Category: Questions & Answers

  • Luna City Express Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Marco and Norman. Let’s begin with your fiery new single: Neon Frame EP for Upon You Records. Tell us about how you got the track signed to the label? Marco: Norman and I are in the studio at least once a week to exchange music as well as new ideas for…

  • Nimbus Sextet Q&A with Joe Nichols

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Joe. Let’s begin by how would define Jazz for the modern era? What can it uniquely say about the world around us? Jazz to me hasn’t changed that much in its fundamental definition. Jazz has always borrowed from different forms of popular music. Whichever form it decides to take is a…

  • Tencion Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Dimitri. Let’s start with your label Lowendcommunity. Can you tell us about its ethos? And how would you describe the highs and lows of running your own label? Hi Greg, thanks for having me! The initial idea for the label started in 2003 when I was running my own club in…

  • Hoj Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Hoj. Let’s start with your friendship with Lee Burridge who co-founded Tale + Tone. Can you describe the process of how you work together in terms of running the label, choosing tracks for release, deciding upon artwork etc? When Lee and I were getting All Day I Dream up and running,…

  • Francesco Carone Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Francesco. You play the piano beautifully. Who taught you to play and how long have you been playing? My pleasure. I’ve been playing the piano for about twenty years, starting when I was six by studying classical music and then contemporary and composition. I have had many teachers from which I…

  • ISSA Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, ISSA. Your record label: ISSA Music is also part of a publishing company of the same name. Who inspired you to get into publishing and how would you describe how it currently functions given Covid-19? Thank you for your interest in our new release. I started my career signing a publishing…

  • Saudade Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Saudade. Your new EP: Xango has just been released on Pont Neuf Records. Tell us about how your relationship with the label happened? And what does the EP’s title mean for you? Pont Neuf Records has always been a family to me, I was there at the creation of the label…

  • Matthew Hayes Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Matthew. Let’s start with your excellent new single for Black Wattle – Two Steps Forward EP. What does the title signify and how did your relationship with the label come about? Thanks so much for having me and for the kind words on the EP. I first heard of Black Wattle…

  • Steve Hadfield Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Steve. Can you talk us through your musical journey beginning with the sounds which first inspired you, until now and the music you currently produce? Like many people, I got into ‘alternative’ electronic music via Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ when I was 16, which opened my ears to Warp Records and beyond.…