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  • Advent & ChristmasMixtapes

    Mixtape #52 : Christmas

    by 5:4 December 17, 2018 • 09:40
    December 17, 2018 • 09:40 1 minutes read

    For the last of my 2018 monthly mixtapes, which i’ve been doing throughout 5:4‘s 10th anniversary year, i’ve gone seasonal and turned to the theme of Christmas. However, while that theme permeates all the choices i’ve made, the result is quite far from the kind of conventional upbeat playlist we’re …

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    Mixtape #35 : Moon

    by 5:4 October 1, 2015 • 10:11
    October 1, 2015 • 10:11 2 minutes read

    Taking inspiration from the lunar events at the start of this week, the new 5:4 mixtape is devoted to music related to the moon. i’ve crammed it with a veritable shed-load of personal favourites, small and great, old and new. The mix encompasses a broad spectrum, from the kind of …

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    Mixtape #33 : Purple

    by 5:4 April 1, 2015 • 12:13
    April 1, 2015 • 12:13 1 minutes read

    For the new 5:4 mixtape i’ve rather whimsically adopted my favourite colour—purple—as the theme. That colour invites a host of hues and shades, so the mix includes track titles alluding to the entirety of that part of the spectrum, including heliotrope, lavender, fuchsia, pink, plum, magenta, indigo, amethyst, violet and …

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    Mixtape #31 : Autumn

    by 5:4 October 1, 2014 • 21:02
    October 1, 2014 • 21:02 2 minutes read

    For the latest 5:4 mixtape, i’ve opted to explore music associated in some way with this time of year. Autumn is arguably the most poignant of the seasons, the ostentatious eruption of its gorgeous colours militated against by the pointed melancholy of its inevitable transition into the wastelands of winter. …

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    Mixtape #24 : Noir

    by 5:4 October 1, 2012 • 09:44
    October 1, 2012 • 09:44 2 minutes read

    It’s time for a new mixtape, and once again it reflects my current predilections and listening habits. Film noir, and particularly its musical analogues, are much on my mind at present, so the new mixtape reflects that, drawing on 23 examples of muted monochrome. The similarities between these pieces are …

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    Mixtape #19 : Best Albums of 2010

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

    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 2 minutes read

    * 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 #16 : Vox Masculus (In Memoriam Ian Curtis)

    by 5:4 May 18, 2010 • 07:34
    May 18, 2010 • 07:34 2 minutes read

    Thirty years ago, Ian Curtis, lead singer and prime mover of Joy Division throughout its short-lived existence, took his own life. i can’t and won’t claim to have known anything about this at the time (being a mere six years old, my own musical journey had barely begun, let alone …

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    Mixtape #15 : Late Night

    by 5:4 March 27, 2010 • 20:52
    March 27, 2010 • 20:52 2 minutes read

    It’s been a while since the last mixtape, and i’ve decided to return to the theme of the the first two mixes, music particularly suitable for late night listening. Steve Peters‘ work is always fascinating, and his field recording project Here-ings is a masterpiece. i wrote about it at length …

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    Mixtape #14 : Best Albums of 2009

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

    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 1 minutes read

    * 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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