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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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
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You may have noticed that I don’t care about genres and neat filing categories, or what you should like and what year it’s ok to like it in. Music should always shake you out of compliancy, whether that’s emotional, or political, or poetic. Give it a go, who knows you might actually like it. And
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I can hear the echo of Steve Reich coursing throughout the veins of the repeating vocal loop contained within X5NRG. Although, It’s Gonna Rain, created in 1965, is radically different to this proposition which is much more about the juxtaposition between the rhythm of drums, alongside the blur of grainy textures, all of which make
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This makes me smile. Provoking exhilaration because all three productions are infused with such physical, evocative, forward-thinking thought, like excercising the creative process is all that matters. Music is important for that very reason after all. Not the tiresome reflection of endless worn out loops and the meaningless safety of nostalgic prevarication. That, and the
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The Spinners, I’ll Be Around is one of my favourite songs. That cool combination of hazy melancholy, coupled with its breezy grooves, talk up lost summer nights like an intimate conversation of times past. Specifically 1972. Which is what brings me to this collection from SoulMusic Records in the first place. Their sound produced throughout
