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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Great release, very much reminiscent of House Music’s tried and tested yet essential qualities from the EP’s title with its shuffling, funky drums alongside punchy keys and enviable vocal line. Can You Feel comes in two with one version playing with the words, while the Dub gets down to more serious business highlighting the heavy
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Catching up and quality is rest assured as Jimpster’s latest long player ignites ideas, sights and sounds across this tempting duration of sometimes smoky, sometimes breezy but always engaging set of tracks. Silent Stars sounds blissful, magnificent with stirring, soulful voices amid tastefully shuffling percussion. While, The Sun Comes Up featuring Jinadu feels equally rewarding
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Love this stunning production from Jori Hulkkonen whose impassioned tones adorn this release with picturesque atmosphere’s igniting all sorts of notions. I Am The Night does all that and more suggesting a more soulful angle from the label which is highlighted by the introspective voiceover alongside the accompanying drums, probing bass plus swirls and splashes
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Excellent production that demands full volume as the reassuring click of the kick drum gives way to a darkly, brooding bassline that unfolds with the addition of unnerving, staccato synth lines and the rush of voice like atmosphere’s. Scoring over ten minutes every second feels utilized as that bass evolves even further while the keyboards
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It feels like the label has provided the accompanying soundtrack for some-time now, indeed one glance at the title reveals its been all of 15 years’ worth of quality, innovation plus all the contemporary attributes which have collectively made the imprint into what it is in 2017. The track list spans music from M.A.N.D.Y. vs
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There’s something inescapability intoxicating to be found in the summer breeze, just like there is in the electric downtown air of night, as this Jazz blows hot and cold across the spectrum. Rescued from relative obscurity by DJ Amir’s 180 Proof Records and originally released back in 1974 by Detroit’s infamous Strata imprint this ‘live’
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Hello and welcome to Magazine Sixty. How and where did you both meet and what inspired you to start making music together? Mitchel is a longtime friend of Thijs’s brother Bram since they started DJ’ing together. Later on the two started producing together and through that the two of us got to know each other
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Subatomic ‘s latest shot across the horizon sees multi-instrumentalist Micko Roche tease the airwaves with perfect harmonies and beyond. And what’s particularly wonderful here is the diverse nature of the sounds as the play fast and sometimes loose with identities and atmospheres. From the low-slung kick drums that drive the delicious opening title track forward
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This killer track launches Cari Golden’s brand new label in a blaze of fevered excitement. Combining talents with both Kiki and Smash TV this tense, evolving production teases you into submission by the time you hit the first invigorating breakdown. By the time the second strikes you’re already treated to a simmering funk of pulsating
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