COEO Summons a Demon With a Tom Selleck Moustache on Habibi Dub
If electro bass lines and 808 kicks until you bruise is your thing, COEO's "Habibi Dub" is gonna be your soundtrack.
The deep, smooth & soulful sound of “Like Honey”
Originally released on Candace Bellamy's solo album In My Lane, "Like Honey" is a great soulful song with a stellar performance, resurrected here with some solid production by the team of Chris Sen and Thorne Miller for Just Move Records.
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.
Jon Delerious drops acid, lofi jazz and more on Can’t Hold Back
Two b-side tracks highlight an EP full of flavor by Jon Delerious for Luke McKeehan's Nordic Trax.
“You’re the Deepest MF Around”: Matthias Heilbronn & Monique Bingham team up on “Something”
Matthias Heilbronn & Monique Bingham team up on "Something" for Peppermint Jam.
Saiful Idris & SRNDR releases the sunny Summer Daze
Saiful Idris' "Summer Daze" is of those songs that brands itself on people's memories of a summer season.
Klasse Wrecks reissues the ultra rare Duster
Hi Tech Criminal's gem from 1994 gets reissued and is sold out almost immediately.
Posthuman’s Requiem For A Rave is more than nostalgia for your misspent youth
The Posthuman album Requiem for a Rave could be your life, and if you're reading this it probably was.
Northworks’ “Repeating Is In Everyone” is a minimal house masterpiece
Massive respect due to anyone that can lead off a one-sheet for a 21st century electronic music EP with a quote from Gertrude Stein.
Inner Sunset’s Homero G returns with the breathtaking March Of The Mighty Club Heroes
With a new label called PDG Discs, Inner Sunset's Homero G returns with a breakbeat-laden love letter to dancefloors everywhere.
ZG is Zansika Lachhani and Grant, and their debut album is an out-of-nowhere masterpiece
Coming just at the end of 2022, ZG is a new project of blindingly beautiful work and one of the best albums of the year.
Poptimistic house on Bowyer’s Bob’s Your Uncle EP
Bowyer has an upbeat and inventive take on dance music - poptimistic house produced so well the tracks are cut like diamonds, set in a dyed-in-the-Union Jack Britishism on Bob's Your Uncle.
Album Review: Retromigration brings jazz & house together on Straight Foxin’
Retromigration drops Straight Foxin' for Wolf Music, an organic-sounding, musically rich album full of jazz-flavoured club and club-adjacent jams.
“What Does It Do?” Deep jazz from Hugo LX
Hugo LX continues to build a discography of classic-sounding but forward-looking deep house releases, seriously sophisticated with an artistry or cleverness that is constantly bumping up against the bin lid of what deep house is supposed to, in good taste, allow.
Premiere: Glenn Davis – Dance [Yore Records]
🎧 Brilliant hazy deep house drenched in soul from Glenn Davis on "Dance" from his forthcoming 12" vinyl release Better Daze on Andy Vaz's Yore Records label.
Javonntte Prepares Debut Album PRIMETIME VOYAGE
The Detroit producer showcases "his first exploration into jazz and soul sounds" forged by the late Aretha Franklin.
Zed Bias: Neighbourhood (Locked On, 2000)
UK Garage Classics: Information about Zed Bias: Neighbourhood from 2000. Discover more about UK Garage history and the best UK Garage tracks and UK Garage classics at 5 Magazine.
#ListenUp Big Love for a Big Track from Alton Miller & Patrice Scott
Real recognizes real, soul meets soul and iron sharpens iron when Alton Miller, Patrice Scott and Ree team up on "All The Little Things," coming out this month on wax from Sistrum Recordings.
#ListenUp Chicago House Meets UKG on Soledrifter’s Spirited “Let Me Sing”
The hidden gem on a diamond-studded vinyl release, Garage Connection, from Hi! Energy Records and also featuring tracks from Lombard Street and Melodymann.
#ListenUp I’LL TAKE YOU is an Insane Jack Track from Dennis Quin
Rejected drops an electrifying homage to the sounds of Chicago jack on I'll Take You by Dennis Quin.
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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.
