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Tag: Vicious Charm

Crooked Man turns a disco classic to the dark side

From the excellent Vicious Charm label comes a typically bold musical statement from Richard "DJ Parrot" Barratt aka Crooked Man in the form of a mid-tempo dark, distorted, deep house remake of disco classic "Don't Leave Me This Way."

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.

New Futurism: Inside the new issue of 5 Mag

Rick Wade on AI, art and the future of making music, plus Tilman, James Chance, a Chicago House history primer and more.

Sunshine Breakdown: JIM’s “Love Makes Magic: The Remixes”

Last summer's debut album from JIM, aka Jim Baron of Crazy P aka Ron Basejam was album of the year for many, a superb, accomplished mix of Balearic singer-song writing, acoustic ballads, soft-yacht and sub-disco.

Beloved: Inside the new 5 Mag

An oral history of Freerange Records with Jimpster, Tom Roberts, Matt Masters, Pezzner, Manuel Tur and Fred Everything, plus Chicago house with Black Sjuan, DJ Paulette's welcome to the club, Elbert Phillips on Tears, Dark Heaven and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.

MUST READ!