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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Part of the thing with music is its discovery. Discovering the meaning of sounds that appeal to you at different times and places throughout your time here: happy/sad, forming old or new memory in the wake of its processing. In reflection, and what intrigues me most nowadays is the dislocation of music that doesn’t solely
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Daniel Inzani and Harriet Riley from Spindle Ensemble. Let’s begin with the name Spindle Ensemble and its meaning? There are a few reasons actually… Wood is a theme, Spindles are wooden like (almost) all our instruments: piano, violin, cello, Celtic harp and marimba, and there’s a very beautiful tree with a
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Not only do the smouldering array of beats strike you in peculiar ways but the low-slung bass and contrast of uplifting keys all work their magic leaving space for APOTEK’s haunting, almost psychedelic vocals to drift hauntingly across the vision. This is the second single to be released from an excellent forthcoming album full of
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Launched the previous year Black Light Smoke’s label Death Decay Magic now reassess history recalibrating its story via input from The Hacker, Cardopusher, Man 2.0, Adrian Marth plus a wealth of more. Thinking outside of the box should be a required attribute these days as this swirl of dangerously fizzy music powerfully testifies. There’s even
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I was having one of those awkward days when moments didn’t add up to making much sense. The thought of listening to the twist of Modern Jazz did not seem like the answer or even a remotely helpful proposition given the circumstance. But of course, I did so anyway. Funny then that everything suddenly made
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Filled to the brim with imagination these three tracks enlighten the airwaves not only with a sense of possibility but also with an introspective yearning that proves just as rewarding. The title track engages via the ignition of tough rhythms while a swirl of sound effects fill in the blanks, not forgetting the suggestive message
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The mixture of palpable excitement and sheer happiness when you hear music as sublimely unique such as on Turbo Sequencer makes it all worthwhile. The title track itself is underpinned by a series of hot kick drums, a roll of toms alongside a fizzy whir of electricity the production also punches hard with stabbing basslines
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There’s something instantly likable about this. Which is probably down to the effortlessly breezy nature of the combination of smooth keys and breathy vocals intoning the title. On the other hand the beats and bass provide a powerful undercurrent, suitably funky while not particularly radical, it all serves a higher purpose in the end. Release:
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Originally appearing at the beginning of the previous decade on Aspect Music this brand new Thomas Stieler Sunshine Edit breathes fresh life into its existing, essential charms. The vocals still dance around the rhythms in tantalising ways but there is now a greater sense of urgency injected into the tougher roll of drums, plus suitably