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    Mixtape #51 : Silence (Requiem)

    by 5:4 November 13, 2018 • 18:01
    November 13, 2018 • 18:01

    November is a somewhat sombre month, and not only because the days are getting a lot colder and darker here in the UK. This year’s remembrance ceremonies have had extra potency due to the centenary of the end of the First World War, so i’ve taken this as my cue…

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    Mixtape #40 : Miniatures

    by 5:4 October 1, 2017 • 11:13
    October 1, 2017 • 11:13

    Even more than is usually the case, the new 5:4 Mixtape is a pure stream of consciousness. i’ve returned to a theme i explored in one of the earliest mixtapes, miniatures, once again setting myself a limit of music lasting under two minutes. With a shortlist of 100+ tracks (each…

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    Mixtape #37 : Best Albums of 2016

    by 5:4 January 1, 2017 • 08:23
    January 1, 2017 • 08:23

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! i’m starting 2017 in the usual way, with a mixtape bringing together one track from each of the forty albums on my best of 2016 list. i’m sure posterity will come to regard last year as something of a trough in human history, but this mixtape does…

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    Best Albums of 2016 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2016 • 00:02
    December 31, 2016 • 00:02

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * Here they are, then: the best of the best of 2016, each and every one of them packed full of the rarest imagination, invention and ingenuity. i can’t recommend them highly…

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    Mixtape #19 : Best Albums of 2010

    by 5:4 January 1, 2011 • 01:24
    January 1, 2011 • 01:24

    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…

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    Best Albums of 2010 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2010 • 02:27
    December 30, 2010 • 02:27

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * Continuing the 5:4 retrospective, and after probably far too much deliberation, here are the first twenty of my forty Best Albums of 2010 (to be concluded tomorrow): 40 |…

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    Mixtape #14 : Best Albums of 2009

    by 5:4 January 1, 2010 • 10:48
    January 1, 2010 • 10:48

    A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!. Today marks the 2nd birthday of 5:4, so a big thank you to all of you who are regular readers for your time and interest in this blog. Following yesterday’s run-down of my favourite 40 albums from 2009, here’s the accompanying mixtape,…

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    Best Albums of 2009

    by 5:4 December 31, 2009 • 09:43
    December 31, 2009 • 09:43

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * Embarking on another list such as this, i’m reminded again of what i think of as “Paul Morley’s Dictum”; in his superb book Words and Music he writes of…

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