloud and into the DAW.
Unpluggable: Doppler Takes All Your Music Everywhere. Built with music collectors in mind, Doppler is a Mac and iPhone app that streams your entire collection seamlessly.
Music Reviews 212. The home for longform reviews in modern dance music, featuring records from Fred Everything (Lazy Days), Jennifer Vanilla (Love Injection), Mira Lo (Pont Neuf Records), JIM (Vicious Charm), Domenic Cappello (Alien Communications), Aathee, Teflon Dons and Gregory Porter (Worldship Music), Mildlife (Heavenly Recordings), Autonome Acid Unit (Groom Lake Universal), Deetron (Nu Groove), Huerta, Jacksonville, Nico Lahs and 100hz (Hizou Deep Rooted Music), Manuel Tur and Ingrid Lukas (Spaced Repetitions), Max Essa and Eddie C (Razor-N-Tape), Charles Webster & Ursula Rucker (Selador), Lauti Mina (Sengiley Records), Cee ElAssaad and Jaidene Veda (Ensouled), Mr G and Duncan Forbes (49North), 100 Poems, Shakedown, Terra Deva and Malcolm Zeller and Alex Jones (Hypercolour).
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