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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Hello and welcome to Magazine Sixty Ryan. Can we start with your breath-taking new single: SHADOWS. Can you talk us through where the inspiration came from for the track and how you then transformed those ideas into music? Shadows was a song I had written quite soon after leaving my place of employment for the
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In one way this isn’t anything to do with Disco, Boogie or whichever retrograde label you would like to apply at the time. It feels much more about the here and now despite the fact that you know exactly where its essence is ripped from. Perhaps best to put it this way, the clue is
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It’s been five years since Cesar Merveille & Ryan Crosson’s first album together and while I don’t know what has happened to them in the meantime the results of lives lived have been infused into this long player teaming with ambitious, horizon-expanding, thought-provoking beauty making the wait all the more worthwhile. Intro (Almost Raw) begins
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The third number on Carly Foxx’s schedule is an absolute gem. And it’s with a breathless anticipation that I point you in the direction of Pezzner’s exemplary remix. Part of what I do is bringing you great music and as I’ve already played this to the point of no return it surely says something that
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Lights down low. It’s autumn and the radio is on. Sounds like the seventies but then Ryan Vail is introduced on Radio Ulster’s Across The Line and the moments slow to standstill. Moulding live electricity sometimes comes at a cost, though the transformation of analogue machines into dramatic emotion generated through the airwaves feels life-assuring
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Never one to do things by halves Cadenza release this fully realised, no comprise journey into sound that will surprise and excite you across a justified fifteen and a bit minutes of detailed excellence. Accompanying the excitable flourishes of guitar are punchy, playful drums plus a feast of melodies amid a sense of anticipation which
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The factor that unites both of these tracks together is the use of voice-overs resounding from history, transported into a new context. Beginning with the robust and deeper of the two is title track, No Rush which defiantly moves headlong into a timely sense of urgency with pounding House beats and bass igniting the stereo.
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I guess what strikes you most about this production is the realisation of technical ideas which come together so effortlessly on this fresh retake of Rhythm & Soul. The trippy, breathy spoken-word dialogue spins out a sense of Timothy Leary into the ether as pounding kick drums are offset by addictive, shuffling percussion amid layers
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