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

>>>

| 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: Selections, Recommended Music, Listening Habits, FltrLstn555Kin-Aesthetic Recordings5 January 2024Scaramanga 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, The Blessed Madonna, Margeverse, Warner, Pete Cannon, Sumgii 160, N4, SHOLTO, Root Records, Fnr Records, Actress, Ninja Tune, Darren J. Cunningham, Yussef Dayes, YD, Brownswood, Ausmuteants, Aarght!, Alien Nose Job, Drunken Sailor, Prison Affair, Erste Theke Tontraeger, Princess Demeny, Séance Centre, Weather Report, CBS, Gary Gunn, Back Lot, Moondog, Caribou Records, Anthony Teasdale, Pamela Records, Django Django, Django Django feat. Self Esteem, Because Music, MJ Hibbert & The Validators, Nia Archives, HIJINXX, Island Records, Champion feat. Sammy Virji, Funfair Records, Video Dave & Controller 7, Fake Four Inc, Bel Cobain, Dead Pigeon Records, The Beaches, Yamäya, Funkiwala Records, Monique Séka, Tahi's Production, Congotronics International, Crammed Discs, Papa Wemba, Real World, Afoxé Loni, Weltwunder, Desire, The Hacker, Italians Do It Better, Ghoßt Assembly, Rüf Kutz, Vince Clarke, Mute, Brian Eno, Universal, Musiccargo, Compost, Grace Ives, True Panther, Harvest Records, Gnonnas Pedro et Ses Dadjes, Editions Gnoinsore, Rozi Plain, Memphis Industries, James Vincent McMorrow, A.K. Paul Remix, Believe, Svart Klovn, Uniton, Bendik Giske, Smalltown Supersound, Kaval, Club Djembe, DJ Black Low, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Blawan feat. Monstera Black, XL Recordings, Charli XCX, Vroom Vroom, William Basinski, Temporary Residence, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Castles in Space, The Necks, Northern Spy, Peverelist, Livity Sound, These New Puritans, Infectious, Tirzah, Domino, H. Hawkline, Heavenly Recordings, RVG, Fire Records, The Kills, Corinne Bailey Rae, Thirty Tigers, Black Rainbows, Tenderlonius, 22a Music, Kara Jackson, September Recordings, Djavan, Som Livre, Larry June, TFM, Empire, Rochy RD, La Mas Doll & PV Aparataje feat. La Demente, Kaly Ocho, Tivi Gunz & Dilon Baby, Aparataje Music, Chancha Via Circuito, Wonderwheel Recordings, Luvi Torres, Arovane, Dauw, Jorja Smith, FAMM, El-B & Om Unit, GD4YA, Clark, Throttle, Deutsche Grammophon

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

5:5:5: XV: 2021 - 65 tracks held high by 13 impassioned selectors.. A glorious parade of much-loved tracks, please take your seats...

5:5:5: XV. 2021.

Here we are again for the end of year 5:5:5: extravaganza, and firstly a massive

thank you to all 13 selectors below, who enthusiastically leaped

and painstakingly picked their 5-track, 2021 highlights.

A glorious parade of much-loved tracks,

65 in total, sourced far and wide,

format agnostic.

Please dig

In.

