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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A room within a room may be how you process sounds inside your head. It may reflect emotions and memories throughout a system of wiring and electrical currents. It might even exist in another unperceivable world. Four walls lies at an intersection between art and sound and its pure meaning beyond easy melody. Noise for
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Like the clock ticking you know the instant that beautiful music occurs. Pedro Sanmartin’s breath-taking infusion of jazzy/ bluesy notation invigorates all five sense wonderfully as deep chords fuse together with a delicious ambience and punchy drums to strengthen expectations. Melting Pot is a stunning, refreshing piece of music. That emotional rollercoaster continues with the
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As playfully seductive as it is single-minded this irresistible meeting of minds fires up funky bass and brisk, intense drums like there is no tomorrow. Punctuated by a succession of vocal stabs and meandering piano this proves to be both ingenious and inventive in equal parts within Swing. Next, Roots probes into more invigorating rhythms
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Thank god for Phantasy Sound. They release revolutionary records like this one. Always sounding like they’ve taken the ideas of the past, cut them up them into pieces, then creatively fitted them back together in more exciting ways. Perhaps that sentiment is a bit overloaded but then again listen to this first. The Phone Call
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I arrived at the music of Nebel lang quite by chance. Not so much via a roll of the dice, although I guess wondering around the internet could be justifiably called that, but simply by happy accident. On the odd occasion that circumstance happens, seemingly by chance, can be the most rewarding ones. Maybe it
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For the final review of the year it is good to end on something special. The musical architecture supporting Mushroom Pie feeds into a mind-set blinded by science confirming the emotional intelligence of musical excellence. Driven by a slinky rhythm set the moods created are both warmly melodic, playfully inquisitive as Hush Forever’s whispered intentions
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The reflective beauty inherent in this music reaches a climax of highs just as it plunges into the further reaches of the essence lost to time like glaciers themselves. Self-defining, the search continues in earnest across four waves of sound forming initially around the rousing vocals on No Trees For Miles then explores the power
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Located somewhere in-between the whirring flirtations of voice and accompanying keys are a set of beautifully tuned, exceptional drums. Hey Look I Know could be said to be trance like in so far as its series of repetitions draw you close into heightened states of awareness with the sudden exception of piano shaking appearances. I