5:5:5: XVII: 2023 - 70 obsessed-over tracks, 14 fiery selections, a hot-stack of music discovered during 2023...

5:5:5: XVII: 2023 - 70 obsessed-over tracks, 14 fiery selections, a hot-stack of music discovered during 2023...

5:5:5: XVII. 2023.

Here we go!

The label hibernated in 2023, but the ever dedicated selectors below were always listening, on high ear alert, and once more share their joy, enthusiasm and passion across 5 choice tracks;

discovered and adored during (but not necessarily from) 2023.

It’s an honour to work on this annual pooled 5:5:5:, big thanks and appreciation to everyone here for their contributions…

In no particular order, dear reader, listener,

sound explorer, aural inquisitor;

we invite you on an annual collected music

adventure, like no other

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| Scaramanga Silk || zillagramwiches || Aidan Maartens |
|| Branner Griswell | Readsy | Rodrigo King Lagoon ||
| Ring Modulator || Clas Tuuth || Stephen Kin;aesthetic |
| Kubla Khan || Electric Ape || Damian Evans |
 || Alphabets Heaven | Proprio ||

5:5:5: XVI: 2022 - 65 meticulously chosen tracks, 13 fine filtered quintets to pore over and peruse...

5:5:5: XVI: 2022 - 65 meticulously chosen tracks, 13 fine filtered quintets to pore over and peruse...

5:5:5: XVI. 2022.

Another rich musical spring bubbles up from these sharp-eared selectors,

a collected, collective year of impassioned listening, digging and sound sifting;

behold the hot bounty of tracks, rousing and exciting during 2022.

Big big props to this lot below, dive in and share their aural joy!

|| Damian Evans | Proprio | Ring Modulator ||
| Scaramanga Silk || Alphabets Heaven |
| Rodrigo King Lagoon || Aidan Maartens || Branner Griswell |
|| Kubla Khan | zillagramwiches ||
 | Electric Ape || Stephen Kin;aesthetic || Clas Tuuth |

5:5:5: XIII - Here it is... 60 shining tracks, 2020 highlights from 12 music obsessed label regulars...

5:5:5: XIII - Here it is... 60 shining tracks, 2020 highlights from 12 music obsessed label regulars...

5:5:5: XIII. 2020.

Well, I’m sure no one needs me to go on about the pains of this year, suffice to say, it’s been a good one for exploring music from a distance.

And so once again, I have the honour of presenting the selections of some properly obsessed music addicts, each here picking 5 particular track highlights, in no particular order, except that they made an indelible mark during 2020 for the selectors below.

An enormous thanks to each of them, 60 tracks to explore herein…

|| Alphabets Heaven | Scaramanga Silk | Aidan Maartens ||
|| Proprio | Kubla Khan | Ring Modulator ||
|| Electric Ape | Rodrigo King Lagoon | Damian Evans ||
|| Stephen Kin;aesthetic | Readsy | Branner Griswell ||

Marc Teare (Hive Mind Records) + Stephen Kin;Aesthetic Set @Munchies Craft, for King Lagoon's LP Celebration no.2

Marc Teare (Hive Mind Records) + Stephen Kin;Aesthetic Set @Munchies Craft, for King Lagoon's LP Celebration no.2

The first in a series of recordings from label events over the last few years, most recently for the King Lagoon launch events and beyond…

Brilliant to have Marc Teare (Hive Mind) selecting an exciting, discerning stack of Afro-Latin rhythms and hidden international records as part of the second King Lagoon' The Golden Lagoon LP celebration down at Munchies' Craft in Brighton, back when we could party, in late 2019.

5:5:5: XII. 2019: After a break last year, we return for another glorious end-of-year 5-track blowout, carefully considered and ear-selected by label regulars + cohorts...

5:5:5: XII. 2019: After a break last year, we return for another glorious end-of-year 5-track blowout, carefully considered and ear-selected by label regulars + cohorts...

5:5:5: XII. 2019.

Making a triumphant return after a year off, what a treat to present such a passionate stack of carefully selected 2019-inspired quintets…

Grabbing this lot’s attention, during (but not necessarily from) Twenty Nineteen.

by:

| Branner Griswell | Damian Evans |
| Rodrigo King Lagoon | Readsy |
| Kubla Khan | Stephen Kin;aesthetic |
| Alphabets Heaven | Electric Ape |
 | zillagramwiches | Proprio |
| Aidan Maartens | Ring Modulator |
| Scaramanga Silk |

5:5:5: XI. Five Albums, Five Five-Piece Bands by Damian Evans

5:5:5: XI. Five Albums, Five Five-Piece Bands by Damian Evans

Damian Evans presents his own enthusiastic 5-strong tribute to five quintets, celebrating and surveying five seminal collectives' Long Players…

Has any other band managed to channel such a wide range of influences into a unique and consistent output over a 20-year period as…

5:5:5: X. Branner Griswell Vs zillagramwiches: 5 Questions / 5 answers

5:5:5: X. Branner Griswell Vs zillagramwiches: 5 Questions / 5 answers

5:5:5: X.

Branner Griswell [BG] Vs. zillagramwiches [ZLG]

5Qs / 5As

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BG. OK so I'm going hit you with some hopefully-not-overwrought musical questions, so bear with me. This will be more like a conversational thing since I can't take you out for some well deserved pints.