Elegant but stirring deep house from The Aquatic People on A Dancer's Guide, a handbook for deeper living from Paille Records.

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Riot Fest's contentious relationship with residents around Douglass Park has put a spotlight on the privatization of Chicago's neighborhood green spaces, locking out local residents by for-profit festivals.

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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.

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The legendary Detroit producer is battling a rare and unpredictable form of bone cancer that is "difficult to contain and to treat."

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An impossible task but 10 tracks make for a fine vol 1 in an r2 records collection called Karizma Klassics.

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Three generations of dance music DJs, producers & fans have been enlightened by the funky, souled'up testament of Victor Simonelli. a new collection focuses attention on his deeply influential early '90s house tracks.

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Even with the most basic, out-of-the-box settings, I’ve never heard anything as odd and freaky from a reverb plugin as what I made from passing simple chords through the reverbic chaos of Other Desert Cities.

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This is fine, fine work: exactly like you'd imagine a mid-'90s Def Mix remix of the Goodie Mob classic would sound, with Uncle Chucc giving a tremendous performance interpreting Cee-Lo Green's legendary vocals.

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Normalize artists moving away from Berlin. Start with Gratts. Having an optimistic outlook, "Sun Circles" is framed as a welcome to South Australia rather than a kiss off to techno disneyland, and indeed you can feel the sun's rays on his skin on the original mix of the single released by Be Strong Be Free.

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Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur add a new sibling to the label family. Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon Recordings.

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Warm, comforting, yet slightly melancholic, Hector J Rodriguez's You & Me is the House music equivalent of a sad movie you really enjoyed

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Garage, grime and UKG-adjacent stuff from Wilfy D, OH91, DJ Polo and Sir Hiss on Idle Hands record shop's private label.

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The mysterious folks behind file sharing site Zippyshare have announced the imminent closure of the site along with an emo message about who's responsible. It's basically you.

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Jojo Baby, original club kid, artist and nightlife icon whose fame spread from Chicago to the world, has passed away.

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Rolling drums, grooving baselines and dubby reverb for days: two talented cats from Berlin are Antic Soul and their new EP Apnea includes Jon Hester on a cinematic remix.

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Sparks that continue to fly from Louie Vega's Expansions in the NYC album, even years later with these tasty extended cuts on wax and digital.

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Wake up with Tommaso, Italian/American DJ and friend of 5 Mag for this week's RISE mix.

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The band cites an urgent need for "capacity to meet the massive demand" for vinyl in their purchase of Furnace Record Pressing. Furnace in Alexandria, Virginia is a one-stop shop also handling mastering, print, packaging and mailing for labels and artists.

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It's been 10 years for Duke Shin's residency The Goods and they're celebrating a decade of turning up the heat in Wicker Park this March 23, 2023.

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51st Festival is one of 5 Mag's favorite summer festivals - and it's back for 2023, with six stages and over 100 performers, listed here.

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