Tag: teklife
Teklife reissues the DJ Spinn juke classic “Bounce N Break Yo Back” on vinyl
Nearly twenty years after its debut "Bounce N Break Yo Back" can still snatch the oxygen out of the room.
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.
“Get Up!” A Tribute to DJ Deeon
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 Rashad: Afterlife
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This is the tribute that the late DJ Rashad deserved. Following the Chicago producer's death in 2013, a...
5 Magazine Interviews Teklife’s DJ Tre
A founding member of the Ghetto Teknitianz and the Teklife crew, Chicago's DJ Ttre is among those at the forefront of the Juke and...
DJ Earl: Live. Love. Teklife.
Records like this don't materialize out of the ether and show up on your dash. They're lived, lived hard, and it's during a brief...
Queen! On the Road to Legendary
5 Magazine's Czarina Mirani goes behind the scenes of Queen!, the Sunday night residency at SmartBar, in Issue #122 of 5 Magazine, released September...
Gant-Man: Born Into This
When Gant-Man says that music is his life, it's more than a cliche. Once the world's "youngest professional DJ", he's since become a cornerstone...
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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.
