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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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Ste. Along with Paul Gill you started Freaky Dancing back in 1989 and it has now been republished by TQLC (an imprint of the Quietus). Tell us about the story behind how that happened? Paul arranged the publication of the book with The Quietus, so I’m not quite sure how that
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Intro_p. Let’s start with your label: Introp Music. Tell us the types of music you seek to champion through it. And what are the most important musical elements that determine which tracks you sign? Thank you for your invitation. My motivation with Introp Music is to offer people a balanced concept
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Tough, brisk and beautifully funky are words that flow easily over this excellent production from James Teej. Dolby B is the sort of track that feels instantly epic as irresistible drums and taught electronic stabs punctuate your life in a series of stages with the whirring intensity of stark synthesizers creating an abundance of atmospheric
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D’Julz returns to bass with more inevitably smoky reflections on culture beginning with the immense title track, Lemon Juice. To say this reaches deep inside your soul, fizzing with an Acid infused frenzy, would be somewhat of an understatement. There’s just something about the wild abandon loosely contained in this production that makes you want
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Posing questions and seeking answers Cypherpunx reveal themselves with these two new richly rewarding productions for Rebellion. Hier+Jetzt is a standout number in any book referencing the electronic output of 1970’s Germany yet feeling defiantly here and now. Brooding synthesizers create darker edges which in turn are surrounded by fizzy, drum-machine encoded percussion, existing alongside
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An undoubtedly first-rate release from the Vatos Locos imprint sees Hector and David Gtronic’s brisk, occasionally brutal rhythms ignite all the senses and then some. First is the excellent: Holding On which sequences an intense roll of drums together with hot punctuating bass hits, while neatly contrasted by warmer moods created by the wash of
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Re:Sound‘s very own Michael Hooker kicks off his production with the type of resounding intensity that leaves you grasping for air. Teasing, grainy percussion accompanied by a solitary, pulsing keyboard stab are all that is required at this point in time. However, when the bassline hits at two minutes in the rush of soaring emotion
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Some of the most beautifully inspiring movements and moments exist without the foundation of drums, signified by the sole occupation of mood coloured by emotion and atmosphere. Falling into a breathless bliss of the imagination, but does that mean overlapping sounds only eventually evolve into themselves, not actually going anywhere? Perhaps, but as with all