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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I have been reviewing music for over thirty years and it astonishes me that sounds remain as tantalising, exciting as they ever were. Listening to Penny Rimbaud & Kate Shortt’s soaring, searing ripping apart of anything remotely traditional works wonderfully in all sorts of ways. I don’t really care about the word experimental anymore because
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Loraine James’ music greets with the sense that it’s good to be alive to the sounds surrounding you and their accompanying meaning. 25o which begins that starting point meanders between contrasting emotions beautifully sometimes assisted by breath but mostly via a cascade of scintillating keys. Each of the proceeding numbers are cast in degrees marking
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I listen to this and I think of one word HOT. Luciano’s remix is outstanding coming complete with fiery hi-hats that simply sizzle as Jorge Gonzalez’s vocals smoulder temptingly across this energetic arrangement which continually pulses with a feast of ideas over ten minutes. Next is Fiat 600 whose also excellent heavy-duty version dives head
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H is the History, Hacienda, House. It’s a numbers game too. It is also about the addiction to nostalgia. Which is precisely why this production by Charles Schillings provides such a sense of release as the music feels like an escape from the past, sounding beautifully 2022, primed with a title that is also self-defining
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Collaborating between the words fervent, experimental and funk comes this expression of sheer intoxication speaking an impulsive electronic language much more readily than it does of anything resembling the values of traditional music. Yet by the time Helix 7 reaches midpoint, circa five minutes, you are intimately involved with its burst of defiant energy, offset
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Words form conversation. If you might wonder how those expressions then connect to the presence of electricity then answers might well be discovered somewhere within Murmurations. The word itself suggests a couple of actions: one is of human formation, the other of a spectacular flying variety. The conversational aspects of the interaction between Ben Vida
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Hari Sima can also be called the experimental solo alias of Valencia-based artist Paco León whose sculptures of sound are quite simply magnificent. Intense and yet melodically realised they reach soaring heights alongside inward lows, while seeming to connect to an informed synthesized past, fuelled by an impulsive future. Listening to these passages feels much
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Tracing Paper is a masterpiece capturing everything that is heavenly about music across its ten minutes of being. You just know you are going to reflect back on hearing this in some beautiful environment and simply smile about it in the future. Chiming with the seed of possibility its combination of repeating intensity feels eloquent,
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I meant to review this before its release, must have been distracted by unseasonal sunshine here in the UK. It’s a real pleasure to listen to this collection of Jamaican sounds spanning 1972-1973 produced by the legendary Joe Gibbs well before his masterpiece Chapter Three. Still containing that cutting skank from Ska the brew of