Tag: dj skull

Shifted: Detroit’s Santonio Echols Is Still at the Top of His Game

Thirty Two finds Santonio - somehow, after some 30 years - still beating heads and making dope records at a peak level.

In Rotation – This Week’s Best Tracks from 5 Mag Dot Net (April 26 2019)

Our favorite tracks from the week that was, featuring Ron Trent, Ellen Allien, DJ Skull, Fouk, Erika Gluck, Luke Hess, Giovanni Damico, Leonid Nevermind, Salar Ansari, Saine & Smith and Pontchartrain.

Listen to DJ Skull’s Country Air EP from Shift Imprint

"Country Air" could be considered Skull's take on jazz - a hectic, kinetic and utterly peculiar strain of jazz - but jazz nonetheless...

Techno, UFOs & Legends of the Chicago Underground

Inside the new issue of 5 Mag with Ellen Allien, Nachtbraker and Kelly G.

Discograph: Roman Zawodny & the Sound of UKR

Digging deep into the catalog of UKR, one of the most dynamic, relentless and consistently brilliant techno labels in North America.

Classic Chicago House Selections from Golf Clap

Midwest heroes Golf Clap select 5 classics from the Midwest rave scene and contribute a special throwback old school Chicago House mix.

Myth Fest: New Chicago Music Festival Launches Mid-June 2016

There's a new show in town - a new festival in Chicago I mean, and one that's skated under the radar for me at...

Four Gigs, Six Days: Boiler Room Invades Chicago & Detroit

I-94 is the vital artery that connects the cities of Chicago and Detroit - sometimes rivals, sometimes collaborators and always, always up in each...

DJ Skull Returns to Sect: The Heavy Thinker EP

A record that starts with the dynamite needs to end with an atomic bomb. DJ Skull understands this: still firing all synapses, his follow...

DJ Skull: Don’t Look Back

One of the most versatile producers to come out of Chicago in the 1990s, DJ Skull is back on the scene and working at...

DJ Skull: The Dark Knight EP (Sect)

You could hear this one coming all summer long - like a lumbering giant stalking the nation, I think everyone heard the footfalls. And...

Stream: Roy Davis Jr, Robert Owens and an All Star Cast on Slide

  Nearly any record with Robert Owens behind the mic is gonna be dubbed "soulful", but an original production from Roy Davis Jr (on the...

MUST READ!

House of Fouk: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag

Dutch deep house duo Fouk's first 5 Mag cover story and an exclusive mix, plus London soul with Paris Cesvette, Azzad, Thando, Moby, Aslice, another lost Paul Johnson mix and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.