Tag: dance mania

A cast of friends and family come together to honor the life of one of Chicago's dance music pioneers on Sunday April 6 2025 at the Park West.

We just unearthed this video from 5 Mag's five year anniversary project archives in which the legendary DJ Funk talks about the history of ghetto house music, where it came from and what it's about.

Nobody captured the energy and fun of house music better than DJ Funk.

DJ Funk, one of the pioneers of ghetto house music and a dance music icon, has been "bravely battling stage 4 cancer" but now "doesn't have much longer left," in an appeal released by his family. Funk is now "facing the heartbreaking reality of planning for his final farewell."

The all-star event is April 12 2025 at Avondale Music Hall featuring Gant-Man, Lil'Tal, DJ Milton, Nehpets, Slugo, Eric Martin, Jana Rush, Traxman and more.

The man behind the legend was even greater than the legend itself. 5 Mag remembers Chicago house DJ and ghetto house pioneer DJ Deeon, who passed away today.

DJ Swisha and Kush Jones drop a throwback to the early '90s fuzzy lo-fi Chicago tracks on a Bandcamp Friday release.

From Relief & Dance Mania to UKR, Lester Fitzpatrick has become one of the most prolific underground artists in Chicago and probably the world. He's not slowing down. And this is how he does the work.

KiNK is working through the occult science numerology of dance music on the wide-ranging Clap On 2 EP - one that's both worthy of devotional study and an irresistible force when it encounters some booty that must be moved.

Setting off housequakes left and right, Dance Mania alumnus Drew Sky drops some bandcamp goodies for the masses on MEGA.

Someone like Chicago ghetto house & low end legend DJ Deeon only comes around once in a generation.

Absent makes his debut on Mark Broom's Beard Man label with devastating techno artillery on the Animate EP.

Torrfisk returns to Apollo Music Group with bleary party jams that evoke the sights, sounds and smells of a '90s Chicago loft.

Friends and fans pay tribute to Chicago techno, house and ghetto house producer and pioneer DJ Amar who died on Monday.

All your jaded tweets about Record Store Day have come true. But there are still some places where the original spirit flies and Gramaphone Records is one of them.

Ghetto House is for your mind, your body and your soul. Watch a short video about Ray Barney's North Lawndale health food store, New Life.

A B-side from Parris Mitchell (as Victor Romeo) became an unlikely UK Garage smash thanks to these remixes from Scott Garcia, Mark Yardley & Ray Hurley.

Jerome Baker, David Mancuso, Hanna Hais, Surface and Karen Copeland headline issue 139 of 5 Magazine. Get inside.

The strange history of Video Clash, a Chicago House classic.

Nowhere is Parris Mitchell's flexibility as a producer shown better than on this 1994 EP, reissued from the Dance Mania archives.