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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Strangebird~Sounds
Greg Fenton reviews Strangebird~Sounds – Minerals From the Crust – Audiobulb Records Sometimes music doesn’t always suggest a direct answer to the question being posed. Minerals From the Crust is as much about tuning in as it is about letting go. It remains, however, an involving, welcoming listen, as if the keys were being played…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with TUCCI
Greg Fenton reviews TUCCI – Buggin’ – Trick Great release from TUCCI, whose crisp production values are deeply ingrained within the title track, Buggin’, delivering an escapade full of energetic vitality alongside an escape route into the unknown. It’s more than the expertly crafted thumping drums and bassline, as the spoken words reveal an altogether…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Slow Dancing Society
Greg Fenton reviews Slow Dancing Society – The Disappearing Collective Vol. II – Past Inside the Present What makes this album such a compelling listen compared with other explorations into the ideals and notions of available ambience, or primarily atmospheric music without drums? An enduring vision of undulating motion, seeking out the interplay between memory…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Martin Iveson
Greg Fenton reviews Martin Iveson – Thought A – Atjazz Record Company A brilliant piece of music from Martin Iveson whose musicality shines at the heart of this timely production. Combining one part soul, priding itself with eyes fixed firmly on the future, one part electronic invigoration, and one part an exercise in expansive rhythm,…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Papa Lu
Greg Fenton reviews Papa Lu – Better ft. The $how – Rules Don’t Apply It’s not often these days that I get excited about records built around soulful samples, but this one works exceptionally well. The inner emotion within the music is both refreshing and revitalising, diving deep into a cellar full of soulful intent.…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Josh Smith
Greg Fenton reviews Josh Smith – Etruscan Vase EP – flurt. Josh Smith achieves that rare feat of blending a diverse array of sounds and making sense of them. From energetic drums to constantly expanding keys bouncing across the stereo field to illuminating vocal samples taken from forgotten film. The music is informed and temptingly…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Greg Fenton reviews Brooklyn Funk Essentials – Take The L Train (To 8th Ave.) – Calibre Remixes – Dorado Records You get the true measure of the artist’s passionate intellect with these two quite different approaches to what is essentially the same structure. Which is the Brooklyn Funk Essentials sublime, heart-rending Take The L Train…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Ibrahim Maalouf
Greg Fenton reviews Ibrahim Maalouf – Will Soon Be A Woman (Moog Diez Remix) – weoutside Records It can sometimes be difficult to preserve the musicality that naturally flows through a skilled musician’s expression, especially when incorporating electronic time signatures; you risk losing its primary organic feel in the process. However, Moog Diez’s remix not…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Pop Ambient 2026
Greg Fenton reviews Pop Ambient 2026 – Kompakt This is the 26th in a series of compilations of music labelled as ambient, which in itself says something about the timeless qualities and emotional craftsmanship inherent in sounds associated with the genre. If you think that the term is simply about repeating drones or hearing the…