Category: Questions & Answers

  • Staniz (Abstract Sounds) Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Staniz. What inspired you to set up your own sample pack label Abstract Sounds? What do you think makes it unique given the vast amount of others on the market? When I decided to open Abstract Sounds, I thought I wanted to become a symbolic label for a musical genre whose…

  • Harry Harrison (DiY) Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Harry. Let’s start with your debut book charting the history of the DiY Sound System. Can you tell us about the actual process of how you wrote the book? (I was thinking in terms of remembering things, if you prefer to write at night or morning – did you write all…

  • vaghy Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Tamás. Let’s begin with the piano and why you feel the instrument has stood the test of time and its seemingly never ending capability of convening human emotion? Thank you for your interest. For me, the answers are in how  the piano is built. It seems very simple, there are strings,…

  • Rob Burger Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Rob. Let’s start with your new album: Marching with Feathers. How long did it take to conceive and finish? I began recording Marching with Feathers in the spring of 2020 and I worked on it slowly over the course of several months in my home studio. I hear people refer to…

  • Alan Russell (Black Vinyl Records) Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Alan. Black Vinyl Records began around 1996/97 in London. What can you remember about how easy/ difficult it was to set up a label back then, releasing on vinyl and how music was distributed pre-digital and with Social media? Hi Greg, thanks for inviting me. Well, Black Vinyl was actually the…

  • The Broken Cradle Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Eric. Tell us about how your love of music and the piano came about, where you first remember hearing it being played and how you feel it expresses what you want to articulate through music? I have loved music since I can remember. Some of my earliest memories of music are…

  • Sean La’Brooy (Analogue Attic Recordings) Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Sean. Let’s start with the release of your debut solo album: Out Moving Windows. Tell us about the meaning behind the title? Thanks for having me! One of my favorite occasions for listening to music is during a commute. Whether it be by train, plane or car, headphones on, looking out…

  • Forest Robots Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Fran. Let’s start with your awe-inspiring new album: Horst & Graben. Can you tell me why you chose that title and what it means for you in 2021? In Geology, Horst and Graben refer to regions that lie between normal faults and are either higher or lower than the area beyond…

  • IOKOI Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Mara. Tell us about the meaning behind the name IOKOI? Thank you! The meaning behind the name IOKOI and how it came to life is due to a mix of my fascination for different aspects of asian culture, as well as for the term “reflection” in a broader sense. I remember…