5:5:5: XIX. 2025-26.

Here we are then, the annual celebration of dedicated listening and digging, 65 champion cuts from the hyper-attentive selectors below, a feast of tracks, chosen and cherished by label regulars and kin, a lovingly gathered tapestry of exploratory sounds and music.

Discovered and loved during 2025, 5 a-piece, by this wonderfully discerning lot. . .

|| Alphabets Heaven | Ring Modulator | Clas Tuuth ||

| Damian Evans || Proprio |

| Readsy || Electric Ape || Scaramanga Silk |

|| Aidan Maartens | zillagramwiches ||

 | Branner Griswell || Ben Kubla Khan || Stephen Kin;aesthetic |

5:5:5: Selections, Recommended Music, Listening HabitsKin-Aesthetic Recordings15 January 2026Alphabets Heaven, Ring Modulator, Clas Tuuth, Damian Evans, Proprio, Readsy, Electric Ape, Scaramanga Silk, Aidan Maartens, zillagramwiches, Branner Griswell, Ben Kubla Khan, Stephen Kin;aesthetic, Francis & The Lights, Cantora Records, dreamcastmoe, Nappynappa, Rhythm Section International, Los Pirañas, Glitterbeat, Tyler the Creator, Columbia, Kenny Burrel, Concord, Prestige, Coatshek, Dark Entries, Safe Mind, Nude Club, Kompromat, Vimala Pons & Sonia DeVille, Warrior Records, Lopezhouse, Lannakise, Kompakt, Hackney Electronica, Whatever The Weather, Ghostly International, Namesbliss & Vagrant Real Estate, Lively, La Reezy, La Reezy LLC, Bonobo, Milan, Adult Swim, Jorja Smith, FAMM, Kae Tempest, Island Records, Cate Le Bon, Mexican Summer, Baxter Dury, JGreey, Heavenly, Lael Neale, Sub Pop, Wet Leg, Domino, Isabelle Mayereau, Disc'Az, Elaine Howley, Touch Sensitive, Avôzinho, Merengue, Peter Tosh, Impact!, Magma, Utopia, Tomato Records, Seventh Records, Sababa 5, Batov Records, YĪN YĪN, Bongo Joe, HENGE, Cosmic Dross, Blawan feat. Monstera Black, XL Recordings, David Byrne Feat. Ghost Train Orchestra, Matador Records, Intrusion, Remastered by POLE, Echospace, Fuzzy Lights, Meadows, Pulp, Pulp Vs. Soulwax, Rough Trade, Sandwell District, Point Of Departure, Djrum, Houndstooth, Nowhere People, Artisjok Records, Oli XL feat. Chanel Beads, Warp Records, SHOLTO, SHOLTO feat. Phoebe Coco, DeepMatter Records, Siriusmo, Monkeytown Records, Skye Newman, Skye Newman / Columbia, Astrid Sonne, Escho, Oliver Coates, RVNG Intl, Damien Jurado, Secretly Canadian, caroline and Caroline Polachek, Loscil, Kranky, Kranky Records, Arnaud Roy aka FlybyNo, G4F Records, Sega Sound Team, SEGA Music, Liquid Mike, Coheed and Cambria, Sony BMG, Disasterpiece, infin et al., Cole Pulice, Leaving Records, Emptyset, Thrill Jockey, Bob James, Tappan Zee, Bruce Haack, Telephone Explosion, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Western Vinyl, Logic 1000, !K7 Records, Eurythmics, RCA, Mondo Bizarre, Aby Ngana Diop, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Vainqueur, Chain Reaction, Alle, Olea Records, María Lucía y Jorge Juan con Los Mitchels, Zeida / Codiscos / Suramericana de Seguros, Oklou & Casey MQ, Permalnk, Kurt Vile, Verve Forecast, Emmanuel Ezeagu, Melody Records, TwentyFourTones

