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 ||

… Continue reading5:5:5: XVII: 2023/24 – 70 obsessed-over tracks, 14 fiery selections, a hot-stack of music discovered during 2023…

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

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

5 January 2023 admin

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 |

… Continue reading5:5:5: XVI: 2022 – 65 meticulously chosen tracks, 13 fine filtered quintets to pore over and peruse…

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.

… Continue reading5:5:5: XV: 2021 – 65 tracks held high by 13 impassioned selectors.. A glorious parade of much-loved tracks, please take your seats…

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

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 ||

… Continue reading5:5:5: XIII – Here it is… 60 shining tracks, 2020 highlights from 12 music obsessed label regulars…

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

2 February 2020 admin

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.

… Continue readingThe Golden Lagoon’ Satellite celebration #3 – Exotic Immersion & Performances, all day at The Rose Hill

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 |

… Continue reading5:5:5: 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…

Filtered Listening Radio, Listening Habits, Recommended Music

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

26 December 2017 admin

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}

…

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