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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Greg Fenton reviews Sudden Heat & Pitros – Tease Me (feat. Nanda Broilo) – Dirtybird Trust Dirtybird to release this. Slinky, sleazy basslines hover over tight drums, with hot vocals riding the wave. Quick-fire, with no time for subtlety, it hits exactly where it’s meant to. You’ll either enjoy this or not. But back to…
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Greg Fenton reviews Khadija – Dunya II – REK’D Continuing the series, this equally tasteful selection of music touches the soul with integrity. In ways, it offers simple, unfussy, direct storytelling that does what it does best. Good opens the selection with a chorus of heavenly voices over uplifting piano, reminding you of the power…
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Greg Fenton reviews Seefeel – Sol.Hz- Warp Records Fifteen years may seem like the blink of an eye, but given the timeless nature of their music, it’s neither here nor there. This continuation of progress is as searing and thoughtfully engaging as ever, while synthesisers speak their innate language in full recognition of the world…
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Greg Fenton reviews aportrait – Lost Tapes – Memoire Affective Connecting to this album conjures up an alluring, strange set of analogue circumstances that aren’t readily explained. A hard-to-capture initiative of creative, imaginative possibilities, in which every sound score and temptation is investigated through a prism of intrigue, each note invites reaction. Nothing is quite…
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Greg fenton reviews Killian Walsh feat. Elise SW – Let’s Float – Ardchumhacht A breath of fresh air can be hard to grasp these days, but when it appears, it’s all the more rewarding. Let’s Float is propelled by a series of chugging, bass-enhanced rhythms that set the pace for a soaring infusion of whirring,…
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Greg Fenton reviews Tm Shuffle – Soulful Dubs 03 – Soulful Dubs Breathing life into jazzy essence, a collaboration between Tm Shuffle (Vuo Records), Monoder and Tapani Rinne refocuses and retunes a series of Dub sensibilities in Kaipaus, forming two versions. As much as the drums drive purposefully forward, the saxophone-inspired instrumentation weaves an intricate…
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Greg Fenton reviews Anja Schneider – Heartbroken – SoUs Music Music never ceases to surprise and excite me. Just when you think sounds have become stale, tired or simply boring, along comes a piece of music that reinvigorates the senses, dispensing with clichés to offer a fresh, alternative angle from which to view things. Anja…
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Magazine Sixty Interview with YAMA MUSIC. Celebrating their tenth release, join our conversation with Paul about all things YAMA, plus thoughts on music culture, production and the arts. Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Paul. Could you tell us where the term YAMA comes from, what your memories are of putting the first release together, and how…
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Greg Fenton reviews Anne Chris Bakker – Thinking an Ocean – Driftworks Actions speak louder than words – how true is that today? Anne Chris Bakker’s beautiful poise between action and relief suspends moments, uprooting and upending them across a sonic journey of quietly immense proportions. Each layer of sound is eloquent and purposeful, hitting…