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: Selections, Recommended Music, Listening HabitsKin-Aesthetic Recordings5 January 2023Damian 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, Kae Tempest, Fiction, Vieux Farka Touré, Khruangbin, Dead Oceans, Cate LeBon, Mexican Summer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Secretly Canadian, Bonobo, Ninja Tune, Mory Kanté, Lond, London Records, AEVA, Egg Mantis Records, Finbar & Eddie Furey, Transatlantic Records, Etienne Jaumet & Fabrizio Rat, Bureau B Records, Dieri Coumba, Safie Deen, Ambient Babestation Meltdown & JPS, Optimo, Gabe Gurnsey, Phantasy Records, Pabellón Sinético, Self Released, Zombie Zombie, Born Bad Records, Peggy Gou, Gudu Records, Diana Ross, Tame Impala, Decca, V.C.R, Leaving Records, The Comet Is Coming, Impulse!, Trian Kayhatu, BBE, Los Bitchos, City Slang, Tokischa & Treintisiete, Paulus Music, A$AP Rocky, A$AP Rocky Recordings, Floating World Pictures, Friendly Recordings, Camel Power Club, Bramar Records, Kelela, Warp, Maimouna Seck, Sonna Seck, Los Cameroes, Analog Africa, Rlvo Doza, Earthworks, Sterns, Joya Landis, Trojan, Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd, Universal, Interscope, Andrew Wasylyk, Clay Pipe Music, Midwife & Amulets, Flenser, Benoit B, Peur Bleue, Soundwalk Collective, Patty Smith, Bella Union, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sony Classical, Eddie Harris, Atlantic, Gene Vincent, Kama Sutra Records, Roberto Musci, Music from Memory, Björk, One Little Independent, Roger Roger et Son Orchestra, Chappell, Camille Sauvage, Crea Sound, Beauvarlet, CBS, Pierre-Alain Dahan Et Slim Pezin, Tele Music, Arpadys, Polydor, Hiroki Kikuta, NTT, Toby Fox, Materia Collective, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Sega Enterprises, Disasterpiece, Arnaud Roy, G4F Records, Peter Michael Hamel, Wergo, Source Direct, Source Direct Recordings, Djrum, R&S, Concretism, Castles in Space, ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ, Roedelius, Sky Records, The Korgis, Rialto Records, New Vision, Fundamental Records, Tahira Sayed, Columbia, Sohail Rana, April, Deca feat. Ichiban and DJ AWHAT!, Coalmine Records, Marlowe, Mello Music, Jorja Smith, Joy Orbison Remix, Blue Note, Floating Points, TwentyFourTones

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 ||

5:5:5: Selections, Recommended Music, Listening HabitsKin-Aesthetic Recordings5 January 2021Alphabets Heaven, scaramanga silk, Aidan Maartens, Proprio, Kubla Khan, Ring Modulator, Electric Ape, Rodrigo King Lagoon, Damian Evans, Stephen Kin;Aesthetic, Readsy, Branner Griswell, Mapara a Jazz, Dinosaur, Arthur Russell, Heatwave, Noname, Sault, Sire, GTO, Forever Living Originals, Photay, Andrew Wasylyk, Jockstrap, Cosmo Sheldrake, Daedelus, Mexican Summer, Athens Of The North, Warp, Tardigrade, Doom Of Doom, Mary Lattimore, Ghostly International, Maria W Horn, Kali Malone, Duval Timothy, Luis Pestana, Hallow Ground, Ideal Recordings, Carrying Colour, Orange Milk, Pooran, –پوران, Styrbjörn Bergelt, Suresh Wadkar, Alka Yagnik & Sadhna Sargam, Kalyanji Anandji, Black Devil Disco Club, Abul Mogard Remix, Royal, KMStudies, Bandcamp, MNW, HMV, Lo Recordings, Mehdi Hassan, Columbia, Thunā'i Badr, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Bartoszek, James Harpham / James Asher, Sono Cairo, SouffleContinu, The Very Polish Cut-Outs, StudioG, A Certain Ratio, DMX Krew, Pye Corner Audio Remix, The Budos Band, Automat, DeWalta Chess Remix, Mute, Utter, Daptone, Compost, Harold Budd, DJ Python, Rhauder & Paul St. Hilaire, Ami Dang, Double Fantasy, Editions EG, Incienso, Ornaments, Leaving Records, Innovative Communication, Groupe RTD, Guessod Abdo Hamargod, Electric Jalaba, Haim, Family Atlantica, Orquestra Super Mama Djombo, Ostinato, Self-Released, Polydor, Soundway, Cobiana, Kindred Spirits, Shirley Collins, Big Joanie, Sweeping Promises, Idles, Run The Jewels, Mavis Staples, Josh Homme, Domino, Third Man, Feel It, Partisan, BMG, Manfred Mann Chapter Three, LA Priest, Anthony Rother, Toto Bissainthe, S.P. Balasubrahmaniyam, M.Ramarao, Ilaiyaraaja, Creature Music, PSI, Le Chant Du Monde, Echo, Badbadnotgood, MF DOOM, Páula, Povoa & Jerge, Jarv Is, Club Nouveau, Rockstar Games, Moshi Moshi, Rough Trade, Tommy Boy, Rrose, John Hassell, Orlando Julius, The Heliocentrics, Mike Cooper, Sibylle Baier, Eaux, Ndeya, Strut, NO=FI, Orange Twin, Amapiano, Jazz, Fusion, Deep Tech, Soul, Disco, Hip-Hop, MadLib, Dancefloor, Idlewild, Alt-Pop, Field Recordings, Techno, Funk, Instrumental, NTS, Minimalist, Tim Hecker, SQÜRL, Iranian Folk, Swedish Folk, Indian Playback, Bollywood, Indian Experimental Pop, Alka Yagnik, Remix, Drone, Pakistani Pop, Ghazal, Egyptian Folk, Boussiphone, Soutelphan, Andy Votel, Trip-Hop, Edit, Re-Edit, Keks, NDW, Neue Deutsche Welle, Library, BOC, Jez Kerr, Cowbell, Electro, Level 42, Breaks, Bernard Fevre, Psych, Hauntology, Dub Techno, Ambient, Deep Reggaeton, Tropical, Union Music Lewes, Electronic Experimental, Carl Craig, Robert Schroeder, Berlin School, Afro-Pop, Afro Fusion, Pop, Afro-Latin, West African, English Folk, Solange, Shoegaze, New Wave, Punk, Psych-Jazz, Mike Hugg, Electronic Funk, Warped Pop, Synth, Soundtracked Tales, Haitian Folk, Françoise Lancreot, Telegu Pop, Ghostface Killah, Isaac Hayes, Psychedelic, Late of the Pier, Erol Alkan, Soft Hair, Connan Mockasin, French Electronic, Chilly Gonzalez, Jarvis Cocker, Luniz, The Timex Social Club, Jay King, Michael Marshall, Experimental, Afrobeat, Electro Acoustic, Processed Guitar, Leonard Cohen, J. Mascis, TwentyFourTones

