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In the Studio with Johnny Fiasco

For 5 Magazine's new column focusing on machines and the men and women who love them, we go into the studio with Chicago's own...

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...

DJ Moppy: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday Sets #170

Moppy is part of Cutz on Cuts, which airs every Wednesday from 4pm to 8pm Central time on Ustream. (We also featured Shazam Bangles,...

Change Request: Four Play Music Sessions vol 8

Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each...

There Are Dreams and There Is Escape: The Legend of James Jack Rabbit Martin

If there is a Robert Johnson of Chicago House Music, it's James "Jack Rabbit" Martin. No one has ever claimed that Martin walked down to...

Mystic Bill: The Revival

In the early 1990s, Mystic Bill was one of the key figures in the emergence of the Chicago Rave Scene, introducing Chicago's homegrown House...

Deejay Deeon: The 5 Magazine Interview

Deeon is a pioneer in Chicago music, period. Often revered as the Ghetto House originator, he is an influence to electronic music producers of...

Jamie 3:26: The 5 Magazine Interview

Maybe the hardest working DJ in the scene, Jamie 3:26 is one of Chicago's true House Music soldiers. And thanks to the success of...

Boo Williams: Looney Chunes Vol 1 / Back To The Future

Color me amazed. New label Contemporary Scarecrow has planted a foot firmly in the scene by dragging several classic Boo Williams compositions out of...

Bai-ee: Four Play Music Sessions vol 6

Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each...

Cajmere’s Funky Fresh for 5 – Volume Eight

Exclusive: It's a gorgeous day in Chicago - 84 degrees, sunny, the kind of day you wait all year to enjoy - and here...

Four Play Sessions Volume 004 – mixed by Chris Grant

Welcome to the fourth installment of Four Play Sessions, a monthly mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr....

J-Dub: Four Play Music Sessions vol 3

Welcome to the third installment of Four Play Sessions, a monthly mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr....

Feature: Carl Bias of Master C&J

Get outcher Number Two pencils and a clean sheet of paper, and at the end we'll be having a quiz. Quite a few of...

Cajmere’s Funky Fresh for 5 – Volume Seven

Exclusive: Time for Volume Seven (!) of Cajmere's Funky Fresh for 5, our reigning, most popular mix series appearing monthly in this space exclusively...

Innerspace Halflife: Cosmology (Machining Dreams)

Call it logrolling if you will, but sometimes a record commands your attention. Hakim Murphy (a senior editor here if you haven't looked at...

Broadway and Wilson: Four Play Music Sessions vol 2

Welcome to the second installment of Four Play Sessions, a new monthly mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of...

Cajmere’s Funky Fresh for 5 – Volume Six

Exclusive: This is Volume Six of Cajmere's Funky Fresh for 5, our most popular mix series appearing monthly in this space exclusively for 5chicago.com. Cajual...

Spencer Kincy Mixes: South of Da Border (Complete)

This is a DJ mix from Chicago House legend Spencer Kincy aka Gemini. This was ripped from cassette tape from the 1990s and retains...

Andrew Emil: Four Play Music Sessions vol 1

This week, 5 Magazine is launching Four Play Sessions, a new monthly mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of...

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