Tag: techno

Metamorphic Reissues Titonton’s Classic Embryonic

The Midwest massive gets better with age - just glance at any credible chart from week to week and you'll see new records from...

Robotnick and Pinsky’s Analog Session, Mark Two

We now join in on another exhilarating adventure with theoretically obsolete technology manipulated by two guys who know their way around a synthesizer and...

NERKKIRN: Obervolt EP (V-Records)

When you spend a lot of time going through modern techno music, you find a lot of stuff that sounds big and polished and...

Reeko: Constellation Andromeda (Modularz)

If you are ever tasked with writing about Techno tunes, it's really important to remember the context in which so much of it is...

Submerge: Slap Jaxx Podcast #9

DJ Submerge mixes Volume #9 of the SLAPCAST, the monthly Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5...

The Measure of a Man: Robert Hood’s M-Print

Jeff Mills has had a hand in far more labels than Axis, Purpose Maker and the other imprints he has his name on. His...

Mike Dehnert: Switch Back To City EP

One of the fundamental issues with modern dancefloor-oriented techno is that, in catering to the needs of DJs, what gets lost is the idea...

Slap Jaxx Podcast Vol 8 – Chachi Guerrero

317techno's Chachi Guerrero mixes Volume #8 of the SLAPCAST, the monthly Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for...

Slap Jaxx Podcast Vol 7 – JAK

JAK mixes Volume #7 of the SLAPCAST, the Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine. Jack Coleman...

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...

Maria Goetz Live at Tresor Mix

Maria Goetz mixes this week's SLAPCAST, the Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine. This set was...

It’s Robert Hood’s World and We’re Just Living In It

So this is how it went: Robert Hood returned to Movement in May, dropped the remixes of the best track on the debut Floorplan...

This Is Franktronic – Slap Jaxx Podcast Volume 5

Franktronic mixes this week's SLAPCAST, the Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine. Franktronic says he's a...

Pittsburgh Track Authority’s Enter The Machine Age

It was somewhere between the second and third track on Pittsburgh Track Authority's debut LP that I realized something extraordinary was happening. In less...

Rob Threezy and DJ Rampage (Live at Primary)

Rob Threezy and DJ Rampage mix this week's SLAPCAST, the Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5...

ATTA – Slap Jaxx Podcast Volume 3

Japanese DJ ATTA takes over this week's SLAPCAST, the Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine. Born...

How I Play: Steven Tang on the Culture and Craft of DJing

DJs today are confronted with an astonishing number of choices, from vinyl to digital media, controllers, mixers, and the unending stream of more music...

Amir Alexander’s Stardust Kisses on Vanguard Sound

Vanguard Sound has been going since 2006; I believe we reviewed a one of or two of the early records from Amir Alexander's home...

Eddie Flashin Fowlkes: Special EP (Detroit Wax)

Everything written about Eddie Fowlkes these days has the feeling of a pamphlet or a petition seeking redress for some awful historical travesty. I...

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...

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