All the music you hear before and between sessions at Flashforward is painstakingly hand-selected by Kevin Skoglund. He tweaks each playlist for a particular day and time, and always has at least three times as much queued up as we need, in case a break goes long…

If you’re curious about any of the songs you heard, or if you want to hear some of the music that never got played, he also put together an iMix of the subset of songs available on iTunes:

Flashforward 2005 iMix

Enjoy! Tell us which favorite song of yours you were surprised to hear at Flashforward, or which new group you discovered while waiting for a session to start…

One of the best secret perks of running the Flashforward conference is being able to play our favorite music for you between sessions. (Who doesn’t want to be the DJ?) After every conference, we always get inquiries about the music we play. Well, thanks to the ability to share playlists on iTunes, here it is, ready for download:

Flashforward2004 iMix

103 songs played at Flashforward 2004. $.99 each, $101.97 to purchase them all.

The playlist starts super-mellow with Nick Drake, Elliott Smith and Norah Jones and keeps building until it gets to the White Stripes, Sonic Youth and Dead Kennedys. There is something for almost everyone in there.

Give us a rating! (But only if it’s a good one!)

And tell us what you think of this in the comments… did we help you find that song you’ve been wondering about since last year? Should we post the 2005 playlist after the San Francisco conference? What’s your favorite Flash-programming soundtrack?

(Thanks to Kevin Skoglund, Flashforward DJ and iMixMaster…)