Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Subb-An
Greg Fenton reviews Hoarfrost EP – My King Is Light Hoarfrost weaves magic between its rugged rhythms, filled with musical promise and a heart full of soul as the EP’s gorgeous title track continues Subb-An’s stellar run of releases. Featured on Thomas Melchior’s seminal label you would likewise expect the music to touch upon certain…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Groove Gorynych
Greg Fenton reviews Groove Gorynych – Takata – Airlines Records Hidden in that moment when the need to turn up the volume consumes you is the realisation that what you are listening to is valuable and worth the act. It’s found in the open spaces opening out this resplendent production blurring colours between dub and…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with mauv
Greg Fenton reviews mauv – Chainmail – all my thoughts Words are, after all, important. So are melodies. mauv splits the listener’s attention in two, between the breezy vocal essence drifting across these cool, tastefully intense grooves populated by repeating guitar notes and crisp drumming. And the synthesizers making their presence felt too along with…
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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…