Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Samihe – Eureka – Loot Recordings
Eureka explores the idea of intricacy to highlight intimacy. Samihe does this by visiting a series of contrasting moods across the emotional spectrum, adding distinctive characters to the music, each highlighting differing aspects of sonic gratification. However, not to lose sight of the central organic core of all this is the uncomplicated sense of bliss…
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Posthuman – Shifter / Rattler – Balkan Recordings
This is the first record l listened to today, back to reality. Between the two tracks, they collectively sound just like a crazy combination of various parts House, Techno, and Rave. Whatever. It’s exciting and sounds brilliant. What this record may lack in subtlety, it makes up for in being blatant. It’s not so much…
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Eric Hilton – Midnight Milan – Montserrat House
Let’s start with the premise that good music is simply that. Designed to sound vintage via its use of samples combined with appropriate live instrumentation the result remains resolutely emotional at any given age. Midnight Milan is a sedate, beautiful, tantalising piece of music, although only plays at a painfully short 2.40. Leaving you wanting…
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Scanner – Alchemeia – Alltagsmusik
Engaging 2024 via the language of machinations driven by futuristic numbers feels like a strangely appropriate place to begin the New Year. Although, in this world of upside-down nostalgia you sometimes don’t quite know in which direction music is pointing you. Is it evolving, or folding in on itself? Thankfully, this series of pieces are…
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JJ Selects – Clear – The Room In The Back
Celebrating the joy of dancing in easy pieces JJ Selects strips it all down to the essential meaning inherent within the rhythm for this latest release on his own, The Room In The Back. Each number feels deceptively uncomplicated and it’s that very directness which engages so powerfully here. Each drum beat and percussive flourish…
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Joeski – La Rumba feat. Canelo Rodriguez – Maya Records
Of course, these are the moments that we live for. Music ignites the soul, rushing through you like nerves excitedly on fire. It is Canelo Rodriguez’s life affirming vocals just as it is the cool breeze blowing through the trumpet, as it is the joyful rhythm of the piano dancing, then the drums. I’m glad…
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The Robinson – Rituals EP – Taste Rec.
You could say this record is all about the warmth of compassion. It also feels like sunshine rays or a night out dancing as it’s very much about rhythm, hot or otherwise. Resolutely musical, defiantly soulful but either way this likewise plays simply for the pleasure of it all. Rituals explores a fusion of styles…
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Eddy Romero – Dudas – EXPmental Records
Dudas bites hard. Feels like a mystery unfolding. Sounds like music should in the upcoming story of 2024. Deep yet pulsing with soulful inquiry, meaningful in a very real sense. I miss the art of song writing but the weird charm generated by the wash of voices here will suffice. Musically, Dudas points in all…
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Emil Friis & Patricio Fraile – The Expected Sounds Of Minor Music – 130701
The ever ending, ever present power of the piano to ignite and excite the soul is mercifully always there for us. Listen to the opening, Prelude. Much more than that are the depths dived into as deep strings compliment keys, while layers of inquisitive sound, upon layers of unfolding emotion, celebrate as well as commiserate…