Tag: chicago house music
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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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made.
