5 Magazine DJ Mixes, Podcasts and Free House Music

We're opening 2023 with our latest cover mix. Originally planned a year ago, it finally came together for us and Damian Rausch, the rising German producer and DJ with notable releases on Monologues, The Gathering and Chez Damier's House of Chez compilation series. "I really don't want to limit myself to one sound anymore but I like it raw and classic. Vocals can also be part of it. Something betwe...

Apartment Records' Kenny Hanlon is the DJ for this week's featured mix for 5 Mag's RISE series. Kenny Hanlon is a long term "get" for me personally as I've been a crazy fanboy of both the music on his label and the way he runs it. Hanlon runs @apartment-records which released one of my favorite records of 2022, Being's There, available on digital and cassette via Bandcamp. Come to think of it, Apa...

5 Mag's new mix series RISE returns with this week's set from Dublin-based DJ Glenn Davis @gsoul Glenn Davis is a DJ and producer praised in these pages and others for his incredibly vibrant deep house tracks on labels including F*CLR, Yore, D1, LDF and A Deeper Groove. We premiered one of his tracks from his Better Daze EP on Yore a few months ago. Davis has a track coming soon on a forthcoming L...

5 Mag launches a new mix series today, with a set from our friend Rissa Garcia. RISE is a weekly mix series, posted every Monday and featuring DJs from all genres that we cover. Not too long ago, 5 Mag used to do another weekly mix series debuting every Monday, and it seemed like it set things off in a good way - a good start to the work week and something to get you through. Words like "uplifting...

Italy and Chicago meet and the result, as you might expect, is... tasty. Counting down to the release of his forthcoming album in February, Italian deep house DJ and producer Turbojazz drops a little piece of summer in December. STAY BALANCED is the third single from the forthcoming album Whateverism, featuring instinctively masterful production from Turbojazz and the slinky vibes of Chicago MC Da...

Bottling up old school house with a fresh new vibe: @quintessentials drops "Life," the second track with featured player Faber from Andy Ash's phenomenal new album All The Colours. 🔗 Link: https://quintessentials.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-colours 🎙 Andy Ash - UK DJ and producer Andy Ash has released music on Black Key, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Dessous, Whiskey Disco and more. His album for...

Glenn Davis drops a hazy deep house track drenched in soul on "Dance," from his new EP Better Daze (dedicated to the late great Mike Huckaby and Phil Asher) out October 14 on 12" vinyl from Yore Records. 🔗 Link: https://yorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/glenn-davis-better-daze-12-yre-042 🎙 Glenn Davis - A Dublin based DJ / house producer, Glenn Davis @gsoul has released records on F*CLR Records, Mid...

There are few signatures of quality in the modern age, but a deep house record with a Black Loops track or remix on the sticker is a good an indicator that you're about to listen to some first class music. The brilliant Italian producer, DJ (and ex-drummer)does the work on this 60 minute mix from 5 Mag's latest issue. ✯ ✯ ✯ FOLLOW BLACK LOOPS ✯ ✯ ✯ https://linktr.ee/BlackLoops https://soundcloud.c...

Our friend Steve Mill returns to the pages of 5 Mag with the release of "The Mistake" featuring gorgeous vocals from Geraldine, with a UKG-inspired remix from Amalle & Yambow premiered here and out now on Tensnake's True Romance. 🔗 Link: https://true-romance-records.lnk.to/the-mistake-ep 🎙 Steve Mill - We first met @steve-mill more than a decade ago when we were floored by the sophisticated sound...

Big chords, big grooves: Cody Currie drops an exquisite Jersey garage inspired remix of Crackazat's "Everybody Talks About It" from the forthcoming Everybody Talks About It EP out July 1 2022 from Freerange Records. 🔗 Link - https://crackazat.bandcamp.com/album/everbody-talks-about-it 🎙 Crackazat - Originally from Bristol England, Ben Jacobs aka @crackazat is a multi-Instrumentalist and electroni...

Deep, dubby and a little tech'd out: Snad (Courtesy of Balance / Kimochi Sound) serves up a delightful remix of deep house veteran Seafoam's "Ha!" from his Swing Set EP, out now on 12" vinyl from our friends Deep Club. 🔗 Link - https://deepclub.bandcamp.com/album/swing-set-ep-dc-07-jewel-series 🎙 Seafoam - Brian Cavender first rose to prominence with three EPs on Chicago's legendary Guidance Reco...

Marvin Prather is Eternal Student — a veteran Detroit DJ, party promoter, a fixture from the early days of the scene and one of the true musical heroes in a city that never seems to stop surprising. Marvin grew up in the days of the Music Institute and after school sessions with Radio Shack mixers and whatever records everyone could buy. And then, after decades in the scene and forty years o...

