Magazine Sixty: pre-release music reviews from leading DJ and producer, Greg Fenton
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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…
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A world of words to get lost in. Dummn is hard to describe simply because its unique nature of sounds connect more directly with your subconscious, diving into the surreal, rather that the obvious world right before your eyes. Like a private conversation, albeit one in a profoundly unsettling, shaking your foundations, kind of way.…
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Loraine James translates life into five broken pieces, reconfigures the blame, then reassembles fragments of hope and despair in an equal, yet uneven order. If I was a typical music journalist it might well say that Gentle Confrontation is an album of significant importance, both as part of being human and that of living somewhere…
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Joāo Paulo Esteves da Silva’s sublime sprinkle of piano keys sing out like an enchanting evenings chorus on the album’s beginning The House Behind, sounding all at once inspired, eloquent and most gently persuasive. Accompanied notably by both the cool twang of Mário Franco’s hot, double-bass alongside the punctuating language of Samuel Rohrer’s free flowing…
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Entering Simon McCorry’s world of sound is much like entering a series of different rooms where each contains its own suggestion. This latest collection of works for the esteemed See Blue Audio has the artist explore the aftereffects of serious challenges which life can so easily throw in your direction, knocking you off-center, lending each…
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Joe. Celebrating the release of your debut album – Solitude, I was about the meaning behind its title? Yeah so I picked up a new MPC (One) during the pandemic since we were cooped up at home and dove into it a bit, so I figured it was a fitting title…
