Tag: Crooked Man
Crooked Man turns a disco classic to the dark side
From the excellent Vicious Charm label comes a typically bold musical statement from Richard "DJ Parrot" Barratt aka Crooked Man in the form of a mid-tempo dark, distorted, deep house remake of disco classic "Don't Leave Me This Way."
Back to Basics: Inside the New 5 Mag
Mark Knight goes deep, Yuu Udagawa does our cover mix, Gene Tellem on making one of the best tracks of 2025 and more inside 5 Magazine Issue 221, out now.
New Futurism: Inside the new issue of 5 Mag
Rick Wade on AI, art and the future of making music, plus Tilman, James Chance, a Chicago House history primer and more.
Sunshine Breakdown: JIM’s “Love Makes Magic: The Remixes”
Last summer's debut album from JIM, aka Jim Baron of Crazy P aka Ron Basejam was album of the year for many, a superb, accomplished mix of Balearic singer-song writing, acoustic ballads, soft-yacht and sub-disco.
House Music is a Spiritual Thing: Inside 5 Mag #210
Sacred beats: Levon Vincent, DJ Disciple, Gehno Aviance aka One A and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, house music from Chicago.
Love & Resistance is another unsurprisingly strong EP from Crooked Man
9 minutes and 59 seconds of signature Crooked deep house from Crooked Man on Love & Resistance.
High Life: Inside the new 5 Mag
Orlando Voorn, Turbojazz, Victor Simonelli, Carly Wilford, Maxime Dangles, Mira Lo and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
Crooked Man & Foremost Poets remix Greg Foat’s Psychosynthesis
Low frequency oscillations abound on these Greg Foat remix packages from Foundation Music.
Lady Blackbird & Crooked Man “Don’t Wanna Be Normal”
Lady Blackbird and Crooked Man, much like Rick Sanchez’s Gotron Ferrets, combine to create a (dance floor) monster.
Crooked Man remixes Lanowa’s “My Fantasy”
Three mixes from Lanowa's impossibly sunny single "My Fantasy" from Citizens of Vice.
After party delights on Luke Una Presents É Soul Cultura
Celestial B-sides, forgotten tech-spirituals, NY garage, lunar jazz-funk & more on Luke Una's É Soul Cultura.
Crooked Man remixes Amy Douglas & Joe Goddard’s “Dangerous”
"Dangerous" from Amy Douglas and Joe Goddard's HARD FEELINGS project gets mixed up by Crooked Man.
MUST READ!
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.






















