Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
-
Anthony Georges Patrice – X5NRG – Ausblick
I can hear the echo of Steve Reich coursing throughout the veins of the repeating vocal loop contained within X5NRG. Although, It’s Gonna Rain, created in 1965, is radically different to this proposition which is much more about the juxtaposition between the rhythm of drums, alongside the blur of grainy textures, all of which make…
-
Richard Seeley – The Seeza Project No 1. – Glue Music
This makes me smile. Provoking exhilaration because all three productions are infused with such physical, evocative, forward-thinking thought, like excercising the creative process is all that matters. Music is important for that very reason after all. Not the tiresome reflection of endless worn out loops and the meaningless safety of nostalgic prevarication. That, and the…
-
The Spinners – No Price On Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings – SoulMusic Records
The Spinners, I’ll Be Around is one of my favourite songs. That cool combination of hazy melancholy, coupled with its breezy grooves, talk up lost summer nights like an intimate conversation of times past. Specifically 1972. Which is what brings me to this collection from SoulMusic Records in the first place. Their sound produced throughout…
-
Rudimentary Peni – Farce – Crass Records
I review music I like. I love this. Approximately 28 seconds into Sacrifice and you don’t want the feeling to end, ever. Not that you understand every word but the meaning is clear. Something hot and heavy, like it’s important for basic survival. I doubt too much music is as to the point as this…
-
Lapalace – Ephemera EP – Insult To Injury
As the seasons ebb and flow into the solace of autumn so Ephemera bruises the fall with the aid of smouldering drums, alongside tell-tale signs of closing nights. Ignited by the addition of melodically charged synth lines the number sits somewhere in-between a dark heat and the competing rays of low winter sun. Eventually rising…
-
DJ Counselling – Inside a Blue Cube EP – Shall Not Fade
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…
-
Tibi Dabo – Vista – Crosstown Rebels
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…
-
Afterlife – Timeframes – Subatomic UK
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…
-
Pheek – Dummu – Archipel Musique Canada
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.…