Phil Kieran’s Blinded By The Sun LP Gets Another Remix Pack
Mano Le Tough, David Holmes and especially Matthew Herbert remix tracks from Phil Kieran's Blinded By the Sun album.
David Moran: Mythology
David Moran's signature hard and driving techno, stretched out to album-length thanks to remixers Robert Armani, DJ Amar and Unphixt throwing thunderbolts.
Grid Based Beats Celebrates the Chicago-Milwaukee Connection
Grid Based Beats celebrates the Chicago-Milwaukee Techno Connection on Hiawatha Service, featuring tracks from Lester Fitzpatrick, Frankie Vega, Tim Vitek and more.
Dan Curtin – A 5 Mag Mix 65
Exclusive mix from Techno pioneer Dan Curtin ahead of the reissue of his timeless 1994 album The Silicon Dawn.
Shawn Rudiman: Out of Time
Pittsburgh's Shawn Rudiman makes hardware-heavy techno that's both serious-minded and seriously good, Bruce Tantum profiles Shawn for this issue's 5 Mag cover story.
Unplugged: The Magical Sounds of Pato Y Pato
Detroit duo Mark Maynard and John Duffy are capturing the aesthetic of 1970s proto-electronic on the psychedelic analog dream music of Pato Y Pato.
#TheTeardown Clavis on “Wirefire” and Making Music in a Time of Quarantine
Manuel Tur and Adrian Hoffman on the making of "Wirefire," title track of their new EP on Freerange.
Monty Luke on BLM, climate change & making the catalogue of Black Electronic Music
5 Mag's latest cover story with Monty Luke, founder of Black Catalogue on racial justice, the effect of the music industry on climate change and preventing the erasure of Black artists from electronic music.
CMD makes dreamy dark techno on Social Factory Reset
Rolling with dark grooves and serpentine basslines, CMD makes some of the best produced techno you'll hear
Warp reissues groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence compilation
30 years of electronic listening music preserved in 1s and 0s.
Fanon Flowers looks back on an age of chrome & steel on “Detroit Automation”
Released in 2020, Fanon Flowers' seven track album Detroit Automation is a masterpiece of minimal but visceral ambient and machine-tooled techno.
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 assume this is by design, but it doesn't jibe with...
Road Trip? Tec-Troit is a Free 3 Day Festival This Weekend in Detroit
This Friday, Tec-Troit - a free, three day, all ages festival - takes over Harmonie Park in Detroit and doesn't let go until Sunday night.
The festival features local talent from the city, ranging from...
Todd Sines: Envelop
"Everything that needs to be said has already been said," André Gide once said. "But since no one was listening, everything must be said again."
Maybe this time they'll get it right. This weekend, while...
Fanon Flowers’ Track Modes Series is Old Enough to Vote
Track Modes 4 continues Fanon Flowers' series begun back in 1998.
SciFiSol: Experimental Drawingboard
New Techno from the purveyors of good Techno at Detroit Underground.
Len Faki Remixes Frankie Bones’ Bump Your Head
Frankie Bones "Bump Your Head" is a classic, and Len Faki treats it with a refreshing irreverence.
Santiago Salazar: Views from the Varrio
On his second studio album, LA techno veteran Santiago Salazar revisits the rough past that fuels his drive for a better future.
Mystic Bill: The Lost Cassette Trax Vol 1
Rough and aggressive tracks from the future rescued from the past: something for your mind from the Chicago legacy of Mystic Bill.
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WYSER mix ☀️ RISE vol 21
Wake up, stay up and don't stay in: new mix from WYSER, aka Matt Wyser of Custom Vibes, the DJ duo REDUX and part of Shfft Chicago.
