The Isolation Mixtapes : K

Posted on June 15, 2020 • 08:34 by 5:4 in Mixtapes | Leave a comment

In this week’s Isolation Mixtape, exploring the best music from the last decade, all of the music is by groups, composers and artists beginning with the letter K. As always, two of the most splendiferous tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, presented in chronological order.

Here’s the tracklisting in full, together with approximate timings and links to obtain the music. As usual, the mixtape can be downloaded or streamed via MixCloud. Read more

Tags: Kaija Saariaho, Kangding Ray, Karin Park, Karsten Pflum, Kate NV, Katie Gately, Kayo Dot, Keep Shelly In Athens, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Kelly Moran, Kenneth Kirschner, Kettel, Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin, Kreng, Kristin Øhrn Dyrud, Kryptic Minds, Kurt Schwitters, kwajbasket, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Kyle Dixon, Michael Stein, Secede

Best EPs of 2012

Posted on December 29, 2012 • 00:49 by 5:4 in Best of the Year, CD/Digital releases | Leave a comment

The list is what brings a world of chaos into some kind of pattern. The list fixes a broken world floating out into the outer world of emptiness. The list links us to ourselves, places us together, puts us in order. The list soothes us in the way it organises memory and shapes the consciousness. Everybody loves a list for making sense of the awesome nature of all the stuff that surrounds us. The list is at the heart of everything. Everything is part of a list. Humanity is one long list linking nothing with something.
(Paul Morley, Words and Music)

Paul Morley telling it how it is, & as the year starts to fade away, it’s time once again for the series of lists detailing the best of the best that’s passed through my eardrums in the last 12 months. We begin, as ever, with the ten most outstanding EPs. Read more

Tags: Alone Architect, Björk, Coda, Frances-Marie Uitti, Gareth Davis, irr. app. (ext.), Keith Fullerton Whitman, Kenneth Kirschner, Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Parenthetical Girls, Squarepusher

Mixtape #19 : Best Albums of 2010

Posted on January 1, 2011 • 01:24 by 5:4 in Best of the Year, Mixtapes | 3 Comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It’s 1 January, which means it’s 5:4‘s birthday, and today we’re three years old. Having spent several days looking back on last year’s most outstanding releases, what better way could there be to start the new year than with a new mixtape, featuring one track from each of my forty best albums of 2010. As you’d expect, it’s another extremely eclectic mix, and this time lasts a little over three-and-a-half hours. If you like the mix (and how could you not?!), please support the artists and buy their excellent music.