MOVE! Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag

🔴 Welcome to the new issue of 5 Mag!

Featured on the cover of this issue for the first time: Mike Clark. Agent X. The Ambassador. He’s one of the most pivotal, most essential figures in electronic music history, holding down the underground for Detroit house music before such a thing existed. 5 Mag profiles Mike Clark in one of our most extensive interviews ever, covering 40+ years of Detroit and Midwest house music and techno history. Cover photo by the amazing Marie Staggat.

Also in this issue: Jamie 3:26, Danou P and Young Pulse have a new sound as Mystic Freaks; we celebrate the “ghetto-father of the American dancefloor” and Chicago ghetto house pioneer DJ Slugo for this issue’s cover mix; EDM Affluenza; Roger Linn on the Nostalgia Industrial Complex, classic Terrence Parker and more.

This issue wraps up at 121 pages including our gear section, music reviews, 5 Mag Book Club and more. See the full list of contents below!

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🔴 CONTENTS — INSIDE 5 MAG #218:

❇️ The Cover Story: Mike Clark.
Agent X. The Ambassador. He’s one of the most pivotal, most essential figures in electronic music history, holding down the underground for Detroit house music before such a thing existed. 5 Mag profiles Mike Clark in one of our most extensive interviews ever, covering 40+ years of Detroit and Midwest house music and techno history.

❇️ DJ Slugo: The Cover Mix.
This issue’s featured mix celebrating the ghetto-father of the American dance floor and Chicago’s ghetto house champion DJ Slugo!

❇️ Introducing Mystic Freaks.
The new sound of a three man collaboration between Jamie 3:26, Danou P and Young Pulse.

❇️ Affluenza.
How millionaire EDM artists claimed COVID survival funds earmarked for independent nightclubs.

❇️ The End of E2.
Preservationists claim the site of the E2 Nightclub disaster where 21 people died of suffocation should be protected as an essential part of Chicago history. The city agreed. It will soon be demolished anyway.

❇️ Spotify, Unwrapped.
The streaming giant’s executives celebrated a banger of a year counting money instead of plays, with stock sales worth more than a billion dollars.

❇️ 5 Mag Book Club: Notes for a New Metropolis.
Inspired by Detroit techno, Kahlil Crawford’s ORGAN CITY: METARHYTHM is a futuristic vision of a new world outlined in rhythmic poetry and prose.

❇️ SYNC.
A lost mix from 5 Mag’s archives finds Terrence Parker (and the world) in transition circa 2009.

❇️ Heavy Machinery: LinnDrum versus MumbleDrum.
Roger Linn speaks out on the Nostalgia Industrial Complex after the LinnDrum gets knocked off.

❇️ Heavy Machinery: CyDrums.
A new drum machine with unique flair from the makers of the colorful LIVEN line of synths.

❇️ Heavy Machinery: Orchid.
The good, the bad and the twee of the Orchid, a new synth from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker.

❇️ Screen Grab: The Evil One.
Waldorf releases the modern classic Blofeld synth as a plugin.

❇️ Screen Grab: Orange Crush.
Lo-Fi and downtempo by design, adventures with ZAK Sound’s Orange Dreams.

❇️ Tracks 218
The home of longform reviews of new and reissued electronic music tracks from Alexander Flood & Vivian Sessoms (Atjazz Record Company), Genius of Time, Ashar Khan and Matinda (Aniara Recordings), Maarten Goetheer and Pong Nakornchai (Nu Northern Soul), KiNK and Zed Bias (Hypercolour), ASHRR and Ron Trent (20/20 Vision), Bushwacka (DFTD), DJ Romain (Hard Times), Patrick Wayne and Threejay (Safari Music), Manolo and Manuel Costela (Rare Wiri), Next Wave Acid Punx & DJ Curses (Eskimo Recordings), Damian Rausch, Housey Doingz (Sushitech), Abacus (Phonogramme), Valerio Vaudano ( 803 Crystal Grooves Collective Cuts) and Kelvin Andrews and Balearic Mike (Music For Dreams).

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