5:5:5: Selections, Recommended Music, Listening HabitsKin-Aesthetic Recordings5 January 2022zillagramwiches, Clas Tuuth, Branner Griswell, Stephen Kin;Aesthetic, Electric Ape, Kubla Khan, Readsy, Ring Modulator, Damian Evans, Aidan Maartens, Proprio, scaramanga silk, Melos Han-Tani, Yetee, Jaga Jazzist, Ninja Tune, FM Skyline, 100% Electronica, Toby Fox, Materia Collective, Young Thug, 300 Entertainment, Atlantic, Dirty Merlin, GRN+GLD, FloFilz, Biig Piig, Melting Pot Music, L’orange, Mello Music, Ross From Friends, Scarlet Tiger, For Those I Love, Overmono, Poly Kicks, The Bulgarian Voices Angelite, Huun-Huur-Tu, Sergey Starostin, Mikhail Alperin, Jaro Medien, Robert Takahashi Crouch, Room40, Mdou Moctar, Sahel Sounds, Mike Cooper, Claude Johner, Smithsonian Folkways, Yishak Banjaw, Teranga Beat, Elsa Hewitt, ERH, Bandcamp, Bertrand Belin, Cinq 7, Wagram, R.AGGS, Manfred Mann, Philips, Moondog, Honest Jons, Nina Simone, Sébastien Tellier, Record Makers, Laurie Spiegel, Unseen Worlds, Pye Corner Audio, Ghost Box, Hany Mehanna, Souma, Piero Umiliani, Omicron, Claude Debussy, Decca, Wizkid, Drake, Starboy, RCA, Anz, Double exposure, Walter Gibbons, Salsoul, The Pharcyde, Grand Central, Annie Lennox, BMG, Basement Jaxx, XL Recordings, AEI Group, OutKast, Zach de la Rocha Remix, The Emperor Machine, Séverine Mouletin, Leng, Near Jazz Experience, Sartorial, Dlina Volny, Italians Do It Better, Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante, Cinevox, Outré Disque, Foodman, Hyperdub, Time Wharp, Leaving Records, Cleo Sol, Forever Living Originals, Hiatus Kaiyote, Brainfeeder, Bobbie Gentry, Capitol, The Mysterines, UMG, GOAT, Rocket, Obongjayar, September Recordings, Bad Nerves, Killing Moon, Mica Levi, Goat Girl, Rough Trade, Porridge Radio, Secretly Canadian, Not Waving, Mark Lanegan, Ecstatic, Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, The London Symphony Orchestra, Luaka Bop, Giant Swan, Keck, Yaeji, OHHYUK, MFP, Mehnaz, EMI, Kamal Ahmed, Cadenza, M.I.A., GuiltyBeatz, Aeva Remix, Twenty8Twelve, Asha Bhosle, SD Burman, Angel, Sam Interface, Future Bounce, Molly Lewis, Jagjaguwar, voljum, Inspected, Botany

5:5:5: XIV: 5 tracks / 5 questions - An interview with Ted Fletcher, a mastermind of sound.

A great honour this month, Orbitsound / TFPro’s Ted Fletcher selects 5 favourite tracks / answers 5; from his early performing days & working with Joe Meek, his time at KPM Studios with the likes of Keith Mansfield & Alan Hawkshaw, the Alice 828 and his endlessly pioneering work in audio right up to his recent innovations with Airsound and Orbitsound...

But first, a brief back story…

5:5:5: Selections, Recommended Music, Hardware, Questions / Answers, Production Methods, Analogue AudioKin-Aesthetic Recordings5 February 2021Ted Fletcher, Orbitsound, TFPro, Joe Meek, Checkmates, Alan Hawkshaw, Keith Mansfield, KPM Studios, Alice 828, Airsound, analogue, The Who, Track Record, The Beatles, Parlophone, Fifth Dimension, Liberty, The Beach Boys, Capitol, Dire Straits, Vertigo, Jimmy Webb, Carly Rae Jepson, Hardware, Analogue, Limiters, Pre-amps, Stephen Kin;Aesthetic, Denmark Street, Recording, Studio, Radio Luxembourg, Mixing Desk, AD62, Penny and Giles, The Professionals, Taggart, The Sweeney, Strut, Library Music, KPM Library Department, Robin Philips, Jonny Pearson, News at 10, Alan Parker, Clem Catini, Compressors, Stereo Speaker Setup, Sum and Difference Technique, Cardiode Microphone, Stereo Image, Soundbar, Engineering, Mathematics, Designing Electronics, Frequency Response, Low Distortion, Loud Speaker, Amplifier Design, Dimension, Transconductance Amplifiers, Experimental Amplifiers, Mastermind of Sound

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

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.

The Golden Lagoon' Satellite celebration #3 - Exotic Immersion & Performances, all day at The Rose Hill

The Golden Lagoon: Satellite Celebration #3 @ The Rose Hill . . . . Sun 9th Feb. 3pm onwards, upstairs & down, performances and atmospherics in the hypnotic multi-sensory depths of the lagoon.

A daytime-into-evening of immersion into the realm of The Golden Lagoon… Projections and illusions from Benedict Sheehan, Aromas from King Lagoon’s Aroma Wizard, Otherworldly Tastes, Interactive-Sounds, Performances & Exotica DJs throughout.

