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Buck Rogers Does Disco: How an ’80s TV show inspired an underground jam

The Miami Disco classic "Odyssey" is much loved in the discotheques. It owed its existence to a scruffy '70s musician and the cheesy sci-fi TV show he wrote for.

Philly Disco guitarist & MFSB co-founder Bobby Eli has died

Guitarist, songwriter, producer and founding member of MFSB and the Salsoul Orchestra, Bobby Eli has died at the age of 77 of natural causes in Havertown, a suburb due west of Philadelphia.

NYC House: Louie Vega on the making of Expansions in the NYC

Described as a love letter to New York, Louie Vega's Expansions in the NYC was made with the intent to "pass on some history and hold a space for the new."

Huge Archive of Lost Philly Sound Funk & Disco Recordings Found

An abandoned storage locker held thousands of Sigma Sound Studio tapes, now being preserved and restored by Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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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.