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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Recapturing the search for moments of lost memory John Sellekaers’ brave expedition into unchartered territory serves as a reward for the depth of meaning. Observer Effect is unnerving yet warmly emotional as landscapes are surveyed via the whir of synthesized sound which flows freely, seemingly without the constriction of boundaries and all the while points
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Offering the true temptation of notable difference – although quite why the flair of imaginative musicality should qualify thus is a mystery – Silvio Astier’s guitar lays bare the essence of human emotion across six contemplative strings strung out across heavens high. Four numbers occupy the space of this rewarding release of sound each providing
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The Eye That Sees Us All has appeared at precisely the right moment. Free from restrictions, open to all interpretations this collection of intriguing, imaginative sounds is a positive feast of stimulating aural pleasure much as the title track demonstrates via shivering voices, stripped back drum-machines alongside a wealth of finely tuned atmospheric tones and
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I also love music that speaks its own mind. Not caring too much about the sensitivities of trends or the front cover of shiny magazines. This ticks a hundred boxes for me with its collaboration between DJ/ Producer Jay Duncan and saxophonist Ben Vince charting uneasy, unnerving territory via a defiant whir of electrifying, electrical
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I like beautiful music. The sort that probes, diving into the unknown. Sometimes high, sometimes low. Belfast producer Gregory Ferguson (LOR) has produced a series of events to form this album of sounds, moods and atmospheres that readily generate synthesized noise into shapes that bounce notably around the stereo. Partly composed via inspiration from the
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The sounds contained within Structures are seemingly unconnected to the nature of the title as they are let free to fly with a fistful of emotions granting the expanse of potential. Though structured in the sense that they do form pieces of music about cause and effect. The effect being one of introspection as much
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As an exercise in sheer, excitable force this production from the Miami DJ hits hard in all respects. The drums are tough, brutal even as the snare punctuates the airwaves beautifully, leaving rugged bass to undercut the groves as an eerily familiar synth line is reminiscent of good times, both past and present. Uncomplicated but
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I had been so busy with the assumption that Afterlife produced certain sounds that fitted into particular styles of music – notably Balearic etc etc – I hadn’t even realised that Ambient wasn’t one of the genres touched upon. Which in a way seems rather strange as you would imagine it to be a natural
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In the process of hinting at history Council has produced an inventive take on the future to debut on the newly formed Polychrome Audio. Fusing words like funky and tempting together roll easily into one as yearning vocals combine with hard-hitting drums and bass on the opening Want To Go. Playing with sounds alongside dub