Filtered Listening #17 | Innov8radio | Kubla Khan & Stephen Kin;Aesthetic | 28th Jan 2018 | Listen back here:

Welcome all, to the first Filtered Listening show of the year, and no.17 captures the usual restless, insatiable variety we thrive on.

1. The Fall - Midnight in Aspen [2005, Slogan] {K;A}
2. Japan - Aint That Peculiar [1980, Virgin] {K;A}
3. Ciccone Youth - Making the Nature Scene [1987, Blast First] {KK}
4. Zazou / Bikaye / Cy 1 - Lamuka (1983, Crammed Discs] {KK}
5. Hugh Masekela - The Boy’s Doin It [1975, Casablanca] {K;A}
6. Gregory Issacs - Crofs [1978, CSA] {K;A}
7. Jah Shaka - Promise Dub [1992, Jah Shaka / Greensleeves] {KK}
8. Brendon Moeller - Merry Go Round [2006, Earsugar] {KK}

... MORE

5:5:5: IX. 2017: Back for another end-of-year bonanza, 50 select tracks from label regulars + cohorts...

5:5:5: IX. 2017.

The end-of-year spectacular returns with a volley of ten quint-essential selections...

5tracks apiece that hit home hard during (but not necessarily from) Twenty Seventeen.

by:

5:5:5: Selections, Recommended Music, Listening HabitsKin-Aesthetic Recordings5 January 2018zillagramwiches, Readsy, Kubla Khan, Stephen Kin;Aesthetic, Alphabets Heaven, Electric Ape, Scaramanga Silk, Proprio, Branner Griswell, Damian Evans, Lanark Artefax, O$VMV$M, bedwetter, Secret Circle, Lukid, Whities, Idle Hands, Hundebiss, HYV, Werk Discs, Thundercat, Brainfeeder, Nick Hakim, ATO, Jlin, Planet Mu, St Vincent, Loma Vista, Shabazz palaces, Sub Pop, Ashra, Hanne Hukkelberg, Propeller, Sudan archives, Stones Throw, Lotte Kærså & Græsrødderne, Mascot, Bartosz Kruczyński, Growing Bin, Terekke, LIES, Heatwave, GTO, Babla & his Orchestra, Philips, Pecker, Better Days, Rush Hour, Lionel Hampton, Glad, Matt Martians, Three Quarter, Waajeed, Dirt Tech Reck, Diggs Duke, Following Is Leading, GoldLink, RCA, Gabor Szabo, Skye, Mono Junk, Trope, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani, Rvng Intl., Morte Macabre, Mellotronen, Alemayehu Eshete, Philophon, Gary Clark Jr., Warner, Kamasi Washington, Young Turks, Clap! Clap!, Black Acre, Blanck Mass, Sacred Bones, dBridge, Astrophonica, Elsa Hewitt, ERH, Afriqua, Cure Music, Clipping, Maalem Mahmoud Gania, Hive Mind, Black Flower, Zephyrs / SDBan, Auntie Flo, Sofrito, Harold Budd, Editions EG, Salamat Ali Khan, Nimbus Records, Chocolate, Lyrichord, Negro Prison Songs, Alan Lomax, Tradition Records, Wagaku, Teleman, Moshi Moshi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Because, Alessi Brothers, A&M, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Four Tet Remix, Western Vinyl, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Heavenly, 2016 Impressions, 2017 impressions

Filtered Listening #16 Xmas 4h Special | Innov8radio | Electric Ape & Kubla Khan & Ring Modulator & Stephen Kin;Aesthetic | 17th Dec 2017 | Listen back here:

Returning for another semi-seasonal 4 hour special, with Ring Modulator, Kubla Khan, Electric Ape and Stephen Kin;Aesthetic delivering the usual variety of tracks in rotation...

1. Albert King - Santa Claus Wants Some Loving [1982 Re, Stax] {K;A}
2. The Meters - Look-Ki Py Py [2001 Re, Rhino] {K;A}
3. Velly Joonas - Stopp Seisku Aeg [1983, Frotee] {KK}
4. Linda di Franco - TV Scene [1985, WEA] {KK}
5. Imagination - Just An Illusion (Dub) [1983, R&B Records] {EA}
6. Soft Hair - A Good Sign [2016, Weird World] {EA}
7. Paul Blackford - Illusion [2017, CPU] {RM}
8. Golden Teacher - Spiritron [2017, No Luscious Life / Golden Teacher Records] {RM}

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