Kaspar is one of our favorite DJs and after camping on search terms in anticipation of catching his latest mix wherever it might pop up we're thrilled to present a cover mix for 5 Mag Issue 195. This mix was dreamt up first but ultimately came last — our interview in this same issue was so interesting to put together that the mix almost became an afterthought. But it came out better than we could...

French DJ and producer Lea Lisa does what she does best - a 60 minute mix for 5 Mag's deep house mix series. Tracklisting on 5mag.net: https://5mag.us/LeaLisaMix ✯ ✯ ✯ FOLLOW LEA LISA ✯ ✯ ✯ https://linktr.ee/lealisamusic https://www.instagram.com/lealisamusic https://www.facebook.com/djlealisa https://www.soundcloud.com/lea-lisa https://open.spotify.com/artist/78gVciBWIXvyH9bS1Suf4T ✯ ✯ ✯ FOLLOW 5...

One of Chicago's finest: Ed Nine is a DJ, producer and remixer and one of our favorite artists in the city. The last few years have been kind, with international recognition thanks to a series of brilliant and well-received records on Jorge Caiado's Inner Balance (The Journey Vol 1 and Vol 2), Kai Alcé;'s NDATL (Deep Concentration), Plastik People (Keeps Me Dancing), Robsoul (All My Life with Kid...

5 Mag welcomes legendary producer and DJ Ashley Beedle for the second installment of SANCTIFY, showcasing the greatest deep house DJs on Planet Earth. With SANCTIFY we wanted to get "back to basics — back to the fundamentals of deep house with the DJs who believe in the mysterious and awesome spiritual power of deep house music." Ashley Beedle is one of our inspirations at 5 Mag. We probably...

5 Mag is launching our latest mix series, and volume 1 makes up this issue's cover mix. We wanted to get back to basics, back to the fundamentals of deep house. SANCTIFY is that series, showcasing the greatest deep house DJs on Earth — the adept practitioners who believe in the mysterious and awesome spiritual power of deep house music. This series is by invitation only, and our first invite...

After learning of the death of phenomenal UK producer and DJ Phil Asher (aka Phlash, aka Restless Soul) we dug through our archives to find this mix, sent to us probably on a CDR back in 2008. We published it along with our first feature interview with Phil Asher in September 2008. Here we remember Phil Asher doing what he did best: DJing. #RIP Phil and healing to all his family, friends and every...

LOADED! vol 4 welcomes back the amazing T. Williams, the inspiring tastemaker, DJ, producer and remixer. T. Williams can be heard on RinseFM and has released flawless tracks on Strictly Rhythm, Local Action, Madhouse, Conch and Island, for whom he remixed Disclosure's "Latch" on their smash Settle LP. This is a 30 minute vinyl-only set of house and garage. https://soundcloud.com/twilliamsmusic htt...

The third installment of LOADED! our #garagehouse series features DJ MJ @iamdjmj - bosslady at GarageHouse Cafe with releases on Urban Dubz and Smashing Trax. MJ is the former owner of the 2,000 capacity nightclub Pulse that hosted some of the largest events in the UK Midlands, resident DJ on Grant Nelson's D3EP Radio and an all around passionate lover and pusher of underground music. https://link...

World famous and world renowned, DJ Fen is one of the most influential UK Garage DJs, producers and remixers. As half of the legendary duo Ramsey & Fen, DJ Fen launched the seminal Bug Records in 1996 and is at the forefront of the garage house movement in 2020 with his home base, Upcycle Recordings, and from pirate station London Underground he's pulled up stakes for a show on the UK home of hous...

New garage house series from 5 Mag launches with the man from Urban Dubz, Jeremy Sylvester, responsible for records under his own name and touchstone cuts under the guise of Club Asylum, Miles Fontaine, MF Project, G.O.D. Strickly Dubz and more. http://jeremysylvester.com/ https://soundcloud.com/jeremysylvester https://jeremysylvester.bandcamp.com/ https://twitter.com/jeremysylvester https://www.f...

Chicago's Redux DJs are Carlos Torres and Matt Wyser, staples on the scene and among the inspiring folks who keep the city moving, even in times like these. Redux has put together a special mix they wanted to share with us, and us with all of you. The mix is "reflective of the current state but with a message of love," featuring spoken words from James Baldwin, Malcolm X, President Obama and other...

With his events Blender, SHFFT, and You Are Here on temporary hiatus due to the current global situation, Shmoo has steadfastly refused to rest on his laurels. Instead of meeting the moment with resignation and excuses like, "still trying to figure out my next move," Shmoo has taken his act to Twitch, offering a Thursday night "party" where he alternates between his own stream and the so-called "V...

We're back again with a new mix from a DJ/producer whose sound we've long admired, Chile's Jorge C. "Rhythm is the foundation for Chilean producer and DJ Jorge C," his bio begins, and a cursory listen makes it hard to argue with that. Through his label Ojodeapolo he's explored the multifaceted sounds of Chicago house and Detroit house, giving a platform to many of the genre's giants known and unsu...