Tag: classics

Vintage Robotnicks: Alexander Robotnick’s Early Synth Classics

Not all of your heroes died young and left a corpse handsome enough to sell t-shirts twenty years later. Some of your heroes just...

Various People EP from Plastik People Recordings

This is probably the only "various artists" EP you need concern yourself with for the next few months. Louie "Balo" Guzman's "Don't Shut Me...

Dance Music’s Forgotten Master: Stefano Pulga

Kano: I'm Ready (Emergency Records) Dharma: Plastic Doll (System Music) Gaucho: Dance Forever (System Music) Pink Project: Disco Project (Zanza Records) Ask even a knowledgeable fan of that confusing but utterly exhilarating...

When Guetta Was Underground: Up and Away by David Guetta and Robert Owens

Beating up on David Guetta at this point is about as fun as slapping around a middle aged accountant in a leather mask and...

Boo Williams: Crying Black Man / Changes (Reissue) (Noble Square)

Some of the best Chicago House Music of the '90s was released on what have essentially become "ghost labels", existing in some limbo between...

NY’s Finest: I Can’t Wait Till Tonight (Traxx Underground)

Yikes, I had no idea this was Victor Simonelli when I first heard it - actually, not an inkling until getting ready to write...

Davos T. Funk: The Man Behind The Video Sensation

Yes, you can be famous in less than 24 hours, and we'll show you how! In one day a YouTube video of a piano-playing,...

Boo Williams: Looney Chunes Vol 1 / Back To The Future

Color me amazed. New label Contemporary Scarecrow has planted a foot firmly in the scene by dragging several classic Boo Williams compositions out of...

The Vaults: Jump Chico Slamm Returns on Rush Hour

Back in the early 1990s, a young fella named Jump "Chico" Slamm banged out one of the early releases on the soon-to-be juggernaut known...

Alexander Robotnick’s Archives Vol 3

Robotnick is at his eclectic best with this edition of his Archives series; each of the 3 tracks can be readily classified but trying...

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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.