5 Magazine DJ Mixes, Podcasts and Free House Music

Mr. Oliver Way stands up with a blazin' techno + electro mix for 5 Mag's #StayHomeDisco series. Co-founder of @epm-music and half of the Detroit Grand Pubahs, Oliver Way has been a respected figure in the electronic music scene since the early 1990s. After releasing original productions under his own name starting in 1998 on Urban Substance, he joined Detroit Grand Pubahs in 2002 as "(The Mysterio...

Egyptian Adham Zahran goes by the aka "Relic & Rarity" and is next up in 5 Mag's #StayHomeDisco series. The DJ and producer has released music over the last decade on labels including Oh!, Galaktika Records and Neovinyl. His latest release is the Get By EP on Closer To Truth, which you can listen to here: https://soundcloud.com/closertotruth/ctt044-relic-rarity-get-by-ep-out-soon or get it from Tr...

Clavis is the production tandem made up of Manuel Tur and Adrian Hoffmann (aka Urban Absolutes). High school friends, they released their first joint EP on @freerangerecords in 2015, and return to Jimpster's label where it began with the mindblowing Wirefire EP to be released this April 24. Preorder on Beatport here: http://classic.beatport.com/release/wirefire-ep/2889833 🔴 #StayHomeDisco Clavis...

Aniche sees sounds as colors, shapes and textures. Born with synesthesia (no, really) he puts that to work on Prologue, his EP forthcoming on April 10 2020 from Doorly's @reptiledysfunctionclub label. He also provided a new mix for 5 Mag's #StayHomeDisco series, featuring some of the music from Prologue and debuting now. 🔴 Follow Reptile Dysfunction https://soundcloud.com/reptiledysfunctionclub h...

Seeker of unquantifiable sound, producer AIMES is back with a tantalizing new release on his Wonder Stories imprint. A Star In The Sky is a new six track EP that Juno has elected to label under "Disco/Nu Disco" because "Brutalist No Wave Off-Kilter 8-Bit Acid House" isn't in their database. Yet that's the best way to describe some of the more outré moments from A Star In The Sky, backed with "We A...

Marc Meistro and DJ Stylus are the Sol Power All-Stars, a duo devoted to the evangelical proliferation of deep sounds and global rhythms. Their sets connect world music beats from the beaches of Rio to the discos of Lagos and the warehouses of Chicago and Detroit. Based in Washington DC, the @SolPowerDC have held residencies at Dahlak, Eighteenth Street Lounge and Tropicalia, played venues from Br...

Join 5 Magazine Editor-in-Chief Czarina Mirani a new episode of Cz's Boogie Podcast, with a solid selection of her 10 current favorite tracks (from all genres of music) along with house music news and gossip. 🔴 Cz's Boogie Podcast Episode 24 Show Notes Stay Home Disco, DJs that dance, lots of great online fitness classes, Becoming a Beyonce fan, Cz's love of stepping, Terry Hunter's wellness chec...

Our next #StayHomeDisco set comes by way of Closer To Truth Records. Honeydripper, aka Steven Gevenich is a Canadian producer, musician and deep house producer. As we wrote in our review of his EP "Haven't Lost Hope," the guitarist has previously released music in other genres and "if he sticks it out through the dull moments and soul-sucking nihilism of the digital music industry circa 2019 he's...

We are thrilled to present today a new mix for our #StayHomeDisco series from Funk Style Quality, aka @fsqofficial . Funk Style Quality is a six member production team founded by the late great Sa'd The Hourchild Ali and Chuck Da Fonk Fishman, who met in the mid-1990s as touring members of George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (P-Funk). Soul Clap launched the group in 2014 with the FSQ debut EP *...

It was "Dancer" wore out all the grooves but it is the shorter second track from Gino Soccio's 1979 LP Outline that serves as the wellspring for his "redu," the latest track from Chicago DJ and producer @euhu . The rework of "So Lonely" is now available on his bandcamp: https://euhu.bandcamp.com/ We are also pleased to present this latest mix from Euhu for our #StayHomeDisco series. Euhu (fka LA*J...

Among the more prophetic lyrics of the pre-Quarantine Era, one has to secure a special place for Hifi Sean's "Heavy" with Crystal Waters. Does anything else capture the zeitgeist of our times more than "The whole world’s in ruins, fuck me"? In Harold Heath's 5 Mag cover story on the track, Sean and Crystal were at pains to point out that "Heavy" wasn't just about the UK exiting the European Union....

Ralph Session is an old friend of 5 Mag. The native New Yorker DJ and producer positions his sound as somewhere between "the musicality and skippy rhythms of NY house and the raw and relentless beats of Chicago" - the smooth sophistication of one with the raw'az'hell vibe of another. Since 2008 @RalphSession has released house music on BlackSoul Music, Chicago’s Whitebeard, Philly’s Emby label, an...

