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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If House music is meant to be inherently funky then both of Mason Maynard’s productions for this 50th release define the term perfectly. The Feeling, captures the moment neatly via a looped, nagging series of vocal edits as the hot bassline takes centre stage in amongst the Chicago flavoured drums, capturing the influences without overtly
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Intro_p ‘s introspection of the brave array of sights and sounds which inform this excellent production are in themselves something to behold. From the breathy wave of emotion that starts the title track, Trieb launches a series of sequences with a riveting selection of notes from space-aged synthesisers to pounding combinations of progressive and minimalist
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Ethan Force’s opening shot, Feel In love positively ripples with a rush of emotion as warm pads unfold over brutally, robust and yet defiantly funky drums. A standout production that contrasts moods and styles as Acid lines clash with more soulful vocals. But it’s that difference which also defines it, marking out its own space.
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Sometimes certain types of music sound like your life is playing on a revolving loop of one musical idea. But in this case Daniel Maunick takes the process of reworking the past over sizzling hi-hats and drums, and points it in the direction of enviable joy. This release has been limited to a run of
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Sally. Let’s begin with the exciting news of a new album from yourselves after over a decade: Farmarama. The obvious question is why has 2019 felt right to return? We did a few live shows a couple of summers ago – we had a new way to perform the music, new
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Sphesihle Mshana Ndlovu delivers three equally tasteful tracks for his debut release on the heavenly Black Vinyl. But, I’m going to skip straight to the third number: You Show Me Love which appears in two versions. First is the glorious Raw Mix which sequences a blissful array of shinning stabs together with brisk, insistent hats
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Love this brilliantly, exciting trip to Acid heaven that never feels like it’s looking too far back. But then all of those the big, splashing hi-hats and furious 303 lines are simply too explosive to ignore. Things get even more twisted towards the end as synthesizers get even more electrifying, and all of this contained
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Lazarusman’s poetry feels defiantly emotional in these days of cold, hard facts. And it is a pleasure to hear it spun out across Jay Hill’s warmly embracing set of keys, which at once recall the 1990’s yet pulse throughout with visions of the future. It’s a fierce experience for sure accompanied by a surprisingly uncomplicated
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Time erodes memory. Especially when you chuck in a shed load of Drugs and mix it up with Acid House. Which is precisely why you need to (re)read this collection of Manchester’s long gone, though not forgotten Freaky Dancing. Euphoria can get lost to the cynicism of age but perhaps the remedy to that is