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5 MagazineScenesFred Everything & Teuteu DJ Set + Live Keys / The 5 Mag Cover Mix A unique, one-of-one recording of collaborators Fred Everything and Teuteu, with Fred DJing and Teuteu laying down live keys over the mix. Made exclusively for 5 Mag for our latest Cover Mix.

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5 MagazineScenesVitality: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag DJ Three on the cover, Jimpster on 30 Years of Freerange, Ryan Sadorus on House of Beretta, Fred Everything and Teuteu live keys + DJ cover mix and more.

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5 MagazineScenesDedication: To Juan Atkins There was never a moment before today that Juan Atkins was not a vital part of the American electronic music scene.

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5 MagazineScenesHouse Music Pioneer Cevin Fisher Has Died New York City house music pioneer Cevin Fisher has died after a brief battle with cancer. He had just turned 63 years old.

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5 MagazineScenesOn Spotify Everything is an AI-Generated Remix Labels are lining up for a cut of Spotify's latest scheme with questionable listener interest.

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5 MagazineScenesdrumDING: The Soul of a New Machine Super-powered drum machine drumDING offers a whole new way to work with a percussion instrument.

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5 MagazineScenesMedlar lands on Delusions of Grandeur with the heavenly “Celestial Bodies” Fusing Afro-influenced soul with Balearica and deep house tracks, Medlar drops an EP that just fits perfectly with Delusions of Grandeur's sound.

10.28

5 MagazineScenesNo Boundaries: Ed Nine drops a ferocious four track EP for Four Framed Ed Nine's new EP is spectacular Chicago House that could have been cut out of the classic Relief catalog.

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5 MagazineScenesMr. Good Times: Norman Jay MBE & the Invention of Modern Club Culture In his 2019 memoir, Norman Jay MBE tells the story of a groundbreaking DJ, and also creates a vital record of the formative years of modern club culture.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.