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About Last Night: Black Coffee at the Grammys
If it wasn't going to be Ten City, at least it was Black Coffee, whose Grammy award is a milestone for Africa's electronic music artists.
How’s Your Career? Tortured Soul release 20th anniversary LP
The 20th Anniversary Album is solid overview of Tortured Soul's two decade recording career with a few rarities thrown in.
Black Coffee Wants to Make the Music Industry Work for Africa
Four years in the making, the South African dance music star is putting his activism on the line with a new platform made by and for Africa called GongBox.
In The Groove: Welcome to the New Issue of 5 Mag
Bigger, thicker, stronger: a completely redesigned 5 Mag and our longest issue ever with features on underground legend Danny J. Lewis, DJ Aakmael, Pirate Radio, Streaming in Africa, the history of the 808 and its clones, new podcasts, reviews and more.
What Hugh Masekela Did for South Africa’s House Music Explosion
Black Coffee, Masters at Work and the role of Hugh Masekela in the South African house movement.
New Black Coffee album to be released on August 26
Pieces of Me is his first album to be released with EDM cake-tossing tossers Ultra Records.
Here’s the Mamby On The Beach 2016 Lineup
React just announced the dates and lineup for the 2016 edition of Mamby On The Beach, Chicago's curiously eclectic lakefront music festival.
Headliners this year...
Black Coffee Celebrates 10 Years of Shaking Asses
We were pretty proud to be early jumpers on the bandwagon of South African House Music - aside from reviews poking at the genuinely...
Tortured Soul Preps New Album & Tour
Following the tragic death of keyboard player Ethan White, Tortured Soul has announced that the band will continue touring and details of their forthcoming...
It’s Time: The Soulful House Sound of Sean McCabe
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATING to me to find young artists in dance music that gravitate towards soulful music. Since releasing his first tracks in...
In Residence with Uhuru Afrika, Boston
5 Magazine's residency spotlight features Adam Gibbons and Uhuru Afrika, the incredibly unique Boston club night deeply rooted in the music of Africa and...
Sean Haley: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday Sets #172
Sean Haley: Deep House DJ from Chicago. Need more? Okay: he's one half of Windimoto, a collaboration with Scorpeze founded in 2007, which released...
Carlos Mena, Ocha and the Invasion of South African House Music
'Big in South Africa' is the new 'Big in Japan'. The sound of South Africa has rejuvenated Soulful House Music
Alton Miller: Light Years Away (Mixed Signals Music)
I'll tell you what: No matter how many sub-genres there are of House Music, you can always tell when a particular song or sound...
Black Coffee ft. Hugh Masekela: We Are One
South African natives Black Coffee and jazz laureate Hugh Masekela have a gift for you: "We Are One" on Vega Records. This soulful explosion...
Black Coffee on the Brink
An interview with South Africa DJ and producer Black Coffee at the head of his US tour back in 2010.
Ralf GUM: He Makes the Music You Love to Play
5 Magazine profile of German Soulful House producer and impresario Ralf GUM of GOGO Music.
Black Coffee – “Turn Me On”/”Come To Me”
I received this track in Miami from Mr. Black Coffee himself. I already knew of Mr. Coffee through his hit "Even Though" on Real...
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Entering 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.
