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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Where to begin. Cracks Are Showing is a slowing breath-taking piece of music delivering on its promise of dark, poetic beauty in amongst a buried landslide of blazing synthesizers. Longing then provokes a slip and slide of loss and memory over a caustic rub of keys, lonely and yet super exhilarating. The mood then steps
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Serving an invigorating intensity that exits outside of nowhere Debashis Sinha’s delicious retelling of electronic trepidation fuses imminent danger together with a forward thinking urgency. Often sounding like machines in freefall improvising a way forwards this release combines two albums in one of which I am reviewing Adeva_v000_04 here first. Experimental I guess is the
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I love the temptation joining the dots between that unwritten, other story outside of American disco as it flows seamlessly from Hi-Nrg into Acid House hotwired to the celebratory European craziness marrying the two. Mark Moore’s latest escapade alongside Daddy Squad into that familiar territory sees twisted arpeggios assert the primacy of beautiful syncopation over
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Who said music was easy. Or it was about the industry of feeling good. Or wiping your mind clean of distraction. Or being childish to subvert being adult. Inspired by “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot art should precisely never be about any of those things. The act of listening to music can a reflective/
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From the opening moments as Larsen gathers pace the prevailing sense of joyous expectation is plainly palpable. Its cross contamination of influences have created an intriguing mix of haunting, delicate guitars alongside shimmering arpeggios, moody bass and electro drums. Facets, proceeds to move across deeper territory with a graceful flair again combining different atmospheric charges
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Feeling like in in rush to be heard this insistent set of rhythms and hotwired electronic configuration is both exhilarating plus hyper cool in execution. But then I guess it would be by appearing on Roush. The musical collaboration tempts fate into two equally fiery dancefloor arrangements, which also ignite the imagination via unexpected twists
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Modern music for the soul. Eddy Romero delivers on a promise with this selection of hotwired electronics provoking engagement with all the senses. Opening with What A S the air is filled with smouldering rhythms, probing percussion plus the welcome addition of low-slung bass as keys cruise the stereo field. Primarie then serves eleven minutes
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Beginning life as already atmospherically rich pieces located on Lulu Gainsbourg’s stunning album Replay, both numbers receive radical interpretations from Luciano who injects added energy while exciting the flow of electronic information into their rhythms and breath. Most obviously transforming the waves of delicate piano and voice inhabiting his excellent remix of L’enfance, suggesting something