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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What I love about FUSE is how they inject a direct passion into everything they do. Not least of all in the music they produce. The second part of Enzo Siragusa’s excellent album now arrives, still celebrating their tenth anniversary year, with the same drive and rich intensity as when they began. Seven tracks feature
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Ben Kaczor’s Typ feels like you are exploring new locations. Finding fresh, innovative ways of seeing and listening to sounds that perhaps wouldn’t readily fill your view of the world. This collaborative project sees the artist amalgamate thought processes alongside the Grafik work of Nycoel Jung, as well as Nina Kummer’s poetry, all of which
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If you enjoy the rush of breathy, emotive ambience then this new production from Basti Grub will wash over you in many pleasurable ways. The title track ignites a series of smouldering beats and low-end theory as combinations of voice develop their own sense of melody with tastefully warm keys underpinning it all. Serving a
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Joe Meek was a troubled genius who helped define the use of electronics in popular music. Not the most avant-garde as the likes of John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Luciano Berio and György Ligeti ripped up the music sheet of conventional thinking in ways beyond what anyone else at the time was doing, but none the
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Pétra are in reality Brian Allen Simon (aka Anenon) and Chantal Chadwick. They create unfolding landscapes of sound which brush over you in shimmering, grainy waves. Hydra is a case in point, while lighter relief is gained via the chiming ambience that infuses Landes. Often the music has an uneasy tension which sets it apart
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Beginning Steve Bug’s brand new imprint Sublease is this from Kellie Allen who injects a robust and warmly emotive series of sounds into this exciting initial release. La Vie En Rose is the punchier of the two productions with fizzy drums igniting a creative arrangement of notes, stabs and voices which all combine into an
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I’m second guessing that you won’t want this to stop. Alex Tea and Noha’s addictive transmission of uber funkiness grabs and shakes you down in all directions, simmering with a defiant grooviness while firing edgy rhythms straight at you. The excellent title track does all that, plus chimes with musicality, yet remains tough and heavy-duty.
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Sometimes music grabs you in sophisticated, unblemished ways because it is almost perfect. Fink’s remix of the track, originally released back in January, breathes fresh life into the existing emotive whispers alongside a gentle yet uneasy shuffle of drums and poignant bass, plucked guitar plus mood enhancing electric keys. Creating atmospheres in the process of
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The second instalment in this series of newly remastered albums by Crass covers the period from 1981 through the bands final curtain call in 1984, by way of the last album to bear the name Crass in 86. Penis Envy says a whole lot more than the title suggests over blistering guitars, thumping drums and