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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When the opening chords of Georgy Porgy wash over you in a tingle of anticipation, and then the voice of Cheryl Lynn arrives, you’re right back where you started from. Its moments like these that transcend time. This double CD compilation of the singers Columbia Records releases’ spans the years between 1978 to 1985, covering
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Noah. Your excellent new album: Therapy is Expensive sounds like a trip through the life and times of sound and experience. How much of it is an observation of growing up in New York and do you think it would have been possible to create the same piece of music without
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Philippa. Let’s start with the brand new label you have launched: At Peace Music. Tell us about the meaning behind the title and the decision to start your own imprint? Thank you 🙂 There is a personal story behind the label name At Peace, of course, but I like the idea
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The brilliant new EP from the hands and minds of long-term FUSE resident Rich NxT along with East End Dubs does all sorts of things. Firstly, E3 delivers hot, liquid funk that stretches the bounds of tension as its wild concoction of drums, twisted sounds and dark notes all hit the spot. Feeling full of
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When you listen to One year On, the beginning of the new album from Solo Collective you feel lost and found. Something in your subconscious gets directly plugged into the piano as the keys unfold, drifting along only to be enhanced via an assortment of strings. What happens next is, For Hazel. And what I
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I love this combination of joyous, celebratory music that isn’t afraid of either melody or indeed music itself. Released on her own imprint Philippa delivers four tracks of equal merit which sit comfortably with the initial assertion. Opening with the beautifully resolute piano which drives Let Me Know you get the very definite feeling that
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It’s records like this that get you refreshed and excited all over again as Dance Music’s electronic soul gets revitalised, injecting fresh sound and ideas into the equation. Believe, twists grainy synthesized sounds through a subtle Acid mangle while pulsating drums leaving you in little doubt. The keys then take centre stage via an excellent
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Tangerine Dream produced some of the craziest, most concise music ever created touching upon sublimity just as it does exhilaration. As far as musical experiences go immerse worlds of sound overlap with a weird sense of dishevelled time. In other words, the intensity delivered can be electrifying in the extreme, reaching beyond what others were