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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Greg Fenton reviews Papa Lu – Better ft. The $how – Rules Don’t Apply It’s not often these days that I get excited about records built around soulful samples, but this one works exceptionally well. The inner emotion within the music is both refreshing and revitalising, diving deep into a cellar full of soulful intent.
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Greg Fenton reviews Josh Smith – Etruscan Vase EP – flurt. Josh Smith achieves that rare feat of blending a diverse array of sounds and making sense of them. From energetic drums to constantly expanding keys bouncing across the stereo field to illuminating vocal samples taken from forgotten film. The music is informed and temptingly
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Greg Fenton reviews Brooklyn Funk Essentials – Take The L Train (To 8th Ave.) – Calibre Remixes – Dorado Records You get the true measure of the artist’s passionate intellect with these two quite different approaches to what is essentially the same structure. Which is the Brooklyn Funk Essentials sublime, heart-rending Take The L Train
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Greg Fenton reviews Ibrahim Maalouf – Will Soon Be A Woman (Moog Diez Remix) – weoutside Records It can sometimes be difficult to preserve the musicality that naturally flows through a skilled musician’s expression, especially when incorporating electronic time signatures; you risk losing its primary organic feel in the process. However, Moog Diez’s remix not
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Greg Fenton reviews Pop Ambient 2026 – Kompakt This is the 26th in a series of compilations of music labelled as ambient, which in itself says something about the timeless qualities and emotional craftsmanship inherent in sounds associated with the genre. If you think that the term is simply about repeating drones or hearing the
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Greg Fenton reviews JL Segel – Mist – Self Release It’s the ever-evolving simplicity capturing a whirlwind of atmosphere, releasing it into an analogue dream of uncertain tomorrows at the impulsive heart of Mist’s endearing quality. It’s the cavalcade of smouldering, wonderfully electric tones of analogue bliss shaping into forms of air that never overcook
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Greg Fenton reviews Spanna – Bring The Beat Back – The Freebooter Lounge Bring The Beat Back might sound like a bunch of clichéd phrases, but in Spanna’s view, the rhetoric is turned upside down by a series of tough beats, Latin-influenced bass, and a mix of sounds bouncing around a hot stereo. It’s easy
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Greg Fenton reviews César Merveille – CDV Whispers – Unreleased Ltd. I missed this, but I’m glad I found it. There’s a casual dignity to César Merveille’s music that captures a sense of charm and intrigue while delivering intense energy, creating movement and emotion. Starting with the raw RS 40 and its rugged Chicago-style bassline,
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Greg Fenton reviews OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance & mRn – Southern Lands – Audiobulb Records Combining instruments and a shared love of formative locations, the Southern Lands of the Argentinian landscapes by the Rio de la Plata, the three artists have conjured not only the magical nature of organic matter but also the turbulence
