Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX – Eskimo Recordings
Berlin-based Musician and DJ Luca Venezia, aka Curses has created a fantastically exciting selection of music from past to present, highlighting the darker edges of the hidden corners beneath the foundation stones of club culture. Not so much bright and shiny but grainier, more tangible in essence. The first chapter of this huge compilation begins…
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Anoesis – Stasislogue EP – Cyphon Recordings
Is it easy to connect space travel with the music of Anoesis? Perhaps its mind travel that’s the key. Either way that sense of travelling between two points, exploring the in-betweens, is always present. Track Thirty 7 energises both the soul and the imagination as drums feel freshly tuned into the twists and turns of…
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Massimo Pupillo – Our Forgotten Ancestors – Glacial Movements
If there is beauty to be found in melancholy, it is found here. Yet this also feels that it’s about the yearning for connection. A contrast if you will. Lost and found. Like a sublime defiance. I’ve been reviewing an increasing amount of music not constructed around beats and formulas, I guess because it appeals…
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Human Safari – Sax Paradiso – R&S Records
I don’t just love this because it has the word Jazz in one of its titles. I love it because it is brilliant. Shinning like shooting stars. And at a comparable speed. Coasting with an effortless cool the musical blasts of smoky saxophone inhabit a night-time world of experience, fusing past notation together with the…
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Stro Elliot – Monday’s Generation – Def Pressé
This is about celebration and the joy of life as if the party never stops. On the other hand listening to Monday’s Generation begs the very real question: Are we missing something? Not (always) in life but something in music. When the innate power contained within this array of samples seems to capture unique moments…
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WotD – Korean Frequency / Hashish Dreams – DSPPR
Chord progresses seek to enliven, refreshing the nature of the soul and is patently apparent here, Korean Frequency captures your heart instantaneously. Its dreamy, organic sequences fly free with notions of jazzy heavens, opening out onto a chorus of funkiness, as synthesisers soar while the accompanying drums and bass, simmer and groove. Proving to be…
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Nisim – Haku – All We Have Is Now
This strange yet illuminating production almost feels as if the various elements play out in stark contrast, too disparate to glue together, however they do so and most wonderfully. Drums shuffle in uncertain directions, vocal snippets twist and turn, while a warm rush of strings and musical aspects enlighten, feeding directly into the soul. I…
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Ittara – Peace Of Mind – Mouche
The sound of electricity strung out across heavens high. Peace Of Mind is a deceptive title for a piece of music that is anything but. Fizzing with atoms dancing along the edges as bruising, unforgiving stabs plus tough, pounding drums create a perfect, rich intensity to get lost inside. It’s the uncomplicated yet direct nature…
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Architectural – Clothed In Light – R&S Records
You may have noticed that I don’t care about genres and neat filing categories, or what you should like and what year it’s ok to like it in. Music should always shake you out of compliancy, whether that’s emotional, or political, or poetic. Give it a go, who knows you might actually like it. And…