Back to Basics: Inside the New 5 Mag

Written by rhythm86 on December 9, 2025

Mark Knight goes deep, Yuu Udagawa does our cover mix, Gene Tellem on making one of the best tracks of 2025 and more inside 5 Magazine Issue 221, out now.

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Mr. 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. [...]

SLOPWAVE: AI is Eating the World. It's Finally Come for Us.

There's no way to shut off the sewage pipe of AI-generated trash. And it's started to overwhelm us. [...]

Scissor & Thread reissues You Can Always Leave and Companion with DJ Sprinkles

Scissor and Thread drops two highly coveted vinyl-only releases on one 12 inch, highlighting two DJ Sprinkles collaborations from the mid-2010s. [...]

Very Superstitious: Rhodes Designs a Digital Clavinet

The iconic sound of funk and the electronic clavichord captured as a plugin. [...]

Lumberjacks In Hell celebrate 15 years of hell-bound sounds on "Random Acts of Kindness"

If L.I.H. have a label sound then you'd place it somewhere in a musical triangulation with Chicago house in one corner, soulful house in another, and disco in another. [...]

Rahaan – Rebound (Typewriter Record Pool)

Chicago disco specialist Rahaan breathes new life into Loleatta Holloway’s “Catch Me On A Rebound” with a bass-driven, percussion-heavy rework. There are few DJs who know their way around a... [...]

Stacy Kidd – Get Up (Hard Times Records)

Chicago house stalwart Stacy Kidd brings gospel-inspired energy, rolling basslines and uplifting piano to Hard Times Records’ ADE sampler. Hard Times Records welcomes Chicago’s Stacy Kidd to the fold with... [...]

BBE Store Faces Uncertain Future As Licensing Dispute Sparks Campaign To Save London Music Institution

A campaign to protect Hackney’s BBE Store has attracted more than 5,000 signatures following noise complaints and a premises-licence review, raising wider questions about London’s protection of established music venues.... [...]

The Cool-Notes – Spend The Night (Dimitri From Paris Remixes) [Dafia Records]

Dimitri From Paris revisits The Cool-Notes’ 1985 soul classic, delivering two disco and boogie-inspired interpretations for Dafia Records. Few producers have demonstrated quite the same understanding of disco’s musical heritage... [...]

La Discothèque Celebrates 10 Years With Warehouse Project And Drumsheds Takeovers

Manchester-born disco institution La Discothèque marks its tenth anniversary with two major celebrations in Manchester and London this November. A decade after launching at Manchester’s Albert Hall in November 2016,... [...]

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