Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with D + D – Diego Ro-K and Diego Cid
Greg Fenton reviews D + D – Diego Ro-K and Diego Cid – Deal EP – MFF (Music For Freaks) An excellent production from the pair that ticks all of the boxes for me in terms of hot rhythm, forward-thinking musical flair, and the sort of tempting atmosphere that so succinctly works its way inside…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Maya Shenfeld
Greg Fenton reviews Maya Shenfeld – Under the Sun – Thrill Jockey Records Time is of the essence. Or at least it certainly feels that way. Under the Sun embraces you with arms of comfort and yet ploughs dark undercurrents at risk of pulling you under. As demonstrated in the album opening A guide for…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Black Bones
Greg Fenton reviews Black Bones – Mystic Arts 002 – Mystic Arts Is dance music in reverse? You can’t help but get that feeling with increasing regularity, although when something is as powerful as Find The Frequency let’s sidestep the suggestion for a while. Playing as the follow-up to the label’s brilliant debut from Calibre…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Melchior Productions Ltd – The Thomas Stieler Edits -MY KING IS LIGHT
Greg Fenton review Melchior Productions Ltd – The Thomas Stieler Edits – MY KING IS LIGHT This series of edits by Thomas Stieler are driven by a force of nature. Opening with the Spiritual Ways Edit of In The Spirit the primacy of the pounding drums is the thing commanding the landscape at first, then…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Joram Feitsma
Greg Fenton reviews Joram Feitsma – Binne All of the words you think of to describe the experience of music come crashing into your head when listening to this new album by Joram Feitsma. Continuing the theme of meaningful discourse sounds and atmospheres are delved into with typical depth across each of the pieces. Often…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Echoes Of Spain – From Segovia and Sabicas to Miles Davis and John Coltrane – él Records
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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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Afterlife
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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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Doubtingthomas
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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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Made By Pete
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…