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5 Magazine February 2009 Issue Online
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5 Questions with... Gene Farris
Catching up with DJ and Producer Gene Farris...
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Lars Behrenroth: The Director's Cut
An extended take on Rees Urban's interview with Deeper Shades of House's Lars Behrenroth from our February 2009 issue...
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Jack! The State of House Music in Chicago's Gay Black Nightlife Scene
CHICAGO IS THE CITY that nurtured Barack Obama. It's also the city where House Music was born, taking its name from a club filled on any given night by a predominantly black, predominantly male and predominantly gay audience. Yet today - despite the ever-present talk of unity and the deep craving for change that elevated our former senator to the highest office in the land - the scene is fragmented into a million little pieces. Latinos, whites, blacks, gays and straights and everything in between - we all seem to have our own little scenes. Just like the city itself, there are invisible lines dividing our neighborhoods that we do not cross. It wasn't always this way, and it doesn't have to be this way...
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Cz's Night Out February 2009 Photo Gallery
Photo gallery from the print edition of 5 Magazine's February 2009 issue, including Lil Louis, Gene Farris, Ron Trent and more...
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New Mix Monday: Jay-J: Live from Sao Paulo
Welcome to this week's edition of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's signature weekly DJ series highlighting the greatest House Music DJs on the planet. February was a short month, so we're kicking it off with the last DJ mix highlighted in our February issue to get things started: Jay-J...
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New Mix Monday: John Simmons Mix
We're back again this week with another installment of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's signature DJ series. And this week we're featuring John Simmons. John has been spinning records for more than 15 years all over Chicago, the United States...
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New Mix Monday: Julius Papp Mix
New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's signature DJ series, is back this week with hot DJ, remixer and producer...
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New Mix Monday: Aaron Dae Mix
The owner of Dae Records and Dae Deep Recordings (and another transplant to Chicago), we love Aaron Dae's DJ style and have featured his mixes often on...
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DJ Charts: Jay-J
House Music Playlist and Top 10 from Jay-J...
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DJ Charts: Abicah Soul
House Music Playlist and Top 10 from Abicah Soul...
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Roy Ayers - "Brand New Feeling" (Sting International Controversy Remixes) + video
"I guess I'm at least somewhat in the know, but I don't have the faintest idea what the "controversy" of the title is all about. Whatever the story behind the story is, this is a track that can probably get just about universal appeal. You can put this in a driving, jacking set or slip it..."
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Azee Project - "Traveling in Africa" (Abicah Soul Remixes)
"The original release of Traveling In Africa comes from one member of the Brazilian Soul Crew on the Taubate EP, which received heavy chart action from industry heavyweights like Louie Vega, Dr. Bob Jones and Jihad Muhamad. Here label head honcho Stax aka Abicah Soul..."
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Mike Dunn pres. The MD X-Spress: The Congregation EP Volume 2 + video
"I have no idea what vitamins Mike Dunn is taking these days, but he's just about clearing the board as far as consistently hot releases. Damn near..."
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Michael Watford + Jamie Lewis: "Michael's Prayer" + video
"The original cut was an accapella by Michael which was re-recorded and put to music by Purple Music's Jamie Lewis. It might sound jarring..."
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Music Reviews: Jon Cutler ft. E-Man: "It's Yours Part 2"
Bargrooves is an unusual release point for this recut of Jon Cutler's smash hit "It's Yours", simply because you'd figure it'd be on his own Distant Music...
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Music Reviews: Spencer Gray - "Precious"
This here is the hotness! Spencer Gray is collaboration between Marc Alan Gray and Loveslap! founder Charles Spencer. Vocals are provided...
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Music Reviews: DJ Dealer - "The Big Sexy"
DJ Dealer recently relocated to our fair city and brought Look At You - undoubtedly one of the greatest underground labels in House Music today - in his carry-on bag. I want to say this song...
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Music Reviews: Terry Hunter pres. TnT - "Can't Control Me"
This is a whole new sound for Terry Hunter - a kind of undiscovered genre that I know I've never heard before. For the vocals, think of...
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Music Reviews: Lisa Shaw - "Music In You" (Julius Papp Remixes)
Miguel Migs of Salted Music is putting together an incredible team of producers, vocalists and remix masters. Two of the best in the business are featured on their latest single: vocalist Lisa Shaw...
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5 Magazine Radio Show
New episode added February 25, 2009
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5 Magazine Radio Show
New episode added February 7, 2009
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Cz's Night Out Blog: House Music Panel
Tuesday night, Feb. 17th Mary Datcher of Global Mixx along with the support of 5 Magazine dedicated February of her monthly collaboration (music industry mixer) to House music. The panelists were Steve "Silk" Hurley, Skip, Ron Carroll, Georgie Porgie, Lady D, Craig Loftis, Lady D + me with Bear Who? on the turntables. Maurice Joshua was slated to be the moderator, but couldn't make it last minute and instead his brother was given that role...
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