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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Is it easy to connect space travel with the music of Anoesis? Perhaps its mind travel that’s the key. Either way that sense of travelling between two points, exploring the in-betweens, is always present. Track Thirty 7 energises both the soul and the imagination as drums feel freshly tuned into the twists and turns of
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It’s a rare thing to find an interview with Keita Sano as he is a man of few words. Even though he’s been making multi story releases for over twenty years, I guess when you’re as notorious but understated as he is, blowing your own trumpet is not really on the agenda. With fans like
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If there is beauty to be found in melancholy, it is found here. Yet this also feels that it’s about the yearning for connection. A contrast if you will. Lost and found. Like a sublime defiance. I’ve been reviewing an increasing amount of music not constructed around beats and formulas, I guess because it appeals
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Chillifunk front-man Lofty, was in the thick of London’s house music scene in the 90s. From manning the counter in Flying Records in Kensington Market, and Soho, to being one of the residents at infamous London Flying Parties, from Full Circle to Bora Bora in Ibiza, Lofty brings Chillifunk back to life with Tom Davidson.
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I don’t just love this because it has the word Jazz in one of its titles. I love it because it is brilliant. Shinning like shooting stars. And at a comparable speed. Coasting with an effortless cool the musical blasts of smoky saxophone inhabit a night-time world of experience, fusing past notation together with the
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This is about celebration and the joy of life as if the party never stops. On the other hand listening to Monday’s Generation begs the very real question: Are we missing something? Not (always) in life but something in music. When the innate power contained within this array of samples seems to capture unique moments
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Chord progresses seek to enliven, refreshing the nature of the soul and is patently apparent here, Korean Frequency captures your heart instantaneously. Its dreamy, organic sequences fly free with notions of jazzy heavens, opening out onto a chorus of funkiness, as synthesisers soar while the accompanying drums and bass, simmer and groove. Proving to be
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This strange yet illuminating production almost feels as if the various elements play out in stark contrast, too disparate to glue together, however they do so and most wonderfully. Drums shuffle in uncertain directions, vocal snippets twist and turn, while a warm rush of strings and musical aspects enlighten, feeding directly into the soul. I
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The sound of electricity strung out across heavens high. Peace Of Mind is a deceptive title for a piece of music that is anything but. Fizzing with atoms dancing along the edges as bruising, unforgiving stabs plus tough, pounding drums create a perfect, rich intensity to get lost inside. It’s the uncomplicated yet direct nature