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: Selections, Recommended Music, Listening HabitsKin-Aesthetic Recordings5 January 2020Branner Griswell, Damian Evans, Rodrigo King Lagoon, Readsy, Kubla Khan, Stephen Kin;aesthetic, Alphabets Heaven, Electric Ape, zillagramwiches, Proprio, Aidan Maartens, Ring Modulator, Scaramanga Silk, Beniko, Jacko Production, Dogo Niga, Nyege Nyege Tapes, Babylon Trio, Rebel Up, Panda Bear, Domino, Maria Mckee, Epic, Clipping, Sub Pop, Kit Sebastian, Mr Bongo, Mavis John, Kalinda, Fat White Family, Pink Floyd, Columbia, Éliane Radigue, Shiiin, Black to Comm, Thrill Jockey, Richard Skelton, Corbel Stone Press, Brìghde Chaimbeul, River Lea, Bill Orcutt, Palilalia, Bjarki, !K7, μ-Ziq, Planet Mu, Skee Mask, Ilian Tape, Tsuruda, Alpha Pup, O$VMV$M, Lavalava, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Sonic Cathedral, Bat For Lashes, The Cars, Elektra, Banks, Harvest, Sleater Kinney, Mom & Pop, Victor Uwaifo & the Titibitis, Makossa, Bamileke, Disques Ocora, Hassan Abu Zeid, Sono Cairo, Esnard Boisdur, Sonodisc/Liso Music, Bibio, Warp, The Comet Is Coming, Impulse!, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Milan, Supermax, Atlantic, Barker, Ostgut Ton, Intense, Creative Source, Roberto Murolo, Durium, Joachim Witt, WEA, Clyde Borly & His Percussions, Atco, Nahid Akhtar, Rezzett, The Trilogy Tapes, Boy Harsher, Nude Club, Ed Ed feat. Lunapark, Exploited, Blue Gas, Best Record Italy, Sleep Research Facility, Cold Spring, Perel, Uncanny Valley, Dave Richmond, KPM, Estrellia Band, Minou, Frank Zappa, CBS, Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo, MGM, Serafina Serafina, Vitamin Concept, Bandcamp, Tyler the Creator, Rozi Plain, Memphis Industries, Dreamcast, Future Times, Jamila Woods, Jagjaguwar, Reyna Tropical, James Blake, Polydor, Cleo Sol, Forever Living Originals, Brandt Brauer Frick, Because Music, Drummotive, Next Phase, Suitman Jungle, Tape Club, Charles Murdoch, Beats of No Nation, Penelope Isles, Bella Union, Jesca Hoop (feat. Lucius), Lankum, Rough Trade, TwentyFourTones