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 Echoes Of Spain I love this rich series of albums that Cherry Red and friends do so well. In part because of the wealth of music I get introduced to through the experience, especially when it comes to vintage music I’m not always familiar with. But also because it lets my mind
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Greg Fenton reviews Afterlife – Timbuktu – Subatomic UK Timbuktu scrambles the impulsive aural intensity of the modern world twisting the signs into meaningful discourse by charging headfirst into the face of adversity. Propelled by an endless stream of tantalising electronic waveforms questions about meaning arise throughout the journey just like they do by watching
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Greg Fenton reviews Doubtingthomas – Clockwork – Suleiman Records The music on Clockwork is about the rhythm of movement amidst the creative molecules surrounding and exciting the process. Starting with Stop for a Minute exploring that concept with clever interplay between melodic keys and percussion twirling around the grooves. The title track comes next feeling
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Greg Fenton reviews Made By Pete – Fires – Crosstown Rebels Fires is an incredibly stunning creation combining the dark heart of soul with grainy electronic, incendiary thinking. At various points, it feels like each note has been carefully crafted for maximum effect teasing out every drop of possibility. You can hear it as the
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Greg Fenton reviews Tommy Veanud – All Or Nothing – Hathōr Imagine you have one hundred new pieces of music to listen through in one go. I wonder what it is that primarily catches your ear in that process. For me, I’m not always interested after all this time (35 years of reviewing music) in
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Greg Fenton reviews Dave Clarkson – Dreamadelica (Music for Dreamachine) – Waxing Crescent Records A story waiting to be told turns the page between celestial choral harmonies, guitar, and synthesized strings as Prelude to The Subconscious introduces the thought process into your consciousness. Given the album title, it’s perhaps not too surprising that this collection
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Greg Fenton reviews Hot Sync – Whego Flow EP – Witty Tunes Whego Flow is an irresistible production. Full of the stimulating, funky spark igniting life and the seasoned excitement of seeking night-time highs. It’s also all about the fizzy energy of hot rhythm plugged into driving bass and a chorus of voices twisting into
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Greg Fenton reviews Sio – Twilight – STY TRU BTS It’s hard not to be in love with this song. While it’s likewise easy to celebrate Sio’s honeyed vocals as they drift seamlessly across the smouldering, jazzy flavours of the music as chords blend tastefully together with perfect percussion set to a low-slung tempo that
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Greg Fenton reviews Yard One – One Day – Tact Recordings What is it about One Day that makes me feel about modes of transportation? Maybe it’s the purposeful movement as grooves and rhythms feed into each other promising an end in sight. Or it’s the chiming melodic cascades of keys casting colour across it
