Lester Fitzpatrick: A Chicago Story
Tristan Dominguez talks to the ultra-prolific Chicago producer Lester Fitzpatrick.
Ben Sims and Kirk Degiorgio: Machine
Reading about two artists forming a new label in 2012 is about as exciting as watching cardboard age. As an example, in the 31 days of March, I received no less than five Kickstarter...
Hiver, Juju & Jordash Remix Autre and D Roots for Autarchy
This split EP features Autre and D Roots, two up and coming producers remixed by Juju and Jordash and Hiver.
Music from the deep archives of Marco Repetto comes alive on the Planet Love Trilogy
The Planet Love trilogy is a three 12" set pulled from the early 1990s archives of groundbreaking Swiss electronic music producer Marco Repetto.
Mistress 5 Is The Most Ambitious Record Released This Year
Amidst all of the doom and gloom of the music industry - as a few dollars are replaced with a few dimes and now a few dimes by a few pennies, courtesy of streaming...
Traverse Seventeen on Eargasmic Recordings
Daryl Cura's last six tracks have been free downloads from Bandcamp and if you're not hip to this then now is the time to get up to speed.
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 meant to be heard. Sure, you could sit and listen...
KiNK’s Playground Remixed by Josh Wink, Matthew Herbert & More
The antidote to boring, mediocre and frowningly serious dance music, KiNK's Playground album gets remixed from an illustrious roster including Josh Wink, Matthew Herbert, Radio Slave and Dusky.
Jerome Hill: Toy Box Part 1
The Toy Box series shows techno stalwart Jerome Hill still full of righteously noxious piss and vinegar, making fun, noisy beats.
Static Music Releases Phutek’s Make You Rain
Phutek makes music that just cries out to be played loud.
Listening Room: Dakini9 on Trail Markers
There's a story behind every track, or at least the good ones.
Welcome to our new music discovery feature, Listening Room, in which we share a stream of a new track and ask its creator...
SciFiSol: Experimental Drawingboard
New Techno from the purveyors of good Techno at Detroit Underground.
Uncompromising Techno from Tunnel’s Diaspora EP
In a dance music landscape which seems to be becoming more musically conservative by the day, it's always hugely refreshing to hear something uncompromising and different. Chicago's own Tunnel has been steadily building the...
#ListenUp: DJ 3000 Keeps Detroit Swinging on Sofra
Listen to SOFRA, the title track of DJ 3000's new EP dropping this week on Motech.
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 clean, but lacks any sort of real energy, inspiration or...
Deep Club drops a Snad & Jackson Lee split EP
Everything that I love about Chicago tracks is here on one record from Deep Club with strong Chicago ties.
The Lost Works of MK: Strider (Mojuba Underground)
This is the sound of Marc Kinchen, trapped between Disco and Techno and on the verge of breaking out.
“Strider” is not new – it was produced before at least some of the people who...
More Music, Less Neon: Movement Is Growing Up
This year's Movement Festival 2013 by Paxahau definitely didn't disappoint, equipped with five technologically spruced up stages (Red Bull Music Academy, Beatport, Underground, Made in Detroit and the Electric Forest) and over 121 artists...
im/Print: Minneapolis Exchange
Our second new label profile features Aaron Bliss and Minneapolis Exchange, the new vinyl imprint from the great American midwest.
#StayHomeDisco Oliver Way March 2020 Techno Electro Mix
Face-melting techno + electro DJ mix from Oliver Way, co-founder of EPM and half of the Detroit Grand Pubahs.
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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.
