Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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It feels increasingly hard to tune in right now. Perhaps that’s why Felony seems fresh in uncertain times. Under usual circumstances this might effortlessly breeze by, referencing the soulfulness of past glories, sounding like a cruise on a hot summer’s day – windows down, roof off. But as good music translates, traversing timelines this combination
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Where does John Cage exist? Begin and end? The answer to that question lies somewhere. “If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.†John Cage “Without John Cage, much of what happens in modern music and art would not be possible.†Frank Zappa When you think about
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I don’t really know where to begin. It’s more often than not with a particular sound, or atmosphere, or even melody. But feeling slightly stuck it is perhaps best to let go of convention and soak up the free flow of information. That impending sense of distraction is always present as this collaboration between cellist
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Mixing metaphors, like mixing colours, conjures up all sorts of meaning. Roger and Brian Eno’s first album together is another world to lose yourself in. Which given the situation we now find ourselves may sound like a salvation. Blissful tones, resonating with emotional turmoil of both plus/ negative all escape into the ether. And just
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This next communication from Wonderful Beasts expands the velocity of meaning as their debut album seeks out fresh pasture. Wonderful Beasts are of course the gathered creative thoughts of boycalledcrow and Xqui. They produce music that combines a diverse range of feelings that sometimes escapes into the beyond, while at others aim straight for the
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Josh. Let’s start with the launch of your label: Love Child (along with Jacob Husley). How would you describe the process of setting up and then running a record label in 2020? Have the results been what you hoped for? Setting up Love Child was challenging and still is in some
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Shane and Greg. Let’s start by asking about your recent collaboration with Andrew Phillpott, under the alias Squares. How did you first meet up and decide upon working together? And what can you tell us about the forthcoming album? Shane: We met Andrew through a mutual friend about ten years ago,
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Pulling you apart in different directions is just one of the feelings that Gab Rhome’s tastefully rich music causes. This is a beautifully constructed slice of sound beginning with the rolling grooves and timely Marimba hits adorning Bites Per Minute. The arrival of warm keys add further satisfaction, quenching any doubt as this production fits
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There is plenty to get lost here as Give Me More leaves little room for doubt. An uneasy sense of occasion permeates this production and all at once sounds too tempting, dangerous, yet well informed. The music revolves around punctuating drums, loose percussion amid the edgy whir of synthesisers which collectively feel tantalisingly seductive. A