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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Entering Simon McCorry’s world of sound is much like entering a series of different rooms where each contains its own suggestion. This latest collection of works for the esteemed See Blue Audio has the artist explore the aftereffects of serious challenges which life can so easily throw in your direction, knocking you off-center, lending each
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Joe. Celebrating the release of your debut album – Solitude, I was about the meaning behind its title? Yeah so I picked up a new MPC (One) during the pandemic since we were cooped up at home and dove into it a bit, so I figured it was a fitting title
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Like reconnecting with an old friend Another Moment In Time follows up on the promise given by Moments In Time some twenty years previous to this latest continuation of the concept. I guess what immediately strikes you here is the sheer depth of emotion the music touches upon throughout each consecutive number, so much so
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Whispered by the sagely ghost of a poetic past both of these soulful new productions from Melchior aim high while digging deep into the process of being. The Feeling version serves effortlessly cool beats, bass and generosity of spirit that quenches the quest for knowledge as it drives forward into blissful refrains. Having said that,
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One, begins this long player by Minor Green fizzing via a series of gentle shocks softening the blows of turbulent lifetimes in its wake. Serene yet driven by an unquiet, uneasy underbelly the music continues probing within, while suggesting a lively escape into an unknown pleasure, always charged by the passion for what could be
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How can I put this? Take 2 Go is funky to the point of being almost beyond belief. If the sole function of dance music is to make you dance, then here it is. I want to use the word liquid to describe the rapid and divergent undulations feeling like a riot going on here,
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Another great release from TENAMPA with Gåddisøn combining hot waves of smouldering bass together with swathes of sassy percussion to celebrate the will to live. It’s all about a building, simmering intensity that draws you into its own self-defining world of rhythm on Turbulence. That plus the exciting tease of superlative production skills. While the
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Diving into depths can’t always be an easy option to take, especially given some of the unknown quantities searched for here, located who knows where. Consequently Bastien Keb’s fifth album seeks answers in spiritual places, albeit sometimes hidden in darker corners. And while it’s easy to comment on the cinematic nature flowing throughout this collection
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Achieving the nearly impossible these days, Downstream combines not only ultra-cool grooves but the spark of irrefutable melody together with hot, thunderous drums and bass causing the earth to quake. In a sense the question should really be, what’s not love? After all tracks like this seem increasingly few and far between, feeling tastefully contemporary,
