55 hand gathered highlights, 11 batches of five music highs, prime found sounds… 5:5:5: XVIII. 2024/25. Over here on the FlrtLstn blog, January means but one glorious thing… Label crew, cohorts and regulars have nurtured and polished a golden cache

5:5:5: Selections, FltrLstn555, Listening Habits, Recommended Music

5:5:5: XVII: 2023/24 – 70 obsessed-over tracks, 14 fiery selections, a hot-stack of music discovered during 2023…

5 January 202428 November 2025 admin

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 ||

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5:5:5: Selections, Listening Habits, Recommended Music

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 January 2022 admin

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.

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

5 January 2021 admin

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 ||

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5:5:5: Selections, Listening Habits, Recommended Music

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 January 2020 admin

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 |

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5:5:5: Selections, Listening Habits, Recommended Music

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

5 January 2018 admin

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:

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5:5:5: Selections, NYC, Recommended Music

5:5:5: VIII. Readsy’s Game Changers & the 5 Boroughs.

5 September 2017 admin

Readsy brings us his own 5-way selection, cueing up a personalised theme and passionately pouring through a quintet of influential artists with this, his take on heavy influencers around the 5 New York City divisions…

” Still in his teens, LL had already established himself as the ultimate solo artist ambassador for hardcore Hip-Hop. His sole intention to escape the sinking quicksand of inner city life…”

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