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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Magazine Sixty is happy to introduce this interview with the brilliant musician and Affin’s lead protagonist, Joachim Spieth, who for over twenty years has journeyed between dancefloor expression and the innovative sounds of atmosphere and personal reflection. Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Joachim. You have been creating music for over twenty years. As a musician, is
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Greg Fenton reviews Qrion & Spencer Brown – MT.DS EP – Last Night On Earth The snippet of warm ambience greets you as MT.DS begins to mess with your senses, and what happens next is anything but a floating state of mind. Fiery staccato bass and quick-fire synth oscillators ignite excitement in this forward-thinking production,
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Greg Fenton reviews Stablematic – Shapes EP – Recline Music Nothing quite notifies summer like the warm combination of a cool, electric piano and a relaxed drum shuffle. Although perhaps it’s also down to the blue sky outside nurturing the notion. The four tracks that make up this EP all highlight the memory of soul
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London-based composer and performer Rotem Haguel aka JL Segel chats to Magazine Sixty about his life in music, thoughts and sounds. Having just self-released the excellent Fog EP. Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Rotem. You have been recording under the alias JL Segel. Where does the name originate from? Thanks for having me, Greg 🙂 JL
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Greg Fenton reviews Machen – Totality Of Love – RPMA Recordings Feeling fast and furious, Totality Of Love launches this brand-new label with an urgency reminiscent of a high-speed ride through the city at night. As colours blaze with vivid imagination, fuelled by a riot of high times drawing on a remarkably diverse range of
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(Photograph by Rubina) Read our Magazine Sixty Interview with f5point6 aka R.Cleveland Aaron on his excellent new In Retrospect compilation for See Blue Audio, sound composition and the art of photography in the modern world. Musically, this latest release for See Blue Audio collates your work since 2020 across one album. In what ways do
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Greg Fenton reviews Markus Guentner – On Brutal Soil We Grow – Affin Listening to Markus Guentner’s On Brutal Soil, We Grow shift shapes and forms is much like watching the clouds and the interspersed tones of a blue sky drift past my winter-morning window. Like the formations as they gather and disperse without any
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Greg Fenton reviews f5point6 – In Retrospect – See Blue Audio Listening without thinking, feeling, or engaging your imagination is unthinkable when traversing the landscapes of sound created by f5point6. This compilation collates and celebrates a selection of the artist’s finest work for See Blue Audio, which incidentally spans the last six years. Time frames
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Greg Fenton reviews JL Segel – Fog – Self Release Mentioning the word ambient or music closely associated with the genre may feel like we’ve all been here before, conjuring soft, rolling landscapes unfolding across the space between the speakers and summoning a quiet intensity stirring emotions from deep within. Or something resembling that experience.
