Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Olympias. Let’s begin with where your love of music came from growing up and in particular of the playing the piano, where did that influence originate from and can you tell us about how you learnt to play and how you found that process? Hi Greg, thank you for having me
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Bella Arp sounds like an introduction to something celluloid. It contains both captivating strength of movement and the suggestion of atmospheric storytelling encased between its beginning and end. Which at only 3.24 has either gone too quickly, or is perhaps just right, leaving you wanting more. It’s about texture and layers of analogue enquiry, hinting
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Reaching 50 is always an achievement. Reflecting this point are the immersive, moments sequenced by this album from Stefan Węgłowski who transports the mind of the listener from A to B while in-between times exploring shades of awareness around the soul. As with all of the music released by Glacial Movements the sounds propose thinking
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Making my way through lots of new releases today accompanied by the feeling that music at times feels like it’s going backwards – the sounds, the arrangements and god forbid that the words ever change – then this from Dirtybird plays sparking the excitement of curiosity. Dotted Line, pulses with a feverish electricity creating its
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Enter the subterranean, nocturnal world of Passarella Death Squad and leave your cares at the door. Transmitted via downtown signals inspired by the smouldering embers of a 1980’s vision of dark electronics their debut album satisfies on all points, while finding a few new ones to excite. Danny Passarella and Emilie Albisser create the sounds
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The Source, feels fast like it is in a hurry to communicate something urgent. It’s that sense of urgency driving the pace which makes this all the more brilliant, as percussion moves in unstoppable motion accompanied by a pulse of bass, alongside a commanding array of sound effects expanding the stereo field into distraction. As
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(Photograph by Charlotte Yonga) Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Molly. Your label RDV Music: Récit de Voyage has been running since 2017. What changes have you seen happening during that time (positive or negative) and how do you see the future for artists and labels alike in terms of the ability to generate income via record
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It Feels Like It Only Goes Backwards sounds like a question to which the answer is revealed by listening. Driven by heavy bass, offset by whirring pads serving defining intensity, touched by harmony appearring alongside an expanding breath of musicality on this excellent, refreshing piece of music. Koreander’s wonderful beat-free version trips off the tongue