Ricardo Baez is next up in our #StayHomeDisco series. Follow the entire playlist here: https://bit.ly/stayhomedisco Ricardo Baez is a DJ and producer, currently resident at Florence's CLUB21 and has played at festivals and nightclubs including Watergate, Djoon, Renate, Corsica Studios, House of Yes, Le Bain, The Egg, Tresor and more. Ricardo has released music on labels including Toy Tonics, Rebir...

For those who know, DJ Rocca is an absolute force in electronic music, always conjuring up something surprising and inspiring. He started to produce music in the late 1990s working on some drum&bass and breakbeat singles as Maffia Soundsystem from the same name club in Italy (repping in the photo above). His music has appeared on what we've called "a kind of gold standard for modern dance music,"...

It has been nearly two years since Ben Gomori outed himself as "G. Markus," the mysterious deep house producer created as an alias for Ben's "deeper, trackier stuff." And it's 2020 and "G. Markus" still has a better recording career than I do, and I'm real. @bengomori is a DJ, producer, podcaster, label owner and event curator who runs Monologues Records, official afro edits series Sterns Edits an...

Our first Drum&Bass mix for #StayHomeDisco and - we'll have to check this - maybe our first D&B mix ever comes from an absolute star, DJ @Empress . In more than 20 years behind the decks, DJ Empress has played raves, festivals and nightclubs all over the world, including 8 years straight at Ultra Music Festival, every major city in the US and routinely plays in Europe and the UK. Check out and sup...

Andrew Emil (aka Change Request) is a Chicago DJ/producer who provided this mix of many of his own productions, originally published as part of our friends @deepclubus 's podcast. In 2019 @andrewemil released his first Change Request full-length LP, "RiteOnRed" on Dufflebag Recordings. His second full-length LP "Theoretical Certainty" is forthcoming on Minneapolis imprint Abstrakt Xpressions, as w...

It was at the start of lockdown in America (which feels like it was two months ago but was only a week ago) that Peter Croce wrote something in his label @rocksteadydisco 's excellent newletter that stuck with me. "I'm a little bugged out about it," he wrote. "I feel like Rocksteady Disco's entire mission is to COMBAT social distancing and isolation. I believe we need to do it because we need to t...

This is the launch of our new #StayHomeDisco series, starting now and going every day for as long as we're in lockdown. And we're proud to share with you a house mix loaded down with deep grooves from Donnell Knox! Donnell Knox (aka @d-knox ) is a living legend and integral member of Techno's history. Under his techno moniker, the Kalamazoo, Michigan native has released tracks on Elypsia, Morbid,...

Microdot has been holding it down for the raw-as-hell techno sound that Chicago and the Midwest has always repped. The IHeartTechno parties are among the city's most consistently solid residencies and coming in 2020 will expand the brand with a 2 day campout in Central Illinois. Here's his new 5 Mag Mix. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ Tip the DJ ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ $microdotgboy on cashapp ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ FOLLOW 5 MAGAZINE ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ Everythi...

Chicago's Eric Welton - better known to the record-buying public as @djemmaculate - is profiled for his solo productions and his work with Terry Hunter's Chicago House hit factory T's Box - in the latest issue of 5 Mag. He also contributed this latest 5 Mag Mix. "These are just some records I love," he tells us. "I have a diverse taste, so I just play music I love. Expect a few unreleased joints i...

On Valentine's Day, Nightshade Music Group dropped "Why Would I," a groovin' new single from @djsgz and vocalist Carla Prather, which is out on Traxsource now. Read the story: https://5mag.net/tracks/the-teardown/dj-sgz-carla-prather-why-would-i/ Get it on Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1266491/why-would-i DJ SGZ is a fascinating figure. From South Africa, he worked with figures and...

Dirt Crew Recordings founder @break-3000 put together a dynamite mix sampling the flavors from what is widely considered one of the finest back catalogs for a deep house label in the world! Check out the latest issue of 5 Mag for the interview! 👏👏 ✯ ✯ ✯ FOLLOW DIRT CREW RECORDINGS ✯ ✯ ✯ 🔴 https://www.dirtcrew.net 🔴 https://soundcloud.com/break-3000 🔴 https://soundcloud.com/dirt-crew 🔴 https:...

Getting his start by producing raves in Indianapolis in 1996, @mikebledsoe made a visible dent in the Chicago scene for several years with his Housebroken events at clubs and afterhours spaces. Initially spinning Trance and Breaks, he developed a love for House music, Afro and world beats. He has spun in 16 states as well as Cape Town, South Africa and Playa del Carmen, Mexico. ✯ ✯ ✯ FOLLOW 5 MAG...

Berlin-based DJ and producer @soelaela is profiled in the latest issue of 5 Mag. In addition, she provided this vinyl-only set for this week's 5 Mag Mix, featuring tracks from Sonnen Blumen Kerne, Jan Jelinek, Fred P, Oleg Polyakov, Oshanna, Max Telaer, m50 and more. ✌️ ✯ ✯ ✯ FOLLOW 5 MAG ✯ ✯ ✯ Everything: https://5mag.net https://facebook.com/5chicago https://twitter.com/5Magazine https://soundcl...