Magazine Sixty: music reviews and views on from leading DJ, writer and producer, Greg Fenton.
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I can hear the echo of Steve Reich coursing throughout the veins of the repeating vocal loop contained within X5NRG. Although, It’s Gonna Rain, created in 1965, is radically different to this proposition which is much more about the juxtaposition between the rhythm of drums, alongside the blur of grainy textures, all of which make…
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This makes me smile. Provoking exhilaration because all three productions are infused with such physical, evocative, forward-thinking thought, like excercising the creative process is all that matters. Music is important for that very reason after all. Not the tiresome reflection of endless worn out loops and the meaningless safety of nostalgic prevarication. That, and the…
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The Spinners, I’ll Be Around is one of my favourite songs. That cool combination of hazy melancholy, coupled with its breezy grooves, talk up lost summer nights like an intimate conversation of times past. Specifically 1972. Which is what brings me to this collection from SoulMusic Records in the first place. Their sound produced throughout…
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I review music I like. I love this. Approximately 28 seconds into Sacrifice and you don’t want the feeling to end, ever. Not that you understand every word but the meaning is clear. Something hot and heavy, like it’s important for basic survival. I doubt too much music is as to the point as this…
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As the seasons ebb and flow into the solace of autumn so Ephemera bruises the fall with the aid of smouldering drums, alongside tell-tale signs of closing nights. Ignited by the addition of melodically charged synth lines the number sits somewhere in-between a dark heat and the competing rays of low winter sun. Eventually rising…
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LA based live band, Soundsystem DJs and producers ASHRR, mark their debut on Leeds label 20/20 Vision in fine style. Recruiting original dub pioneer Scientist to create a series of Live Dubs of ‘Fizzy’, with additional weight from Felix Dickinson on remix duties. Born in 2018 amidst the vibrant musical landscape of Los Angeles, ASHRR…
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When pain subsides and the drug finishes its intended use Tramadol finds a whole host of other games to play. Given it’s an opiate that’s probably not surprising. That was my experience anyway, which I only mention as the side effects produced by the drug likewise fuelled the imagination of DJ Counselling who remarkably manged…
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The playful sense of being rebellious neatly criss-crosses this album from Tibi Dabo adding sounds where you wouldn’t always expect them, while combining an exciting array of influences, then transforming them all into his own unique way of thinking. So much so that every track may, or may not, suit your taste. If little else…
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The inescapable difference between the music produced by Afterlife and that of so many others in this field is simply depth of musical vision. Found in places and locations where you can truly lose yourself in. Plus enquiry, such is the obvious thirst for knowledge. You can feel it as each layer unfolds, each weaving…
